The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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7. He introduced the holy Mercury in the Flame, viz. in the fiery Love with the Desire of the divine Essentiality, or after the divine Essentiality again (which Desire makes divine Corporality in itself) into the expressed Word, viz. into the Mercurial Fire-Soul, (understand, into the Soul's Essence in the Womb of Mary,) and became again that same Image of God: He tinctured the Poison, viz. the Wrath of the Father of all Essences, with the Love-Fire: He took only that same Mercury which he had breathed into Adam for an Image, and Formed into a Creature: He took only that same Property, yet not in the Fire's Property, but in the burning Love: He did with the Love introduce again the Light of the eternal Sun into the human Property, that he Might tincture the Wrath of the enkindled Mercury in the human Property, and inflame it with Love, that the human Jupiter, viz. the divine Understanding, Might again appear and be manifest.
8. Ye Physicians, if you here understand nothing, then you are captivated in the Poison of the Devil: Behold, I pray, the right Cure, with which the enkindled Mercury in Man's Life is to be remedied, it must be a Mercury again, but first enkindled in Venus and Jupiter; it must have the Sun's Property, which it attains to by Jupiter and Venus: As God deals with us poor Men, so must the outward poisonful sick Mercury be tinctured with such an external Cure; not with the dark Impression of Saturn, with Cold, (unless it be first sweetly appeased and qualified with Jupiter and Venus, that the Sun does again shine in Saturn), but with meek Love; this is his right Physick, whereby the Death is changed into Life; yet this is only a common Manual Cure, which the Vulgar may learn.
9. But it behoves the Doctor, if he will be called a Doctor, to study the whole Process, how God has restored the Universal in Man, which is fully clear and manifest in the Person of Christ, from his Entrance into the Humanity, even to his Ascension, and sending of the Holy Ghost.
10. Let him follow this entire Process, and then he may find the Universal, provided he be born again of God; but the Selfish Pleasure, Worldly Glory, Covetousness and Pride lie in the Way. Dear Doctors, I must tell you, the Coals are too black, you defile your white Hands therewith; the true unfeigned Self-denying Humility before God and Man does not relish with you, therefore you are blind: I do not tell you this, but the Spirit of Wonders in its Manifestation.
11. But we will give Direction to the desirous Seeker, who would fain see, if he knew the Way fitly to attain his Intent; for the Time is at Hand, where Moses is called from the Sheep to be a Shepherd of the Lord, which shall shortly be manifest, notwithstanding all the raging and raving of the Devil: Let not the dear and worthy Christendom think, seeing now it seems as if she should go to Wrack and Ruin, that it is utterly undone; No: The Spirit of the Lord of Hosts has out of his Love planted a new Branch in the human Property, which shall Root out the Thorns of the Devil, and make known his Child Jesus to all Nations, Tongues and Speeches, and that in the Morning of the eternal Day.
12. Dear Brethren, behold, I pray, the right Cure: What did God with us when we lay sick in Death? Did he quite cast away the created Image, understand the outward Part, viz. the outward corrupt Man, and make wholly another new Man? No. He did it not: For though he introduced Divine Property into our Humanity, yet he did not therefore cast away our Humanity, but brought it into the Way or Process to the New-Birth.
13. What did he? He suffered the outward Humanity, viz. the outward Water, understand the Essentiality of Venus, which was shut up in the Wrath of Death, to be baptized with the Water of the Eternal Essence, and with the Holy Ghost, that the Incentive of the outward Essentiality shut up in Death Might again glow, as a Fire that falls into Tinder: Afterwards he withdrew his outward Food from the outward Body, and brought it into the Desart, and let it Hunger, and then the Spark enkindled from the Fire of God must imagine into God, and eat Manna of divine Essentiality forty Days, of which Israel was a Type in the Wilderness of Sinai with their Manna: The Essence Fire, Hunger, of Eternity must overcome the Essence of Time, therefore it is called a Temptation of the Devil; for the Devil as a Prince in the Wrath of God did there tempt the outward Nothing, the Humanity, and represented all that to it wherein Adam fell, and became disobedient to God.