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The Emerald Tablet, ... "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 ...
The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean is a pseudohistorical book written by cult leader Maurice Doreal (1898–1963) and first published in the 1940s or early 1950s. [1] Influenced by ancient Egyptian texts and Lovecraftian stories about part-reptilian civilizations emerging from ancient Egypt-like ruins, it deals with Atlantis , an ...
Maurice Doreal (1898–1963), born Claude Doggins, [1] was an American occultist and founder of the Brotherhood of the White Temple.. Doreal claimed that during a 1925 visit to the Great Pyramids of Giza, he discovered a set of ancient emerald tablets belonging to the Egyptian deity Thoth, whom he re-imagined as a king of Atlantis.
The Magician, from the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck, often thought to represent the concept of "as above, so below". "As above, so below" is a popular modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet, a short Hermetic text which first appeared in an Arabic source from the late eighth or early ninth century. [1]
Hermetic fragments are also found in the works of Muslim alchemists such as Jabir ibn Hayyan (died c. 806 –816, cited an early version of the Emerald Tablet in his Kitāb Usṭuqus al-uss) [31] and Ibn Umayl (c. 900 – c. 960, quoted and commented upon Hermetic sayings throughout his work, among them also a commentary on the Emerald Tablet ...
The Liber Hermetis de alchemia ("The Book of Hermes on Alchemy"), also known as the Liber dabessi or the Liber rebis, is a collection of commentaries on the Emerald Tablet. Translated from the Arabic, it is only extant in Latin. It is this Latin translation of the Emerald Tablet on which all later versions are based. [46]
A woman who worked at a Maryland lodge was fired days after telling her supervisor she had a miscarriage and couldn’t make it to her shift, a federal lawsuit says.
Another significant text within the Hermetica is the Emerald Tablet, a concise work that has become central to Western alchemical tradition. Although its exact origins are obscure, the Emerald Tablet encapsulates the Hermetic principle of " as above, so below ", which suggests a correspondence between the macrocosm (the universe) and the ...