The Hermetic corpus and Emerald Tablet was likely heavily influenced by the text I’m quoting from given its popularity in Egypt in the period before those texts emerged and some of the overlapping phrases.
So in a way, “as above, so below” is too few words for what was being said and discussed.
The general tend of reductive alterations to the core concepts here was tragically obstructive, much as the shift from Epicureanism to Platonist foundations spawned modern Gnosticism from this same starting place.
that’s a lot of words for “as above, so below” ;)
The Hermetic corpus and Emerald Tablet was likely heavily influenced by the text I’m quoting from given its popularity in Egypt in the period before those texts emerged and some of the overlapping phrases.
So in a way, “as above, so below” is too few words for what was being said and discussed.
The general tend of reductive alterations to the core concepts here was tragically obstructive, much as the shift from Epicureanism to Platonist foundations spawned modern Gnosticism from this same starting place.