The Emerald Tablet 101: A Modern, Practical Guide, Plain and Simple

by Matthew Barnes

As all things have been and arose from the one, so all things have their birth from this one thing by transformation In the timeless beginning There was only the One, And IT seemed to me As if it were But a great Light Of pure Consciousness, As if Consciousness Was a substance, and tangible- And somehow It was The Light was an Intelligence, An Energy Beyond existence And beyond my ability To comprehend This Energy Was all that existed, There was nothing else But this Energy, This Intelligence, This Awareness- IT was all that was And IT was whole And complete In and of ITself From this Intelligence, From this One Thing I saw emerge a Second- A darker mass, Heavier in substance, Vibrating at a lower frequency This Second Was the world of matter, And It was birthed From the body Of the Light In one great explosion Of Light and Energy And Matter This darkness Was separate from the Light Yet somehow Still the Light, For It had come From the Light The One From whence the Second came Was neither male Nor female, But the dark Second Split into two- A male and a female part, A positive and a negative pole, The yang and the yin, The proton and the electron, The alpha particle and the omega particle, Representing the extreme range From the most positively charged And therefore most masculine particle To the most negatively charged And therefore most feminine particle From this split Came the union and repulsion Of the male and the female energies and forms Causing the U...