The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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21. Now when Mercury does thus awake from the Death of the Impression of Saturn, and gets Manna into the Mouth of his Property of the poisonful Death's Source, then, arises the Flagrat of the Kingdom of Joy, for it is as a Light which is enkindled in the Darkness, for the Joy or Love springs up in the Midst of the Anger: Now if Mercury apprehends the Glimpse or Aspect: of the Love in Mars, then the Love dismays the Wrath, and it is as a Transmutation, but it is not fixed and stedfast; and as soon as this comes to pass, the angelical Properties appear in View.
The Process in the Temptation.
22. Jesus was led by the Spirit into the Wilderness, and the Devil came to him, and tempted him. When the Soul of Christ did Hunger, the Devil said to Jesus, Open the Center in the Stones, that is, the impressed Mercury, and make thee Bread, eat the Substance of the Soul's Property: What, wilt thou eat of nothing, viz. of the speaking Word? Eat of the expressed Word, viz. of the Property of Good and Evil, and then thou art Lord in both, this also was Adam's Bit, wherein he did eat Death: Then said Christ Jesus, Man liveth not by Bread alone, but by every Word which proceedeth from the Mouth of God.
23. Mark! Whence had the Person of Christ the Will, that he would not eat with the Soul's Hunger of the Bread which could have been made of Stones, which he could well have performed? Or how had it been, if the Hunger of the human Property had after the Unction of Baptism eaten in the Temptation of the Mercury in the Impression of Death, viz. of the Sulphur of the expressed Word, in which was the Anger, and from whence the Love was fled, as it is so in the earthly Property?
24. Observe! The Will and Desire to eat of the speaking Word came into the Soul’s Property from the Motion of the Deity: When the same had moved itself in the Soulish Essence, shut up in Death in Mary his Mother in her Essence or Seed, and introduced the Aspect of the Eye of God in the Love into the dead Soul's Essence, and had manifested the Love in Death, then one divine Property desired the other, and the Desire of the bodily Hunger to eat of God's Bread or Essence came from the Baptism: When the Water of the Body, which in the Impression of the Substance was enclosed in Death, did Taste the Water of eternal Life in the Holy Spirit, viz. the Holy Spirit's Corporality or Essentiality in the Baptism, then the Incentive of the divine Hunger of the ardent Desire after God's Essence did arise in the Flesh, as a divine Hunger, a glimmering or dining Incentive of divine Property.
25. Now the Man Christ must hereupon be tempted in Body and Soul, or which he would eat; on one Part the expressed Word of Love and Anger was represented before Body and Soul, in which the Devil would be Lord and Master, and rule therein omnipotently; and on the other Part the speaking Word in the Love-Property was only represented to the Soul and Body.
26. Here now began the Combat which Adam should have undergone in Paradise; for on one Side God's Love-Desire, which had manifested itself in the Soul, did eagerly attempt the soulish and bodily Property, and introduced its Desire into the Soul’s Property, that the Soul should eat of it, and give the Body Manna thereof; and on the other Side the Devil in God's wrathful Property did assault in the Soul's Property, and brought his Imagination into the Property of the first Principle, viz. into the Center of the dark World, which is the Soul's Fire-Life.
27. Here was the Contest about the Image of God, whether it would live in God’s Love or Anger, in the Fire or Light; for the Property of the Soul, as to its Fire-Life, was the Father's according to the Fire-World; and seeing the Soul in Adam had quenched the Light-World, the Light-World was again incorporated with the Name Jesus, which came to pass in the Conception of Mary.
28. Now it was here tried in the Temptation of which Property Man would live; whether of the Father's in the Fire, or of the Son's in the Light of Love: Here the whole Property of Christ's Person was tempted: The Devil said, as he had also said to Adam, Eat of the Evil and Good: Hast thou not Bread? Then make Bread of Stones: Why dost thou Hunger so long in thy own Property? Then said the Divine Desire, Man liveth not of Bread alone, but of every Word of God.