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THE ATLAS OF THE EMERALD TABLET

The Emerald Tablet

the Emerald Tablet
nature
A dozen lines claiming to record what was found on a tablet of emerald in the hands of Hermes: that which is above is as that which is below, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing. Its earliest known text is Arabic, inside the Kitāb sirr al-khalīqa; it reaches Latin in the twelfth century and becomes the motto of Western alchemy. There is no Greek original. Newton translated it in his own hand.

The wing is named for it, and the wing dates it honestly — medieval Arabic, not Alexandrian. That costs nothing: the sentence is still the tightest statement of correspondence anyone has written, and the Tree spends ten sephirot saying it. Real as what it is; false as antiquity.
That which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to accomplish the miracle of the One Thing.
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sephirahtiferet
whyThe harmonising centre — the sefirah that exists to hold an above and a below in one gesture.
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emerald tablet · tabula smaragdina · as above so below · arabic · newton
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