The Father Sun and Mother Moon
The masculine and feminine cosmic principles in creation.
The Tablet describes the One Thing's father as the Sun (masculine, active, giving) and its mother as the Moon (feminine, receptive, forming). These cosmic parents work together in all generation, from physical to spiritual.
The Sun is its father, the Moon its mother, the Wind has carried it in its belly.
Sun and Moon represent the fundamental creative polarities.
The Emerald Tablet
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- What Hermeticism says about teachers and lineage
Where the Emerald Tablet does use family language, the parents are cosmic: the Sun as father and the Moon as mother, active and receptive, working together in whatever is generated.