The Tabula Chemica by Ibn Umail, in which the table is engraved with symbols, is translated as early as the 12th or 13th century.

One of the illustrations shows the discovery of Hermes' table in a temple surmounted by Sagittarius eagles (representing the volatile elements). The Secret of Secrets ( Secretum Secretorum) was translated into Latin in an abridged 188 lines long medical excerpt by John of Seville around 1140.

In Ortolanus' commentary, devoid of practical considerations, the Great Work is an imitation of the divine creation of the world from chaos: "And as all things have been and arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation. But it is the Jesuit scholar and linguist Athanasius Kircher who launches the strongest attack in his monumental work Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Rome, 1652–1653). Im impressed Interesting views and knowledge- i have asked questions and this already has some answers! Newton's Commentary on The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus: Its Scientific and Theological Significance".

by Hugo of Santalla as part of his translation of the Sirr al-khalīqa ( The Secret of Creation, original Arabic above). For example, in 1733, according to the alchemist Ehrd de Naxagoras ( Supplementum Aurei Velleris), a "precious emerald plate" engraved with inscriptions and the symbol was made upon Hermes' death and found in the valley of Ebron by a woman named Zora. Printed in Opuscule tres-excellent de la vraye philosophie naturelle des métaulx, traictant de l’augmentation et perfection d’iceux. This subreddit is a community for the discussion of Classical Hermeticism, a religious, philosophical, and esoteric tradition based primarily upon writings attributed to Hermes Trismegistus ("thrice-greatest Hermes"). His alternate view on Christianity and who "Jesus" really was is actually believable and quite refreshing.

At the beginning of the 20th century, alchemical thought resonated with the surrealists, [45] and André Breton incorporated the main axiom of the Emerald Tablet into the Second Manifesto of Surrealism (1930): "Everything leads us to believe that there exists a certain point of the spirit from which life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future, the communicable and the incommunicable, the high and the low, cease to be perceived as contradictory. And as all things were by contemplation of one, so all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adaptation. Balînûs, "master of talismans and wonders," enters a crypt beneath the statue of Hermes Trismegistus and finds the emerald tablet in the hands of a seated old man, along with a book. These developments brought about various Arabic-speaking empires in which a new group of Arabic-speaking intellectuals emerged.

Sicut res omnes ab una fuerunt meditatione unius, et sic sunt nate res omnes ab hac re una aptatione. He continues his studies of ancient texts and in 1684 argues that Hermes Trismegistus is not the Egyptian Thoth but the Taaut of the Phoenicians, who is also the founder of the Germanic people under the name of the god Tuisto, mentioned by Tacitus.For example, in the Book of Crates, while praying in the temple of Serapis, Crates, a Greek philosopher, has a vision of "an old man, the most beautiful of men, seated in a chair. Thus thou wilt possess the glory of the brightness of the whole world, and all obscurity will fly far from thee. A little difficult to read the actual Tablet translations, but Carson does an admirable job of unifying the fragments of understanding into a unified whole. It gives great references throughout the book for anyone to understand the possibilities of how or what the emerald tablets is about.

This figure is surrounded by an acrostic in Latin " Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem" ( “visit the interior of the earth and by rectifying you will find the hidden stone”), whose seven initials form the word VITRIOL (the ancient name for sulfuric acid). prodigiorum operatio ex uno, quemadmodum omnia ex uno eodemque ducunt originem, una eademque consilii administratione. If it be cast on to earth, it will separate the element of earth from that of fire, the subtle from the gross.Beginning from the 2nd century BC onwards, Greek texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, appeared in Greco-Roman Egypt. In the meantime, Kircher's conclusions are debated by the Danish alchemist Ole Borch in his De ortu et progressu Chemiae (1668), in which he attempts to separate the hermetic texts between the late writings and those truly attributable to the ancient Egyptian Hermes, among which he inclines to classify the Emerald Tablet. Starting from 1420, extensive excerpts are included in an illuminated text, the Aurora consurgens, which is one of the earliest cycles of alchemical symbols. The poem explains the symbolism in relation to the Great Work and the classical goals of alchemy: wealth, health, and long life.