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Originally Posted by BK911

For accuracy:

Maurice Doreal wrote The Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, a book that interprets the Emerald Tablet, an ancient alchemical text.

The "Emerald Tablet" is just that, no real relation to Thoth or Atlanteans other than what came from the link to the "pseudohistorical book written by cult leader Maurice Doreal."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet

Not to be confused with the Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean (1930), the work of 20th-century occultist Maurice Doreal.

The Emerald Tablet, the Smaragdine Table, or the Tabula Smaragdina[a] is a compact and cryptic Hermetic text.[1] It was a highly regarded foundational text for many Islamic and European alchemists.[2] Though attributed to the legendary Hellenistic figure Hermes Trismegistus, the text of the Emerald Tablet first appears in a number of early medieval Arabic sources, the oldest of which dates to the late eighth or early ninth century. It was translated into Latin several times in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Numerous interpretations and commentaries followed.

Beginning from the 1st century BC onwards,[5] Greek texts attributed to Hermes Trismegistus, a syncretic combination of the Greek god Hermes and the Egyptian god Thoth, appeared in Greco-Roman Egypt. These texts, known as the Hermetica, are a heterogeneous collection of works that in the modern day are commonly subdivided into two groups: the technical Hermetica, comprising astrological, medico-botanical, alchemical, and magical writings; and the religio-philosophical Hermetica, comprising mystical-philosophical writings.[6]

These Greek pseudepigraphal texts found receptions, translations and imitations in Latin, Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, and Middle Persian prior to the emergence of Islam and the Arab conquests in the 630s. These developments brought about various Arabic-speaking empires in which a new group of Arabic-speaking intellectuals emerged. These scholars received and translated the before-mentioned wealth of texts and also began producing Hermetica of their own.[7]

Until the early 20th century, only Latin versions of the Emerald Tablet were known, with the oldest dating back to the 12th century. The first Arabic versions were rediscovered by the English historian of science E.J. Holmyard (1891-1959) and the German orientalist Julius Ruska (1867-1949).[8]
Arabic versions
A page from the Secret of Secrets (Kitāb Sirr al-asrār), with two charts to determine whether a patient will live or die based on the numerical value of their name.

The Emerald Tablet has been found in various ancient Arabic works in different versions. The oldest version is found as an appendix in a treatise believed to have been composed in the 9th century,[9] known as the Book of the Secret of Creation, Kitāb sirr al-Halīka in Arabic. This text presents itself as a translation of Apollonius of Tyana, under his Arabic name Balīnūs.[10] Although no Greek manuscript has been found, it is plausible that an original Greek text existed.[11] The attribution to Apollonius, though false (pseudonymous), is common in medieval Arabic texts on magic, astrology, and alchemy.