I am doubtful of the supposed origin of this book, which I will not rehash here (see other reviews), and did not find a need to do so. It has also been popular with nineteenth- and twentieth-century occultists and esotericists, among whom the expression " as above, so below" (a modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Tablet) has become an often cited motto. But it is the Jesuit scholar and linguist Athanasius Kircher who launches the strongest attack in his monumental work Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652–1653). By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

In the place where I lived [Tyana], there was a stone statue raised on a wooden column; on the column, these words were written: 'I am Hermes, to whom knowledge has been given. These Greek pseudepigraphal texts found receptions, translations and imitations in Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Middle Persian prior to the emergence of Islam and the Arab conquests in the 630s. Recently, it has been suggested that it is actually a text of talismanic magic and that the confusion arises from a mistranslation from Arabic to Latin. Written on multiple levels of consciousness, it will have meaning and usefulness to anyone who truly loves life and is seeking the greater mysteries.In his 1143 treatise, De essentiis, Herman of Carinthia is one of a few European 12th century scholars to cite the Emerald Tablet. From another perspective, Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann [ de] publishes in 1657 a commentary in which he tries to demonstrate, using the linguistic methods of the time, that the Emerald Tablet was not originally written in Egyptian but in Phoenician. It is proposed that the architecture of the textual chambers works as a boundary for the texts, and that in doing so, it provides a framework for understanding the corpora of texts as a myth in themselves. These 4 or 5-star reviews represent the opinions of the individuals who posted them and do not reflect the views of Etsy. Note: this short post was originally made on the /r/Hermeticism subreddit, which I’ve decided to copy here for posterity.

While I slept uneasily and restlessly, preoccupied with my sorrow, an old man whose face resembled mine appeared before me and said, 'Rise, Bélinous, and enter this underground road; it will lead you to the knowledge of the secrets of Creation.

It is the base for all religions (except for paganism since it was the first ever belief during the times of humanity in the caveman days) from a single person. However, this is merely a conjecture, and although it can be deduced from other indices that the text dates to the first half of the twelfth century, its translator remains unknown.