The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)

29. Thus the Property of the fiery Soul resigned itself with its Desire into the Love, viz. into the speaking Word's Property, and the fiery Desire did eat Manna in the Love-Desire. O ye Philosophers! observe it well, when this was done, the Love transmuted the fiery Property into its Love-Property; here the Father gave the Fire-Soul to the Son, understand the fiery Property of the expressed Mercury to the speaking Mercury in the Light; for Christ also said so afterwards, Father; the Men were thine, and thou hast given them me, and I give unto them eternal Life.

30. Here God's Love gave the eternal Love-Life to the corrupted Humanity, the Love did wholly give itself in unto the Fire-Wrath, and transmuted the Wrath of the Soul into a triumphant Joyful Love; but if the Soul's and Body's Property had obeyed the Devil in God's Wrath, and made Bread of the enclosed Mercury, and eaten thereof, then had the Will entered again into its Self-hood, and could not have been transmuted.

31. But seeing it entered into Resignation, into the speaking Word of God, and was willing to be and do whatever that pleased, then the Will went from its Self-hood, through the wrathful Death of God's Anger, viz. from the expressed Word, which the Devil had Poisoned with his Imagination, quite through the Property of the Wrath, and sprang forth afresh with a new Love-Desire in God; here the Will was Paradise, viz. a divine Love budding in Death.

32. Thus now the Love-Will being set in Opposition to the poisonful Mercury of the soul's Property in the Anger of God, then came the Devil, and said, Thou art the King, who shall overcome, come and shew thyself in thy Miracles and Deeds of Wonder; and he brought him upon the Pinnacle of the Temple, and said, Fall down, that Men may see it; for it is written, He hath given his Angels Charge over thee, that they should bear thee up in their Hands, lest thou dash thy Foot against a Stone. Here the Devil would fain that he should use again the Fire's Might, viz. the Soul's Self-hood in its own fiery Property, and depart out of the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self in its own Fire-Will, as he had done, and also Adam, when he went with the Desire in his own Might into Evil and Good, and would have his Eyes open in Evil and Good, as Moses writes thereof, that the Serpent did persuade them to it.

33. Here came the fine adorned Beast again, and tempted the second Adam also; for God gave him Leave, seeing he said the Fire's Matrix had drawn him, he could not stand: Here now that should be tried; for he was an Angel also, as well as the human Soul, which he had seduced: But the human Property in Body and Soul in the Person of Christ had once cast itself into the Resignation out of its Self-hood into God's Mercy, and stood still in the Resignation, viz. in the divine Will, and would not cast himself down, or do any Thing, but what God alone did by it, and said to the Devil, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God; which is as much as if he had said, A Creature of God shall will nor do nothing but what God wills and does by it: There must be no other God besides the only one to rule and will, the Creature must go and do as the Will-Spirit of God leads it; it must be God's Instrument, with which he Works, and does only what he pleases.

34. In this Proof Adam did not stand; for he went from the Resignation into an Arrogation of Self, into an own Self-Will, and would try Evil and Good, Love and Anger, and prove how Evil and Good tasted. Here, dear Man, was the trying State before the Tree of Temptation in Paradise, and that was fulfilled which the first Adam could not, and would not do in divine Obedience in Resignation.