The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean

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Mandosio 2004b, p.683. For an edition and a short description of the contents of this text, see Steele & Singer 1928 (Steele & Singer's edition of the Tablet itself is reproduced in Mandosio 2004b, pp.691–692). See further Colinet 1995; Caiazzo 2004, pp.700–703. Selwood, Dominic (2023). "The Emerald Tablet and the Origins of Chemistry". medievalists.net . Retrieved 24 April 2023. 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.

H.E. Stapleton, 1933, Three Arabic Treatises on Alchemy by Muhammad bin Umail (10th Century A.D.). Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, XII, Calcutta: "I saw on the roof of the galleries a picture of nine eagles with out-spread wings [...] On the left side were pictures of people standing ... having their hands stretched out towards a figure seated inside the Pyramid, near the pillar of the gate of the hall. The image was seated in a chair, like those used by the physicians. In his lab was a stone slab. The fingers behind the slab were bent as if holding it, an open book. On the side viz. in the Hall where the image was situated were different pictures, and inscriptions in hieroglyphic writing [birbawi] The fictional Book of Thoth appears in an ancient Egyptian short story from the Ptolemaic period, known as "Setne Khamwas and Naneferkaptah" or "Setne I". The book, written by Thoth, contains two spells, one of which allows the reader to understand the speech of animals, and one which allows the reader to perceive the gods themselves. [5] Unlike the Book of Thoth, which exists in the form of tattered ancient papyri, no physical evidence of the other two books exists. 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.barriers of space. For a time of half of the sun (six hours), free may ye pass the barriers of earth- One of the most important gods of ancient Egypt, Thoth was worshiped as early as the Pre-Dynastic Period around 5,000 BCE, and during the Hellenistic Period (332-30 BCE) the Greeks equated him with Hermes. They called him Hermes trismegistos, or ‘thrice greatest’. Commonly represented in human form with the head of an ibis water bird, he’s also known by the name Djehuty, which means ‘ he who’s like the ibis’. Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptatione. 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 tablet has also long been linked to Hermeticism, a philosophical and religious movement founded in the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance. It is said that the Emerald Tablet was part of a group of philosophical texts known as Hermetica and reveals the wisdom of the universe. By the 19th and 20th century, it became associated with esotericists and occultists. What Was Written on the Emerald Tablet?

Early modern versions of the tablet text [ edit ] Latin (Nuremberg, 1541) [ edit ] Latin text of the Emerald Tablet, from Johannes Petreius, De alchemia, Nuremberg, 1541. This is an early translation of Corpus Hermeticum into English in 1650. The book of Thoth was one of many books created by Thoth during ancient Egypt Physical evidence of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Emerald Tablet The Egyptians stored many texts, on a wide range of subjects, in "Houses of Life", the libraries contained within temple complexes. As Thoth was the god of knowledge, many of these texts were claimed to be his work. [1] The Egyptian historian Manetho said that Thoth wrote 36,525 books. [2]

In 1583, a commentary by Gerard Dorn is published in Frankfurt by Christoph Corvinus. In De Luce naturae physica, this disciple of Paracelsus makes a detailed parallel between the Table and the first chapter of the Genesis attributed to Moses. Debus, Allen G. (2004). Alchemy and Early Modern Chemistry: Papers from Ambix. Jeremy Mills Publishing. ISBN 9780954648411. Woe to those who have taken such sacred texts as the Tablets and changed the truths therein, and benefited for their own personal gratification and profit, for the effects of what they have sown will surely find them. Greed for money, glory and power will bring to them the causes they themselves have created. Mandosio, Jean-Marc (2003). "La Tabula smaragdina e i suoi commentari medievali". In Paolo Lucentini; Ilaria Parri; Vittoria Perrone Compagni (eds.). Hermetism from late antiquity to humanism. Brepols. pp.681–696.

Manzalaoui, Mahmoud (1974). "The Pseudo-Aristotelian Kitāb Sirr al-asrār: Facts and Problems". Oriens. 23/24: 147–257. doi: 10.2307/1580104. JSTOR 1580104. The Greeks identified the Egyptian god Thoth with their messenger god, Hermes, who they believed to be the divine author of the Emerald Tablet. The name Hermes Trismegistus, or the Thrice-Greatest stemmed from the belief that he came to the world three times: as Egyptian god Thoth, as Greek god Hermes, and then as Hermes the man scribe who lived thousands of years in the past. the Key that ye hold. Then will I, the Initiator, answer, come from the Halls of the Gods in Amenti. Holmyard, E.J. The Emerald Table Nature, No.2814, vol. 112, 1923, p.525-6. - Julius Ruska Tabula Smaragdina. Ein Betrag zur Geschichte der hermetischen Literatur (1926) Weisser, Ursula (1980). Das "Buch über das Geheimnis der Schöpfung" von Pseudo-Apollonios von Tyana. Berlin: De Gruyter. doi: 10.1515/9783110866933. ISBN 978-3-11-086693-3.

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 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 fact that the book claims to be based on real tablets revealed by Thoth is in itself an extraordinary event. The author, or the translator, in this case, is as obscure as the tablets themselves. Nothing really new is being introduced to the reader apart from the link between Thoth and Atlantis. In its several Western recensions, the Tablet became a mainstay of medieval and Renaissance alchemy. Commentaries and/or translations were published by, among others, Trithemius, Roger Bacon, Michael Maier, Albertus Magnus, and Isaac Newton. The concise text was a popular summary of alchemical principles, wherein the secrets of the philosophers' stone were thought to have been described. [72] Ruska, Julius (1925). "Der Urtext der Tabula Smaragdina". Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 28: 349–351. The Table of Emerald and its legendary discovery are mentioned for the first time in De essentiis (1143) by Herman of Carinthia, a friend of Robert of Chester, who translated in 1144 the Liber de compositione alchimiae, considered the first treatise on alchemy in the West. [21]Detailed record for Arundel 164". British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. A transcription is given by Selwood 2023.