The Emerald Tablet
Isaac Newton, c. 1680 (manuscript discovered in his alchemical papers, public domain) · Public domain. Reproduced for educational and religious commentary.
1Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
2That 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.
3And 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.
4The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nurse.
5The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
6Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
7Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtile from the gross sweetly with great industry.
8It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it descends to the earth & receives the force of things superior & inferior.
9By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
10Its force is above all force, for it vanquishes every subtile thing & penetrates every solid thing.
11So was the world created.
12From this are & do come admirable adaptations whereof the means is here in this.
13Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
14That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished & ended.