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IFS & The Emerald Tablet Course: A Path of Truth, Transformation, and Reality


A free course inside the Everything IFS Academy





The Emerald Tablet is one of the most compact and influential texts in the Western esoteric tradition and also one of the most misunderstood. Often quoted, rarely read slowly, it is not a spell, a code, or a promise of supernatural power. It is a map of perception.


Rather than offering beliefs to adopt, the Emerald Tablet presents a sequence of principles meant to train the mind in clarity, accuracy, and transformation. Its language is symbolic, but its concern is practical: how reality moves, how consciousness participates in that movement, and how distortion prevents true change.


This free course explores the Emerald Tablet through the text itself, historical context, and a lens thoughtfully informed by Internal Family Systems (IFS). It is not therapy, and it does not replace alchemy, metaphysics, or the Hermetic tradition. It is designed for readers who want to engage the Tablet as a discipline of seeing one that begins with honesty and unfolds toward integration.



What This Course Offers

This course invites you to approach the Emerald Tablet as a progressive path—each Tablet building on the last, shaping how perception, transformation, and wholeness are understood.

Inside the course, you’ll explore:

  • Truth as perceptual accuracy rather than belief

  • The relationship between above and below, inner and outer

  • Transformation as a lawful process, not a mystical shortcut

  • The movement between subtle and material reality

  • Integration as the completion of the work

Throughout the course, insights from Internal Family Systems (IFS) help illuminate how these principles meet inner experience how distortion protects, how clarity stabilizes, and how truth can be approached without collapse or force.

This approach does not replace alchemy. It does not turn metaphysics into psychology. It offers another lens for noticing what is already there.



Course Outline

  • Tablet I: True Without Deception

  • Tablet II: As Above, So Below

  • Tablet III: The One Thing

  • Tablet IV: Father, Son, Mother, Moon

  • Tablet V: The Wind Bears It

  • Tablet VI: Earth as Nurse

  • Tablet VII: Separate the Subtle from the Gross

  • Tablet VIII: Rising from Earth to Heaven

  • Tablet IX: Descending Again to Earth

  • Tablet X: The Miracle of the One Thing

  • Tablet XI: The Glory of the Whole World

  • Tablet XII: The Stone and Its Strong Force



How This Course Is Different

You won’t find:

  • Magical thinking or symbolic shortcuts

  • Moralized interpretations of alchemical language

  • Modern frameworks replacing ancient principles

You will find:

  • Careful attention to the Tablet’s internal logic

  • Space for truth without distortion or pressure

  • An emphasis on accuracy before transformation


Each Tablet includes historical notes and optional reflective elements, emphasizing slow, grounded engagement and respect for the discipline of alchemical work.




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