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

34. First there is in him the true golden divine Man, which is the Likeness of God: Next there is in him the Man of heavenly Essentiality; viz. the inward holy Body, generated from the Fire and Light in the Tincture, which is like to the pure Silver if it were not corrupted. Thirdly, there is in him the Elemental Man from the pure Element resembling Jupiter. Fourthly, the Mercurial, which is the growing or paradisical [Man.] Fifthly, the Martial, from the Fire, viz. the soulish [Man,] according to the Father's Property. Sixthly, the Venerine [Man,] according to the outward Desire, and the Water's Property. Seventhly, the Solar, according to the Sun's Property, viz. according to the outward World, as a Seer and Knower of the Wonders of God: And yet it is but the one only Man; yet is both in the inward and outward World. Thus likewise is the Similitude [or Form] of the seven Metals, with one Property according to the inward World, and with another visible and palpable Property according to the outward World.

35. From Jupiter the Sphere turns round, and out of the Separation Mercury proceeds forth with a broken Metal, according to his Spirit's Property; externally Quicksilver, and internally he is a paradisical Working, he is in his Spiritual Property the Distinguisher (or Articulator) of the Words, Voices, and Speeches. It is written, God hath made all Things by his Word: The heavenly eternal Mercurius is his Word, which the Father expresses in the Enkindling of his Light, and the expressed is his Wisdom; and the Word is the Worker, Framer, and Maker of the Formings in the expressed Wisdom. Now what the inward Mercurius does internally in God's Power, that likewise the outward Mercurius effects in the outward Power in the created Essence: He is God's Instrument, wherewith he Works extrinsically to Death and to Life; in each Thing according to its Property he builds, and breaks down.

36. According to Saturn's Property he builds, and according to his own Property he distinguishes and dissipates the Hardness in Saturn, viz. the enclosed, and opens it to Life: He opens the Colours, and makes Forms and Shapes, and carries in him an heavenly, and also an earthly Property, in the earthly he carries out of the first Desire to Nature, viz. out of Saturn, Mars, viz. the Wrathfulness of the Impression; for he is his Soul, wherein Mercury lives; he gives him the fiery Essence, and stands under Jupiter in the Order upwards on the Sphere, for he carries the Fire-Spirit in Sulphur into all Planets, and Forms and gives to each Thing its Source, and true Spirit of Life.

37. Mars in the first Impression is the great Anguish, and causes the Love-Will of the Liberty to separate from him; and that which is separated is called God; and the Anguish, or Fire-Source, is called God's Anger, viz. the Wrath of the Eternal Nature: And as internally God's Love separates from God's Anger, that is, from the wrathful Property of the Eternal Nature, viz. Heaven from Hell, God from the Devil; so also it is effected in the Birth of the outward Nature.

38. Love proceeds out of the Wrath, and is an Humility, or Submission: Thus likewise it came in the Creation into Order; therefore Venus stands in the Sphere on the Line of Mars under the Suit, for so is the Separation in Nature; and so one proceeds forth from another: Its Metal is Copper, the Original whereof is this, that the Love is a Desire, and desires only Light and Joy; for the Materia is made out of the Desire's Property: But if the Love-Desire shall come to be corporeal in the Impression, then it must resign itself to the wrathful Fiat, viz. to the Desire of Mars in the Fire, or in the fiery Property; for the Saturnine Property takes all into its Might, and makes it corporeal.

39. Therefore the Metal of Venus is so nearly related to Gold, by Reason of her own Property from the Liberty, but Mars makes too wrathful; and because it separates itself out of Mars’s Fire, it retains a great Part of the Property of Man in it.