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Smaragdine, sma-rag′din, adj. of an emerald green.—n.

The language of the Smaragdine tablet is notoriously the most obscure that the hermetic literature has produced; in it there are no clear recommendations to belief or righteousness; and yet I think that an unprejudiced reader, who was not looking specially for a chemical prescription, would perceive at least a feeling for something of philosophy or theology.

It is the cycle of which we read in the Smaragdine Tablet.

The covetous crowd of sloppers, however, adhered to the gold of the Smaragdine tablet and other writings and had no appreciation of anything else.

The mere word gold was enough to make countless souls blind to everything besides the gold recipe that might be found in the Smaragdine tablet.