The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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40. Mars's Metal is Iron, for he is the Wrath in Sulphur, in which the Fire enkindles, and arises; his Original with the Materia is in the Austereness of the Desire: Copper separates itself in the Generation out of Iron, for it arises from the Will of Venus, and they differ as Body and Soul; for Mars is the Fire-Soul of Venus, and makes Venus corporeal; otherwise Venus, as to her own Property, gives only Water in the Mortification in the Salnitral Flagrat; for her Fire is only a pleasant Shining, Smile, or Love-Fire, as she is alone void of other Mixture; and therefore she cannot produce any corporeal Essence from her own Power and Ability, which is hard and tough; she is only the Mother to her Child without a creaturely Soul; Mars is her Soul, and Saturn makes her Body.
41. The Spirit of Sol may tincture Mars and Venus, and change them into the highest metalline Perfection, viz. into Gold; which cannot so easily be effected in Silver, unless it be reduced into the first Materia, where Saturn, Mars, and Mercury are together in the Sulphur, and then it can be done: Venus receives its Toughness from Saturn, and its Redness from Mars as the Fire.
42. Now the Desire of Venus is only eager, and longing after Sol, as after her first Mother, from whence she springs forth in her Birth in the first Original; for the Love comes forth originally from God, and so it is likewise in the external Birth in the Figure: The Desire of Venus goes into Sol, into the Sun, and receives in its Desire the Property of the Sun, and shines from Sol; she has a very peculiar Shining and Lustre above all the Planets and Stars, which she receives from her Mother; and in her Mother's Power consists her Joy, viz. the pleasant twinkling smiling Aspect which she has in her; she is in her own Property (as she is purely alone without the Property of the other Planets) a real Daughter of the Sun (understand in Sulphur, where all is wrapt together) therefore she stands next under the Sun, as a Child of the Sun; not that the Sun did generate that Star, for he is likewise created with her, but in the Sulphur without the Creation, merely in the Generation, it is so, both in the heavenly and earthly [Being, or Principle.]
43. For God the Father generates the Love through his Heart; now the Sun, by Way of Similitude, betokens his Heart; for it is a Figure in the outward World according to the eternal Heart of God, which gives Strength and Virtue to every Life and Essence.
44. And understand it right; all Things proceed from the Word and Heart of God (which is the Divine Sulphur) in the Birth or the holy Trinity, and manifest themselves in and through the proceeded (or egressed) Essence, which is God's Wisdom; and they again do eagerly force and press out of the Egress, in and towards his Heart and Power, and vehemently long after it, as Paul Faith, all Creatures groan and pant with us to be delivered from Vanity.
45. So also does the outward Essence in the outward Birth of Metals, Planets, Stars and Creatures; each Thing longs after its Center, viz. after its first Mother, whence it proceeded, viz. after the Sun in Sulphur, for it is the Tincture of all Essences: Whatever the first Desire with the Impression in Saturn makes Evil in the Wrath of Mars, that the Sun turns again into Good. As the divine Sun tinctures the Anger or Wrath of God, so that the wrathful Property of God's Anger is changed into a Joyfulness; so likewise the outward Sun tinctures the outward Sulphur, viz. Saturn and Mars, that there is a pleasant Temperature, viz. a. Growth, springing, and blooming in all Metals and Creatures; therefore the Sun is the Center, which Reason will not believe; understand, in the planetary Orb, and in all Vegetables and Animals.
The Fifth Chapter.
Of the Sulphurean Deaths and how the dead Body is revived, and replaced into its first Glory.
1. All Life and Motion, with Understanding, Reason, and Senses, both in Animals and Vegetables, consist originally in Sulphur, viz. in Nature's Desire, and in the Lubet's Desire of the Liberty.