The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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32. These three Nails pierce through the Property of the Child. Thus Venus, viz. the Essence of Love wholly yields itself to the three Murtherers, and wholly foregoes its jovial Life as if it died; and the Mercurial Life of the human Property, understand the Child's Power, falls also to the three Murtherers in its Mother's House, viz. into the corporeal Essence, wherein the young Man received his Virgin, wherein God became Man.
33. Now when the heavenly Body, and also the earthly, do thus yield unto these three Murtherers, then appears the Image of John and Mary by the Cross as a Type; for the young Man's Life, and also the Virgin's in the young Man, has freely surrendered, and given forth itself: And now the two Properties, viz. the divine and human, divide themselves in the Form of each Power, which the Artist may see if he has the eyes and Understanding thereunto.
34. And here, when Saturn with his Impression and dark Sharpness, and Mars with his Wrath, and Mercury with his Poison-Life do powerfully enter into the Property of Venus, then the Wrath forces itself into the Love, and the Love into the Wrath essentially mixed, as assimilating one with the other: Here the wrathful Death is dismayed at the Love, so that in Dying he falls into Impotence [or a Swoon], for it loses the Might of the Wrath; and the Love is, and stands also in the Source of the Wrath in Death's Flagrat as impotent [or in a Swoon], and gives itself forth wholly into the Flagrat [or Stroke] of Death, and even then the heavenly Essence, viz. the heavenly Blood flows forth from it into the Property of the third Principle, viz. of the young Man. Here the Virgin gives her Pearl to the young Man for a Propriety, and God and Man become one.
35. For the Virgin's Blood out of the divine Essentiality does here now drown with its Love-Essence the young Man's Blood, viz. the Self-hood, and the three Murtherers surrender their Life in the Blood of the Virgin, and then the red Glee from the Fire, and also the white from the Life of the Champion arise up together, viz. from the Wrath the Life, and from the Love the Meekness: and both, viz. the Life of the Anger, and the Life of the Love, ascend together as one only Life; for in Death they become one: The Death dies away in the Love, and becomes in the Love the Life of the divine Kingdom of Joy; for it is not a Dying, but a free surrendering of its Power, Might, and Will, a Transmutation; the Virgin's Blood changes the Human, dead as to God, into an heavenly [Blood], the Life of the young Man dies, and the Life of the Deity remains fixed and steadfast, for it stands in its Property in the Nothing.
36. And here, thou dear Seeker, when thou seest the crimson-coloured Blood of the young Man arise out of Death with the Virgin's white Blood, then know that thou hast the Arcanum of the whole World, and a Treasure in this Valley of misery, which surpasses the value of Gold; take it and esteem it more excellent and sovereign than that which shall again arise from Death: If thou beest born of God, then thou wilt understand what I mean.
37. For this is the Type of Christ, [shewing] how Christ has drowned Sin, and the enkindled Anger of God in the human Property; it is not only an Offering, for then Moses had accomplished it; it is not a bare verbal Forgiveness, as Babel teaches: No. The human Will must from all its Powers enter into this Death, into this Blood, viz. into the highest Tincture.
38. The purple Robe which Christ wore could not do it; the white hypocritical pharisaical Priest's Coat could also not effect it, no Flattery or demure Hypocrisy avails here; no Comfortings, Soothings, or giving God good Words are effectual here; the crafty malignant Man must be mortified in Christ's Blood, he must be drowned in the Virgin's Blood: The Seed of the Woman must bruise the Head of the Serpent; the Will must wholly disclaim and depart from its selfish Property, and become as an ignorant Child, and wholly enter into God's Mercy, into the Virgin-like Blood of Christ, that Sin and the poisoned Mercury may be drowned in its Mars, that the white Lion may arise; for the Lion which now appears in the white Colour, in crimson red, is the Mercury of Life, viz. the expressed Word, viz. the Soul, which before was a wrathful Devil in its Self-hood, ruling and domineering in the Anger of God in the three Forms of the Poison-Source, viz. in Saturn, Mars, and Mercury: Now it is the white scarlet-coloured Lion from the House of David and Israel, fulfilled in the Covenant of Promise.
39. N.B.—But that we may give Satisfaction to the Well-wisher, we will further shew him the whole Ground even to the Resurrection of Christ: When the Jews had hung Jesus upon the Cross, and he had shed his human and heavenly divine Blood, and drowned the Turba in the human [Blood], then Jesus said, Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.