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 Posted: Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:06 pm Post subject: Tabula Smaragdina - The Emerald Table |
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the "emerald" of the philosophers
ten precepts on the operation of the Sun
short commentary on the secret word of Hermes
© Wim van den Dungen
Antwerp, 2002 - 2008.
"Was he one or many, merging
Name and fame in one,
Like a stream, to which, converging,
Many streamlets run ?
Who shall call his dream fallacious ?
Who has searched or sought
All the unexplored and spacious
Universe of thought ?
Who in his own skill confiding,
Shall with rule and line
Mark the border-land dividing
Human and divine ?
Trismegistus ! Three times greatest !
How thy name sublime
Has descended to this latest
Progeny to time !"
Longfellow, H.W. : Hermes Trismegistus, 1882.
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Tabula Smaragdina - The Emerald Table
