The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)

6. This Birth of the Astrum begets in the four Elements, viz. in its Body or Essence, Joy and Sorrow, and all is very good in itself; only the Alteration of the Creature proceeds from the lustful Imagination, whereby the Creature elevates the Wrath of the Fire in the Properties, and brings them forth out of the Likeness of their Accord: Nothing is evil which remains in the equal Accord; for that which the Worst causes and makes with its coming forth out of the Accord, that likewise the Best makes in the equal Accord; that which there makes Sorrow, that makes also in the Likeness Joy; therefore no Creature can blame its Creator, as if he made it evil; all was very exceeding good; but with its own Elevation and Departure out of the Likeness it becomes evil, and brings itself out of the Form [or Property] of the Love and Joy, into a painful tormenting Form and Property.

7. King Lucifer stood in the Beginning of his Creation in highest Joyfulness, but he departed from the Likeness, and put himself forth out of the Accord [or heavenly Concert] into the cold, dark, fiery Generation, out of which the hot fiery Generation arises; he forsook his Order, and went out of the Harmony, wherein God created him; he would be Lord over all, and so he entered into the austere Fire's domination, and is now an Instrument in the austere Fire's Might, upon which also the all-essential Spirit strikes and Sounds upon his Instrument, but it Sounds only according to the wrathful Fire's Property: as the Harmony, viz. the Life's-Form is in each Thing, so is also the Sound or Tone of the eternal Voice therein; in the Holy [it is] holy, in the Perverse it is perverse: All Things must praise the Creator of all Beings; the Devils praise him in the Might of Wrath, and the Angels and Men praise him in the Might of Love.

8. The Being of all Beings is but one only Being, but in its Generation it separates itself into two Principles, viz. into Light and Darkness, into Joy and Sorrow, into Evil and Good, into Love and Anger, into Fire and Light, and out of these two eternal Beginnings [or Principles] into the third Beginning, viz. into the Creation, to its own Love-Play and Melody, according to the Property of both eternal Desires.

9. Thus each Thing goes into its Harmony, and is guided [or driven] by one only Spirit, which is in each Thing according to the Property of the Thing; and this is the Clock [or Watch-Work] of the great Mystery of Eternity in each Principle according to the Property of the Principle, and then according to the innate Form of the composed Instrument of the same Creatures, even in all these Beginnings [or Principles].

10. Death is the Bound-Mark of all whatever is temporal, whereby the Evil may be destroyed; but that which arises out of the eternal Beginnings, and in its Harmony and Life's-Form enters into another Figure, that departs out of God's Harmony, out of the true Order wherein God created it, and is cast out of the same Harmony into its Likeness, as a dissonant discording Melody or Sound in the great excellent well-tuned Harmony; for it is an opposite contrary Thing, and bears another Tone, Sound, and Will, and so it is introduced into its Likeness; and therefore Hell is given to the Devil for his House and Habitation, because he introduced his Life's-Form into the Anger of God, and into the fiery Wrath of the eternal Nature, so that now he is the Instrument in the eternal Fire of God, and the Anger-Spirit strikes his Instrument, and yet it must stand to the Honour and Admiration of God, and be the Sport and Play in the Desire and Property of the wrathful Anger.

11. The Anger and Wrath of God are now his Joy, not as if he feared, sorrowed, and lived in Impotency; no, but in great Strength and fiery Might, as a potent King and Lord, yet only in the same Property of which he himself is, viz. in the first Principle in the dark World.