Emerald Tablet
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The Emerald Tablet, also known as the Smaragdine Table or the Tabula Smaragdina, is a compact and cryptic text traditionally attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus. The ear
Manuscript of the oldest recension of the Emerald Tablet, recension A of the Book of the Secret of Creation. (Leipzig, Vollers 832).
Nineteenth-century Arabic text of the Emerald Tablet and part of its frame story in the Book of the Secret of Creation. (man. Tehran, Majles Library, 14456/IR1526).
1620 woodblock print of the beginning of the Guanzi section Tzu-Kung hypothesised to be the origin of the Emerald Tablet.
Fourteenth-century Arabic text of the Emerald Tablet from the Secret of Secrets (man. Berlin, Landberg 121).
Secretum Secretorum
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The Secretum Secretorum or Secreta Secretorum, also known as the Sirr al-Asrar, is a treatise which purports to be a letter from Aristotle to his student Alexander the Great on an encyclopedic range o
Emerald Tablet
…and alchemical treatises between the 8th and 10th centuries CE—chiefly the Secret of Creation (Arabic: سر الخليقة, romanized: Sirr al-Khalīqa) and the Secret of Secrets (سرّ الأسرار, Sirr al-Asrār). It was often accompanied by a frame story about the discovery of an emerald tablet in Hermes' tomb. From the 12th century…
Two charts from an Arabic copy of the Secretum Secretorum for determining whether a person will live or die based on the numerical value of the patient's name.