(Isaac Newton’s translation)
- Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
- That which is below is like that which is above & that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing
- And as all things have been & arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
- The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
- The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
- Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
- Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
- It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it descends to the earth & receives the force of things superior & inferior.
- By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world
- & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
- Its force is above all force. For it vanquishes every subtle thing & penetrates every solid thing.
- So was the world created.
- From this are & do come admirable adaptations whereof the means (or process) is here in this. Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world
- That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.
(Taken from Wikipedia: Emerald Tablet, which in turn references Isaac Newton’s personal papers which were transcribed and posted on King’s College Library’s “The Chymistry of Isaac Newton” site, Cambridge University.)
(I probably have the attribution wording mixed up.)
This is the “Green Stone” of the riddle that unlocks the “Red Deck” (The Hermetic Kabbalah Tarot). The Red Deck in turn, reflects the Green Stone. (“The stone unlocks the deck, and the deck reflects the stone.)
Looks simple, doesn’t it.
Nothing is ever simple.
Downloading a copy of GRS Mead’s (public domain) translations of the Corpus Hermeticum to my tablet so I can have something to overload my neurons with during the day.