Emerald Tablet Poster

This wonderful parchment poster is an interpretation of the fabled Emerald Tablet put to pen by the spiritual wordsmith Travis Bowman and illustrated by Eliot Alexander. Said to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus, a Greek figure viewed both as Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, the work has been translated in Arabic, Latin, and English and is believed to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transformations. This contemporary interpretation is presented below: True, without a doubt, certain and most true, As it is below, so it is above, and as it is above, so it is below to perform the miracles of the One And as all things were from the one, by means of the meditation of the One, thus were all things born from the One. Its father is the Sun, its mother is the Moon, the wind carried it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. The father of all the world is here.its power is whole if it has been transformed into earth. You will separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the dense, sweetly, and the great skill. It rises from earth into heaven nd again it descends to the earth, and takes in the power of things both high and low. Thus you will have the glory of the whole world. Thus will all obscurity flee from you. Of all strength, this is true strength, as it will conquer, all that is subtle and penetrate all that is solid. Thus was the world created. From this grew wonderful adaptations, of which this is the way. Therefore am I named Hermes Trismegistus, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. It is finished, what I have said about the workings of the Sun.