THE EMERALD TABLET
The Emerald Tablet was highly regarded by Europeans as the basis of alchemy. Interpretations of the words and overall meaning provide a foundation to the practice of magick--the power of earth, fire, sun, moon and immortality.
Are The Emerald Tablets real? The emerald tablets are quite real and are on display at a museum in Egypt.
YOU CAN USE THE BOOK OF AQUARIUS TO CREATE YOUR OWN STONE TABLET. IT COULD TAKE THREE TO A HUNDRED YEARS TO GET THE FORMULA RIGHT. One alchemist used his own eurine and ended up with a glow with a life force which he later sold.
Alchemy and Immortality – The Tale of Nicolas Flamel and the Lapis Philosophorum
For mankind, immortality has always been a remarkably fascinating idea. Throughout time, the quest to eliminate death in order to achieve indefinite life in the physical body has taken various forms. One of the most well-known of such attempts was alchemy. The main goal of alchemy was to produce the Lapis Philosophorum, the Philosopher’s Stone, a legendary substance with the property of turning common metal into gold with a high level of purity and a substance which could help in making the elixir of long life. This prevented death, thus making the drinker immortal. According to some accounts it was sufficient to drink from the elixir only once to prevent death indefinitely, while other accounts sustained that a regular consumption of the elixir was necessary in order to remain immortal.
The Philosopher’s Stone or Emerald Tablet
In alchemical engravings, the Philosopher’s Stone is usually represented symbolically in the form of an egg, sometimes along with the alchemical snake. Many alchemists claimed to have found the Stone and to have made the elixir of immortality, however few have managed to prove it. In Asia, it was very common for emperors to order their subjects to go look for someone who could make the elixir and to bring it back to them so that they could enjoy the joy of everlasting life, however many were brought false elixirs which only managed to offer death instead of the much desired dream of immortality.
"Squaring the circle": an alchemical symbol (17th century) of the creation of the philosopher's stone.
Nicolas Flamel and the Discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone
Despite the failed attempts, one name has survived in history associated with an actual discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone. This was Nicolas Flamel , a French librarian and scribe who lived between 1330 and 1418 in Paris. He married his love, Pernelle, in 1360 and together they became the most famous couple of alchemists.
One day, Flamel went to the market where an old book caught his eye. It contained an old text written by Abraham the Jew and Flamel decided to buy it, paying the cheap price of two florins. The pages of the book contained images which detailed some of the steps of the Great Work, as the alchemical process of creating the Philosopher’s Stone was called. At first, Nicolas Flamel was unable to understand what the images actually meant, so he left for Compostella, Spain, where he was introduced to a Jew who had converted to Catholicism. The Jew understood the meaning of the images which he shared with Flamel.
The alchemist then came back to Paris where he began to experiment with the transmutation of metals alongside his wife. He had taught her the principles of alchemy in the past and, by following to the letter the instructions from the book, they achieved their first successful transmutation, obtaining gold of a far superior quality than the common one and with a much higher level of purity. Flamel remained very discreet and he kept his success a secret as King Charles the Fifth had ordered the destruction of all alchemy labs. Instead, Flamel’s reaction was to endow various churches and to order a portal with symbolic figures for Saint Jaques la.
THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW: How did alchemy affect the world? Alchemy made important contributions to metalworking, refining, production of gunpowder, ceramics, glass, ceramics, ink, dyes, paints, cosmetics, extracts, liquors etc. Alchemists conceptualized chemical elements into the first rudimentary periodic tables and introduced the process of distillation to Western Europe.
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ZENTRAVELER SAYS: Create your own stone tablet and acheive immortality.
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