Chymistry of Isaac Newton : Diplomatic Manuscript (original) (raw)
Keynes MS. 28, King's College Library, Cambridge University
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Tabula Smaragdina
Hermetis Trismegistri
Philosophorum patris
Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
That wch is below is like that wch is above & that wch
is above is like yt wch is below to do ye miracles of one
only thing
And as all things have been & arose from one by ye
mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this
one thing by adaptation.
The Sun is its father, the moon its mother, the wind
hath carried it in its belly, the earth is its nourse. The
father of all perfection in ye whole world is here. Its
force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
Separate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from
the gross sweetly wth great indoustry. It ascends from ye
earth to ye heaven & again it descends to ye earth
& receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole
world & thereby all obscurity shall <_illeg._> fly from you.
Its force is above all force. ffor it vanquishes every
subtile thing & penetrates every solid thing.
So was ye world created.
From this are & do come admirable adaptations where
of ye means 
(or process) is here in this.
Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the
three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world
That wch I have said of ye operation of ye Sun
is accomplished & ended.
See ye ffrench Bibliotheque. Theatrum Chemicum vol. 6. p.715.
& vol 1 p 362 et p 8 et p 166 & p 685 et vol 4 p 497
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Hermes.
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Hermetis Trismegisti
Opera Chemica.
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Tabula Smaragdina.
Verum est sine mendacio, certum et verissimum. Quod
est inferius est sicut id quod est superius et quod est superius
est sicut id quod est inferius ad perpetranda miracula rei
unius. Et sicut res omnes fuerunt ab uno meditatione
et consilio unius: ita omnes res nascuntur ab hac una
re adaptione. Pater ejus est sol. Mater ejus est Luna
Portavit illum Ventus in ventre suo, Nutrix ejus est
Terra. Pater omnis perfectionis totius mundi est hic. Vis
ejus est integra si versa fuerit in terram. Separabis
terram ab igne, subtile a spisso suaviter magno cum
diligentia et ingenio. Ascendit a terra in cælum iter-
um
descendit in terram & recipit vim superiorum
& inferiorum. Sic habebis gloriam totius mundi et fugiet<_illeg._>
a te tenabræ et omnis obscuritas. Hæc est enim totius
fortitudinis fortitudo fortis. Nam vincet omnem rem
subtilem omnen solidam penetrabit. Sic Mundus crea-
tus est. Hinc erunt adaptiones mirabiles quarum modus
est hic. Ita vocatus sum Hermes Trismegistus habens
tres partes philosophiæ totius mundi. Completum est quod
dixi de <_illeg._>opere solari.
Commentarium.
‡ <_in mg:_>a ‡Quæ sequuntur verissima sunt. Inferius et superius,
fixum et volatile, sulphur et argentum vivum similem
habent naturam et sunt una res ut vir et uxor.
Nam solo digestionis et maturitatis gradu differunt ab in-
vicem. Sulphur est argentum vivum maturum, et argentum
vivum
adumbratus. Ob hanc artem vocor mercurius ter maximus
habens tres partes philosophiæ totius mundi, ut significetur 7
Mercurius philosophorum qui ex substantijs tribus fortissimis
componitur habet corpus animam et spiritum & est mine-
ralis vegetabilis et animalis & in regno minerali vegeta-
bili et animali dominatur.
Annotationes.
a Avicenna in cap. 4 Tractatuli sui<_illeg._> qui extat in Artis Auriferæ vol.1.p.268.
Senior in Th. Ch. v. 5. p. 222.
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