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

35. When the Devil saw that in this also he had no Success, that the Humanity would not give Way to depart out of the Resignation, out of the Resignation, he carried the Humanity upon a high Mountain, and shewed it all the Riches of the World, all whatever does live and move in the expressed Word, all the Dominions and Might in the outward Nature, over which he calls himself Prince, but has only the one Part in the Wrath of Death in Possession, and said to it (understand to the human Property) If thou fallest down and worshippest me, I will give thee all this.

36. The Humanity should again depart out of Resignation into a Desire of Propriety, and desire to possess something of its own in Arrogation of Self in the Cursed Propriety, Evil and Good; this had been a dainty Dish and Delight to the Devil; then had he remained King, and his Lies had been Truth: In this Adam was also corrupted, and entered into the Selfish Propriety, and desired Worldly Dominion and Covetousness (which may be seen in Cain) which is the Heart of the poisonful Mercury, viz. its Hunger’s Desire, which makes itself Essence according to the Property of its Hunger, not Manna, but Earth; as we may see in the wild Earth, what he has made in the Enkindling, or Motion of the Father in his Fire’s Property, in which Inflammation (viz. in the poisonful Wrath of the expressed Mercury) the Devil thought to be a Prince, and is so in the same Property in the Wicked, and also the Government of the World in the Wrath; but God holds him captive with the Water and the Light of the third Principle, so that he is not Prince in the Dominion of the expressed Word, but the Judge’s Executioner; he must look where the Turba Magna is enkindled in the Wrath, and there he is busy as far as Turba Magna goes in the Wrath, further his Courage is cooled.

37. He would give the Humanity of Christ this whole Dominion to rule in, and above all in the Essence of all Things, as a Mighty God, which notwithstanding he only possesses in the Part of the Turba in the Wrath of God, and has it not in his full Dominion; He should but let his Desire thereinto, and introduce his Will into him, and he would bring his Mercury of the Creature into the greatest Omnipotence, that he should be a Lord over Good and Evil, and have all Things at Command, to do therewith what he pleased, for so Adam had fooled it.

38. His Mercury went with the Desire into the Impression, whence Cold and Heat arise, and imagined thereinto, and so the Property of the cold and hot Fire did presently boil up in the Mercury of the Creature; and so also the outward Heat and Cold did soon pierce into the enkindled Mercury of the Human Property, so that the Body now suffers Pain from the Heat and Cold, which Property before (when it stood in the free Will of God in the Resignation) was not manifest; and thus Evil and Good did rule and domineer in Adam.