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

69. Here the Father brought the Soul, which was entered into his Wrath, and had manifested itself in his Anger, again into the Love, viz. into the disappeared paradisical Image: And here the dark World was dismayed in Death's Flagrat at the Fire-Flagrat, which arose up in Love in the Death as a Joyful Flagrat; which Joy-Flagrat entered into the dead Bodies of those who had hope in Israel (who did hope upon the Messiah) as a Sound of the Power of God, and awakened them from Death.

70. This Flagrat rent in twain the Veil in the Temple, viz. the Veil of Moses, which hung before the clear Face of God, so that Man could not see God, and therefore he must serve him with an Offering, and Type of this final Discovery, in which God did manifest himself again in the Humanity: This Flagrat broke the Type in the Offerings and Sacrifices, and manifested the clear Face of God, and united the human Time with Eternity.

71. All whatever the Jews did outwardly to Christ, the same was a Type of the inward, viz. how it went between God and the Humanity, viz. between the Eternity and Time: The Jews gave Jesus Gall and Vinegar in his Thirst, both these Properties are a Mercury in the Sulphur of Saturn, viz. in the Impression; this is even the Type and full Resemblance of the Soul's Property, as it is in itself alone void of the other Love-Properties.

72. God gave this Property of the Soul again into his Love, the Death into the Life, the disappeared Love-Essence (which the Word of God had assumed to itself in the Essence and Seed of Mary, and quickened to Life) into the Anger's Property, into the Soul's Essence, viz. into the Centre of the Fire and dark World; whereupon the Soul-like Fire and dark World became an exceeding triumphant joyful paradisical Life: And here the Champion upbraided Death and Hell, viz. the dark World in the Soul, and said, Death! where is thy sting now in Man? Hell! Where is now thy Victory in the Wrath of the Poison-Source in the expressed Word or Mercury? All is now dead: O Death, I am to thee a Death; Hell! I am to thee a Conqueror; thou must serve me for the Kingdom of Joy: Thou shalt be my Servant and Minister to the Kingdom of Joy; thou shalt enkindle the Flames of Love with thy Wrath, and be a Cause of the Spring in Paradise.

73. Thus we give the Philosopher to understand our Sense and deep Ground in Nature, who desires to seek and open the disappeared Essence of the Earth, which lies shut up in Death, viz. in the Curse of God: The Veil of Moses hangs also before him, and a very right Earnestness is requisite to rend the Veil in twain, that he may be able to see the Face of Nature, otherwise he is not fitted for it.

74. And as it went in the Humanity of Christ, betwixt God's Love and Anger, and both were transformed into one; so likewise it is in his Work of Nature, the poisonful Mercury in the Sulphur of Mars and Saturn gives its Lunar Menstruum, viz. the greatest Poison of the dark Source into Venus's Property; when Venus thirsts after the Fire of Love, then Mercury gives his Poison into the Thirst of Venus, and Venus's thirst gives itself wholly to the Poison, as if it died; it wholly yields up its desiring Life, whereupon arises the great Darkness in the philosophic Work: For the Materia becomes as black as a Raven, for Venus has resigned its Life, from whence the Glance [or Splendour] arises, as it is to be seen by Christ, that the Sun lost its Light, and there was a great Darkness contrary to the common Course of Nature.

75. For when the inward Sun gave in itself unto the Anger, viz. into the Darkness of God; then the outward Sun, which receives its Power and Lustre from the inward, as a Glass or Resemblance of the Inward, could not shine; for its Root from whence it shines was entered into the Darkness in the Place of this World, and would turn the Darkness in the Curse of God into Light, viz. it would make the Place of this World again Paradise.