The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)

24. The free Lubet’s Property begets the Essence in the three fore-mentioned Forms, viz. in Saturn, Mercury, and Mars; for it gives itself in to each Property, and the Property in the Hunger of Mercury makes it a corporeal Form; but if the free Lubet turns also to an Hunger in the austere Desiring, then it makes also three Forms according to itself, viz. Jupiter, who is the Understanding of the Lubet; and Venus, which is the Desire of the Lubet; and Luna, which is the Body of the Lubet; and according to the Property of the Light it makes Sol; all this is Spirit; but now in every Spirit's Hunger there is also an Essence, both according to the mortal and immortal Ens, a fixed, and unfixed; a Figure according to the heavenly, and a Figure according to the earthly [Being, or Property.]

25. In the Saturnine Property the Desire of the free Lubet makes (according to Saturn's own Property) Lead, and according to the watry (Property] in Saturn, Salt; and according to the mortal and earthly [Property] in Saturn, Stones, and Earth, and all whatever is of that Sort and Semblance.

26. But according to the Liberty, or according to the free Desire's own Property (in that it yields up itself to Saturn, viz. to the Desire) it makes in Saturn Gold, according to the Desire of the Light, where the Spirit and Body separate; the Spirit of its Desire is Sol, and the Body is Gold, understand, the golden Body is in Saturn according to the Property of the free Desire, and not according to Saturn's Property; his Property in himself is Lead, Salt, and Earth; but he keeps the golden Child shut up in himself as a black Raven, not in his gray Form, but in a darkish Cast: He is a great Lord, but his Dominion, by Reason of the golden Child which he has in his Bowels, stands not in his own Power: He is not Father of the Child, but Mercury is he which Forms the Child; but he puts his Morning Mantle upon it, that he can have no Joy with the golden Child; he corporises the fair Child; for he is its Fiat or Creator, and hides and covers it close under his Mantle: He cannot give it the Body from his own Property, for it (understand the golden Body) is the Essence of the free Desire in the highest Degree of Corporality in the fixed Death, where yet there is no Death, but an Enclosing, and in the Similitude a Representation of the divine heavenly Essentiality.

27. Mercurius is the Master-Workman of this Child, which Saturn hides; when he gets it into his Hunger, he casts off his black Cloak, and rejoices in it; but he is too malignant in his Fire-Wrath, he devours the Child, and turns it wholly to his own Property: When he is most sharply hungry in the Fire, then Sol must be given him (it is his Wife) that his Hunger may be appeased; and then when he is satisfied, he labours in the Materia of the Child with his own Hunger or Fire, and fills up his sufficed Desire out of Sol's Property, which he before had eaten, and nourishes the Child till it gets upon it all the four Elements with the Constellation, and he grows exceeding pregnant with the Child, and then it belongs [or is fit for] a strange Fire, and yet not strange, an earnest Fire; and then the Father gives it the Soul, viz. the Fire-Spirit; and its first Mother, which Mercury did eat down in its Hunger, which was fixed and perfect, [gives] the Soul's-Spirit, viz. the Light-Life: Then the Death arises, and the Child is born, and becomes afterwards its own, and a Child of the Liberty, and cares no more for its Work-Master: It is better than its Father, but not better than its Mother, in whose the Seed it lay, before the Father wrought in it; it bruises the Head of its Father's fiery Essence, viz. of the Serpent, and passes freely through Death in the Fire: Dost thou understand nothing here? Then thou art not born to the highest Knowledge of the spagirical Science.

28. Further, we are to consider of the Degrees, what the Liberty, viz. the eternal Lubet, gives to the Hunger of the other Forms in Sulphur, in the Property of the other Planets; the Form of the Birth is as a turning Wheel, which Mercury causes in the Sulphur.