Publisher's Synopsis
The Tabula Smaragdina, the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, is one of the classic texts of esotericism which has intrigued some of the greatest minds in Western intellectual history, including Albertus Magnus, Johannes Trithemius and Sir Isaac Newton. In this book one of Romania's leading writers on esotericism seeks to establish a standard text before convincingly subjecting it to his own interpretative system, 'Nomism', an axiomatic epistemological technique based on the idea of legitimacy which seeks to reconcile the data accumulated by science and the humanistic disciplines. The book is illustrated with relevant engravings from the alchemical iconographic tradition.
