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The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
True it is, without deceit, certain, and most true:
What is below is like what is above, and what is above is like what is below, to accomplish the wonders of the one thing.
And just as all things have been from the one, by the design of the one, so all things have been born from this one thing, adaptation.
Its father is the sun; its mother is the moon. The wind carried it in its belly; its nurse is the earth.
This is the father of all consecration of the whole world.
Its power is intact, if it shall have been turned toward the earth.
You will separate earth from fire, the subtle from the dense, sweetly, with great ingenuity.
It ascends from earth to heaven, descends again toward earth, and receives the force of the things above and below. Thus you will have the glory of the whole world. Therefore all darkness will flee from you.
This is the strong strength of all strength, because it will conquer everything subtle and penetrate everything solid.
Thus was the world created.
Hence will be wondrous adaptations, of which this is the method.
And so I have been called Hermes Thrice-Greatest, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
What I have said about the working of the sun is complete.
From Gnosis: A Journal of the Inner Traditions #40 (Summer 1996). Used by arrangement with the translator and with Gnosis.
Translation copyright © 1996 by Richard Smoley
From Gnosis: A Journal of the Inner Traditions #40 (Summer 1996). Used by arrangement with the translator and with Gnosis.
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