The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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2. In Nature's Desire arises the Death and Enclosing, and in the Desire of the Liberty arises the Opening and the Life; for the Liberty's Desire tinctures the Desire of the dark Nature, so that the wrathful Mother foregoes her own Right, and freely resigns to the Liberty's Desire, and so the Life grows in Death, for there is no Life without Light; but if the Light goes out in the Essence of the Sulphur, then it is an eternal Death, which no Man can revive, unless God moves himself in the Lubet-Desire in the same Death; for Death can receive no Life into it, unless the first Desire, viz. the free Lubet's Desire, manifests itself in the Desire to Nature, wherein the Inclosing and Death are generated.
3. Therefore when Man died in the Sulphur, none could have made him alive again, unless the free Lubet; viz. the Desire to the Eternal Life did again enter into his Phur, viz. into the Birth of the Nature of the human Property, and moved the inclosed Death, viz. the Center of Nature, and gave itself again into the Center, viz. into the soul-like Property, and into the Soul's Essentiality and Corporality; and this was so brought to pass.
4. We know that the right Sulphur is a Generation of all Spirituality and Corporality; so far as concerns its first Original, where it is heavenly, it is the Generation or the Essence of all Essences: For all, whatever Eternity and Time is in itself, has, and is able to effect, lies in this Birth: But now as to the Kingdom of this World it is earthly, viz. a Figure of the Eternal; for in it the Time and Creature consist, and all whatever is visible and invisible.
5. Now Man, and every Life also, as to the Kingdom of this World, was created and generated out of the outward Sulphur; Man out of the inward and outward [Sulphur,] and the outward Creature only out of the outward; for Man is an Image and Likeness of God, and the other Creatures are as a Similitude according to the Figuration in the internal Generation in God's Wisdom, viz. in the expressed or procreated heavenly Essence, according to both eternal Principles.
6. But now Man was created good and perfect, according to, and out of all the three Worlds, as an Image of the Deity, in whom God dwelled; and he was even that Essence what God is, according to Eternity and Time in all the three Worlds; but he was a Creature with a Beginning, as to the Creature, and died through the Lubet as to the heavenly and divine Essence: For the inward Lubet, which was generated in the Center, viz. in the Fire, wherein stood the Life in the divine Essentiality, that is that which enkindled the Essence of the divine Meekness, wherein the Joyfulness or the angelical Form consists, that (I say) turned itself from the inward Lubet of the Liberty and Eternity into the Time, viz. into the external Birth, into the planetary Property, [it departed] out of the pure divine Element into the four Elements: Thus the inward divine Essentiality, or inward Corporality did no longer retain any Leader or Life: And this was the Death; for the Soul's Fire proceeding from the Father's Property turned itself away from the Son's Property, in which alone the Divine Life consists.
7. Thus the Property of the Soul remained naked only with its Will in the outward Sulphur, and the inward disappeared, and continued stedfast in the eternal Unchangeableness, as, in an eternal Nothing, wherein there was no more any effecting, [or Working Efficacy to bring to pass.]
8. Thus Man with his outward Body lived barely and merely to the Time; the precious Gold of the heavenly Corporality, which tinctured the outward Body, was disappeared, and so the outward Body stood barely and alone in the Life of Nature's Desire, viz. in the Soul's fiery Property; understand in the Form and Property of Mars, viz. in the Wrath of God, which is the Wrath in Sulphur, viz. the Property of God's Anger and the dark World: But seeing the outward Body was created out of the Time, therefore the Time, viz. the Constellation with the four Elements, presently obtained the Dominion in him; and the divine Property, viz. the Desire of the Deity (which ruled and tinctured Time, so that there was a holy Life in the Creature out of the Time) was vanished; its own peculiar Love in the divine Desire was turned to Water, and it became blind and dead in the Will and Desire of God and the Soul must help itself with the Sun's Light.