The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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69. The Cure must be freed from the same Abominate, which it has received in the four Elements from the like false Insinuation [Influence, or Impression], it must be brought into the Death of the four Elements, and its Spirit must also be tinctured in the fifth Form with the Venus Desire, viz. with a pleasant Essence, that the spiritual Mercury may arise in Jupiter's Property; understand, the Cure must first die to its Sickness in all the four Elements; it must be introduced into the Putrefaction of all the four Elements; in the Fire it dies to its Earthliness, and in the Putrefaction to the Water's Earthliness, and in the Air's Putrefaction to the Abominate and Earthliness of the Air; and then it must be brought into Venus, and from Venus into Jupiter, and then the Sun will arise in the Love-Desire, and with this the Abominate in the Body may be resisted.
70. All other Cures, which are administered raw and undigested (as when one takes cold, and will resist Heat, and so likewise Heat to resist cold), are only an opposite fiery Flagrat, whereby indeed the enkindled Fire ceases from its powerful Working, but the Flagrat enters into Death's Anguish, and the Root of the Abominate becomes a poisonful Mercury unless the Heat and cold are before tempered with Venus and Jupiter, and then indeed it is an appeasing of the Abominate in the Salnitral Sude; but the Root of the Abominate remains still, unless the Life be strong, and Mightily brings forth its Desire out of the Abominate. This the Physicians must well observe, that the raw Herbs do not reach the Root, where the Abominate is arisen in the Centre in the Property of the Life's Form; they reach only the four Elements, and give some Easement, but the Abominate remains still in the Root as an hidden Sickness.
71. The like is also to be understood concerning the Astrum, which has its Sude in the outward Body as a peculiar Body in the four Elements; if the Cure may be freed from the Abominate of the four Elements, then the Astrum falls also into the good Part, and introduces its Desire thereinto, and so the Body is also freed from the Abominate of the Astrum; for the Scripture says, that the whole Creature longeth together with us to be freed from the vanity: Now the Curse of the Earth, wherein the Astrum injects its Desire, is the Vanity; and if it tastes a pure Life in itself, then it also rejoices therein, and casts forth the Abominate.
72. Every Abominate of the oily Life arises from the inward Mercury in the inward Sulphur; for Sin also does hence take its Original, that the poisonful Mercury (which is a cause of the Life) does in the Fire-Flash in the Original of the Salniter, in retiring backwards, introduce itself again into Self-hood, for even there is the Original of the Poison-Life.
73. Every Life which will be without Spot, must die in the Will-Spirit to Nature in the Fire of the Abominate to the first Impression of the Wrath, and must give itself forth, in the Will-Spirit to Nature, as a resigned Will through the Mortification in the Light of Love: Let it be either heavenly or earthly it must hold that process, or else it comes not to the highest Perfection in its Degree; for Man could not be helped unless the Love-Centre of the Love-Desire did enter again into the Humanity, and bring forth the own Life, viz. the human Self, through the Mortification into itself: This is an exact Type or Resemblance, that whatsoever will be freed from the Abominate, viz. from the Curse, the same must die to the four Elements in the Abominate, and bring forth its Degree through the Mortification of the Fire in the Light.
74. Thus likewise is the Salnitral Sude in the Earth, from whence Metals, good Herbs and Trees grow; each Property is desirous of the Assimulate; and if it can reach the Assimulate in Sulphur, and Mercury in the Love, then it brings forth itself higher than it is in its Degree; as the eternal Liberty with its Lubet introduces the eternal Nature through the Mortification into Desire, and thereby brings itself forth higher, viz. in Power and Majesty; the like is to be considered in all Things; for all Things arise out of one only Being; the same is a Mystery of all Beings, and a Manifestation of the Abyss in Byss.