Those who are familiar with the Emerald Tablet of Hermes, what are your thoughts on that if any?
I am curious to know what others think of this.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/alc/emerald.htm
2006-11-06 21:58:33 · 4 answers · asked by *JC* 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
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
1882 Hermes trismegistus
2006-11-06 22:14:22 · answer #1 · answered by sylvi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not familiar with this work, but it seems that it's just one more piece of evidence that a lot of the sacred texts have been in circulation in one form or another for a lot longer than anyone realizes.
Rather than being given to us by God, or being even a bit original, they come from far older religions and cultures than we are aware of. Most of the original evidence of that is certainly gone. Most of our religious concepts are not new or original, but a compilation or restatement of what came before.
2006-11-07 06:14:54 · answer #2 · answered by Zelda Hunter 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
was not Hermes the son of Zeus?
I think that's a Greek thing ..maybe Homer penned it
the emerald tablet never heard of it
obscurity drew my attention
2006-11-07 06:14:42 · answer #3 · answered by murphys_lawyers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's beautifully poetic. All the translations offered seem to capture that beauty quite well.
2006-11-07 06:08:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋