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    "form": "alchemical-hermetic",
    "tradition": "Hermetic-alchemical",
    "year_approx": 300,
    "note": "Two short alchemical-hermetic texts paired here. The Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina) is the foundational text of Western alchemy in twelve aphorisms; the Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra is a 1st–3rd c. CE Greek diagram with terse inscriptions on the transformation of metals.",
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      "GA 60: The Spiritual Hierarchies and the Physical World — Hermes / Mercury",
      "GA 123: The Gospel of St. Matthew — Hermes as an individuality"
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      "slug": "emerald-tablet",
      "name": "Emerald Tablet (Tabula Smaragdina)",
      "author": "Attributed to Hermes Trismegistus",
      "year_approx": 800,
      "translator": "In the Kybalion volume (Three Initiates, 1908)",
      "form": "aphoristic axioms",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Twelve aphorisms attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and accorded scriptural status by the alchemical tradition — including the axiom *quod est inferius est sicut quod est superius* (\"as above, so below\").",
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      "slug": "chrysopoeia-of-cleopatra",
      "name": "Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra — Diagram Inscriptions",
      "author": "Anonymous (associated with Cleopatra the alchemist)",
      "year_approx": 200,
      "translator": "Project translation from Greek with Berthelot 1887 French as bridge",
      "form": "diagram inscriptions",
      "subtitle": null,
      "blurb": "Diagram inscriptions on the *Chrysopoeia* of Cleopatra the Alchemist — a 1st–3rd c.",
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      "word_count": 1186,
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