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

87. And when Jesus had drank the Cup, and said, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? then he said, All is finished, understand the Work of Man's Redemption; and he said further, Father, into thy Hands I commit my Spirit, and bowed his Head, and gave up the Ghost. Here the whole Life of Christ resigned itself into the Father's Desire, viz. into the Will of the eternal Nature, and fully gave in the Will of his Self-hood, viz. his creaturely Will again into the Centre, viz. into the first Mother, from whence the Soul-like Creature was produced, that is, into the grand Mystery of Eternity: The Self-Will must again enter into Nature's End, so that the Selfishness may wholly die, that God's eternal Will and Spirit may be and do only all in all in the Humanity, and that the Creature might afterwards be alone his Instrument, wherein he might do and work according to his good Pleasure: And thus God the Father has in Christ's Death and Entrance into our Humanity again received our Self-hood into his Will; and that this might be, he first tinctured the Humanity with the Deity, that the Humanity might be a pleasant sweet Savour and Offering to him in his Power, for before Death lay before it.

88. Here the Love destroyed Death, and opened the fast Seal, that the Will might again enter into that which it was before [it was] the Creature; and so we all must follow him upon the Path which he has made open for us; none can see God, unless God become first Man in him, which is brought to pass in Faith's Desire, and even then the corrupt Will (which is apprehended in the Death and Anger of God, and which blooms in the earthly Essence, and brings forth Fruit unto Death) be wholly mortified, and fall into the free Resignation, into the Will and Mercy of God: And then the own Will is with and in Christ at Nature's End in the grand Mystery of God, viz. in God's Hands. God's Hands are the eternal Desire, or the eternal Will, which is unchangeable; thus the creaturely Self-Will dies; it enters wholly into the Nothing, that it might no more live to itself, but to God.

89. Thus it falls out also in the philosophic Work; when the Artist has first seen great Wonders, which the creaturely and natural Will has wrought in the Power [of] Venus, insomuch that he supposes that he is nigh thereunto; even then Nature does first die in his Work, and becomes a dark Night unto him; the Property and Power of all the Forms must give forth themselves from their Centre, and fall upon Nature's End; all do freely yield over themselves as one dead Essence, and there is no longer any effectual Working therein, all is divided in the Crown into the thousandth Number, and then it is again in the Mystery as Nature's End as it was before it came into the creaturely Being; understand, the essential Desire, viz. the expressed Mercury, must again come unto the End of its Selfishness, and resign itself into the speaking Word.

90. The corporal Essence remains in the Centre of the four Elements till the Judgement of God, which now at Death stands in the Centre of Sol, viz. in the Compaction of Venus and Mercury, which Compaction at Death falls wholly into one [Thing], viz. into one Power of Jupiter, that is, into the Centre of the Liberty; for here the Desire to Cold and Heat goes out, all earthly Will and Desire of the Properties dies, and there is no more any Hunger after the earthly, or Death's Property.

The Twelfth Chapter.

Of the Seventh Form in the Kingdom of the Mother; How the Seventh Kingdom, viz. The Kingdom of the Sun, is again opened and made alive; set forth in Parable, or by Way of Similitude of Christ’s Resurrection

1. We are not to think that when Christ died the natural Death in the human Property, that he died as to his creaturely Soul, much less as to the Deity; also he did not disappear or die in the heavenly Essentiality and in the heavenly Tincture: This cannot be; only the Will and Dominion of Self, viz. of the outward World, which domineered in Man unto the own Will and own Powers of the selfish Creature (wherein Man was disobedient to God), he gave that wholly into the Father's Hands, viz. into the End of Nature, into the Father's great Mystery; not that it should be dead, but that God's Spirit might alone be the Life thereof, that the divine Dominion Might be in Christ's Person, that the Eternal Father Might rule and reign with his eternal Spirit in his Image; and therefore God has determined to keep the last Judgement by this Jesus.