The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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32. Now we are to consider the Hunger of the Anxiety, or the Salt-Spirit, and then also its satiating or fulfilling: The Anguish has in it two Wills, from the Original of the first Will out of the Liberty to the Manifestation of itself, viz. the first Will is to Nature, and the other reconceived Will is the Son of the first, which goes out of the Manifestation again into itself into the Liberty; for it is become an eternal Life in Nature, and yet possesses not Nature essentially, but dwells in itself, and pene-trates Nature as a transparent Shining, and the first Will goes outwards, for it is the Desire of Manifestation; it seeks itself out of itself, and yet amasses the Desire in itself; it desires to educe [bring out] the internal out of itself.
33. Thus it has two Properties; with the Seeking in itself it makes the Center of Nature: For it is like a Poison, a Will of dreadful Aspiring, like a Lightning and Thunder-clap; for this Desire desires only Anguish, and to be horrible, to find itself in itself, out of the Nothing in the Something; and the second Form proceeds forth as a Flagrat, or produces Sound out of itself; for it is not the Desire of the first Will to continue in the horrible Death, but only thus to educe itself out of the Nothing, and to find itself.
34. And we understand by the Center in itself, with the aspiring Wrathfulness, with the wrathful Will to Nature, the dark World, and with the Egress out of itself to Manifestation, the outward World; and with the second Will out of the first, which enters again into the Liberty, we understand the Light World, or the Kingdom of Joy, or the true Deity.
35. The Desire of the dark World is after the Manifestation, viz. after the outward World, to attract and draw the same Essentiality into it, and thereby to satisfy its wrathful Hunger; and the Desire of the outward World is after the Essence or Life, which arises from the Pain and Anguish.
36. Its Desire in itself is the Wonder of Eternity, a Mystery, or Mirror, or what is comprehended of the first Will to Nature.
37. The outward World's Desire is Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal; for such an Essence it; is in itself, viz. a Hunger after itself, and is also its own Satisfying; for Sul desires Phur, and Phur desires Mercury, and both these desire Sal; for Sal is their Son, which they hatch in their Desire, and afterwards becomes their Habitation, and also Food.
38. Each Desire desires only the Essentiality of Salt according to its Property; for Salt is diverse; one Part is Sharpness of cold, and one Part Sharpness of Heat, also one Part Brimstone; and one Part Salniter from Mercury.
39. These Properties are in one another as one, but they sever themselves, each dwelling in itself; for they are of a different Essence, and when one enters into another, then there is Enmity, and a Flagrat. A Similitude whereof we may apprehend in Thunder and Lightning, which comes to pass when the great Anguish, viz. the Mother of all Salts, understand the third Form of Nature, impresses itself; which comes to pass from the Aspect of the Sun, which stirs up the hot Fire's Form, so that it is penetrative, as the Property of the Fire is; and when it reaches the Salniter, then it enkindles itself; and the Salniter is in itself the great Flagrat in Mercury, viz. the Flash, or Compunction, which enters into the Coldness, so also into the cold Sharpness of the Salt-Spirit; this Coldness is exceedingly dismayed at the Flash of the Fire, and in a trice wraps or folds up itself in itself, whence arises the Thunder-clap (or the tempestuous Flash, which gives a Stroke in the Flagrat) and the Flagrat goes downwards, for it is heavy by Reason of the Coldness, and the Salnitrous Spirit is Light by Reason of the Fire, which [Spirit] carries the Thunder or Sound side-ways, as is to be heard in Tempests and Thunder; presently thereupon comes the Wind or Spirit out of all the four Forms one against another, for they are all four enkindled m the penetrating Flagrat whereupon follows Hail and Rain; the Hail folds itself together in the Coldness, in the Property of the cold Salt-Spirit; for the Wrath attracts to itself, and turns the Water to Ice and the Water arises from the Meekness, viz. from the Desire of the Light, for it is the Essentiality of the Meekness; this the cold Salt-Spirit congeals into Drops, and distills it upon the Earth, for before the Congelation it is only as a Mist, or Steam, or as a Vapour, or Damp.