The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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26. In the sweet Name, Jesus Christ, the whole Process is contained, what, and how the New-Birth is out of Death into Life, which is very clearly understood in the Language of Nature: For the Name Jesus is the Property of the free Lubet of Eternity, which yields itself into the pregnant Center, viz. into the Father's Property, and figures itself in the Center in the Father's Property, viz. in the Father's Fire, to a Word of eternal Power.
27. Understand, The Father, viz. the Father's fiery Forms, do Figure [shape] this divine Voice essentially in itself in the Lubet of the Liberty; that is, the Father's fiery Property makes itself in the divine Essence of the eternal Love to a Mercury of Joyfulness; for the Father's Property is the Fire-Source, and the Son's, viz. the eternal Lubet's Property, is the Love-Source; and yet also there would be no Desire of Love, if the Father's Fire did not enkindle it, and make it moveable, viz. desirous; from the Fire arises the Desire.
28. The Father of all Essences begets this holy Desire through his Fire-Source, which is now his Heart of Love, which gives in his Fire the shining Lustre and Splendor; even there the Wrath in the Fire's Property dies from Eternity to Eternity, and is changed into a Love-Desire.
29. Thus observe it; The free Lubet's Property is here in the Fire's Property called Christ, which signifies in the Language of Nature a potent Champion, depriving the Wrath of its Power, a Shining of the Light in the Darkness, a Transmutation, where the Love-Lubet rules over the Fire-Lubet, viz. over the Wrath, the Light over the Darkness: Here the Seed of the Woman (understand of the free Lubet, in which there is no Source) bruises the Head of the Wrath of the eternal Nature, viz. of the eternal Desire; for the Fire's Property is rightly called the Head, for it is the Cause of the eternal Life; and the Liberty, viz. the free Lubet, or the Nothing, is rightly called the Woman; for in the Nothing, viz. in the Liberty, consists the Birth of the Holy Trinity of the Deity.
30. Now the Fire gives Life, and the free Lubet gives Essence into the Life, and in the Essence is the Birth, where the Father, viz. the Eternal Ground, begets his Essence, viz. his Heart out of the Abyss in Himself, that is, out of the Abyss in Himself into a Byss; the Son is the Father's Byss: Thus the Father remains in Himself, as touching his own Property only, the Byss of the eternal Nature; and the Son remains in the Father, the Byss of the Power and Kingdom of Joy; a Resemblance whereof you see in the Fire and Light: And thus the Son tinctures the Father with the Liberty, viz. with the Nothing; and the Father tinctures (the Son) the Nothing, that there is an eternal Life therein, and no more a Nothing, but a Sound or Voice of the Manifestation of the Eternity.
31. Thus, dear Philosophers, observe here the Ground how you should tincture; seek not the Son without the Father to tincture therewith: It must be one Body; the Serpent-Bruiser lies therein beforehand; for the Seed of the Woman has not bruised the Serpent's Head without the Humanity, but in the Humanity: The Source of the divine Lubet (understand of the Love) manifested itself through a Resurrection in the human Essence, and became manifest in the human Life, and tinctured the Wrath of Death with the Blood of the divine Tincture, and there the Wrath of Death was changed into a Source of divine Love and Joyfulness: Thus the Love bruised the Head of the Anger and the oleous Poison in Mercury, and deprived the Wrath of its Dominion, and sublimed the Wrath into the highest Joyfulness; even there the Anger, and the astringent cold were made open Shew of in a fiery Love: Then it was said, Death, where is thy Sting? Hell, where is thy victory? God be thanked who has given us the Victory.
32. Now it behoves the wise Seeker to consider the whole Process with the Humanity of Christ from his Opening in the Womb of his Mother Mary, even to his Resurrection and Ascension; and so he may well find the Feast of Pentecost with the Joyful Spirit, wherewith he may tincture, Cure, and heal whatever is broken and destroyed: We declare it in the Ground of Truth, as we have highly known it; for the Rose in the Time of the Lily shall blossom in May when the Winter is past, for Blindness to the Wicked, and for Light to the Seeing.
33. God be forever praised, who has granted us Eyes to see through the poisonful Spring or the Heart of the Basilisk, and see the Day of Restitution of all whatever Adam lost.