The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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34. And this Form of Separation between the living and the dead Essentiality is the fifth Form, and is called the Love-Desire; its Original is from the Liberty, which in the Fire has introduced itself into a Desire, viz. out of the Lubet of the Liberty into the fair and fiery Elevation of Joy, Being a Flame of Love, which also imprints in its Love-Desire the Property of that which it has conceived in the Will of the eternal Mind, which brings itself through the Fire's Sharpness again into itself, viz. into the first Properties, which arise in the first Impression, viz. from the Motion and Stirring; and the Joyfulness arises out of the Anguish: For this is Joy, that the Will to Nature is delivered and freed from the dark Anguish, for else there would be no Knowledge of what Joy was, if there was not a painful Source; and in its Love-Desire it conceives the first Properties in the first Impression, which divide themselves in this Desire into five Forms; viz. from the Fire-Flash into Seeing, for the Water of Love reaches the Lustre of the Tincture, wherein the Sight consists; and from the Hardness, viz. from the Penetration of the Sting in the Hardness, into Hearing, so that in this same Nothing, viz. in the Liberty, there is a Sound, which the Tincture catches, and brings it forth in the Water of the Desire: and from the raging Sting into Feeling, so that one Property feels another; for if all Properties were only one, there would be no Seeing, Hearing, or Feeling, also no Understanding: And from the Assimulation, that one Property arises in the other, but with another Property, comes the Taste; and from the egressive Spirit of the Properties (in that the Egress of each Property enters into the other) arises the Smell.
35. Now these five Forms do all of them together make in the Love-Desire, viz. in the fifth Form, the sixth, that is, the Sound or Voice, as a Manifestation of all the Forms in the Spirit's Property, which the fiery Light's Desire encloses with the spiritual Water as one only Essence, which is now the fiery Will's own Essence, which has brought itself forth in the Light, wherein it works and makes the seventh Form, as an habitation of the sixth, from whence the Essence and Dominion of this World were generated, and introduced into a Form according to the Right of the eternal Birth.
36. Now understand us right; we do not hereby understand a Beginning of the Deity, but the Manifestation of the Deity: The Deity is herein known and manifested in Trinity; the Deity is the eternal Liberty without all Nature, viz. the eternal Abyss; but thus it brings itself into Byss for its own Manifestation, eternal Wisdom, and deeds of Wonder.
37. The Eternal Father is manifested in the Fire, and the Son in the Light of the Fire, and the Holy Spirit in the Power of the Life and Motion proceeding from the Fire in the Light of the Kingdom of Joy, Being the egressive Power in the Love-flame; we speak only by parts of the Universal as a Creature.
38. The Deity is wholly everywhere all in all; but he is only called God according to the Light of Love, and according to the proceeding Spirit of Joy; but according to the dark Impression he is called God's Anger and the dark World; and according to the eternal Fire-Spirit he is called a consuming Fire.
39. We give you only to understand the Being of all Beings, whose Original in itself is only one eternal Essence; but with its own Manifestation it comes into many Beings, to its own Honour and Glory; and now we will shew you what the Creature's Life and Dominion is in this all-essential Being.
40. Now therefore understand us right what we mean by these three Words, Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal: In the Eternity all is Spirit; but when God moved himself with the eternal Nature, wherein his own Manifestation consists, he produced out of the Spiritual Essence a palpable and manifest Essence, and introduced it into a creaturely Being according to the eternal Properties, which also consists of Spirit and Essence, according to the Right [or Law] of Eternity.
41. And now I will speak of the outward Kingdom, viz. of the third Principle or Beginning; for in this World there is also Light and Darkness in each other as in the Eternity: God has given this World a Sun, as a Nature-god of the outward Powers, but he rules therein as Lord; the outward [Kingdom] is only his prepared Work, which he rules and makes with the Assimulate, as a Master makes his Work with an Instrument.
42. Sulphur is in the outward World, viz. in the Mystery of the great God's Manifestation, the first Mother of the Creatures; for it arises out of Darkness, Fire, and Light; it is on one Part, according to the dark Impression, astringent, bitter, and anxious; and on the other Part, towards the Deity, as a Similitude of the Deity, it is Fire, Light, and Water, which in the Fire separates itself into two Forms, viz. according to the Mortification into Water, and according to the Life into Oil, in which the true Life of all the Creatures of the outward World consists.