Emerald Tablet

[Celtaur]

Translation of Issac Newton c. 1680.


1) Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
2) That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like yet which is below to do ye miracles of one only thing.
3) And as all things have been & arose from one by ye mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
4) The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
5) the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nourse.
6) The father of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
7) Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
7a) Separate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
8) It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven & again it descends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
9) By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
10) Its force is above all force. for it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
11a) So was ye world created.
12) From this are & do come admirable adaptations whereof ye means (Or process) is here in this.
13) Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world.
14) That which I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished & ended.
[Dobbs 1988: 183-4.]

[Imhotepsol]

This is the work that started me on the occult path (after the Necronomicon that is *sigh* to be 10 again) and I still turn to regularly for guidance. Its one of the rare works that is a wealth of knowledge in what it doesn't say, rather it takes us by the hands and leads us to the places we're ready to see while always alluding to the fact there is more and we need to keep working.

I personally think it should be taught in schools from a young age as it encourages harmonious growth and a personal search for truth rather than an explicit "this is law."

[wildflowr]

That was very beautiful! I felt as though I could understand some things when I read it... like some things were just illuminated, even though by regular reading I would get the meaning, some things here when I read it were actually illuminated.

This happens to me some times. Some times an idea becomes illuminated to me as though I were looking at it from a different level of understanding, or demension etc. I think I am on a path of understanding (Binah on the Tree of Life) and so this angel here sometimes works with me to let me see things clearer from this perspective.

Like I've heard As Above So Below before. You know. But I knew/know that it must mean something peaceful, and peace is a brilliant miracle to experience, and will be in the future, slowly over time. And so I saw these illuminated things from that perspective. Grabbed/felt these types of vibrations so that I may strive for them later on to transmute the lower parts of me that did not understand or see.

So I just get from that that Heaven is like Hell. And all is One= all is God. Thus there is a common vibration in Heaven and Hell- the Godness. This vibration is a truth, it is simply the fact that energy exists. And as we look at the different energy feels... the FEEL of heaven, the feel of hell, we will see that we ourselves would perhaps gravitate towards one. This is cool! Because there are other people that would enjoy the other energy much better! So as we go where we want to go, things come to peace, because everybody is where they want to be. The thing is, is that Hell is a powerful energy, raw potential chaotic energy- that can be formed. To harness it though, the person must exactly resonate with it to bring it into the consciousness of man in a form that is acceptable to all etc. Just like there are different religions. Where maybe there isn't a heaven or a hell, yet the religion would actually prefer one of those energies.

OK, cool. I really like the energy of the Hermetic part of this forum. I understand the energies here better. It is more along the lines of what I have learned and adapted to throughout my life.

Namaste!
wildflowr

[Celtaur]

I'm reading about Hermetics now in a book, and it says much of what's in the Emerald Tablet harkens to things alchemy and the gospel.

[brifae]

Hermes is thoth-anubis and the magician

[jdilla11596]

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes, a beautiful collection of Esoteric wisdom that one could only hope to learn and live! I really enjoy the translation by Sigismund Bacstrom, from the Chaldean Mysteries:

0) The Secret Works of CHIRAM ONE in essence, but three in aspect.
1) It is true, no lie, certain and to be depended upon,
2) the superior agrees with the inferior, and the inferior agrees with the superior, to effect that one truly wonderful work.
3) As all things owe their existence to the will of the only one, so all things owe their origin to the one only thing, the most hidden by the arrangement of the only God.
4) The father of that one only thing is the sun its mother is the moon,
5) the wind carries it in its belly; but its nourse is a spirituous earth.
6) That one only thing is the father of all things in the Universe.
6a) Its power is perfect,
7) after it has been united with a spirituous earth.
7a) Separate that spirituous earth from the dense or crude by means of a gentle heat, with much attention.
8) In great measure it ascends from the earth up to heaven, and descends again, newborn, on the earth, and the superior and the inferior are increased in power.
9) By this wilt thou partake of the honours of the whole world. And Darkness will fly from thee.
10) This is the strength of all powers. With this thou wilt be able to overcome all things and transmute all what is fine and what is coarse.
11a) In this manner the world was created;
12) the arrangements to follow this road are hidden.
13) For this reason I am called Chiram Telat Mechasot, one in essence, but three in aspect. In this trinity is hidden the wisdom of the whole world.
14) It is ended now, what I have said concerning the effects of the sun. Finish of the Tabula Smaragdina.