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<blockquote data-quote="Myst" data-source="post: 1540" data-attributes="member: 24">Not to be confused with the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean (1930), the work of 20th-century occultist Maurice Doreal.The so-called Emerald Tablet or Tabula Smaragdina is a one paragraph long Hermetic text. It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists. Though attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early medieval Arabic sources, the oldest of which dates to the late eighth or early ninth century. It was translated into Latin several times in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Numerous interpretations and commentaries followed.Medieval and early modern alchemists associated the Emerald Tablet with the creation of the philosophers stone and the artificial production of gold.It has also been popular with nineteenth- and twentieth-century occultists and esotericists, among whom the expression &quot;as above, so below&quot; (a modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Tablet) has become an often cited motto.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Myst, post: 1540, member: 24"] Not to be confused with the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean (1930), the work of 20th-century occultist Maurice Doreal. The so-called [B]Emerald Tablet[/B] or [B]Tabula Smaragdina[/B] is a one paragraph long Hermetic text. It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists. Though attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early medieval Arabic sources, the oldest of which dates to the late eighth or early ninth century. It was translated into Latin several times in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Numerous interpretations and commentaries followed. Medieval and early modern alchemists associated the [I]Emerald Tablet[/I] with the creation of the philosophers stone and the artificial production of gold. It has also been popular with nineteenth- and twentieth-century occultists and esotericists, among whom the expression "as above, so below" (a modern paraphrase of the second verse of the [I]Tablet[/I]) has become an often cited motto. [/QUOTE]

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