{"id":863,"date":"2023-04-20T11:33:33","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T11:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2023-04-25T16:19:04","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T16:19:04","slug":"how-old-is-the-emerald-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysteriumacademy.com\/how-old-is-the-emerald-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Emerald Tablet: How Old Is It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The slab of stone known as the Emerald Tablet is enshrined in mystery. Engraved with ancient writing, its exact origins are unclear. In this article we are going to look at the question: how old is the Emerald Tablet?<\/p>\n
The Emerald Tablets state that they were written in 36 000 BC, by Hermes Trismegistus. He wrote it during his time as king and high priest of the ancient civilization of Atlantis. However, the earliest known historical record of the Emerald Tablet appeared in a collection of Arabic texts during the 8<\/strong>th<\/sup><\/strong>\u00a0century.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n According the tablets themselves, they were written some 38 000 years ago. This was before ancient Egypt, during the time of Atlantis, the mythical prehistoric civilization. Hermes had achieved immortality and dedicated his existence to teaching and guiding humanity to a higher level of consciousness.<\/p>\n When it came time for Hermes to depart from this part of the universe, he wrote his wisdom on the tablets, and put his students in charge of guarding and protecting them. These students became the priests of temple, passing the knowledge down from generation to generation. They became the high priests of ancient Egypt, and their knowledge was then passed to the ancient Greek philosophers. These traditions continue to exist in the form of secret societies such as the Freemasons, and the Golden Dawn, to name a couple well known examples.<\/p>\n In these traditions of esoteric study, the Emerald Tablets are recognized as being from the time of Atlantis, as that is what the texts themselves say, and also that is the knowledge that has been passed down from previous generations.<\/p>\n To take a more skeptical approach to dating the emerald tablet, one that follows the scientific method, a researcher may come to a different conclusion. Certainly, the profound nature of the writings of the Emerald Tablet are themselves evidence that the writings come from an unusual source, however there is no physical evidence to support the prehistorical origin date.<\/p>\n Dating the tablets themselves is not possible, as they have been lost, if they did in fact ever exist. They were supposedly made from a type of emerald-colored stone that only exists as a result of alchemical transmutation.<\/p>\n A popular theory is that they were lost during the burning of the Library of Alexandria. Located in Egypt, it was a large and significant place of research. Estimated to have contained the equivalent of 100 000 books in the form of scrolls, the library was attacked on multiple occasions, suffering its greatest loss of books in 48 BC, when it was accidentally set on fire by Julius Caesar during a civil war. If the legends of the tablets being made out of special alchemical stone are true, then they are indestructible, and therefore still buried under the ancient rubble of the burned library.<\/p>\nThe Mystery School Perspective on Dating the Emerald Tablet<\/strong><\/h2>\n
The Scientific Approach to Dating the Emerald Tablet<\/strong><\/h2>\n