The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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14. The first Hunger in the Center before the Fire is a Spiritual Hunger which makes the dark World, and the Hunger of the free Lubet makes the Light World; both which are only Spirit, till they pass both together through the Enkindling of the Fire where then they are mortified to the Spirit, and are a Likeness of the first Spirit, viz. a Manifestation of the incomprehensible Spirit, which is called God in Love and Anger, in a two-fold Source: Thus each stands undivided in itself, viz. God in the Time, and the Time in God, and the one is not the other, but they come from one eternal Original; thus the temporal Spirit's Hunger gives a temporal Body, and the eternal Spirits Hunger affords an eternal Body, and are both mutually in each other and yet are distinct.
15. The seven Forms make them a Body according to their Hunger out of their own Property; therefore all whatever the Spirit has in all properties lies in the Body.
16. Further we are to know, that there is a Separation made in the Creation of this World; for this is to be seen in the Sun and Stars; so likewise in all Creatures; also in Metals Stones, and Earths; for this same is the Manifestation of God.
17. We see in the Firmament seven Planets, and in the Earth seven Metals which are fixed; and also seven Planets only which are fixed in their Property; the rest are Minerals, and so of the Stars: And as the planetary Orb has its predominant Stamp or Influence, so is also the Birth of each Thing.
18. As the Deity, viz. the divine Light, is the Center of all Life; so also in the Manifestation of God, viz. in the Figure, the Sun is the Center of all Life; in the highest Life the highest Things have taken their Beginning, and so forward successively on from another to the lowest: In every external Thing there are two Properties; one from Time, the other from Eternity; the first Property of Time is manifest, and the other is hidden, yet it sets forth a Likeness after itself in each Thing.
19. Whatever has its Beginning out of the Lubet of the Liberty stands with the Root in an heavenly Property, and with the Body in an earthly, but the Eternal stands in Time, and manifests itself with Time.
20. Sulphur is on one Part in the Internal heavenly, and as to the Body earthly yet puts forth an heavenly Likeness according to the Eternal out of itself, which is fixed and stedfast as is to be seen in Gold, and is much more to be understood in the human Body, if it were not corrupted in the Desire in Mercury; for the Spiritual or heavenly Man consists in Sulphur, and in Mercury the corporeal, viz. the Similitude of the divine [Man;] so also the metalline Property in Sulphur, is the noblest, most excellent, and highest, for it is the highest Spirit.
21. Understand it thus: In the heavenly Being there is also a Property of a Seething, when the Liberty is apprehended and enkindled in the highest Desire wherein the Joyfulness arises; this is effected in the heavenly Sulphur, where it is made essential in the heavenly Mercury, viz. in the eternal Word, which is a Spiritual Essence.
22. But if the same Spirituality longs to manifest itself in a Similitude, both according to the Property of the Spirit, and the Essentiality too, according to the Trinity of the Deity according to the mortal and immortal Essence, then that Image is represented in the Stars and Elements; and lastly it is set forth in Man, who is a lively Image of the whole Essence according to the divine and outward World; also the inward and outward Worlds are represented with the Metals in a mortal Image, as a Resemblance and Similitude of the living heavenly Essentiality.
23. The Beginning is in Sulphur; for Sul is the Lubet of the Light, or the Liberty, which longs to Manifestation, and it cannot otherwise be effected but through Fire: In Phur arises the Desire, viz. an austere Attraction, which makes the dark earthly Property, and the Austereness of the Spirit, viz. the fiery Essence: In this Austere-ness arises Saturn, which is the Thing impressed; and Mercury is the Desire of the Hunger, and the Rager, Raver, and Breaker; and Mars is the Wrath in the Hunger, a Cause of Anger; these three are the Property of Phur, viz. of the free Lubet's Desire.