Emerald Bench

The Urth list — 3 messages, 3 voices, 19 Sep 2010
https://urth.darkrealm.vip/thread/urth/5744

Andrew Mason19 Sep 2010, 17:54
At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald bench'. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
Jeff Wilson19 Sep 2010, 19:17

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On 9/19/2010 12:54 PM, Andrew Mason wrote: At the end of BOTNS, when Severian enters the Autarch's apartment, he finds a laboratory containing, among other things, 'the fabled emerald bench'. Does anyone have any idea what this might be?
Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and mandragoras, etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana < http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >
Lee Berman20 Sep 2010, 11:15

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Jeff Wilson: Probably a reference to the Emerald Tablet aka the Emerald Table, upon which is graven the undoubtable truths of alchemy including the formula for gold, the Philosopher's Stone, the care and feeding of homunculi and mandragoras, etc.
Okay! good work you guys.
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Wikipedia- The Emerald Tablet, also known as Smaragdine Table, Tabula Smaragdina, or The Secret of Hermes, is a text purporting to reveal the secret of the primordial substance and its transmutations. It claims to be the work of Hermes Trismegistus ("Hermes the Thrice- Greatest"), a legendary Hellenistic[1] combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth.
I like the part about sometimes baboon-headed Thoth.

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