The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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18. Hell, viz. the dark World has also its Generation of Fruits; and there is even such an Essence and Dominion in them as in Heaven, but in Nature and Manner of the wrathful Property; for the fiery Property makes all Evil in the Darkness, and in the Light it makes all Things good; and in Sum, all is wholly one in both eternal Worlds; but Light and Darkness separates them, so that they stand as an eternal Enmity opposite one to another, to the End that it may be known what is Evil or Good, Joy or Sorrow, Love or Anger: There is only a Distinction between the Love-Desire of the Light, and the Anger-Desire of the Darkness.
19. In the Original of the eternal Nature, in the Father's Property in the great Mystery of all Beings, it is wholly one: for the same only Fire is even in the Angelical World, but in another Source, viz. a Love-Fire, which is a Poison, and a Fire of Anger to the Devils, and to Hell; for the Love-Fire is a Death, Mortification, and an Enmity of the Anger-Fire; it deprives the Wrath of its Might, and this the Wrath wills not, and it also cannot be; for if there were no Wrath, there would be no Fire, and also no Light: If the eternal Wrath were not, the eternal Joy also would not be; in the Light the Wrath is changed into Joy; the wrathful Fire's Essence is mortified as to the Darkness in the wrathful Fire, and out of the same Dying the Light and Love-Fire arise; as the Light burns forth from the Candle, and yet in the Candle the Fire and Light are but one Thing.
20. Thus also the great Mystery of all Beings is in the Eternity in itself only one Thing, but in its Explication and Manifestation it goes from Eternity to Eternity into two Essences, viz. into Evil and good; what is Evil to one Thing, that is Good to another. Hell is Evil to the Angels, for they were not created thereunto; but it is Good to the Hellish Creatures: So also Heaven is Evil to the Hellish Creatures, for it is their Poison and Death, an eternal Dying, and an eternal Captivity.
21. Therefore there is an eternal Enmity, and God is only called God according to the Light of his Love; he is indeed himself all, but according to the Darkness he saith, I am an angry jealous God, and a consuming Fire.
22. Every Creature must remain in its Place wherein it was apprehended in its Creation and formed into an Image, and not depart out of that same Harmony, or else it becomes an Enemy of the Being of all Beings.
23. And thus Hell is even an Enemy of the Devil, for he is a strange guest therein, viz. a perjured Fiend cast out of Heaven: he will be Lord in that wherein he was not created; the whole Creation accuses him for a false perjured apostate Spirit, which is departed from his Order; yea even the Nature in the Wrath is his Enemy though he be of the same Property; yet he is a Stranger, and will be Lord, though he has lost his Kingdom, and is only an Inmate in the Wrath of God; he that was too rich, is now become too poor; he had all when he stood in Humility, and now he has Nothing, and is moreover captivated in the Gulf: this is his Shame, that he is a King, and yet has fooled away his Kingdom in Pride; the royal Creature remains, but the Dominion is taken away; of a King he is become an Executioner; what God's Anger apprehends, there he is a Judge, viz. an Officer of God's Anger, yet he must do what his Lord and Master wills.