Emerald Tablet

alchemical and Hermetic text

The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic piece of the 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.

That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse

The tablet text edit

  1. Quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius, et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius.
  1. Pater eius est Sol.  Mater eius est Luna, portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo, nutrix eius terra est.
  1. Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum.

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