The Emerald Tablet inspired the Surrealists

The Second Manifesto of Surrealism published in 1930 incorporates the main axiom of the Emerald Tablet. This foundational text of alchemy continued to interest intellectuals at the beginning of the twentieth century, in the same way as the theosophist Helena Blavatsky. André Breton thus sought to reach a point of the mind unifying opposites such as the real and the imaginary.