" The Secret of Creation attributed to Apollonius. Jabir (or Geber) himself, in giving the text of the Emerald Table states that he is quoting Apollonius. Now, Kraus has shown that The Secret of Creation was written, at least in its final edition, during the Caliphate of al-Ma’mun (813-833), "

― Valentin Tomberg , Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism