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Emerald Tablet

Emerald Tablet
Hermetic trans. Isaac Newton (c. 1680) • c. 6th-8th century CE
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Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
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That wch is below is like that wch is above & that wch is above is like yt wch is below to do ye miracles of one only thing.
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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.
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The Sun is its father, the moon its mother.
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The wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nourse.
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The father of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
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Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
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Seperate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from the gross sweetly wth great indoustry.
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It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven & again it desends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
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By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
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Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtile thing & penetrates every solid thing.
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So was ye world created.
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Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world.
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That wch I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished & ended.