Editing Hermeticism (section)

====As above, so below====
{{main|As above, so below}}
"As above, so below" is a popular modern [[paraphrase]] of the second verse of the ''Emerald Tablet'' (a compact and cryptic text attributed to Hermes Trismegistus and first attested in a late eight or early ninth century [[Arabic]] source),{{sfnm|1a1=Kraus|1y=1942–1943|2a1=Weisser|2y=1980|p=54}} as it appears in its most widely divulged medieval [[Latin]] translation:{{sfn|''The Emerald Table''|1928}}

{{blockquote|text=
{{lang|la|Quod est superius est sicut quod inferius, et quod inferius est sicut quod est superius.}}
That which is above is like to that which is below, and that which is below is like to that which is above.
|multiline=yes
|source=''[[Emerald Tablet|The Emerald Tablet]]''
}}