The Riddle of the Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus is a mysterious text renowned in the Middle Ages and beyond as part of the Hermetica, a mostly-lost alchemical literary tradition. The Emerald Tablet itself is an ancient mystical riddle. Below is the solved version, reconstructed from many centuries ago and published for the first time (you can easily find the traditional unsolved version of the Emerald Tablet in many translations by searching online).

The Solution to the Riddle of the Emerald Tablet:

This is assuredly true:
Humans above the ground can learn from the rocks and stones below the ground,
Just as rocks and stones below the ground have been listening to the humans above the ground.
And herein we will tell you of a miracle that they are all a part of.
Here is what the emeralds have learned, and what the emeralds say:
The world is one thing altogether. It is true!
Thus all that happens in the world is happening to the world, and the world itself is conscious of it.
The Sun is the father of this world.
The Moon is known as its mother.
The wind is more responsible for the world and its consciousness than you may know.
It is the planet Earth that sustains it, this one thing that is the world altogether.
God/the good thing did bid this world exist, and if God/the good thing is fully manifest in the world, the one thing will be perfected at last.
Understand spirit and nurture it with goodness, rejecting vulgar and materialist viewpoints.
Become wise and careful.
Integrate your flights of spirit well; do not forget this lesson.
It is important and brings glory to your intellect to see the world this way.
This lesson will be repeated a thousand years from now if you share it well.
The force of this world’s unity is the strongest force known within it. This unity snakes through all things subtle and all things solid on Earth, and cannot be subdued.
By this unified world your human world was created.
This unified world gives birth to many adaptations.
This was written by Hermes Trismegistus, who studies God, humans, and Earth: all three.
This Earth and its grand elaborations reveal themselves to be the great work of the Sun, a work that is both complete and incomplete, for it is fully formed and ever changing.

In understanding the profundity of this mystical riddle, it may be helpful to keep in mind that humans could not have technically confirmed that Earth is in fact a planet until we were able to photograph it from space or orbit. I specify the reference to planet Earth in the solution, but the wording in English translations of the riddle is more vague, and in fact there’s reason to believe that most if not all people for most of history had vague and varying ideas about what Earth is. Perhaps less so emeralds.

The title of the Emerald Tablet is in fact a clue to its riddle’s provenance and solution: the message originally comes from mineral intelligence channeled through a person who gave himself the pen name Hermes Trismegistus, and refers to a mystical unified theory about our green planet, Earth.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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