The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
Multiple Translations
A concise compendium of the most celebrated translations of the Emerald Tablet, the brief Hermetic text that has stood at the heart of alchemy and esoteric philosophy for over a thousand years. Includes versions by Jabir ibn Hayyan, Isaac Newton, Sigismund Bacstrom, and Madame Blavatsky, with a short history of the tablet's transmission from Arabic to Latin.
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