متن انگلیسی ترجمه اسحاق نیوتن از لوح زمرد هرمس(۱۶۸۰ میلادی)

• Translation of Issac Newton c. 1680.

• 1) Tis true without lying, certain & most true.
• 2) 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.
• 3) 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.
• 4) The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
• 5) the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nourse.
• 6) The father of all perfection in ye whole world is here.
• 7) Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
• 7a) Seperate thou ye earth from ye fire, ye subtile from the gross sweetly wth great indoustry.
• 8) It ascends from ye earth to ye heaven & again it desends to ye earth and receives ye force of things superior & inferior.
• 9) By this means you shall have ye glory of ye whole world & thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
• 10) Its force is above all force. ffor it vanquishes every subtile thing & penetrates every solid thing.
• 11a) So was ye world created.
• 12) From this are & do come admirable adaptaions whereof ye means (Or process) is here in this.
• 13) Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of ye philosophy of ye whole world.
• 14) That wch I have said of ye operation of ye Sun is accomplished & ended.
• [Dobbs 1988: 183-4.]