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16 for three dayes, till they be ineperably ioyned together, and this is a worke of three dayes: then againe and finally, euery part heereof by it elfe, mut be proiected vpon another thouant parts of any neere body: and this is a worke of oneday, or one houre, or a moment, for which our wonderfull God is eternally to be praied.



He wordes of the ecrets of Hermes, which were written in a Smaragdine Table, and found betweene his hands in an obcure vaute, wherein his body lay buried. It is true without leaing, certain and mot true. That which is beneath is like that which is aboue: & that which is aboue, is like that which is beneath, to worke the miracles of one thing. And as all things haue proceeded from one, by the meditatiō of one, o all things haue prung from this one thing by adaption. His father is the un, his mother is the moone, the wind bore it in hir belly. The earth is his nure. The father of all the teleme of this world is here. His force and power is perfect, if it be turned into earth. Thou half eperate the earth from the fire, the thinne from the thicke, and tha gently with great dicretion. It acendeth from the Earth into Heauen: and againe