The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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34. Now we will come to the Process of Christ, and go with him out of Eternity into Time, and out of Time into Eternity, and bring again the Wonders of Time into Eternity, and openly set forth the Pearl, for Honour unto Christ, and Scorn to the Devil; he that sleeps is blind, but he that wakes sees what the May brings.
35. Christ said, Seek, and you shall find, knock, and it shall be opened unto you: You know that Christ signifies in a Parable concerning the wounded Samaritan, that he fell among Murtherers, who beat him and wounded him, and pulled off his Cloaths, and went away, and left him half dead, till the Samaritan came, and took Pity on him, dressed him, and poured Oil into his Wounds, and brought him into the Inn: This is a manifest and lively Representation of the Corruption of Man in Paradise, and also of the Corruption of the Earth in the Curse of God, when Paradise departed from it.
36. Now wilt thou be a Magus? Then thou must become the Samaritan, otherwise thou canst not heal the wounded and decayed; for the Body which thou must heal is half dead, and sorely wounded, also its right Garment is torn off, so that it is very hard for thee to know the Man whom thou wilt heal, unless thou hast the Eyes and Will of the Samaritan, and seekest nothing else thereby but to restore the Loss of the Wounded.
37. Now consider! The Eternal Word manifested itself in Adam with divine living Essentiality, with the heavenly Mercury, but when the Soul's-Fire in Adam, by the Infection of the Devil, Poisoned the Will's Spirit in Adam, and introduced it through the Property of the Serpent into earthly deadly Lust, then the heavenly Mercury of the heavenly Essence withdrew, that is, the Soul's Will departed from it with its Desire, and introduced its Hunger into the earthly mortal Essence, viz. into the Property of the cold Mercury, which had made Stones and Earth. Adam’s Spirit would prove this [Mercury,] and have the Knowledge in Evil and Good, and so this Mercury of the four Elements immediately drew him into its Poison, and effectually wrought in him, and robbed him of the Divine Property, stung, and wounded him with Heat and Cold, and made him half dead, and stripped him of his angelical Raiment, viz. the Garment in the pure Element, where the heavenly Source penetrates the four Elements, and tinctured them in Adam's, Body: Then he needed no other Garment, for Heat and Cold were as it were swallowed up in him, as the Day holds the Night swallowed up in itself, and yet the Night dwells in the Day, but it is not manifest: Thus it went with Man when the Property and Source of the Night seized on him, then it domineered in him; and thus it went also with the Earth when God Cursed it.
38. Now wilt thou be a Magus? Then thou must understand how to change the Night again into the Day; for the Source of the Night, viz. of the Darkness, is the Anguish-Source of Death; and the Source of the Day, viz. of the Light, is the Life, and the Lustre in the Life; now Christ has again enkindled this Shining in the Humanity, and quickened Man again in himself: Now if thou wilt tincture, then thou must change that which is shut up, and closed in the Death of the Night again into the Day, for the Day is the Tincture, and yet the Day and Night lie in each other as one Essence.
39. Now says Reason, How may I begin to do it? Look upon the Process, how God began with the Humanity, when He would tincture the same.
40. Christ came into this World in the shut-up human Form, and brought into the enclosed Fortress of Death the Tincture of Life, viz. the Deity; He came into the World as a Pilgrim in our poor Form; He became ours, that he Might tincture us in Himself: By what did he do? Did he live in Joy? Did he behave and carry himself as a Lord? No; he entered into Death, and died, and put away the Night's-Source in him through us: But how did he do it? He assumed the Essence of our Soul and Body unto the divine Essence, and quickened our Essence with the divine, that our Essence entered again with its Will and Desire into the divine Essence, and then the heavenly Fiat was moved again in the Humanity; for the Humanity inclined itself again into the Liberty, viz. into the free Lubet of the Deity.