The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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25. Thus must the second Adam Christ take all this upon him, and enter into the same Ignominy and Scorn, and be clothed with a purple Garment as a King of this World, and be mocked therein; for Adam had put on the purple Garment of the outward World's Self-Might in the Splendour of the Property of Self; and here it was made open Shew of before the Anger of God: And the white Garment which Herod put upon Christ to mock him in signifies, and is the cold false Love as a Cloak of Falsehood, wherein Man pranks up as if he were an Angel, and so puts upon himself Christ's purple Mantle with his white Robe, and covers himself with Christ's pure snow-white Garment, viz. with his Suffering and Death, and yet holds and harbours the Man of Falsehood, viz. the false Love under a Vail.
26. Now Christ must set forth this Figure, and it was represented on his Body; for he should overcome and stay the Man of Falsehood which lay in the human Property, and so it was fully presented before God. Christ must be termed and reviled for such an one as Adam was; the Innocent must take the Blame upon him.
27. And thus it goes in the philosophic Work, when the Curse of God's Anger which is in the Earth is to be changed into Love; for seeing Mercury sets the Child of Love before Saturn, and Saturn cannot, and may not try it, therefore he puts upon it the purple-coloured Garment with Stripes underneath, and sends it before Sol's splendor, which glimmers in Mars, and the Sun puts upon it its white Colour, viz. the Lunar, and then the purple Colour vanishes, and the Child stands in the Lunar white simple Colour, very despicable without Lustre: The Sun would fain see this Child shew forth its golden Colour, for it perceives there is a solar Virtue in the Child, therefore it gives it the white Colour from the Property of the eternal Liberty; the Child should but give the Power of the Fire's Centre thereunto, viz. the divine Might, and then it would be like the Sun, and would be a Lord over the Sulphur of Mars and Mercury, yet only a Lord over the outward World's Essence, a Governor in the Wrath, as Sol is the like.
28. But Christ said to Pilate, My Kingdom is not of this World, and would not answer Herod anything in this white Raiment when he put it on him, nor in the purple Robe; for the purple Robe and the white Raiment also were both false, and were put upon him to disgrace and mock him, because Adam had put them on, and proudly pranked up therein with Falsehood; Christ Might not do any Sign therein before Herod, though he desired it. Hereby the shame of Man, who was an Image of God, and yet had made himself a false King, was represented before God's Face; as the poor Sinner confesses, and sets forth his Abominations before God, when he sets upon Abstinence and Repentance.
29. Thus Christ represented to his Father the Abominations [or Sins] of Man in this false Garment, and stood before him as an ignominy, and confessed the Sins of Man to his Father in the stead and Place of all Men: And when his Father beheld him through his Imagination in this Garment, he would have none of this Robe; therefore Pilate must pull it off from him again, and set him before the Jews in his own Form; but they cry, Away, away with him, he must be put to Death; for so his Father would, that he should give himself up to Death in his Wrath, and drown the same.
30. And Pilate condemned him to Death, for he would not acknowledge him for a King: So it also goes in the philosophic Work, Saturn will not receive the Child, for it is not of his Property; and Mars and Mercury likewise will not have it in its Prop-erty: But what do they do? The Child is among them, they would fain be rid of it, but yet cannot: They grow angry and enraged, as the Jews against Jesus, and take the Child into their Arms, viz. into their false poisonful angry Desire, and will murther it, and quite Sting and pierce through the Materia of the Child with their sharp, fiery, and poisonful Rays, viz. with three sharp Nails.
31. One whereof is Saturn, viz. the Impression of the dark World, denoting the Wrath of the dark World. The other is Mars, which signifies the Devil, viz. the Serpent's Property in the Anger of God. The third is Mercury, which signifies the false Life, viz. how the Wrath of God is enkindled in the expressed Word in the human Property.