Editing Emerald Tablet (section)

=== ''On the Secrets of Nature'' ===
[[File:Text of Tablet by de Santalla.jpg|thumb|214x214px|Text of the ''Emerald Tablet'' in its Latin translation by [[Hugo of Santalla]] (man. Paris, ''Latin 13951'').]]
The ''Book of the Secret of Creation'' was translated into Latin''{{Efn|Titled {{Langx|la|Liber de secretis naturae|lit=Book of the Secrets of Nature}}; An edition of the text was published by Françoise Hudry.<ref>{{harvnb|Hudry|1997–1999}}.</ref>}}'' in {{circa|1145–1151}} by [[Hugo of Santalla]].{{Efn|A Latin edition of this text can be found in {{harvnb|Hudry|1997–1999}}. Hudry's version of the Tablet is reproduced in {{harvnb|Mandosio|2004b}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Mandosio|2004b|pp=690-691}}.</ref> An English translation of this text may be found in {{harvnb|Litwa|2018}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Litwa|2018|p=316}}.</ref>}} This text does not appear to have been widely circulated.<ref>{{harvsp|Weisser|1980|pp=54–55}}.</ref> Its translation of the ''Tablet'' reads as follows:

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Superiora de inferioribus, inferiora de superioribus,
prodigiorum operatio ex uno, quemadmodum omnia ex uno eodemque ducunt originem, una eademque consilii administratione.
Cuius pater Sol, mater vero Luna,
eam ventus in corpore suo extollit: Terra fit dulcior.
Vos ergo, prestigiorum filii, prodigiorum opifices, discretione perfecti,
si terra fiat, eam ex igne subtili, qui omnem grossitudinem et quod hebes est antecellit, spatiosibus, et prudenter et sapientie industria, educite.
A terra ad celum conscendet, a celo ad terram dilabetur,
superiorum et inferiorum vim continens atque potentiam.
Unde omnis ex eodem illuminatur obscuritas,
cuius videlicet potentia quicquid subtile est transcendit et rem grossam, totum, ingreditur.
Que quidem operatio secundum maioris mundi compositionem habet subsistere.
Quod videlicet Hermes philosophus triplicem sapientiam vel triplicem scientiam appellat.<ref>{{harvnb|Hudry|1997–1999|p=152}}.</ref>{{Efn|Hudry's edition is reproduced in {{harvnb|Mandosio|2004b|pp=690–691}}. An English translation may be found in {{harvnb|Litwa|2018}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Litwa|2018|p=316}}.</ref>}}
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