The One Thing
All creation derives from a single source.
The Tablet declares that all things arise from One Thing by adaptation. This primal unity underlies all apparent multiplicity. Understanding this unity is essential for alchemical work, whether physical or spiritual.
All things are from One, by the mediation of One, and all things have their birth from this One Thing by adaptation.
The One Thing is the prima materia sought by alchemists.
The Emerald Tablet
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- What Hermeticism says about the pattern in things
Everything is said to come from one source by adaptation, which makes the variety of the world variation rather than difference in kind.