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

29. The Birth of the highest Degree turns round, (viz. the Desire) for this World is round, so also the Birth; when the Liberty has given its highest Lubet (as a golden Hunger) to Saturn, and placed Mercury for Work-Master, then it betakes itself into itself, into its Desire, according to the Property of Meekness; for the first Concep-tion to the golden Child is effected according to the Property of Joyfulness; but this out of Goodness and Meekness resigns itself to Luna; for it is a pleasant Demission by Reason of the Meekness, which Mercury apprehends and Works therein also; this Body is Silver, and comes from the first Impression, where the Yellow and White separate in the Fire, viz. the Colours of the Virtue; then Luna arises out of the Yellow and turns into White, by Reason of the divine Meekness; and because its Original is from Sol's Colour, therefore it has a perpetual Hunger after Sol, and receives the Sun's Lustre into it, and puts it on, and shines with it.

30. Now as the Superior is, so is likewise the Inferior, (Namely Metals,) therefore Silver is the next Degree to Gold; and as Gold is generated, so is also Silver: Venus cloaths it, which Mercury cannot endure, seeing he is the Master-Worker, and he gives his Garment also; but the Silver has neither the Property of Venus nor Mercury, for it retains the Property of its Mother, viz. the Meekness in the Liberty, and is hatched, as the Gold by Reason of the Sun: The Moon has an heavenly Property, but in reference to its own proper Form from the Property of the Desire, it is of a very earthly Property; it is a Cabinet and Keeper of the earthly and heavenly Essence: In like Manner as the outward Body of Man, which before the Fall in Adam was comparable to Silver, but when he died in the Lubet then the earthly Property only lived in him, and therefore he continually Hungers after Sol's Glance [and Glory,] he would fain take again his Splendor with Luna from the Sun, but he gets only an earthly Lunar Lustre, wherein he acts and exercises Pride, unless he be born again out of Sol's Splendor, that is, out of God's Power in the heavenly Mercurius; and so he becomes again the golden Silver-Child in divine Essentiality, only covered and cloathed this Life-Time with the earthly Moon, that is, with earthly Flesh.

31. Saturn also is the House of Silver, he is likewise the Cause of the first Conception, but he turns his Desire only upon the golden Child, and leaves the Silver its Garment, and takes it into his stony earthly Property, and lets Mercury hatch it.

32. The Desire of the free Lubet is fixed and stedfast, as concerning the Property of the Desire only, which brings its Will again from the Body into the Combat in the Senses, and makes Jupiter, that is on the Orb upwards under Saturn, under the Saturnine Power; its Metal is Tin, and it is the third Degree; for the Lubet of the Liberty in Sphere, the Desire proceeds forth into the Desire of the Austereness, and so it gives itself into the Fiat.

33. We must understand it thus; the Lubet of the Liberty goes forth out of itself, as a Plant, and makes one Degree after another in Order, but Mercury makes the Sphere, for he is the Work-Master: And as the Eternal Birth is in itself in the heavenly Mercury, in the Eternal Word in the Father's Generation; so likewise with the Motion of the Father it came into a creaturely Being, and so proceeds in its Order, as may be seen in the Wheel of the Planets; for the Order is just so placed as Man is in his Order.