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For more advice, visit Wikipedia: Translation. Alchemical and hermetic text Creative 17th century image of the Emerald plaque from the work of Heinrich Hunrat, 1606. The Emerald Plaque, also known as the Smaragdin Pill, or Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and mysterious piece of Hermetica known to contain the secret of prima matter and its transmutation. European alchemists praised it as the basis of their art and its hermetic tradition. The original source of the Emerald Tablet is unknown. Although Hermes Trismegistus is the author named in the text, his first known appearance was in a book written in Arabic between the sixth and eighth centuries. The text was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century. This was followed by numerous translations, interpretations and comments. Layers of meaning of the Emerald Tablet were associated with the creation of a philosophical stone, as well as other esoteric ideas. Textual History Text of the Smaragdin tablet is written by the Phoenician alphabet using ancient Phoenician glyphs. The tablet is claimed by its author as Hermes Trismegistus (Hermes thrice-greatest), the legendary Hellenistic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the ancient Egyptian god Toth. The Book of Balanius the Wise about causes or a book on the mystery of creation and the nature of) ﻛﺘﺎب اﻟﺨﻠﻴﻘﺔ و ﺻﻨﻌﺔ اﻟﻄﺒﻴﻌﺔ أو ﻛﺘﺎب اﻟﻌﻠﻞ ﻟﻠﺤﻜﻴﻢ Despite claims of antiquity, it is believed to be an Arabic work written between the sixth and eighth centuries. The oldest documented source of the text is Kitab Balanias al-Hakim fi'l-Ilab Kitab Sirr al-ḫalīqa reality), written in Arabic between the sixth and eighth centuries. This volume is attributed to Balinas (or Pseudo-Apollonia Tatiana). In his book, Balinas frames the Emerald Plaque as an ancient Wisdom. He tells his readers that he found the text in the vault under the statue of Hermes in Tian, and that inside the vault an old corpse on a golden throne held an emerald plaque. After Balinas, an early version of the Emerald Tablet appeared in Kitab Sirr al-Asrar (The Book of The Mystery of Creation and the Art of Nature), compositions of earlier works, and in Kitab Ustuqus al-Uss al-Thani (Second Book of Elements of the Foundation), attributed to Jabir ibn Haiyan. The Smaragdin plaque was first translated into Latin in the twelfth century by Hugo Santalla. The text also appears in the thirteenth edition of Secretum Secretorum. The text of Newton's 17th-century edition of Isaac Newton's Translation is among his alchemical works, which are currently housed in the Royal College Library, University of Cambridge. This is true without a lie defined and the most true. What is lower is similar to what is higher and what is higher as what is below to make a miracle one is the only thing that is and how all things have been and have emerged from one mediated by one: so that all things have their birth from this one thing adaptation. The sun is his father, the moon his mother, the wind hut carried him in the belly, the earth is his nurse. The father of all perfection in the world is here. Its power or strength is intact if it is converted into earth. Separate you land from the fire, thin from gross sweet with great industry. He rises from the ground to heaven and descends again to the ground and receives the power of things superior and inferior. Thus, you will have the glory of the whole world and thus all obscurity will fly away from you. His power is above all strength, for it defeats every subtle thing and penetrates into every solid thing. This is how the world was created. From this there are and come wonderful adaptations, where from the means here in this. So I am called Hermes Trismegist, having three parts of the philosophy of the whole world What I said about the functioning of the Sun, accomplished and ended. Latin text of the Latin text of the Emerald Plaque, from De Alchemia, Nuremberg, 1541, 16th century edition of Latin text (Chrysogonus Polydorus, Nuremberg, 1541): Verum sine mendacio, certum, et verissimum. Cuod est inferius, est sicut quod est superius. Et quod est superius, est sicut quod est inferius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno, meditation (sic) unius, sic omnes res natae ab hac una re, adaptation. Pater eius est Sol, mater eius est Luna. Portavit illud ventus in ventre suo. Nutrix eius terra est. Pater omnis telesmi '10 Totius mundi est hic. Vis eius integra est, si versa fuerit in terrama. Separabis terram ab igne, subtil ab spisso, suaviter cum magno ingenio. Ascendit terra in coelum, iterum descendit terram, et recipit superiorum et inferiorum. Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi. Ideio fugy te omnis obscuritas. Haec est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis, quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidam penetrabit. Sic mundus creatus est. Hinc erunt adaptation mirabiles, quarum modus hic est. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes philosophiae totius mundi. Completum est, quod dixi de operatione Solis. Influenced In several Western digressions, the Tablet became the basis of medieval and Renaissance alchemy. Comments and/or translations were published by Tritemius, Roger Bacon, Michael Mayer, Albertus Magnus and Isaac Newton. The short text was a popular summary of alchemical principles in which the secrets of the philosopher's stone are believed to have been described. The alchemist Ortolan (or Hortulinus) wrote a significant exgesis in The Mystery of Hermes, which was influential for the subsequent development of alchemy. Many manuscripts of this copy of the Emerald Tablet and Ortolan's commentary survive dating back to at least the fifteenth century. Ortolanus, like Albert Magnus before him saw the tablet as a mysterious recipe that described laboratory processes using deck names (or code words). This was the dominant opinion of europeans until the fifteenth century. By the beginning of the sixteenth century, the works of Johann Tritevia (1462-1516) marked a shift from a laboratory interpretation of the Emerald Plate to a literal approach. Trithemy equated one thing of Hermes to the monad of Pythagorian philosophy and anima mundi. This interpretation of the airtight text was accepted by such alchemists as John Dee, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa and Gerhard Dorn. K.G. Chung identified the Emerald Plaque with a table of green stone, which he encountered in the first set and visions, beginning in late 1912, and culminated in his writing Seven Sermons to the Dead in 1916. (quote necessary) Historians Eric John Holmyard (1891-1959) and Julius Ruska (1867-1949) also studied the tablet in the twentieth century. Because of its long-standing popularity, the Emerald Plaque is the only part of the non-Greek Hermetica to attract widespread attention in the West. In the popular culture of the time-travel television series Dark, the mysterious priest Noah has a great image of an Emerald Tablet tattooed on his back. The image also appears on a metal door in caves that are central to the plot. Several characters are shown looking at copies of the text. A line from the Latin version, Sic mundus creatus est, plays a prominent thematic role in the series and is the title of the sixth episode of the first season. In 1974, Brazilian singer Jorge Ben Jor recorded a studio album called A T'bua de (Emerald plaque), quoting tablet text and alchemy in general in several songs. The album was defined as an exercise in musical alchemy and is celebrated as Ben Jore's greatest musical achievement, mixing samba, jazz and rock rhythms. The 2020 US Black Metal Snare of All Salvation by Axanu features lyrics from the Emerald Tablet as lyrics to AKA's Snare of All Salvation. Cm. also Jade Books in Heaven Tablet (religious) Links - Hart, G., Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses, 2005, Routledge, Second Edition, Oxon, p. 158 (Budge Gods of Egyptians Vol. 1 p. 415) - Nicholas Goodrick-Clark. Western esoteric traditions : Historical introduction. Oxford University Publishing House, 2008. 34. Katherine Park, Lorraine Duston. Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science. Cambridge University Press, 2006. p.502 - Florian Ebelsing. The Secret History of Hermes Tristegist: Hermetism from ancient times to modern times. Cornell University Press, 2007. 46-47, 96 and M. Thutsma. The first encyclopedia of Islam: 1913-1936 p. 594 - Florian Ebeling. The Secret History of Hermes Tristegist: Hermetism from ancient times to modern times. Cornell University Press, 2007. 49 - Isaac Newton. Keynes MS. 28. Isaac Newton's Chimistria. Ed William R. Newman. June 2010. Received on March 4, 2013. Johannes Petraeus. De Alchemia, Nuremberg, 1541. page 363. The word of Greek origin, from the τελέω itself, having meanings such as fulfilling, performing and consecrating, initiating); th-initial spellings constitute corruption.
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