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

13. Here now was the Trial of the Combat one with another, from whence also proceeded the Temptation of Christ; and when the divine World overcame, then the great Wonders broke forth through the outward human World; but all this could not accomplish it, there must yet be a greater Earnestness, the human Property, viz. the expressed Word, was yet stirring in the inflameable Anger: The human Sulphur must be changed into the heavenly, viz. into the heavenly Part; and thereupon the human Self, viz. the expressed Mercury was astonished, when upon the Mount of Olives the heavenly World in the Love wrestles with the Anger in the human World, viz. with the Self-hood, so that the Person of Christ did sweat Bloody Sweat; even there the one was dismayed at the other, the Love at the horrible Death, whereinto it should and must wholly yield and give in itself with the divine Essentiality, and be swallowed up by the Anger; and the Anger [was dismayed] at its Death, in that it must lose its Might in the Love.

14. Hence the whole Person of Christ said, Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not as I will, but thy will be done. The Love-World in Christ said, Can it not be but that I must drink down the Cup of thy Anger? Then thy will be done. And the Anger said, If it be possible, let this Cup of Love pass from me, that I may revenge myself, and rage in the Wrath of Man for the sake of his Disobedience; as God said to Moses, who stood in the Spirit of Christ as a Type of Christ before God, Let me alone that I may devour this disobedient People: But the Name Jesus, which had incorporated itself in Paradise with the Promise of the Woman's Seed in the aim of the human and divine Covenant, would not suffer him; for the Humility of the Name Jesus has always interposed against the Wrath of the Father, against his Fire's Property, that his Fire Might not enkindle the half-poisonful Mercury in Man, except only sometimes when Israel walked wholly in the Wrath and Disobedience; as is to be seen by Corah, Dathan, and Abiram, and by Elias.

15. So it was here on the Mount of Olives, the Anger would live in the Fire's Might in Man, and the Name Jesus put itself into the Anger; and here there was no other Remedy, but that the Name Jesus in divine Love and heavenly Essentiality must wholly resign up itself to be devoured by the Anger: The Son must be, and was obedient to the angry Father, even to the Death of the cross; as the Scripture says.

16. The dear Love-Humility and Meekness suffered itself to be scorned, mocked, spit upon, and judged by the Anger; that is, the Jews must execute the Justice of God; for by Man's Self-action Sin was committed, and by Man's Self-action Death and Sin must be blotted out. Adam had introduced his Will into the Poison of the outward Mercury; so must Christ, viz. the Love, freely give up its Will also into the same poisonful Mercury. Adam did eat of the Evil Tree, Christ must eat of God's Anger; and as it went inwardly in the Spirit, so likewise outwardly in the Flesh; and so also it goes in the philosophic Work.

17. Mercury in the philosophic Work denotes the Pharisees, he will not endure the Love-Child: When he sees it, he gives it trembling and Anguish, and Venus also stands dismayed at the Poison of the angry Mercury; they are in one another as if Sweat did drop from them, as the Artist shall see.

18. Mars says, I am the Lord of Fire in the Body, Saturn is my Strength, and Mercury is my Life, I will have none of this Love, I will devour it in my Wrath; this denotes the Devil in the Anger of God; and seeing he cannot do it, he raises up Saturn, viz. the Impression, which signifies the Worldly Magistracy, and reaches therewith after Venus, and yet cannot get her into him, for she is to him a Poison to Death: This Mercury also can much less endure, for the Love took away his Dominion; as the high Priests thought that Christ would take away their Government, because he said that he was God's Son.