School II · Lesson 02 of 15
The Emerald Tablet: As Above, So Below
Core idea: the short, strange text behind the most famous Hermetic phrase.
The Lesson
One of the most quoted lines in the world comes from a text only a few sentences long: the Emerald Tablet.
Legend says Hermes carved it into a slab of green stone. The history is more modest. The oldest versions we have are in Arabic, from roughly the 8th to 10th centuries, inside books on alchemy and nature. It was translated into Latin in the 12th century and read across Europe for hundreds of years. Isaac Newton, the physicist, made his own English translation of it.
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The Kybalion & Hermetic Philosophy
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