The Emerald Tablet of Hermes
True, without falsehood, certain and most true, that which is above is as that which is below, and that which is below is as that which is above, to allow the performance of the miracles of the One Thing. And as all things are 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, and the Wind carries it in its belly, its nurse is the Earth. This is the father of all perfection, or consummation of the whole world. Its power is integrating, if it be turned into earth.
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