Emerald Tablet

 

Tabula Smaragdina of Hermes Trismegistus

 

Chiram Telat Mechasot – One in Essence and Three in Aspect 

 

You can be sure of this

 

The superior agrees with the inferior 

and the inferior agrees with the superior 

To perpetuate infinity from nothingness 

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As all things owe their existence to the one existence

all things originate from one thing

the most hidden

 

Its father is the sun 

Its mother is the moon 

 

The mind carries its seed within 

And its matrix is the earth 

 

It is perfect and contains the whole world

When formed within the earth 

 

Activate the subtle from the physical by means of a hidden fire with great patience and ingenuity

 

It ascends from the inferior to the superior

taking on the powers of both

before descending again and enhancing and transmuting both

 

By this means the whole world becomes glorious

and all things can be seen

And all darkness will flee

 

It is above and within all 

and so conquers and rules all 

both physical and subtle

 

It is the creator of worlds

 

From it anything may be derived

 

All the instructions are here

Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus thrice holder of all the wisdom of the world

 

This is all that need be known

concerning the power of the solar work