(urth) Emerald Bench
Lee Berman
severiansola at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 20 04:15:19 PDT 2010
>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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