The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus - Translated by Isaac Newton circa 1680

1. Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
2. That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do ye miracles of one only thing.
3. And as all things have been & arose from one by ye mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
4. The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
5. the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nurse.
6. The father of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
7. Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
   7a) Separate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
8. It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven & again it descends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
9. By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
10. Its force is above all force. for it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
    11a) So was ye world created.
11. From this are & do come admirable adaptions whereof ye means (Or process) is here in this.
12. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world.
13. That which I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished & ended.
    [Dobbs 1988: 183-4.]

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