The Signature of All Things — trans. John Ellistone (1651)
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81. He will see in his Work all whatever God did in the Humanity; when he brought it again into the Universal, viz. into Paradise, he will see how the Wrath devours and swallows up the fair Venus into his pricking thorny Essence, and how Venus does fully yield in herself; and how the Wrath also dies away in Venus, and becomes wholly dark and black as a Coal; for Death and Life lie together both in Death, viz. in the Obedience of God: They both hold still to him, and suffer the Spirit of God to make of and with them what it pleases, who introduces them again into the eternal Will of God to which he at first created them: And thus the Essence stands again in the Beginning in the Order as God created it: It must only stand in its Impression, in the Verbum Fiat, viz. in the divine Making, till the Day of God's Separation, when God will change the Time again into the Eternity.
82. And when Jesus had drank the Cup and tasted the Vinegar mixed with Gall in the outward [Man], and inwardly in the Love-Property, viz. in the Virgin, the wrathful Anger of God; then said the whole Man Christ, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? For God's speaking Word stood still now in the human Property, and the new-born Essentiality which was dead in Adam, and was again quickened in Christ, cried with the same, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? For the Anger of God was by the Soul's Property entered into the Image of the divine Essentiality, and had devoured the Image of God.
83. Here now the Image in the Creature of the Soul cried, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? For the human Image which disappeared in Adam, and was again revived in Christ's Incarnation, should bruise the Head of God's Anger in the Fire-Soul, and change its Fire-Might into Sol: And now the speaking Word of God did here forsake it, and it fell into the Soul's Wrath, where it felt God's Anger; for the speaking Word did so bring it through the Anger into Death, and out of the Death again into the solar Life, understand into the eternal Sun.
84. Like as the Candle dies in the Fire, and out of that Death the Light and Power proceed, viz. the great Painless Life; so out of Christ's Dying and Death the eternal divine Sun should and must arise in the human Property; but the Selfishness of the human Property, viz. the Soul's own Self-Will to live in the Fire's Might must here die and be drowned in the Image of Love, and the Image of Love must also resign and give itself in unto the Wrath of Death, that so all Might fall down into Death, and arise in God's Will and Mercy through Death in the paradisical Source in the Resignation, that God's Spirit might be all in all. Hell's eye must see through the Love, as the Light shines out of the Fire, and the Fire from the Darkness, and the Darkness takes its Original from the eternal Desire.
85. And as Adam changed the Likeness of God into the dark Death's Form, so God did again change the Likeness through his Fire-Wrath out of Death into the Light; he drew forth the Likeness again out of Death, as a Blossom grows from the harsh Earth.
86. Thus it goes likewise in the philosophic Work; Venus is forsaken when she receives the three wrathful Properties into herself in Wrath; their Wrath, viz. the Death devours her Life, whereupon she loses the Colour, and yet becomes a Death to the three Forms in the Wrath, for she drowns Death with Love. Thus the Life is made a Death to Death, viz. to the Wrath, and now they both lie in the Will of the eternal Nature, viz. in the Verbum Fiat, which proceeds with them the divine Way, in Manner as it proceeded forth into Essence in the Beginning of the Creation: For in the Beginning Paradise, viz. the Universal was manifest, and the Love shined through the Death or Anger. Even so it must be again, Venus must become the Eye or Sight in the Wrath, and then of Saturn, Mars, and Mercury there will be a Jupiter: Mars becomes Sun, and Saturn Moon, and so Mars shines with the Sun out of Saturn in Luna from Venus's Eye, and all seven are only one: Thus the Strife has an End, and all is accomplished till the Resurrection of the Body.