Emerald Table

Sherwood-Taylor, Alchemists (1976), 61, 78. The concept of solidified pneuma seems to originate in the Emerald Table which may date from the second to third century AD, hut is known only in early Arabic texts, not in Greek. 

MS Paris Bibliotheque Nationale Lat. Ms. 11201, Hortulanus, Commentary on the Emerald Table, folios 84r-98r (late fourteenth century). 

The Emerald Table of Hermes. rhttp //www.hermetic.com/texts/emerald.htmll. 

Hermes Trismegistus. "[Emerald table] Emerald table." In The lives of the alchemysticalphilosophers, ed. Francis Barrett, 383-384. London , 1814. 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Emerald table] Emerald Tablet of Hermes translated by Patrick Smith. Holmes Pub Group, 1997. ISBN 1-558-18360-4... 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Emerald table] The Emerald Table by R. Steele and D.W. Singer. Proc Roy Soc Med Sect Hist Med 21 (1928) 41-57. 

Hermes Trismegistus. "[Emerald table] The Smaragdine table." In Five treatises of the Philosophers Stone, lp.]. London , 1652. 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Emerald table] The Smaragdine table annotated by "Styx". Occult Mag 2, no. 21-23 (Oct-Dec 1886) 71-72. 

Hermes Trismegistus. "The Emerald table (Tabula Smaragdina)." In The alchemy reader, ed. Stanton J. Linden, 27-28., 2003. 

Clark, Rawn. [Emerald table] Commentary on the Emerald Tablet Of Hermes. rhttp //www.levitv.com/alchemv/ rawn cla.html], 8 Feb 1996. 

Everard, John. [Emerald table] Everard s commentary on Emerald Tablet. Tabula Smaragdina or The Table of Emerald said to be found in the Sepulchre of Hermes with glosses (in italic) by John Everard, Doctor of Divinity. 

Hermes Trismegistus. [Emerald table] Glory of the world, rhttp //www.sacred-texts, com/alc/emer glor.html. [20031206],... 

Hortulanus. "[Emerald table] A briefe commentary of Hortulanus the Philosopher upon the Smaragdine Table." In The mirror of alchemy composed by the thrice-famous and learned Fryer Roger Bachon, ed. Roger Bacon, 17-27. London , 1597. 

Hortulanus. [Emerald table] Hortulanus Commentary on the Emerald Tablet. A briefe Commentarie of Hortulanus the Philosopher, upon the Smaragdine Table of Hermes of Alchimy. [http //www.levitv.com/ alchemv/hortulan.htmll. 

Latz, Gottlieb. [Emerald table] The secret of the Emerald Tablet. Translated by Dennis William Hauck. Edmunds (WA) Holmes Publishing, 1993. 50p. 

Turner, Janet. [Emerald table] Meditation on the Emerald Tablet. Alchemy J 4, no. 2 (Autumn 2003). rhttp //www.alchemvlab. com/AJ4-2.html. 

Part 2. Suggests Chinese origin of Emerald Table... 

Emerald Table on Pp.21-26. English Translation From the Original French Manuscript Completed in 1967... 

Mineral gemstones that have the same basic chemical composition, that is, are composed of the same major elements and differ only in color, are considered as variations of the same mineral species. As gemstones, however, minerals that have the same composition and crystalline structure but exhibit different colors are classified as different gemstones. Beryl, for example, a mineral (composed of beryllium aluminum silicate), includes a pink variety, known by the gemstone name of morganite, and also a well-known green variety, emerald. Table 18 lists and classifies, by composition and color, gemstones that have been appreciated since antiquity. 

In a work attributed to Albertus Magnus, but which is probably spurious, we are told that Alexander the Great found the tomb of Hermes in a cave near Hebron. This tomb contained an emerald table — "The Smaragdine Table" — on which were inscribed the following thirteen sentences in Phoenician characters —... 

To help place this conversation in perspective, in the late seventeenth century, when Newton was reading and commenting on the ancient alchemical text known as the Emerald Table, he was struck by the appearance of dualities that he saw as fundamental to matter itself ... 

Instead, he uses his encounter with the Emerald Table as an occasion to buttress the ideas that he had been developing on matter in a modern scientific context. 

N.B. THE foregoing is not a translation of the Emerald Table, but rather a paraphrase, and one that does not by any means do full justice to the beautiful simplicity of the original. See my commentary on the Smaragdine Table, which contains both Latin and English texts, with a full account of the tradition, and of the inner meaning of the Hermetic Doctrine given therein. P. F. C.)... 

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