Handbook of Restored Physics and the Secret Work of Hermetic Philosophy

...lowest things are mixed together with the highest Original: summis without confusion, and are similar through a certain analogy; whereby the extremes of the entire handiwork Opificii: referring to the "work" or "craftsmanship" of the universe, by a certain secret bond, are most tightly joined together through invisible means. All things spontaneously harmonize in obedience to the supreme moderator The "Supreme Moderator" is God, who regulates the laws of the universe and for the benefit of lower nature, and they will allow themselves to be dissolved only by the command of Him who bound them together. Thus, Hermes Hermes Trismegistus rightly affirmed: "That which is below is similar to that which is above."

In the Emerald Tablet The Tabula Smaragdina*, a foundational hermetic text containing the famous maxim "As above, so below."

4. He who transfers the supreme law of the Universe to a Nature distinct from the Divine Nature denies God. For it is not lawful to recognize any other uncreated Power Numen: a divine power or presiding spirit of Nature, whether in producing or in preserving the individual parts of this expanded machine Machinae: a common philosophical metaphor for the universe as a complex, divinely-constructed mechanism, except for that Spirit of the divine Craftsman who hovered over the first waters A reference to Genesis 1:2, where the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters at creation. It was He who led forth the confused seeds Original: semina. In early physics, these were the hidden principles or "blueprints" from which all matter grew. of things in Chaos from potentiality into act, and having led them forth through a constant process of alteration...