True, without error, certain and most true,
that which is above must be as that which is below,
and that which is below must be as that which is above,
to perform the miracles of the Unity.

And as all things were from the Unity,
by the meditation of the Unity,
so from this One Thing come all things by adaptation.
Its father is the Sun and its mother is the Moon,
the wind carried it in its belly and the earth was its nurse.

It is the father of all perfection and the consummation of the whole world.
Its power is integral if it is turned towards the Earth.

You shall separate the earth from the fire,
the subtle from the coarse, gently and with much ingenuity.
It ascends from Earth to Heaven and then descends again to Earth,
and thereby receives the power of the superiors and the inferiors.

Thereby you will have the glory of the whole world;
so let all obscurity flee before you.
This is the greatest force of all fortitude,
overcoming everything subtle and penetrating everything solid.
Thereby was the world created.
This is the manner of all wonderful adaptations.

Therefore am I called Hermes the Thrice Great,
for having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
This concludes what I have to say concerning the operation of the Sun.