The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean

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Hudry, Françoise (1997–1999). "Le De secretis nature du Ps. Apollonius de Tyane, traduction latine par Hugues de Santalla du Kitæb sirr al-halîqa". Chrysopoeia. 6: 1–154.

There will I give unto thee the secrets so that ye, to, may rise to the Heavens God-men in Truth as inThis is the book of the wise Bélinous [Apollonius of Tyana], who possesses the art of talismans: this is what Bélinous says... In the place where I lived [Tyana], there was a stone statue raised on a wooden column; on the column, these words were written: 'I am Hermes, to whom knowledge has been given...'. While I slept uneasily and restlessly, preoccupied with my sorrow, an old man whose face resembled mine appeared before me and said, 'Rise, Bélinous, and enter this underground road; it will lead you to the knowledge of the secrets of Creation...'. I entered this underground passage. I saw an old man sitting on a golden throne, holding an emerald tablet in one hand... I learned what was written in this book of the 'Secret of the Creation of Beings'... [ Emerald Tablet:] True, true, certain, indisputable, and authentic! Behold, the highest comes from the lowest, and the lowest from the highest; a work of wonders by a single thing..." The tablet states its author as Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice-Greatest"), a legendary Hellenistic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. [47] Like most other works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet is very hard to date with any precision, but generally belongs to the late antique period (between c. 200 and c. 800). [48] The oldest known source of the text is the Sirr al-khalīqa wa-ṣanʿat al-ṭabīʿa ( The Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature, also known as the Kitāb al-ʿilal or The Book of Causes), an encyclopedic work on natural philosophy falsely attributed to Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 15–100, Arabic: Balīnūs or Balīnās). [49] This book was compiled in Arabic in the late eighth or early ninth century, [50] but it was most likely based on (much) older Greek and/or Syriac sources. [51] In the frame story of the Sirr al-khalīqa, Balīnūs tells his readers that he discovered the text in a vault below a statue of Hermes in Tyana, and that, inside the vault, an old corpse on a golden throne held the emerald tablet. [52] The sun and the moon represent alchemical gold and silver. [25] Hortulanus interprets "telesma" as "secret" or "treasure": "It is written afterward: 'The father of all telesma of the world is here,' that is to say: in the work of the stone is found the final path. And note that the philosopher calls the operation 'father of all telesma,' that is to say, of all the secret or all the treasure of the entire world, that is to say, of every stone discovered in this world.". [20] The Emerald Tablet was translated into Latin in the twelfth century by Hugo of Santalla as part of his translation of the Sirr al-khalīqa. [56] It was again translated into Latin along with the thirteenth century translation of the longer version of the pseudo-Aristotelian Sirr al-asrār (Latin: Secretum secretorum). [57] However, the Latin translation which formed the basis for all later versions (the so-called 'Vulgate') was originally part of an anonymous compilation of alchemical commentaries on the Emerald Tablet variously called Liber Hermetis de alchimia, Liber dabessi, or Liber rebis (first half of the twelfth century). [58] Arabic versions of the tablet text [ edit ] From pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana's Sirr al-khalīqa (c. 750–850) [ edit ]

The manuscripts are listed in Steele & Singer 1928, p.46/490. Steele & Singer's edition of the Tablet itself is reproduced in Mandosio 2004b, pp.691–692. A transcription of the Tablet in one manuscript, MS Arundel 164, is given by Selwood 2023 (Selwood mistakes Steele & Singer 1928's edition for a mere transcript of one manuscript; his attribution of the text's origin to the Secretum secretorum is also mistaken).Plessner, Martin (1927). "Neue Materialien zur Geschichte der Tabula Smaragdina". Der Islam. 16 (1): 77–113.

Also, as with every writing by any author, the odic force (or thought impressions) of the writer are imbued in the words and text of their writings. The thought impressions of the original (the Brotherhood’s book) will be of those of Thoth, the writer, and Dr. Doreal, the translator. The writing of other “authors” will be imbued with their own thought impressions, which will absolutely not be what Thoth or Dr. Doreal intended. At the beginning of the 20th century, alchemical thought resonated with the surrealists, [43] and André Breton incorporated the main axiom of the Emerald Tablet into the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930): "Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the spirit from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low, cease to be perceived as contradictory. However, in vain would one seek any motive other than the hope for the determination of this point in surrealist activity." [44]. Although some commentators mainly see the influence of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in this statement, [45] Hegel's philosophy itself was influenced by Jakob Böhme. [46] Textual history [ edit ] Part of a series on The most well-known commentary is that of Hortulanus, an alchemist about whom very little is known, in the first half of the 14th century: Ruska, Julius (1925). "Der Urtext der Tabula Smaragdina". Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 28: 349–351. Tracing the body of work known as Hermeticism through history is difficult, because so much is unknown. We can attempt to piece together as many clues as possible to get a more clear idea of how this body of knowledge was handed down to us.In 1974, Brazilian musician Jorge Ben Jor recorded an album named A Tabua De Esmeralda that translates as The Emerald Tablet. In his several songs, he quoted some texts from the tablet and referenced alchemy and Hermes Trismegistus. His album was defined as an exercise in musical alchemy and became his greatest achievement. In the lyrics of Heavy Seas of Love, British musician Damon Albarn has included the words ‘As above so below’, referring to the Emerald Tablet. The fragments were discovered by Egyptologists Richard Lewis Jasnow and Karl-Theodor Zauzich. Upon interpreting it as being the teachings of Thoth, they dubbed the discovery The Book of Thoth.

Le Liber De secretis naturae du Ps. Apollonius de Tyane, traduction latine par Hugues de Santalla du Kitæb sirr al-halîqa. Édition et présentation par Françoise Hudry, in: Chrysopoeia, 6, p.1-154 It further evolves with Jérôme Torella in his book on astrology, Opus Praeclarum de imaginibus astrologicis (Valence, 1496), in which it is Alexander the Great who discovers a Tabula Zaradi in Hermes' tomb while traveling to the Oracle of Amun in Egypt. This story is repeated by Michael Maier, physician and counselor to the "alchemical emperor" Rudolf II, in his symbola aureae mensae (Frankfurt, 1617), referring to a Liber de Secretis chymicis attributed to Albertus Magnus. [30] In the same year, he publishes the famous Atalanta Fugiens (Fleeing Atalanta), illustrated by Theodor de Bry with fifty alchemical emblems, each accompanied by a poem, a musical fugue, and alchemical and mythological explanations. The first two emblems depict a passage from the Emerald Tablet: "the wind has carried it in its belly; the earth is its nurse," and the explanatory text begins with "Hermes, the most diligent explorer of all natural secrets, describes in his Emerald Tablet the work of nature, albeit briefly and accurately." [31] The Emerald Tablet - Latin version, edition princeps - Excerpt from De Alchimia, Nuremberg 1541 - The Latin and Greek introduction says: "The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus on alchemy, by an unknown translator. Secrets of Hermes that were written on the emerald table found in his hands in a dark cave where his buried body was discovered"See, for example, the comments by Jean-Marc Mandosio on the relationship between André Breton and alchemy in his writings in Dans le chaudron du négatif, op. cit., p.22-25. Didier Kahn, Le Fixe et le volatil, CNRS Éditions, 2016, pp. 23-23, citing Mandosio 2003, p.682–683. Anyone who studies metaphysics knows that when even one word of an author’s writing is changed, the entire meaning is changed. It has always been a very strict policy of the Brotherhood’s that not one word of Dr. Doreal’s writings are to ever be changed or altered in any way, shape or form whatsoever. Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum: quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius; et quod est superius est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. Et sicut omnes res fuerunt ab uno, mediatione unius, sic omnes res natae fuerunt ab hac una re, adaptatione. Pater ejus est Sol, mater ejus Luna; portavit illud Ventus in ventre suo; nutrix ejus Terra est. Pater omnis telesmi totius mundi est hic. Vis ejus integra est si versa fuerit in terram. Separabis terram ab igne, subtile a spisso, suaviter, cum magno ingenio. Ascendit a terra in caelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum. Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi. Ideo fugiet a te omnis obscuritas. Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis; quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit. Sic mundus creatus est. Hinc erunt adaptationes mirabiles, quarum modus est hic. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi. Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis." The remnants of the Book of Thoth are stored in museums in Europe and the United States. There are 40 pieces of papyrus scrolls that have been preserved, with the central piece being in the Berlin Museum. The other pieces can be found in Copenhagen, Florence, New Haven, Paris, and Vienna.