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=== ''Secret of Secrets'' === <!--[[File:Tabula ex Sirr Asrar 17th century.jpg|left|thumb|222x222px|Arabic text of the ''Emerald Tablet'' from a 1627 [[Secretum Secretorum|Secret of Secrets]] (man. Paris'', Arabe 2417''). ]] this image may be used elsewhere in the article--> [[File:Emerald Tablet Landberg 121.jpg|thumb|left|Fourteenth-century Arabic text of the ''Emerald Tablet'' from the [[Secretum Secretorum|''Secret of Secrets'']] (man. Berlin, ''Landberg 121'').]] Another text of the ''Emerald Tablet'' is found towards the end of the tenth-century [[pseudo-Aristotelian]] work known as the [[Secretum Secretorum|''Secret of Secrets'']].{{Efn|{{langx|la|Secretum Secretorum}}; {{langx|ar|سرّ الأسرار|Sirr al-Asrār}}. Arabic text edited by {{harvnb|Badawi|1954}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Badawi|1954|pp=166–167}}.</ref>}}{{Efn|On the dating of this work, see {{harvnb|Manzalaoui|1974}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Manzalaoui|1974|pp=157-166}}.</ref>}} This entire treatise is framed as a [[pseudepigraphic]]al letter from [[Aristotle]] to [[Alexander the Great]] during the latter's conquest of Persia and is introduced via a number of letters between the two.{{Efn|Though the wording by [[Ibn Juljul]] could suggest this framing was a non-essential addition to the treatise.<ref>{{harvnb|Manzalaoui|1974|p=158}}.</ref>}} It discusses politics, morality, [[physiognomy]], astrology, alchemy, medicine, and more.<ref>{{harvnb|Manzalaoui|1974|pp=158-159, 164, 167, 193}}.</ref> It reads: <blockquote> <poem> {{center| {{lang|ar|حقا يقينا لا شك فيه}} {{lang|ar|أن الأسفل من الأعلى والأعلى من الأسفل}} {{lang|ar|عمل العجائب من واحد بتدبير واحد كما نشأت الأشياء من جوهر واحد}} {{lang|ar|أبوه الشمس وأمه القمر}} {{lang|ar|حملته الريح في بطنها، وغذته الأرض بلبانها}} {{lang|ar|أبو الطلسمات، خازن العجائب، كامل القوى}} {{lang|ar|فان صارت أرضا اعزل الأرض من النار اللطيف}} {{lang|ar|أكرم من الغليظ}} {{lang|ar|برفق وحكمة تصعد من الأرض إلى السماء وتهبط إلى الأرض}} {{lang|ar|فتقبل قوة الأعلى والأسفل}} {{lang|ar|لأن معك نور الأنوار فلهذا تهرب عنك الظلمة}} {{lang|ar|قوة القوى}} {{lang|ar|تغلب كل شيء لطيف يدخل على كل شيء كثيف}} {{lang|ar|على تقدير العالم الأكبر}} {{lang|ar|هذا فخري ولهذا سمّيت هرمس المثلّث بالحكمة اللدنية}}<ref>{{harvnb|Badawi|1954|pp=166–167}}.</ref> }} </poem> </blockquote>
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