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The Magician, from the 1909 Rider–Waite tarot deck, often thought to represent the concept of "as above, so below". "As above, so below" is a popular modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet, a short Hermetic text which first appeared in an Arabic source from the late eighth or early ninth century. [1]
As Above, So Below is a 2014 American horror film [6] written and directed by John Erick Dowdle and co-written by his brother Drew. The film stars Perdita Weeks , Ben Feldman , Edwin Hodge , François Civil , Marion Lambert, and Ali Marhyar .
"As above, so below" is a popular modern paraphrase of the second verse of the Emerald Tablet (a compact and cryptic text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and first attested in a late eight or early ninth century Arabic source), [24] as it appears in its most widely divulged medieval Latin translation: [25]
AS ABOVE, SO BELOW: Each vertical theme answer contains the words AS and SO. The word AS is ABOVE the word SO, which means, of course, that SO is BELOW AS: GL ASS O NION, CHRISTM AS SO NG, and P ...
That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above, to accomplish the miracles of one thing. And as all things were by contemplation of one, so all things arose from this one thing by a single act of adaptation. The father thereof is the Sun, the mother the Moon.
In Magick (Book 4), Crowley asserted that Baphomet was a divine androgyne and "the hieroglyph of arcane perfection", seen as that which reflects: "What occurs above so reflects below, or As above so below": The Devil does not exist. It is a false name invented by the Black Brothers to imply a Unity in their ignorant muddle of dispersions.
On the broad level, the Magician is interpreted with energy, potential, and the manifestation of one's desires; the card symbolizes the meetings of the physical and spiritual worlds ("as above, so below") and the conduit converting spiritual energy into real-world action. [6]
With his brother Drew Dowdle as a producer and/or co-screenwriter, John Erick Dowdle directed the horror films Quarantine, [2] Devil, [3] based on a storybook from M. Night Shyamalan, [4] and As Above, So Below, as well as the 2015 thriller film No Escape, [5] starring Owen Wilson and Pierce Brosnan. [6]