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

67. In Saturn he will raise the Dead, understand, he will awaken the dead Essence which held him captive in his Former Prison; for he shall turn [or make] the Earth to Heaven: Even as the Virgin has raised up his Will out of the Anger in the Love, and made him a Wonder-Worker; so must he also awaken with his Will, which is united to the Virgin's Heart, the Form or Signature in his Mother's Womb, whence she has brought forth him and all her Children, and enkindle it with the Virgin's and his Love-Desire: This is effected and done in the Sulphur of Saturn in the young Man's own Personal Property, and in his Mother; for before the espousing of the Virgin the heavenly Essence of the young Man lies shut up in Death: For when God Cursed the Earth, then the heavenly paradisical Body disappeared, and the Impression of Saturn took it in Possession, till the Restitution, where God shall restore that which is hidden, that Paradise does again spring forth afresh in the expressed Word, or that the Artist does open the same in a Part by God's Permission.

68. In the second Kingdom of the Mother, viz. in Luna, he shall also do Wonders; for Jesus fed with five barley Loaves five thousand People; this is the Working in the Essentiality or Corporality. He turned Water to Wine: These and the like do all belong to the Lunar Property, where the Champion with his Virgin opens Paradise, and feeds the Body, where Nothing is, where the outward Mercury has not laboured and wrought: Thus the Forms in the Lunar Property open themselves as if they are paradisical, even then the Artist thinks I am nigh unto it; but he is yet far off from the End.

69. In the third Kingdom of the Mother, viz. in Jupiter, Christ did make the Babes and Ignorant, of a very weak and mean capacity, knowing and understanding, viz. of poor Fishermen, Carpenters, and the like Mechanics, he made Apostles, and the most understanding Men of all; and also of poor, disrespected, vilified People, as of Women, and simple ones, he made faithful, devout, dear, godly Children, who apprehended in themselves the Universal without any Art.

70. Thus likewise it goes in the philosophic Work; the Essentiality which lies disappeared in Death, where the Mercury is wholly earthly, cold, and impotent, does now arise in Power, as if the whole Being and Essence were become a new Life, at which the Artist wonders, and marvels what it is, or how it happens, and yet does also exceedingly rejoice that he sees the divine Power to spring forth before his eyes in a half dead Essence, and that in the Curse of God: He sees all the four Elements, each apart, and sees how the Wisdom of God represents itself therein, as an Harmony of Joy, and sees all Colours, and the rainbow upon which Christ sits in judgment in the expressed Mercury.

71. The nature of this Splendour arises out of the Impression of Saturn; the good Jupiter gives himself forth to be seen in such a Manner, as God will change the World, and transform it again into Paradise; for this is the understanding in the expressed Word, even as Christ has made the foolish, rude, ignorant People truly wise and knowing in divine, real, heavenly jovial Understanding and Knowledge.

72. In the fourth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings, which is the Mercurial in the Wheel of the Nature of Life, Christ made the Deaf to hear, the Dumb to speak, and cleansed the Lepers from the Poison of Mercury: All apoplexies, the French or poisonful Pox and Sores arise from the Saturnine Water in Mercury, which [Water] is called Phlegma, all which Christ healed in the Form or Signature of the young Man and Virgin; for the eternal Virginity had espoused itself with the young Man, viz. with the Humanity.

73. This comes to pass also in the philosophic Work: The Artist will see how the Heaven separates itself from the Earth, and how the Heaven does again sink into the Earth, and changes the Earth into a heavenly Colour; he will see how Mercury purifies the matter, and how the purified Colours will appear in Antimony in their Property, and how the Wonder proceeds.

74. In the fifth Kingdom of the Mother of all Beings, Christ expelled the Devils out of the Possessed, and healed the Deaf in this Form and Property.

75. This likewise the Artist will see in the philosophic Work, how Jupiter in Mercury will drive up a black twinkling fiery Vapour out of the Matter, which sticks on like Soot; for it is a Hunger of the Poison in Mercury, and is very rightly compared to the Devil, for it is of his Property.