The Precepts of Hermes Trismegistus engraved upon the Emerald Tablet [the Smaragdine Tablet] (for the most part, selections making use of several different translations)

1) This is the Truth, the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth.
2) As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles.
3) And as all things are, and come from the One, by the meditation (contemplation) of the One, so all things are born from this unique thing by means of adaptation. (And as the whole universe was brought forth from the One by the Word of the One God, so also all things are regenerated perpetually from this One according to the disposition of nature.)
4) The father of it is the sun, the mother the moon.
5) The wind bore it in the womb. Its nurse is the earth, the mother of all perfection.
6) That One only is the Father [First Cause] of all things in the universe.
6a) It’s power is perfect.
7) Here, on earth, It’s strength, It’s power, remains one and undivided.
7a) So separate the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross, acting prudently and with art (with care and sagacity),
8) ascend from earth to heaven, so as to draw the Lights of the Heights to yourself, and descend to the
earth; thus within you are the forces of the above and the below;
9) because the Light of Lights are within you, thus does the darkness flee before you.
10) It is power, strong with the strength of all power, for it will penetrate all mysteries and dispel all ignorance.
11a) By it the world was created. (The structure of the microcosm is in accordance with the structure of the macrocosm.)
12) From it are born manifold wonders, the means to achieving which are here given.
13) It is for this reason that I am called Hermes Trismegistus (the Threefold Sage); for I possess the three essentials of the philosophy of the universe.
14) Thus, that which I have called the Solar Work, is complete.