The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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11. The third Form is called Mars, which is the fiery Property in the Impression of Saturn, where the Impression introduces itself into great Anguish, viz. into a great Hunger; it is the Painfulness, or the Cause of Feeling, also the Cause of the Fire and Consuming, also of Enmity and Malignity; but in Jupiter, viz. in the free Lubet, in the Nothing, it causes the fiery Love-Desire, that the Liberty, viz. the Nothing, is desirous, and introduces itself into Sensibility, viz. into the Kingdom of Joy: In the Darkness it is a Devil, viz. God's Wrath, and in the Light it is an Angel of Joy, understand such a Property; for when this Source became dark in Lucifer, he was called a Devil, but while he was in the Light he was an Angel; and thus also it is to be understood in Man.
12. The fourth Property or Form is called Sol, viz. the Light of Nature, which has its Original in the Liberty, viz. in the Nothing, but without Splendor, and gives itself in with the Lubet into the Desire of the Impression of Saturn, even to the wrathful or fiery Property of Mars and there the free Lubet, which has sharpened itself in the Impression, in the Property of Mars, in the consuming Anguish, and in the Hardness of Saturn, displays, or Powerfully puts itself forth in Jupiter, as a Sharpness of the Liberty, and an Original of the Nothing, and also of the Sense; and the Effluence from the Heat and Anguish of Mars, and from Saturn's Hardness is the Shining of the Light in Nature, which gives the Understanding in Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars, viz. a Spirit, which knows what itself is in its Properties, which hinders or prevails against the Wrath, and brings it out of the Anguish, out of the Property of Mars into Jupiter's, viz. out of the Anguish into a Love-Desire.
13. In these four Forms the Spirit's Birth consists, viz. the true Spirit both in the inward and outward Being, viz. the Spirit of Power in the Essence; and the Essence or Corporality of this, Spirit is Sulphur.
14. Ye Rabbis and Masters! that you could but understand, how faithfully that is given and revealed to you, which your Predecessors have intended and aimed at, wherein you have been a long Time blind, the Cause of which is your Pride: This God, the most high Understanding, sets before you by mean, and heretofore ungrounded Instruments, which he himself has grounded, if you would yet once see, and escape the tormenting Source.
15. The fifth Form is Venus, the Beginning of all Corporality, viz. of the Water; which arises in the Desire of Jupiter and Mars, viz. in the Love-Desire, out of the Liberty, and out of Nature, viz. out of the Impression's Desire in Saturn, in Mars, in the great Anguish, to be freed from the Anguish: And it carries two Forms in the Desire of its Property, viz. a fiery from Mars, and a watery [Property] from Jupiter understand an heavenly and earthly Desire; the heavenly arises from the heavenly Impression of the Union [or free Effluence] of the Deity in Nature to its own Manifestation, and the earthly arises from the Impression of the Darkness in Mars, viz. in the wrathful Fire's Property; therefore the Essence of this Desire consists in two Things, viz. in the Water, from the Original of the Liberty, and in Sulphur from the Original of Nature according to the Impression.
16. The outward Similitude of the heavenly [Being] is Water and Oil; understand, according to the Sun it is Water, and according to Jupiter it is Oil, and according to the hard Impression of Saturn after the heavenly Being according to Mars, it is Copper, and according to Sol Gold, and according to the earthly Impression, according to the Property of the Darkness, it is in Sulphur Grit, Gravel and Sand; according to the Property or Mars a Cause of all Stones; for all Stones are Sulphur from the powerful Predominance of Saturn and Mars in the Property of Venus according to the dark Impression, understand according to the earthly Part.
17. O ye dear wise Men! if you did but know what lies in Venus, you would not so sumptuously adorn your Roofs: The Potentate often loses his Life for the Servant's Sake, and he puts the Master upon his Roof, therefore he is blind; this his false Venus-Desire causes in him, that he Forms it in Saturn and Mars, and brings it forth in Sol; if he Formed his Venus-Desire in Jupiter, then he Might rule over the fiery Mars which lies in Venus, and has put his Coat upon Venus in Sulphur.
18. Thus Mars clothes all his Servants which Love him and Saturn with his Garment, that they only find the Copper of Venus, and not its Gold in the Copper; the Spirit of the Seeker enters into Sol, viz. into Pride, and supposes that he has Venus, but he has Saturn, viz. Covetousness; if he went forth in the Water, viz. in the resigned Humility of Venus, the Stone of the wise Men would be revealed to him.