{"schema_version":1,"access":"public","rights":"Public-domain or compatibly licensed source editions; provenance is retained per record.","work":{"slug":"emerald-tablet","title":"The Emerald Tablet","author":"Hermes Trismegistus (traditional attribution)","tradition":"alchemy","language":"la","genre":"alchemical aphorisms","period":"medieval Latin recension","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/tabula-smaragdina-das-corpus-hermeticom.-ein-beitrag-zur-geschichte-der-hermetischen-literatur","original":{"text":"### Clause 1\n\n1. Verum, sine mendacio, certum et verissimum.\n\n### Clause 2\n\n2. Quod est inferius, est sicut (id) quod est superius, et quod est superius, est sicut (id) quod est inferius, ad perpetranda¹ miracula rei unius.\n\n### Clause 3\n\n3. Et sicut omnes res fuerunt ab uno, meditatione unius: sic omnes res natae fuerunt ab hac una re, adaptatione.²\n\n### Clause 4\n\n4. Pater ejus est Sol, mater ejus Luna; (5) portavit illud ventus in ventre suo; (6) nutrix ejus terra est.\n\n### Clause 5\n\n5. Pater omnis thelesmi totius mundi est hic.\n\n### Clause 6\n\n6. Vis (Virtus) ejus integra est, si versa fuerit in terram.\n\n### Clause 7\n\n7. Separabis terram ab igne, subtile a spisso, suaviter, cum magno ingenio.\n\n### Clause 8\n\n8. Ascendit a terra in coelum, iterumque descendit in terram, et recipit vim superiorum et inferiorum. (11) Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi. Ideo fugiat (fugiet) a te omnis obscuritas.\n\n### Clause 9\n\n9. Hic (Haec) est totius fortitudinis fortitudo fortis: quia vincet omnem rem subtilem, omnemque solidum³ penetrabit.\n\n### Clause 10\n\n10. Sic mundus creatus est.\n\n### Clause 11\n\n11. Hinc adaptationes erunt mirabiles, quarum modus est hic.\n\n### Clause 12\n\n12. Itaque vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus, habens tres partes Philosophiae totius mundi.\n\n### Clause 13\n\n13. Completum est quod dixi de operatione Solis.","download_url":"https://mouseia.org/api/works/emerald-tablet/original.txt"},"translations":[{"id":"trn_emerald_tablet_mouseia","translator":"Mouseia","kind":"curated","note":"Mouseia’s complete machine-assisted Musean translation, made directly from all 13 clauses of the Latin recension printed by Julius Ruska in 1926 for fidelity, clarity, structure, imagery, and cadence.","text":"### Clause 1\n\n1. True, without falsehood, certain and most true.\n\n### Clause 2\n\n2. What is below is like (that) which is above, and what is above is like (that) which is below, to accomplish¹ the wonders of the one thing.\n\n### Clause 3\n\n3. And just as all things came from one, through the contemplation of one, so all things were born from this one thing, through adaptation.²\n\n### Clause 4\n\n4. Its father is the Sun, its mother the Moon; (5) the wind carried it in its womb; (6) the earth is its nurse.\n\n### Clause 5\n\n5. Here is the father of all perfection in the whole world.\n\n### Clause 6\n\n6. Its force (Power) is whole if it is turned into earth.\n\n### Clause 7\n\n7. You will separate earth from fire, the subtle from the dense, gently, with great skill.\n\n### Clause 8\n\n8. It ascends from earth into heaven, and descends again into earth, and receives the force of the things above and the things below. (11) Thus you will have the glory of the whole world. Therefore let all obscurity flee (all obscurity will flee) from you.\n\n### Clause 9\n\n9. This (She) is the strong strength of all strength: for it will conquer every subtle thing, and penetrate every solid thing.³\n\n### Clause 10\n\n10. Thus the world was created.\n\n### Clause 11\n\n11. From this will come marvelous adaptations, whose method is here.\n\n### Clause 12\n\n12. Therefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the Philosophy of the whole world.\n\n### Clause 13\n\n13. What I have said about the operation of the Sun is complete.","download_url":"https://mouseia.org/api/works/emerald-tablet/translations/trn_emerald_tablet_mouseia.txt"},{"id":"trn_emerald_tablet_plain","translator":"Mouseia","kind":"plain","note":"Mouseia’s complete Plain English edition, made independently and directly from all 13 clauses of the Latin recension printed by Julius Ruska in 1926.","text":"### Clause 1\n\n1. True, without falsehood, certain and most true.\n\n### Clause 2\n\n2. What is below is like (that) which is above, and what is above is like (that) which is below, to accomplish¹ the wonders of one thing.\n\n### Clause 3\n\n3. And just as all things came from one, through the contemplation of one, so all things were born from this one thing, through adaptation.²\n\n### Clause 4\n\n4. Its father is the Sun, its mother the Moon; (5) the wind carried it in its womb; (6) its nurse is the earth.\n\n### Clause 5\n\n5. The father of all the perfection of the whole world is here.\n\n### Clause 6\n\n6. Its power (virtue) is complete if it is turned into earth.\n\n### Clause 7\n\n7. You will separate earth from fire, the subtle from the dense, gently, with great skill.\n\n### Clause 8\n\n8. It rises from earth into heaven, and descends again into earth, and receives the power of the higher and the lower. (11) Thus you will have the glory of the whole world. Therefore let all obscurity flee (all obscurity will flee) from you.\n\n### Clause 9\n\n9. This (she) is the strong strength of all strength, because it will conquer every subtle thing and penetrate every solid thing.³\n\n### Clause 10\n\n10. Thus the world was created.\n\n### Clause 11\n\n11. From this will come marvelous adaptations, whose method is this.\n\n### Clause 12\n\n12. Therefore I am called Hermes Trismegistus, possessing the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.\n\n### Clause 13\n\n13. What I have said about the operation of the Sun is complete.","download_url":"https://mouseia.org/api/works/emerald-tablet/translations/trn_emerald_tablet_plain.txt"}],"retex_markdown_url":"https://mouseia.org/api/works/emerald-tablet/retex.md"}}