Emerald Bench

Lee Berman · 20 Sep 2010, 11:15 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: severiansola at hotmail.com (Lee Berman)
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 07:15:19 -0400
Subject: (urth) Emerald Bench
Message-ID: <SNT123-W6102255EDB071940806C13CF7E0 at phx.gbl>


>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.
 
>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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