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

40. When Jesus had broken Death in the Humanity, and took away Self, he did not then wholly cast away the human Property, wherein Death and the Anger of God were, but then he did first truly assume it; understand, he even then did truly take the outward Kingdom into the inward; for the outward Kingdom was begotten as a Wonder out of the eternal Wisdom in the speaking Word, and spoken forth into a Form, as a Manifestation of the Deity in Love and Anger, in Good and Evil: So that Jesus would not that the outward Type of the Wonders in the Likeness of God should perish [or quite vanish], but the Wrath which had overpowered the Love in Man should be forgiven, that is, it should be given into the Nothing, viz. into the Liberty, that it Might not be manifest in its own Self-Property; it must be Servant, and only a cause of the fiery Love and divine Joyfulness; Nothing should perish [or be lost] in Man, for God had created him to his Image.

41. Thus let the Philosopher observe, that when the three Murtherers, viz. Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, sink in the crimson-coloured Blood of the Lion, they do not perish; but they are pardoned, that is, their Wrath is changed into a Love-Desire, viz. out of Venus into Sol; for when the fiery Desire enters into the Watery Desire, then a shining, viz. a glorious Splendour, arises from and in the Fire; for Venus is white, and the Fire-Desire is red.

42. Here now it is changed into one Colour, which is yellow, that is, white and red both in one Colour, which is the majestical [Lustre]; for when Mercury is changed into the Power of Joy, then arises the Multiplication; he changes his Mother, where-in he lay shut up in Death, into Sol; he makes the earthly heavenly in one Prop-erty, as the Virgin was: For here the Virgin loses her Name, for she has given her Love and Pearl to the Champion, who is now called here the white Lion, as the Scripture speaks of the Lion of the House of Israel and David, who should demolish the Devil's Kingdom, and destroy Hell, that is, break the Anger of God, and change it into Love.

43. This Champion or Lion is no Man or Woman, but he is both; the Tincture of the Fire and Light must come into one, viz. of the Essence which is Venus, and of the Spirit which is Mars in Mercury; the Father's Love and Anger must become one Thing, and then this one Thing is called the Kingdom of Joy; so long as it is separated, there is in the Thing only Anguish and Torment, and mere Desire; but when it burns in one Will, it is a joyful proceeding forth from itself: And this egressive Property is called the Holy Ghost, viz. the Life of the Deity.

44. Therefore know that the Virgin's and young Man's Blood must be both shed together, that the Fire-Lion Might die; which was manifest in the human Property, that the Love of the Virgin Might change his Wrath in her dear Love-Blood into her Property, and obtain the Soul from the young Man; for in Adam the Virgin disappeared, for the Soul departed out of its Love-Will out of the Resignation into its own, and became disobedient to God.

45. Here the Virgin does again take the Soul into herself, and gives it her Crown of Pearl, as to a noble Champion, and calls him in his own Name the white Lion or Champion. O ye Children of Men, observe it, I beseech you; open the Gates of the World in your Heart; Open them wide that the King of Glory may come in, even the great Champion in Battle, who hath deprived Death of its Might, and destroyed the Hell in God's Anger, and made of the World Paradise.

46. O ye wise Seekers, how does the Lord open his Windows! Why do you sleep in the Desire of much increase [in your Covetousness], which is multiplied in the Wrath? Do but enter only into the divine Resignation; you may partake of that which the Powers of Heaven are able to afford: If you do but forsake your Selfishness, then the Earth shall become Heaven to you, says the Spirit of Wonders; but you shall not obtain it in your wicked Ways and covetous Doings.

47. And when Jesus through the shedding of his Blood had given the Wrath of God in Man to the Love, that the Father had received the Love in the human Property into the Wrath; then the Kingdom of the Devil in the Wrath, and the Kingdom of Love did immediately Part asunder; they were divided: And this Figure did hang with Christ on the Cross, viz. the wicked Mocker at the left Hand, who reviled Jesus, and was not capable of his Blood-shedding; and the other at the right Hand, who was converted from his Sins to Jesus, and said, Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom; to whom Jesus answered, Verily, to-Day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.