This week, at the behest of Helios Epicence, we read The Emerald Tablet of Hermes: Multiple Translations.

WITH a few pages from The Alchemy Reader: 27-28, “Hermes Trismegistus,” and 246-247, Isaac Newton’s commentary on the Tablet. Please also take a look at the images at the beginning of the book, Figures 1-14.

A word from Helios:

The Emerald Tablet may be the beating heart within the body of Western/Middle Eastern Alchemy writings devoted to the cultivation of a Philosopher’s Stone. Many hold the Tablet, the source of the Hermetic adage “As Above, So Below”, to be a rubric of instruction for the Great Work, both physically and spiritually. However, the exploration of the Tablet’s history tends to terminate at its earliest Latin translations during the Renaissance, while this literary comparison will take us further back, to a less recognizable version of the piece.