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# Re: Emerald tablet and the tetrepolar magnet

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- To: BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com
- Subject: Re: Emerald tablet and the tetrepolar magnet
- From: "forestofsymbols" <forestofsymbols@...>
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 18:02:34 -0000
- In-reply-to: <bj4s7s+i4lr@eGroups.com>
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    I'll bet you sooner or later, some one will let you now Rawn Clark
    has been thiniking about the Emerald Tablet in regards to Hermetics.
    You can find his commentary here:

    http://www.abardoncompanion.com/PDF-Links.html

    mj

    --- In BardonPraxis@yahoogroups.com, "ihya1347" <ihya1347@y...> wrote:
    > Figured i'd post some ideas that were bouncing around my head,
    > be good to get it all writen down ( and make sure im not way off
    > base )
    >
    > I was reading some translations of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes,
    and
    > thought that it might help me understand the theory section of IIH
    > better ( ok...Bardon starting out the theory section with a quote
    > from it was a little hint..) Basicaly what i got was this:
    >
    > Everything came from the one, which im taking to mean the Akasa,
    > since Bardon says that all the elements came from it. Next the
    > tablet says that the Sun was the father of the one, and its mother
    > was the moon, which seemed odd at first since you cant give birth
    to
    > your parents, but I think the Sun represents fire and the Moon
    > represents water. The male force is active, female receptive, and
    > also in my version bardon says " ... must have been fire and light,
    > and in the Bible we read: "Fiat Lux" ? There shall be
    > light. The origin of the light, of course, is to be sought in the
    > fire. " about the element of fire, so that reminded me of the sun.
    >
    > next the tablet says that wind only carried the one, and it was
    > never suggested that it played a more active role, so through a
    > briliant leap of deductive reasoning i asociated the element of
    wind
    > with the 'wind' refered to in the tablet. In some versions of the
    > tablet it also says that earth caried the one, but when it does it
    > syas that it carried it within its breast, and the other
    > translations say that the earth nourished the one. So i think that
    > the carried here means two different things for each, the carried
    > for the wind meaning more like it carrying the one along between
    the
    > elements, and for earth meaning carried and nutured inside of it,
    > like the spirit inside of gross matter, the subtle in the gross or
    > the 3 elements interacting to create the 4th one and the tetrepolar
    > magnet.
    >
    > after that it talks about seperating the fire from the earth/subtle
    > from the gross, and many other metaphors for the alchemical
    process.
    > so what i took that to mean in relation to IIH was the process of
    > working on refining the elements. From there the tablet talks about
    > a ascending to the uper and coming back down to the lower, and the
    > subtle and gross joined together to become one. I have next to none
    > experience with the later steps in IIH, so ill leave that as is.
    >
    > Now that its all writen out it dosent seem that much of a leap of
    > logic...just hope i took the right leaps. Eh, looking at the tablet
    > and comparing it to the tetrepolar magnet helped me get a little
    > insight into how the elements work together anyway..you know,
    > actualy, i think Bardon's theory section helped me make sense of
    the
    > tablet and not the other way around. Some translations made less
    > sense than my posts ( at least to me anyway ). Well, feel free to
    > tear apart my logic, shouldnt be too hard.

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