Emerald Tablets

The Emerald Tablets are paramount in Hermeticism, since they are believed to have been penned by Hermes himself. Also known as the Tabula Smaragdina, these tablets are chief among ancient Hermetic texts because they present Hermeticism in its bare-bones, with much emphasis on the prisca theologa, an esoteric theology which explains all things and was held to have been gifted to man by God in the past.
== Facts: ==
-The Emerald Tablets are the closest thing the Hermetic Society has to an official creed or manifesto of belief.
-The Emerald Tablets, according to tradition, were lost for a short time, but were rediscovered, in the tomb of Hermes himself, bound in his mummified hands as he sat atop a golden throne in an underground chamber somewhere in Syria.
-The original Emerald Tablets were written in the 'primordial tongue,' which is what the early Hermeticists called the Syriac language.
== The Teaching Of The Emerald Tablets: ==
# Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
# That which is below is like that which is above & that which is
above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing
# And as all things have been & arose 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, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nourse.
# The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
# Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
# Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtile from the gross sweetly with great industry.
# It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it descends to
the earth & receives the force of things superior & inferior.
# By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world
# & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
# Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
# So was the world created.
# From this are & do come admirable adaptations whereof the means
(or process) is here in this. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, 
having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world
# That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.
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