Megascopic Quantum Phenomena
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the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous
apes… will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies
will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we
may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as
now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Today these lines are far from being politically correct particularly since history has demonstrated for us the danger of disgusting “ape theories” and sickening
pagan concepts. Returning instead to a closer look at the Emerald Tablet, Darwin’s
inspiration. It contains 14 verses but only two of them are relevant for an alignment
with our current knowledge of natural sciences, i.e. the second and eighth ones. Citing the English translation of the standard 1613 Latin Beato’s Aurelium Occultae
Philosophorum [164].
Verse 2: Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels
of the work of one thing are procured and perfected.
Verse 8: This ascends from the earth into the sky and again descends from the sky to
the earth, and receives the power and efficacy of things above and of things below.
Verse 2 seems to be intelligible and conceivable for us as physicists. Maruani
[147], see also papers quoted therein, compares the microcosm and the macrocosm,
and excerpts the same two verses from a similar 1680 Newton’s translation and
discusses some interesting relations between microphysics and astrophysics, electromagnetism and gravitation, and the “magical” relations between the fundamental
physical constants.
Verse 8, on the other hand, has no support in contemporary quantum physics. Yet,
based on this verse, Darwin proposed his two-stage model, and even if this proposition
was successful, it is still occultism, since there is no scientific base, and hence we
do not know the range, the limitations and the critical points of its applicability. But,
if comparing verse 8 with Table 2, depicting microscopic-megascopic mirrors of all
basic axioms, it is obvious that we may identify a decrypted version of the Emerald
Tablet, expressed in terms of a clear and unambiguous language of quantum theory.
One might ask where such a magnificent wisdom of the Emerald Tablet comes
from. We do not even know whether Hermes Trismegistus was a real person or only
the name of the book dealing with the ‘Emerald Tablet’. Most probably this is only a
torso of some higher knowledge of antediluvian origin. There is a Jewish testimony of
Flavius Josephus who in his Antiquities, Book I, Chapter 2: Concerning the Posterity
of Adam, and the Ten Generations from Him to the Deluge [165], wrote about the
significant discoveries of the descendants of Adam’s son Seth that had survived
the flood: “And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently
known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by
the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made
two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on
them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar
of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform
them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them.”
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the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous
apes… will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies
will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we
may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as
now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
Today these lines are far from being politically correct particularly since history has demonstrated for us the danger of disgusting “ape theories” and sickening
pagan concepts. Returning instead to a closer look at the Emerald Tablet, Darwin’s
inspiration. It contains 14 verses but only two of them are relevant for an alignment
with our current knowledge of natural sciences, i.e. the second and eighth ones. Citing the English translation of the standard 1613 Latin Beato’s Aurelium Occultae
Philosophorum [164].
Verse 2: Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels
of the work of one thing are procured and perfected.
Verse 8: This ascends from the earth into the sky and again descends from the sky to
the earth, and receives the power and efficacy of things above and of things below.
Verse 2 seems to be intelligible and conceivable for us as physicists. Maruani
[147], see also papers quoted therein, compares the microcosm and the macrocosm,
and excerpts the same two verses from a similar 1680 Newton’s translation and
discusses some interesting relations between microphysics and astrophysics, electromagnetism and gravitation, and the “magical” relations between the fundamental
physical constants.
Verse 8, on the other hand, has no support in contemporary quantum physics. Yet,
based on this verse, Darwin proposed his two-stage model, and even if this proposition
was successful, it is still occultism, since there is no scientific base, and hence we
do not know the range, the limitations and the critical points of its applicability. But,
if comparing verse 8 with Table 2, depicting microscopic-megascopic mirrors of all
basic axioms, it is obvious that we may identify a decrypted version of the Emerald
Tablet, expressed in terms of a clear and unambiguous language of quantum theory.
One might ask where such a magnificent wisdom of the Emerald Tablet comes
from. We do not even know whether Hermes Trismegistus was a real person or only
the name of the book dealing with the ‘Emerald Tablet’. Most probably this is only a
torso of some higher knowledge of antediluvian origin. There is a Jewish testimony of
Flavius Josephus who in his Antiquities, Book I, Chapter 2: Concerning the Posterity
of Adam, and the Ten Generations from Him to the Deluge [165], wrote about the
significant discoveries of the descendants of Adam’s son Seth that had survived
the flood: “And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently
known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by
the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made
two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on
them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar
of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform
them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them.”