The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina)

Emerald Tablet

Could the emerald tablet hold the secrets of what is happening now?

The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic piece of Hermetica reputed to contain the secret of the prima materia and its transmutation. It was highly regarded by European alchemists as the foundation of their art and its Hermetic tradition. The original source of the Emerald Tablet is unknown. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author named in the text, its first known appearance is in a book written in Arabic between the sixth and eighth centuries. The text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century. Numerous translations, interpretations and commentaries followed. The layers of meaning in the Emerald Tablet have been associated with the creation of the philosopher's stone, laboratory experimentation, phase transition, the alchemical magnum opus, the ancient, classical, element system, and the correspondence between macrocosm and microcosm.

1) It is true without untruth, certain and most true:
2) that which is below is like that which is on high, and that which is on high is like that
which is below; by these things are made the miracles of one thing.
3) And as all things are, and come from One, by the mediation of One, So all things are born
from this unique thing by adaption.
4) The Sun is the father and the Moon the mother.
5) The wind carries it in its stomach. The earth is its nourisher and its receptacle.
6 The Father of all the Theleme of the universal world is here.
6a) Its force, or power, remains entire,
7) if it is converted into earth.
7a) You separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, gently with great
industry.
8) It climbs from the earth and descends from the sky, and receives the force of things
superior and things inferior.
9) You will have by this way, the glory of the world and all obscurity will flee from you.
10) It is the power strong with all power, for it will defeat every subtle thing and penetrate
every solid thing
11a) In this way the world was created.
12) From it are born wonderful adaptations, of which the way here is given.
13) That is why I have been called Hermes Tristmegistus, having the three parts of the
universal philosophy.
14) This, that I have called the solar Work, is complete.

I am still new to this Emerald Tablet subject but find it fascinating, especially in the current times. In your link and text it does not mention Thoth like every google search includes with any mention of emerald tablets.

There is an interpretation/translation done in the 20s by a Dr. Doreal that I`ve been meaning to read through that some may find interesting. Mentions Atlanteans so read it with an open mind...

Emerald Tablets of Thoth

a reply to: yulka

No one has ever seen the original tablets?

a reply to: StratosFear

PREFACE to the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean
The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond the belief of modern scientists. Their antiquity is stupendous, dating back some 36,000 years B.C. The writer is Thoth, an Atlantean Priest-King, who founded a colony in ancient Egypt after the sinking of the mother country. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, erroneously attributed to Cheops. (See The Great Pyramid by Doreal.) In it he incorporated his knowledge of the ancient wisdom and also securely secreted records and instruments of ancient Atlantis.
For some 16,000 years, he ruled the ancient race of Egypt, from approximately 50,000 B.C. to 36.000 B.C. At that time, the ancient barbarous race among which he and his followers had settled had been raised to a high degree of civilization. Thoth was an immortal, that is, he had conquered death, passing only when he willed and even then not through death. His vast wisdom made him ruler over the various Atlantean colonies, including the ones in South and Central America.
When the time came for him to leave Egypt, he erected the Great Pyramid over the entrance to the Great Halls of Amenti, placed in it his records, and appointed guards for his secrets from among the highest of his people. In later times, the descendants of these guards became the pyramid priests, by which Thoth was deified as the God of Wisdom, The Recorder, by those in the age of darkness which followed his passing. In legend, the halls of Amenti became the underworld, the Halls of the Gods, where the soul passed after death for judgment.
During later ages, the ego of Thoth passed into the bodies of men in the manner described in the tablets. As such, he incarnated three times, in his last being known as Hermes, the thrice-born. In this incarnation, he left the writings known to modern occultists as the Emerald Tablets, a later and far lesser exposition of the ancient mysteries.

Seems Francis Bacon mentioned Atlantis also:

Note: Francis Bacon lived 1561-1626 and planned a huge work, the "Instauratio Magna" ("Great Restoration"), one part being the "Novum Organum" ("The New Organon", 1620), supposed to replace Aristotle's Organon. Here he develops his theory of inductive reasoning. More striking is perhaps his utopian essay The New Atlantis, where science is regarded as a collaborative effort, for the good of mankind. "The New Atlantis" was supposedly written (but not finished) in 1614. It was, however, not printed until 1626, in the "Sylva Sylvarum: Or A Naturall Historie". Among his contemporaries Bacon was popular for the "De Sapientia Veterum" ("The Wisdom of the Ancients") from 1609. He was not very popular when he led the prosecution for treason against the earl of Essex, his former benefactor

The Emerald Tablet in my opinion is Mother Nature. She is the basest of elements that gives rise to all other elements. Emerald is green, much of nature is green as well. Emerald has its etymological roots in a word that means "shine", doesn't Mother Nature shine its light on everything and illuminate everything? Or to put it in a better way, nature is what reflects the light that shines on it and in the process shines itself.

The Emerald Tablet, like many other mythical or legendary objects, can be boiled down to something that was never truly lost, we only forgot it was here all along.

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Sometimes im a freaking idiot, thanks for the solution.

a reply to: 3NL1GHT3N3D1

Do you have knowledge in alchemy? =)

a reply to: yulka

Not an idiot at all, most people literally think of a physical tablet when the tablet is actually just a metaphor for Mother Earth/Nature. Like I said, things like the Emerald Tablet, Philosophers Stone, Holy Grail, etc. aren't literal objects but are concepts more than anything, they all refer to Mother Nature and her attributes.

Hermes Trismegistus having the three parts of universal philosophy refers to knowledge of the three aspects of existence: body, spirit, and mind. The mind is the alchemical result of the body and spirit being combined to create life, life being the image of light we see with. In my opinion, the "eternal elixir" that alchemy is trying to find is already here and has already been made through life itself.

The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are a play on these three parts of universal philosophy. The golden ratio is an example of these three parts, two numbers equaling the sum total.