The following text is many hundreds of years old. I did not make it up. The Emerald Tablet has been very influential, over the centuries, amongst certain mystics, particularly alchemists. This particular text is a translation by Richard Smoley, from the Latin, and first appeared in Gnosis Magazine. Other versions exist in Arabic. All known versions are assumed to have their origins in a more ancient, oral source. THE EMERALD TABLET of Hermes Trismegistus 1. True it is, without deceit, certain, and most true: 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Its father is the sun; its mother is the moon. The wind carried it in its belly; its nurse is the earth. 5. This is the father of all consecration of the whole world. 6. Its power is intact, if it shall have been turned toward the earth. 7. You will separate earth from fire, the subtle from the dense, sweetly, with great ingenuity. 8. 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. 9. This is the strong strength of all strength, because it will conquer everything subtle and penetrate everything solid. 10. Thus was the world created. 11. Hence will be wondrous adaptations, of which this is the method. 12. And so I have been called Hermes Thrice-Greatest, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world. 13. What I have said about the working of the sun is complete.
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