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The Emerald Tablet
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The images we see today of the tablet all seem to come from the same source, Manly P. Hall's "Secret Teachings of All Ages" where it was redrawn from Dr. Sigismund Bacstrom's "Original Alchemical Manuscripts". In that document, Dr. Bacstrrom states, "The author was well versed with the secret operations of nature and the secret work of the philosophers."
Dr. Bacstrrom reports that the actual tablet was supposedly seen by an ancient (several centuries BC) writer at court in Egypt. Even then it was esteemed to be at least 2000 years old. He reports it was a precious stone, an emerald, and that it had at one time been in liquid form like molten glass where it was cast in a mold to produce the writing. He says the writing was bas-relief on the tablet as opposed to being engraved.
Of course science will tell you that such technology was not known. But then, over the centuries, science has told us much that was later disproved by new discoveries ... things mystic students have known for ages.
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The Emerald Tablet
of Hermes Trismegistus
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True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, for the performance of the miracles of the One Thing. And as all things are from One, by the mediation of One, so all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation. The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother, and the Wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. This is the father of all perfection, or consummation of the whole world. Its power is integrating, if it be turned into earth.
Thou shalt separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, suavely, and with great ingenuity. It ascends from earth to heaven and descends again to earth, and receives the power of the superiors and of the inferiors. So thou hast the glory of the whole world; therefore let all obscurity flee before thee. This is the strong force of all forces, overcoming every subtle and penetrating every solid thing. So the world was created. Hence were all wonderful adaptations, of which this is the manner. Therefore am I called Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. What I have to tell is completed, concerning the Operation of the Sun.
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