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NEWTON'S TRANSLATION
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1 Tis true without lying, certain & most true.

2 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

3 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.

4 The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind hath carried it
in its belly, the earth is its nurse.

5 The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.

6 Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.

7 Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtile from the gross
sweetly with great industry.

8 It ascends from the earth to the heaven & again it descends to the
earth & receives the force of things superior & inferior.

9 By this means you shall have the glory of the whole world

10 & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.

11 Its force is above all force.  For it vanquishes every subtle thing
& penetrates every solid thing.

12 So was the world created.

13 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

14 That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished
& ended.