HERMETICISM & ALCHEMY · LESSON 7 OF 7 · 15 MIN
The Emerald Tablet
The short, famous Hermetic text on "that which is above and that which is below" — its history, its lines and how to read it.
The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) is one of the most quoted texts in Western magic: a short, dense passage of about a dozen lines, said to have been found in the tomb of Hermes Trismegistus. It is the founding text of Hermetic alchemy and the source of the phrase most people know from it: "that which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below."