"Ora et Labora!"

A (Fool’s) Interpretation of the Emerald Tablet & Excerpts from Latin Interpretation

1) Veritas, pure from any falsehood, for sooth, most cert.

2) "What is above is like what is below, & what is below is like that which is above. To make the miracle of the one thing.

3) & as all things were made from contemplation of one, so all things were born from 1 adaptation."

4) Its father is the Sun (Divine Masculine), its mother is the Moon (Divine Feminine).

5) The wind carried it in its womb, the earth (Gaia) breast fed it.

6) "It is the father of all ‘works of wonder’ (Telesmi) in the world."

6a) Its power is complete (Integra, (which is also the name of a vehicle))

7) "If cast to (turned towards- versa fuerit) earth,"

7a) "it will separate earth from fire, the subtile from the gross."

8)"With great capacity it ascends from earth to heaven. Again, it descends to earth, and takes back the power of the above and the below."

9)" Thus you will receive the glory of the distinctiveness of the world. All obscurity will flee from you."

10)"This is whole most strong strength of all strength, for it overcomes all subtle things, and penetrates all solid things."

11a) "Thus was the world created."

12) "From this comes marvelous adaptations of which this is the procedure."

13) "Therefore I am called Hermes, because I have three parts of the wisdom of the whole world."

14) "And complete is what I have to say about the work of the Sun, from the book of Galieni Alfachimi."

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