Re: Emerald tablet and the tetrepolar magnet

["forestofsymbols" <forestofsymbols@...>]

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.