The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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15. In like Manner know this, that the eternal Love (understand the Essence, viz. the heavenly Essentiality) has given itself forth into the Creation with the Verbum Fiat, to set the Father's Anger, viz. the Form of the eternal Nature, into the highest Joyfulness, and to set forth the Likeness of the eternal Generation; and where the Nature of the Wrath was most elevated through the Fiat, there also the Desire did most incline itself towards the Liberty, to be free from the Wrath, and to bring it into the Kingdom of Joy, from whence the great and deep Knowledge is arisen, and also the most precious and highest Tincture, understand the Desire of the wrathful Hunger received that into itself after which it Hungered, viz. the Liberty, for all Things were created good in the Beginning; also the Devil was good while he was an Angel; so also the Serpent [was good in its Creation before the Curse.]
16. But seeing the Devil went into the highest Fire's Desire, God departed from him, as a Light that is put out, or extinguished in a Candle; and afterwards he lived according to his own Desire.
17. But seeing he knew that there was such a Tincture in the Serpent, and the Serpent being created out of the Beginning of Time, therefore he insinuated with his Desire into the Serpent, and took Possession of the Serpent's Tincture, and wrought forth his Desire through the Serpent against Man, to introduce him to long after the Serpent's Property: For the Serpent's Tincture was from both Originals, viz. out of the deadly Mercury from the Dying in the Fire, viz. from the Coldness in the Impression; and then also from the wrathful [fiery Property in the Impression.] The cold Impression is earthly, which arises from the Wrath, viz. from the Dying in the Wrath, in the Impression; and the fiery [Impression] arises from the quick Poison of Mercury, in which Property the Spirit's Life consists.
18. Thus Adam and Eve were infected with the Devil's Desire through the Serpent, viz. through the earthly, deadly Property of the Serpent; and also [through] the wrathful poisonful living Property of God's Wrath according to the Devil's own Property; and was inflamed in his divine Oil, that is, in the heavenly Essentiality.
19. Even then the divine Light, which mined out of the divine Body of the heavenly Essentiality, was extinct to him; for the Curse seized upon the Soul. Now God’s Cursing is a Withdrawing, viz. the divine Power, which was in the Body, departed into its own Principle; and his holy Oil (wherein the Power of God dwelt, and had made a Kingdom of Joy, viz. the Paradise) became a Poison.
20. For the earthly Part according to the Mortifying of the Water, viz. the cogastrish Property, was manifest; and forthwith Mercury, viz. the Coldness in the Death’s Property, got the Dominion, whereas before he was as it were swallowed up in the divine Power: Thus Adam died unto God, and lived to Death; here it was necessary that God should regenerate him; and therefore the Serpent was Cursed, because it had served, and Willingly obeyed the Devil.
21. Thus we understand what lies hid in the greatest Anguish, viz. in the strongest Mercury, viz. an Oil, which Cures and tinctures all Diseases; but the cold Poison, viz. the Death's Source must be done away, and put into a fiery [Property] which is desirous of the Light; for God created all Things good in the Beginning, but through his Cursing or Withdrawing the Evil came in: For when God's Love-Desire dwelt in the outward World's-Source, and penetrated it, as the Sun the Water, or the Fire an Iron, then the outward World was a Paradise, and the divine Essence sprang forth and budded through the earthly, the eternal Life through the mortal; but when God Cursed it for Man's sake, the mortal [Life] was manifest in Man, and also in the Fruit of which Man should eat, which Property before was only manifest in the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, on which Adam and his Wife were tempted, whether their Desire would enter into the Eternity, viz. into God's Essence, or into the Essence of Time, into the living or mortal Oil in which Source the Soul's Spirit would live, that is, burn.