Emerald Tablet

Compact Hermetic text — fewer than 300 words — said to have been inscribed on an emerald slab found by Alexander the Great in the tomb of Hermes. Source of the maxim "as above, so below." For a thousand years it was the alchemists' rosetta stone.

Latin Tabula Smaragdina — emerald tablet.

• Hermes Trismegistus
• As Above, So Below
• Hermeticism