The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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29. So also as to the Earth, Stones, and all Metals, the Earth's Property, consists in a Spiritual Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal, and all whatever has had Beginning is arisen in and out of her Impression, and inchoatively thereupon it came forth with the first Form of the Mother, viz. with the astringent Attraction, through the Fiat into a creatural Being, and affords a Diversity of Essence and Spirit, according to the first Property of the Separation.
30. As first, The high Spirits, which were created out of the free Lubet in the Desire, in the Fire's Property, viz. out of the Center of all Essences, had in them the Properties of both the eternal Worlds; but those which after their Corporizing [or being made creaturely] remained with their Desire in the Property of the free Lubet, and introduced their Will out of the Fire into the Light, they became Angels; and the other, which introduced their Desire again into the Centre (viz. into the austere Properties) became Devils, viz. Out-casts from the free Lubet out of the Light, as is mentioned in other Writings.
31. Therefore the Devils have neither the Kingdom of God, nor the Kingdom of this World in Possession; for in the Beginning of the Creation this World was created out of both the inward Properties, whereupon the Devil has now only the Wrath's Part in Possession, the other profits him nothing, and thus he is in the World, and also not in the World, for he has but one Part thereof in Possession, from the other he is cast out.
32. After the Creation of the highest Spirits, God created this visible World with the Stars and Elements as an external Birth out of the Mother of all Essences; all which proceeded out of the eternal Beginning, and took a temporal Beginning: For here we are to consider, that the eternal Pregnatrix moved itself, and enkindled its own Form [or Similitude,] where then the one became corporeal in the other; but afterwards God created the Earth, which we are thus to consider of.
33. The first Desire to Nature impresses itself, and introduces itself with the Impression into three Forms, viz. into Sulphur, Mercury, and Sal, and in the Impression all become rising and moving, which is not in the still Nothing, and so forces itself into the highest Anguish, even to the Salnitral Flagrat, where then is the Original of the Fire: Thus the Source whirls in itself, as a Boiling of Water upon the Fire: for the austere Desire is attractive, and the fiery is expulsive, which is a Sulphur, and the astringent Attraction is a wrathful Sting, [or Compunction,] viz. a Contrition; and yet it is held by the Austereness, that it cannot move away, whereupon it is painful, and causes Pain, as if it were seething, which yet is only Spirit without Essence which comes to pass in Mercury, and is Mercury’s own Form.
14. And there is the Separation of two Wills, viz. one remains, and is the very anxious Essence, seeing it originally arises from the Desire, the other, which arises out of the Lubet of the Liberty, retires back again into itself into the Liberty, and yet there is no parting or dividing from one another, but thus it goes one with another all along through the Enkindling of the Fire through the Salnitral Flagrat, where with the kindling of the Fire the Death is effected in the Wrath of the Fire, where the Source dies, and yet there is no Death, but a Likeness of Death; and yet the real, eternal, and temporal Death is in that Manner, even where the Liberty apprehends itself in itself and the Death or Flagrat falls down into the Liberty as impotent, and freely resigns itself; and the Spirit, viz. the Source (understand the very sharp, fiery, anxious Source) becomes Material, and retains only an essential Working, like to an impotent Desire; and in the Enkindling of the Fire in the Salnitral Flagrat each Property separates itself in itself, and the whole Materia is particularized, viz. to Metals, Stones, and Earth.
35. The highest Metal, as Gold, arises from the Liberty, which is comprised- all along in the Flagrat in the astringent Impression; and it is not free from the Materia of the Rest, for all is comprised or wrapt up together; but seeing the Liberty with the Sul, or Light's Property, is comprised or comprehended therein also, thereupon Sul is expulsive to the Manifestation of itself, as it is the Property of the Liberty so to be: Hence it comes that Metals grow, and not the gross hard Stones, which are too hard comprised in the Impression out or the wrathful Essentiality, and have too little Sul in them.