The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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17. But now the Phur, viz. the Desire, is not divided from Sul, it is one Word, one Original also, and one Essence, but it severs itself into two Properties, viz. into Joy and Sorrow, Light and Darkness; for it makes two Worlds, viz. a dark Fire-World in the Austereness, and a Light Fire-World in the Lubet of the Liberty; for the Lubet of the Liberty is the only Cause that the Fire shines, for the Original Fire is dark and black, for in the shining of the Fire in the Original the Deity is understood, and in the dark Fire, viz. in the Anguish-Source, the Original of Nature is understood, and herein we do further understand the Cure.
18. The Source is the Cure of the free Lubet, viz. of the still Eternity; for the Stillness finds itself alive therein, it brings itself through the Anguish-Source into Life, viz. into the Kingdom of Joy, Namely that the Nothing is become an eternal Life, and has found itself, which cannot be in the Stillness.
19. Secondly, We find, that the Sul, viz. the Lubet of the Liberty, is the Curer of the Desire, viz. of the anxious Nature; for the Lustre of the Liberty does again (from the enkindled Fire out of Nature) shine in the dark Anguish, and fills or satiates the Anguish with the Liberty, whereby the Wrath extinguishes, and the Turning Orb stands still, and instead of the Turning a Sound is caused in the Essence.
20. This is now the Form of the Spiritual Life, and of the Essential Life; Sul is the Original of the Joyful Life, and Phur is the Original of the Essential Life; the Lubet is before and without Nature, which is the true Sul; and the Spirit is made manifest in Nature, viz. through the Source, and that in a two-fold Form, viz. according to the Lubet of the Liberty in a Source of Joy, and according to the anxious Desire's Lubet, according to the Astringency, compunctive, bitter, and envious from the Comp-unction, and according to the Anguish of the Wheel wholly murderous and hateful; and each Property dwells in itself, and yet they are in one another; herein God's Love and Anger are understood, they dwell in each other, and the one apprehends not the other, and yet the one is the Curer of the other; understand through Imagination, for the Eternal is Magical.
21. The second Form in Nature, in Eternity is the Orb with the conjunctive bitter Essences: for there arises the Essence, understand with the Perturbation; for the Nothing is still without Motion, but the Perturbation makes the Nothing active: but in the third Principle, viz. in the Dominion in the Essence, and Source of the out-ward World, the Form is called Mercury, which is opposite, odious, and poisonful, and the Cause of Life and stirring, also the Cause of the Senses: Where one Glance may conceive itself in the Infinity, and then also immerse itself into it, where out of one only the Abyssal, unsearchable, and infinite Multiplicity may arise.
22. This Form is the Unquietness, and yet the Seeker of Rest; and with its seeking it causes Unquietness, it makes itself its own Enemy; its Cure is twofold, for its Desire is also twofold, viz. according to the Lubet of the Liberty, according to the Stillness and Meekness; and then also in the Hunger according to the rising of Unquietness, and the finding of itself; the Root desires only Joy with the first Will, and yet it cannot obtain it, except through the opposite Source, for no Joy can arise in the still Nothing; it must arise only through Motion and Elevation that the Nothing finds itself.
23. Now that which is Sound desires to enter again into the Will of the still Nothing, that it may have Peace and Rest therein; and the Nothing is its Cure; and the Wrath and Poison is the Remedy of the Seeker and Finder, that is their Life which they find, an Example whereof we have in the poisonous Gall, whence in the Life arises Joy and Sorrow, wherein we also understand a two-fold Will, viz. one to the wrathful Fire and anxious painful Life to the Original of Nature, and one to the Light-life, viz. to the Joy of Nature; this takes its Original out of the Eternal Nothing.
24. The first Will's Cure is the Lubet of the Liberty, if it obtains that, then it makes triumphant Joy in itself; and the Wrath in the hungry Desire is the Curer and Helper of the other Will, viz. the Will of Nature, and herein God's Love and Anger are understood, and also how Evil and Good are in the Center of each Life, and how no Joy could arise without Sorrow, and how one is the Curer of the other.