Fuck Aristotle and fuck your source.
Find me another.
I'll drop the yee olde speak... apparently people don't find it as entertaining as I do. I can't help it... I'm nostalgic.
It certainly would be interesting to find out who or how many people put the legend of the Emerald Tablet together.
So its a legend now?
So... why would the philosophers stick to one language when they could do a much better job by spreading the information in many languages, and in many other ways?
Philosophers diliberately spreading esoteric teachings in multiple forms and languages is completely different from transmitting an original document, presumably a tablet, through a foreign language such as Arabic, and translating all existent narrations from the foreign language because the original is lost. One a brilliant conspiracy by mages of the highest order... the other is an accident of history. It's very much like the New Testament in that way. No documents in the language of Jesus exist, what we have instead is a corpus of gospels in Greek, and from those they translate the message for the multitudes. This was not the genius of Jesus, but the necessity of scholars. And while the invisible gospel may be there for one who sees with two sights... the text is not inerrant.
It was through this diversity of multiplications in which cryptic meaning has spread throughout every society and civilization, infesting the planet with Hermes' tricks. You will find Hermes in Islam, too. In Islam, his is the Buraq from the Night Journey.
Hmm.... Yes... you are correct. Truth erupts in isolation... like Buddha under the lote tree of the farthest boundary. The baboon and ibis have no place in Islam. But the esoteric meaning is sound. The Message of the way forward and the path upward needs no tablet and no book. The Signs abound both within and without, above and below. But this is not the genius of some Hermetic author. The is al-Haq. The Sure Reality. What is the Sure Reality? And what will make you realise what the Sure Reality is?
The authentic text of the tablet is lost to history. What remains is only conjecture amongst guerrilla alchemists. But the Message of the Tablet is closer to you than your own jugular vein, engraved upon the heart of the Traveler. I suggest you look there.