The Emerald Tablets of Thoth-The-Atlantean

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Roger Bacon, Opera hactenus inedita, fasc V: Secretum Secretorum cum glossis et notulis, edited by Robert Stelle, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1920.

The Greeks identified the Egyptian god Thoth with their messenger god, Hermes, who they believed to be the divine author of the Emerald Tablet. The name Hermes Trismegistus, or the Thrice-Greatest stemmed from the belief that he came to the world three times: as Egyptian god Thoth, as Greek god Hermes, and then as Hermes the man scribe who lived thousands of years in the past. The Egyptians stored many texts, on a wide range of subjects, in "Houses of Life", the libraries contained within temple complexes. As Thoth was the god of knowledge, many of these texts were claimed to be his work. [1] The Egyptian historian Manetho said that Thoth wrote 36,525 books. [2] Weisser 1979, pp.524–525. A translation based on the superseded edition of Ruska 1926, pp.158–159 may be found in Rosenthal 1975, pp.247–248. So, to wrap things up, archeologists discovered the remains of ancient Egyptian papyri, and upon translating it determined it be the Book of Thoth. It is one of several books attributed to the god who introduced language and writing to the world. However, it is unique because unlike the other books, the Book of Thoth exists as an actual physical manuscript, rather than just in the form of translations from earlier versions. These remains are stored in a variety of museums, notably the Berlin Museum. Recommended Reading

also known as the Smaragdine Tablet or the Tabula Smaragdina, some think Thoth wrote this book 36 000 years ago during the time of Atlantis. It was rediscovered in the 8 th century and became popular in the Islamic world. The book consists of 12 chapters, which includes writings on alchemy, and the famous phrase, “As above, so below”, whose meaning you can r ead more about here. The Divine Pymander That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below The introduction to the Book of the Secret of Creation is a narrative that explains, among other things, that "all things are composed of four elemental principles: heat, cold, moisture, and dryness" (the four qualities of Aristotle), and their combinations account for the "relations of sympathy and antipathy between beings." Balînûs, "master of talismans and wonders," enters a crypt beneath the statue of Hermes Trismegistus and finds the emerald tablet in the hands of a seated old man, along with a book. The core of the work is primarily an alchemical treatise that introduces for the first time the idea that all metals are formed from sulfur and mercury, a fundamental theory of alchemy in the Middle Ages. [8] The text of the Emerald Tablet appears last, as an appendix. [9] It has long been debated whether it is an extraneous piece, solely cosmogonic in nature, or if it is an integral part of the rest of the work, in which case it has an alchemical significance from the outset. [10] 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. [11]

The Book of the Secret of Creation was translated into Latin ( Liber de secretis naturae) in the early 12th century by Hugh of Santalla, but this version of the Emerald Tablet was not widely known. [17] Vulgate (from the Liber Hermetis de alchimia or Liber dabessi) [ edit ] Latin text of the Vulgate Emerald Tablet, from MS Arundel 164, folio 155r., 15th century, British Library [66] The tablet states its author as Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice-Greatest"), a legendary Hellenistic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the ancient Egyptian god Thoth. [47] Like most other works attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, the Emerald Tablet is very hard to date with any precision, but generally belongs to the late antique period (between c. 200 and c. 800). [48] The oldest known source of the text is the Sirr al-khalīqa wa-ṣanʿat al-ṭabīʿa ( The Secret of Creation and the Art of Nature, also known as the Kitāb al-ʿilal or The Book of Causes), an encyclopedic work on natural philosophy falsely attributed to Apollonius of Tyana ( c. 15–100, Arabic: Balīnūs or Balīnās). [49] This book was compiled in Arabic in the late eighth or early ninth century, [50] but it was most likely based on (much) older Greek and/or Syriac sources. [51] In the frame story of the Sirr al-khalīqa, Balīnūs tells his readers that he discovered the text in a vault below a statue of Hermes in Tyana, and that, inside the vault, an old corpse on a golden throne held the emerald tablet. [52] The most widely distributed Latin translation (the so-called 'Vulgate') is found in an anonymous compilation of commentaries on the Emerald Tablet that was translated from a lost Arabic original. This alchemical compilation was variously called Liber Hermetis de alchimia, Liber dabessi, or Liber rebis. [67] Its translator has been tentatively identified as Plato of Tivoli, who was active in c. 1134–1145. [68] 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. [69] Detailed record for Arundel 164". British Library, Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. A transcription is given by Selwood 2023.

This is an early translation of Corpus Hermeticum into English in 1650. The book of Thoth was one of many books created by Thoth during ancient Egypt Physical evidence of the Corpus Hermeticum and the Emerald Tablet Slightly different versions of the Emerald Tablet also appear in the Kitāb Usṭuqus al-uss al-thānī ( The Second Book of the Element of the Foundation, c. 850–950) attributed to Jabir ibn Hayyan, [53] in the longer version of the Sirr al-asrār ( The Secret of Secrets, a tenth century compilation of earlier works that was falsely attributed to Aristotle), [54] and in the Egyptian alchemist Muhammed ibn Umail al-Tamimi's (ca. 900 – 960) Kitāb al-māʾ al-waraqī wa-l-arḍ al-najmiyya ( Book of the Silvery Water and the Starry Earth). [55] The church father Clement of Alexandria, in the sixth book of his work Stromata, mentions forty-two books used by Egyptian priests that he says contain "the whole philosophy of the Egyptians". All these books, according to Clement, were written by Hermes (a pre-existing Greek god that the Greeks likened to Thoth, claiming they were the same god, having similar qualities, e.g. both invented writing). Translation from Egyptian language and concepts to Greek language and concepts was not entirely accurate, and some Egyptian authenticity was lost. Among the subjects they cover are hymns, rituals, temple construction, astrology, geography, and medicine. [3] The Book of Toth and the tomb of Nefer-Ka-Ptah also are animated in the short film The riddle of the Sphinx, directed by the Ukraïnian director Vladimir Pekar (1985).

It is the same old story as with the Bible. There have always been those whose egos and self-importance prompted them to change Bible texts for one reason or another and much of the truth that was originally conveyed became obscured and lost its true meaning. Badawi, Abd al-Rahman (1954). al-Usūl al-Yūnāniyya li-l-naẓariyyāt al-siyāsiyya fī al-islām. Cairo: Maktabat al-Nahḍa al-Miṣriyya. OCLC 12629786.The fact that the book claims to be based on real tablets revealed by Thoth is in itself an extraordinary event. The author, or the translator, in this case, is as obscure as the tablets themselves. Nothing really new is being introduced to the reader apart from the link between Thoth and Atlantis. The claim regarding the authorship was first made around 150 to 215 CE by the church father Clement of Alexandria. For this reason, the Emerald Tablet of Thoth is also known as the Emerald Tablet of Hermes throughout history. Around 1275-1280, Roger Bacon translated and commented on the Secret of Secrets, [23] and through a completely alchemical interpretation of the Emerald Tablet, made it an allegorical summary of the Great Work. [24] And as all things were by contemplation of one, so all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adaptation. Selwood, Dominic (2023). "The Emerald Tablet and the Origins of Chemistry". medievalists.net . Retrieved 24 April 2023.