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====== As above, so below -- Fractals -- Spirals -- etc. ======

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===== Tabula Smaragdina =====
A translation of Isaac Newton

  - Tis true without lying, certain most true.
  - That which is below is like that which is above that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one only thing.
  - And as all things have been arose from one by the mediation of one: so all things have their birth from this one thing by adaptation.
  - The Sun is its father, the moon its mother,
  - the wind hath carried it in its belly, the earth its nurse.
  - The father of all perfection in the whole world is here.
       * Its force or power is entire if it be converted into earth.
  - Separate thou the earth from the fire, the subtle from the gross sweetly with great industry.
  - It ascends from the earth to the heaven again it descends to the earth and receives the force of things superior and inferior.
  - By this means ye shall have the glory of the whole world thereby all obscurity shall fly from you.
       * Its force is above all force. for it vanquishes every subtle thing and penetrates every solid thing.
  - So was the world created.
  - From this are and do come admirable adaptations whereof the means (Or process) is here in this.
  - Hence I am called Hermes Trismegist, having the three parts of the philosophy of the whole world.
  - That which I have said of the operation of the Sun is accomplished and ended.


===== Reference =====
  * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_Tablet