The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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The translator’s English as printed (John Ellistone). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
SUDE The Word Sude is German, and signifies a boiling or seething. It is the stirring of the seven Properties in Nature, arising from the Assimulation or essential Coinfluence of the outward and inward Sol in Sulphur, from whence the blooming Vegetation of the Earth proceeds; also the Generation of Metals and Minerals lies therein.
These are some uncommon Words which are used in rendering this Book into English. Words are vehicula rerum, they are formed to express Things, not bare Sounds, or empty Airs. Now he who rightly understands the Ground of the Cabala and Magia, and knows how the Language of Nature speaks in every Tongue, might well translate this author. But the bare Letter of his Writings, though ever so exactly translated, will not give the Understanding of them, but the Spirit of Regeneration in Christ, in whom the Fulness of the Deity dwells corporeally.
N.B.—There is One Character by which God has characterised both himself, and all the Creatures, and shewn that his presence is in all Things; yet so that each Creature has its Wonder, either of the heavenly or of the earthly Mystery. This peculiar Mark, Shape, and Figure, that it may appear as a peculiar is the in the Sphere and Mercurial Wheel of Nature, which goes through all the three Principles, and in the third through all the Kingdoms of Minerals, Vegetables, and Animals, through Heaven and Earth; the wonderful Depth of which is shewn in this Book to the Enquirer after the divine Mysteries.
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