The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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48. Thus we are rightly to consider, that when the Wrath of God is drowned in the Blood of Christ, so that it changes its Might into Love, that even then Paradise is again open; for when Jesus had Tinctured the human Blood which was corrupted in Sin with the Virgin's Blood in the Love, then the Virgin received the Manhood, viz. the Selfhood, into her Virgin's Love. This was the Paradise, and an Habitation of God, with and in Man, where God dwells in the Humanity, and is all in all in it.
49. Thus it falls out also in the philosophic Work, when Mars and Mercury die according to the Property of the dark Impression of Saturn, then Venus takes them into her Love-Blood, and Venus gives her Love into the poisonful Fire-Desire: She wholly gives herself in unto the Fire of Mars in Mercury, and she yields herself fully to be their own; but seeing Mars and Mercury become impotent (as to the Might of the Fire and Poison) in the Love, the Love and Anger thereupon change themselves into one Essence, into one Desire; and here, when the Fire, viz. the Fire-Desire, gives in its Desire to the Love; then saith the Love, To-Day thou shalt be with me out of thy Fire-Anguish in Paradise, viz. in Joy, that is, thou shalt be changed in me: And here Venus gets the Soul in the philosophic Work, so that Mars and Mercury become her Soul, and the Strife ceases; for the Enmity is appeased and quelled: And thus the Child subsists in the Fire immoveably without any Change; for Mars does not at all annoy it, and so likewise Mercury and Saturn hurt it not, for they are in the Child at the End of Nature, where there is no Turba any more.
50. Mercury is pure in Saturn, he has no more Poison, whereby to make Soil [or Rust] in the Water, viz. in the Salt of Saturn: And let the Philosopher and Divine also well observe this, that in Paradise there is a perfect Life without any Shadow of Change, also without any false Evil Desire, and a continual Day, where the para-disical Man is clear as a transparent Glass, in whom the divine Sun shines through and through, as Gold that is thoroughly bright and pure, without any Spot or Foulness.
51. And when Jesus knew that all was finished, he seeth his Mother and John his Disciple standing by under the Cross, and saith unto his Mother, Woman, lo! This is thy Son; and to the Disciple, Behold thy Mother, and forthwith the Disciple took her unto his own home.
52. This is an excellent Type, how Christ has forsaken this World, viz. the human Self-hood, and is again gone to the Father; for he saw his Mother according to this World, and his Disciple, viz. his Uncle, according to the outward Humanity from his Mother's side, and yet said to his Mother, Woman, behold, there is thy Son, I am no more thy Son according to my outward Humanity; it is changed into God's Son, and is no longer of the World, but it lives to God; But seeing thou art to be yet in the World, take John, who is not yet changed, to be thy Guardian; and thou John take thy Mother; and he presently took her to himself.
53. This is the Type of the Christian Church upon Earth: For we the poor Children of Eve are not presently wholly changed according to the outward Man; but we must also pass into Death, and putrify, that the Wrath also in the Flesh may rot and putrify, and the Spirit might rest in the Death of Christ till the general Resurrection and transmutation of the outward Man; in which the Earth of Man shall be transformed into Heaven, and the Mirror [or Type] of the Wonders shall appear therein.
54. Thus he commanded his Disciple to take care of his Mother: His Mother is the Christian Church upon Earth, wherein the Children of God are begotten according to the Spirit, whom he should take care for, and guide and lead them, till the number of the Humanity out of the Flesh shall be accomplished, and then the Spiritual Body shall arise, and shall be proved in Christ's Death, in his entrance into the Anger, where he changed the Anger into Love; and the Kingdom with the Source of Darkness shall be separated from it.
55. But in this Life-Time, though the Spirit be changed in the divine Power, and the Spirit be baptized with the Virgin's baptism, and puts on the Image of Christ internally, viz. Venus's Body in the Love; yet Adam is not capable of it till he also enters into the Transmutation of Christ, which comes to pass in Death [or in the Dying to this mortal Life].