The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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12. The like also we are to know concerning the Angelical World, viz. the second Principle, where God's Light and glorious Beauty shine in every Being [or Thing], and the divine Voice or Sound rises up in all Creatures in great Joyfulness; where the Spirit proceeding from the divine Voice makes a Joyfulness, and an incessant continual Love-Desire in those Creatures, and in all the divine Angelical Beings: As there is an Anguish-Source and trembling in the painful Fire, so in like Manner there is a trembling Joyfulness in the Light and Love-Fire, viz. a great Elevation of the Voice of God, which makes in the Angels and in the like Creatures, as the Souls of Men, a great Manifestation of the divine Joyfulness.
13. The Voice [or breath] of God continually and eternally brings forth its Joy through the Creature, as through an Instrument; the Creature is the Manifestation of the Voice of God: What God is in the eternal Generation of his eternal Word out of the great Mystery of the Father's Property, that the Creature is in the Image as a joyful Harmony, wherewith the Eternal Spirit plays or melodises.
14. All Properties of the great eternal Mystery of the Pregnatress of all Beings are manifest in the holy Angelical and humane Creatures; and we are not to think thereof, as if the Creatures only stood still and rejoiced at the Glory of God, and admired only in Joy; not, but it is as the Eternal Spirit of God works from Eternity to Eternity in the great Mystery of the divine Generation, and continually manifests the infinite and numberless Wisdom of God; even as the Earth brings forth always fair Blossoms, Herbs, and Trees, so also Metals and all Manner of Beings, and puts them forth sometimes more sovereign, powerful, and fair, than at other Times; and as one arises in the Essence, another falls down, and there is an incessant lasting Enjoyment and Labour.
15. Thus likewise is the eternal Generation of the holy Mystery in great Power and Reprocreation [or paradisical Pullulation] where one divine Fruit of the great Love-Desire stands with another in the divine Essence; and all is as a continual Love-combat or wrestling Delight; a Blooming of fair Colours, and a pleasant ravishing Smell of the divine Mercury, according to the divine Nature's Property, a continual good Taste of Love from the divine Desire.
16. Of all whatever this World is an earthly Type and Resemblance, that is in the divine Kingdom in great Perfection in the Spiritual Essence; not only Spirit, as a Will, or Thought, but Essence, corporeal Essence, Sap and Power; but as incomp-rehensible in reference to the outward World: For this visible World was generated and created out of the same spiritual Essence in which the pure Element is; and also out of the dark Essence in the Mystery of the Wrath (Being the Original of the eternal manifest Essence from whence the Properties arise) as an out-spoken Breath out of the Being of all Beings: Not that it was made of the eternal Essence, but out of the breathing forth or [expression] of the eternal Essence; out of Love and Anger, out of Evil and Good, as a peculiar Generation of a peculiar Principle in the Hand of the Eternal Spirit.
17. Therefore all whatever is in this World is a Type and Figure of the Angelical World: not that the Evil, which is alike manifest with the Good in this World, is also manifest in Heaven; no, they are separated into two Principles; in Heaven all is Good which is Evil in Hell; whatever is Anguish and torment in Hell, that is Good and a Joy in Heaven; for there all stands in the Light's Source; and in Hell all stands in the Wrath in the dark Source.