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Hermes, Crowned with Light original: "phōz" or "phōs," Greek for light

Light says: It is true, without falsehood, and most true, that what is above is like what is below, and what is below is like what is above, for the accomplishment of the miracles of the one thing. And just as all things came from one, by the meditation of the one that is, God, so all things were born from this one thing by adaptation. Its father is the Sun; its mother is the Moon. The wind carried it in its belly. Its nurse is the Earth. The father of all perfection Thelesmi: a term for the "will" or "perfection" of the Great Work in alchemy of the whole world is here. Its power is complete if it be turned into earth. You shall separate the earth from the fire, the dense from the subtle, gently and with great ingenuity. It ascends from the earth to the heaven, and again it descends into the earth, and receives the power of the higher and the lower things. Thereafter, you shall have the glory of the whole world. Therefore, all obscurity shall flee from you. This is the strong fortitude of all fortitude, because it shall conquer every subtle thing and penetrate every solid thing. Thus was the world created. From this shall come wonderful adaptations, the method of which is this. Therefore, I am called Hermes Trismegistus meaning "Thrice-Greatest Hermes", having the three parts of the wisdom of the whole world. What I have said concerning the operation of the Sun and the Moon is complete.

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¶ The application of these words to the aforementioned letters, in which he shows that he possesses the whole truth thus for? the one thing through which the altar of the knowledge of God v...? [...] First, he speaks according to the opinion of those who say that by Art f... m...? [...] is [...] experience, because experience is from most true? [...] most true through c... v...? he says most true in r... p... s... q... d...c.? because the Sun thus? exceeds? the natural wheel, tempering n... p... n... u? and in medicinal matters? with? others. Here ends the touch [...] operation.

Circular ink stamp of the "VATICAN APOSTOLIC LIBRARY" located at the bottom left, featuring the papal tiara and crossed keys of St. Peter.