The Emerald Tablet, Arabic, c. 750 - 850 CE"That which is below is like that which is above." The most quoted sentence in Western esotericism, and worth being precise about where it reaches us from: its earliest surviving attestation is Arabic, in the Book of the Secret of Creation, credited to Balinus — pseudo-Apollonius of Tyana — and probably resting on older Greek or Syriac material now lost.The slogan everyone calls Hermetic comes down to us through Islamic alchemy.
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