Editing Emerald Tablet (section)

=== ''Secret of Secrets'' ===
[[File:Tabula_ex_Secretum_Secretorum.png|thumb|Latin text of the ''Tablet'' in the ''[[Secretum Secretorum|Secret of Secrets]]'' from {{Circa|1290–1320}} (man. Oxford, ''Christ Church 99'').|209x209px|left]]
The ''Tablet'' was also translated into Latin as part of the thirteenth-century translation of the [[Secretum Secretorum|''Secret of Secrets'']] ({{Langx|la|Secretum Secretorum}}) by [[Philip of Tripoli]]. This entire treatise has been called "the most popular book of the Latin Middle Ages".<ref>{{harvnb|Thorndike|1959|pages=|p=25, note 20}}.</ref>{{Efn|A Latin edition of the text can be found in {{harvnb|Steele|1920}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Steele|1920|pp=115-117}}.</ref> Steele's edition is reproduced in {{harvnb|Mandosio|2004b}}.<ref>{{harvnb|Mandosio|2004b|pp= 692-693}}.</ref>}} Its translation of the ''Tablet'' differs significantly from both Hugo of Santalla's version and the ''vulgate'' translation. In [[Roger Bacon]]'s 1255 edition it reads: {{center|<blockquote><poem>
Veritas ita se habet et non est dubium,
quod inferiora superioribus et superiora inferioribus respondent.
Operator miraculorum unus solus est Deus, a quo descendit omnis operacio mirabilis.
Sic omnes res generantur ab una sola substancia, una sua sola disposicione.
Quarum pater est Sol, quarum mater est Luna.
Que portavit ipsam naturam per auram in utero, terra impregnata est ab ea.
Hinc dicitur Sol causatorum pater, thesaurus miraculorum, largitor virtutum.
Ex igne facta est terra.
Separa terrenum ab igneo, quia subtile dignius est grosso, et rarum spisso.
Hoc fit sapienter et discrete. Ascendit enim de terra in celum, et ruit de celo in terram.
Et inde interficit superiorem et inferiorem virtutem.
Sic ergo dominatur inferioribus et superioribus et tu dominaberis sursum et deorsum,
tecum enim est lux luminum, et propter hoc fugient a te omnes tenebre.
Virtus superior vincit omnia.
Omne enim rarum agit in omne densum.
Et secundum disposicionem majoris mundi currit hec operacio,
et propter hoc vocatur Hermogenes triplex in philosophia.<ref>{{harvnb|Steele|1920|pp=115-117}}.</ref>
</poem></blockquote>}}