The "Books of Thoth"

The  Books of Thoth are mythical books that were supposedly written and left on earth by the Egyptian god Thoth, in which are found the mysteries of the heavens and predictions of future planetary events. The books contain spells of both dark and white magic, secrets of other worlds (dimensions) and instructions on how to gain immortality. The power and strength of these books is so immense that it can control both the power of all the elements and even the gods themselves. These prophetic texts were supposedly hidden in secret Egyptian libraries and are now missing. The church father Clement of Alexandria, in the sixth book of his work Stromata, mentions forty-two books used by Egyptian priests which, he says, contain "the whole philosophy of the Egyptians". All these books, according to Clement, were written by Hermes (the Greek name for Thoth). Among the subjects they cover are hymns, rituals, temple building, astrology, geography, and medicine.  According to some theories, these texts are hidden in a secret chamber located beneath the Sphinx of Giza .

A mention of a Book of Thoth appears in an ancient Egyptian short story from the Ptolemaic period known as "Setne Hamwas and Naneferkaptah" or "Setne I". In it, the book, written by Thoth contains two spells, one that allows the reader to understand the language of animals, and the other that allows the reader to see the gods themselves (Lichtheim 2006, pp. 125–128).

Egyptologists Richard Louis Jayshaw and Karl-Theodor Zauzich have called a long Egyptian text from the Ptolemaic period the "Book of Thoth". This Demotic text , known from more than forty fragmentary copies, consists of a dialogue between a person called "He-who-loves-knowledge" and a figure whom Jayshaw and Zauzich identify as Thoth. The topics of their conversation include the work of scribes , various aspects of the gods and their sacred animals, and the Duat , the realm of the dead (Jasnow, and Zauzich 2005 pp. 2–9, 72–73). 

In recent centuries there have been many citations of this work, such as as in the case of the British occultist Aleister Crowley, who  published his version of The Book of Thoth in 1944 (describing the philosophy and use of the 'Thoth tarot'). It is mentioned in many other instances in popular culture, for example in the manga JoJo's Bizarre Adventure or in the case of the writer-journalist Jacques Bergier in The Cursed Books. In the 1932 film The Mummy , Thot's writing contains a magic formula that resurrects the dead.

References

Jasnow, Richard Lewis; Karl-Theodor Zauzich  2005 . The Ancient Egyptian Book of Thoth: A Demotic Discourse on Knowledge & Pendant to Classical Hermetica . Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN  9783447050821 .

 Lichtheim, Miriam (2006) [1st. Pub. 1978]. Ancient Egyptian Literature, Volume III: The Late Period . University of California Press. ISBN  0-520-24844-9 .