The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
The text is shown on its own: no facing layer is held for this issue.
The translator’s English as printed (John Ellistone). The original-language text is not held; names are romanised as the translator printed them.
11. That is, if the Hunger-Spirit does in its own Forms too much impress itself [long, Or imagine] after itself, and too eagerly Hunger after its own Manifestation, it cannot take the free Lubet, which appeases its Hunger, into itself; for Nature's Property must be sincerely bent and inclined to the free Lubet's Property, viz. to God's Love, and wholly direct its Hunger after Love; and then the Hunger receives the Love into itself, and makes the same essential in itself, and is no longer a famished dark Hunger, which rages in itself, and raves as a poisonful Mercury; but the Hunger becomes a Love-Desire, which is called God's Nature, and the hungry fiery [Desire] is called God's Anger; and in the outward Nature it is called a Fire, but in the inward World's Property, where the Desire does act with Energy in the Property of the free Lubet, this Fire is called the divine Desire, wherein the fiery Love burns, and from whence the Joyfulness proceeds; for the free Lubet does therefore give itself into the austere Desire, that it may bring forth a fiery Love, viz. a Joyfulness, which could not be in the still Lubet; for where there is a Stillness there is no Joy, or Motion.
12. Now the free Lubet, viz. God's Property, manifests itself through the fiery Property, and the fiery Property makes the free Lubet's Essence, viz. the Oil which arises in the Impression of the Desire into a Light or Lustre; for the austere Desire gives the anxious darting Flash, viz. a Sulphureous Spirit, and the Meekness of the Oil gives its Love into it, and dispels that which was drawn into it, viz. the Darkness, and manifests the eternal Liberty, viz. the Nothing, and this is now the Seeing.
13. For when the Fire-Splendor tastes the Sweetness of the Light, then the Fire's Desire reaches after the Meekness, and the Meekness of the free Lubet is as a Nothing wholly incomprehensible: Now the Hunger of the Desire comprehends its own Essence, and devours it, and makes it to Nothing; this is the Darkness, which is the Hunger's Essence, which the fiery Hunger devours through the Property of the Light, or free Lubet: As we see, that as soon as the Light shines it deprives the Darkness of its Power, therefore God is a Lord over all Beings, for he is the eternal Power and Light: A Similitude whereof we see in the Sun, that it is Lord of the Darkness and of all Essences, and rules whatever grows, lives, and moves in this World.
14. Further, we are to consider of the manifold Salts, how they take their Rise in the Original, and separate into many Properties. In the Original of the Impression, viz. in the Verbum Fiat, a two-fold Salt does arise: The first is Spiritual, and gives the Sharpness in the Essence of the free Lubet; it is a Severizing, or a Sharpness of the Powers: The other Salt is the Sharpness of the Impression, according to the Property of the astringent Austerity which is the Anguish in the Impression, that is, Brimstone, and the essential Property is Water.
15. The Water is the senseless mortal Property of the Salt; and the Sulphureous, which is from the Anguish, is the Property of the quick Salt; for it has the Sting of Motion, viz. the Mercury in it, which makes the Life's Form, and yet the Brimstone is not the Salt, but it is the Anguish in the Impression, which also comes to be corporeal.
16. The Salt is the Sharpness in Brimstone as to the Astringency; the Salt causes the Anguish to be corporeal; and so Salt dwells in the Brimstone, and is the Brimstone's Sharpness, and preserves the Brimstone in the corporeal Essence, and also the Spirit of the Brimstone, that it falls not to Dust: The Salt impresses the Powers of the Anguish, and the impressed Life is the Mercurial Life; the same is the Life of the Anguish, viz. of the Brimstone, and separates the Materia according to the Forms to Nature, and the Materia of the free Lubet into two Essences, viz. into a watery and oily, and then into a corporeal.
17. The corporeal is two-fold; both according to the Darkness and the Light: According to the Property of the austere Desire it makes in the watery [Property] a Sand, or stony Nature, from whence the Stones have their Original; understand out of the Sulphureous, viz. out of the Brimstone's Water.
18. The other Property, as to the Mortification in the Salnitral Flagrat, is the common running Water; the other corporeal [Water] is the metalline Body from the free Lubet's Property in the impressed Form; and from the watery Property (where the Brimstone is in the Water); it produces Trees, Herbs, and all whatever grows in the earthly Property, viz. in the mortified or dead Substantiality, which yet has a Life without Sense, viz. a vegetative.