The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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19. For Jupiter is Power, and Venus is Love-Desire, which hasten towards the Sun, as towards their Likeness; and the Heaven, which is created out of the Midst of the Water, puts upon them its blue and green-Coloured Garment according to the Stars’ Might; for the Spirit of the Stars receives the new Child also, and gives him its Spirit and Body, and rejoices therein: Now the Forms are in a Contest, and Mercury is the Faber and Separator; Saturn impresses, and Jupiter is the pleasant Power in Sulphur; Mars is the Fire-Source, viz. the Might in Sulphur; Venus is the Water, viz. the sweet Desire, Mercury is the Life, Luna the Body, and Sol the Heart, viz. the Center to which all Forms tend and press.
20. Thus the outward Sun presses into the Sun in the Herb, and the inward Sun presses into the outward, and there is a mere pleasing Relish and Delight of one Essence in another, Saturn makes sour, Jupiter makes a pleasant Taste, Mars makes bitter, by Reason of his anxious Nature, Venus makes sweet, Mercury distinguishes the Taste, Luna takes it into her Sack and batches it, for she is of an earthly and heavenly Property, and she gives it the Menstruum wherein the Tincture lies.
21. Thus there is an Instigation in the Taste; each Form hastens to the sweet Water and the Sun; Jupiter is pleasant, and ascends up aloft with the Love-Desire in the sweet Source-Water, wherein Mars rages, and thinks himself to be Master in the House, seeing that he rules the Fire-Spirit in Sulphur, at which Mercury is dis-mayed, that Mars does so disquiet him, and Saturn makes the Flagrat corporeal according to his austere Impression, and these are the Knots upon the Stalk; and the Flagrat is Salnitral, according to the third Form of Nature in the first Impression to the Spirit-Life, viz. in the Anguish-Form, from whence the Sulphur takes its Original, and in the Flagrat Mercury goes up in the Salniter on the Sides, and takes Venus also into it, viz. the Love-Desire from whence grow Twigs and Branches on the Stalk, Trunk, or Body, be they either of Herbs, Trees, or Shrubs, and each Branch [or Sprig] is then like to the whole Plant.
22. But the Sun continually by little and little deprives Mars of his Force, whereupon the Salniter extinguishes, and Mars loses his bitter Property; then Jupiter and Venus wholly yield themselves to the Sun in the Moon's 'Cabinet, and the outward Sun takes full Possession of the inward; understand the inward Sun is a Sulphur in Mercury, and is of the divine Power's Property, from the Liberty of God, which imprints itself on all Things, and gives Life and Power to all Things. Now when that is done, that Jupiter and Venus have given themselves to the Power of the Sun, then Jupiter forces no more upwards, but Mars and Mercury do continually more and more wind up the Stalk from the Earth on high; Jupiter stays still above in the inward and outward Sun's Power, and there is the pleasant Conjunction with Time and Eternity, there the Eternity beholds itself in an Image in the Time.
23. And Paradise springs up [or opens,] for the Sulphur and the Salt in the Sulphur are here transmuted in the Paradise, and the paradisical Joy puts itself forth in the Smell and Taste. This, is now the Head or Knob of the Blossoms, wherein the Corn grows; the Lovely Smell is in one Part paradisical, viz. from the divine Power, from the Liberty; and on the other Part earthly, according to the outward Sun, and the outward World.