Hermes is offered by this writer who has spent many years contemplating, and proving, its content. My intent is only to aid those whose inner being responds to the tablet's song. Please understand that there are as many interpretations as there are interpreters, but there is only one Tablet. Did Hermes write it? Was there such a person, after all? We cannot be sure, nevertheless, the words are before us and they resonate with the truth and power of their meaning. Each person who is drawn to the Emerald Tablet will have their own ideas and understanding of it, as it should be. Hopefully, some of these ideas will be shared so that everyone may benefit. No one person, in my opinion, can comprehend all that these words contain. - Cohn de Toraeke. (for the latter's analysis see: A Commentary on the Emerald Tablet ) From our own viewpoint, however, the tablet's somewhat cryptic contents suggest that we might find a clue here, if not further guidance - an overview perhaps or a succinct summary. There are, it seems, a variety of versions of the Tablet (see Emerald Tablet of Herme s by Jon Marshall); that provided by Jack Lindsay in The Origins of Alchemy in Graeco-Roman Egypt (1970) is given below with line numbers added to aid the subsequent commentary. 01) True it is, without falsehood, certain and most true 02) What is below is like what is above, and what is above it like what is 03) below,