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== The emerald tablet ==
== The emerald tablet ==


Hermes Trismegistus has been referred to as the father of [[alchemy]]. According to one legend, a slab of emerald found in his tomb had inscribed upon it Hermes’ precepts for making gold. This emerald tablet contained the familiar Hermetic axiom: “What is below is like that which is above. And what is above is like that which is below.”<ref>Ibid., p. x.</ref>
Hermes Trismegisto también ha sido denominado padre de la alquimia. Según una leyenda, una losa de esmeralda hallada en su tumba tenía inscritos los preceptos de Hermes para hacer oro. Esta tabla esmeralda contenía el conocido axioma hermético, «lo que está abajo es como lo que está arriba, y lo que está arriba es como lo que está abajo»<ref></ref>.


One ancient author who claimed to have seen the stone said that it was an emerald on which the characters were represented in bas-relief, not engraved. The material had once been in a fluid state like melted glass and had been cast in a mold, and it had been given the hardness of a genuine emerald by alchemical means.
One ancient author who claimed to have seen the stone said that it was an emerald on which the characters were represented in bas-relief, not engraved. The material had once been in a fluid state like melted glass and had been cast in a mold, and it had been given the hardness of a genuine emerald by alchemical means.