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

2. Now the Creature of Christ does it not alone, but God in his Image through the Creature in the Dominion of his Eternal Spirit of all the three Principles, which is the Life and Dominion of every Being, in each Thing according to its Property.

3. And understand us right, when Christ died on the Cross, the Name Jesus did not also die, which destroyed Death, and tinctured the expressed Word, viz. the Form of the Deity (or the formed Word), viz. the Soul with Love: No, it cannot be, the Eternity does not die, only the spoken Word, which stands again in the Desire of the Speaking, viz. in the Fiat, which changes itself in its own Speaking, viz. in the Self-Desire, and brings its own Sound into another Form and Source than the speaking Word had spoken it, and set it forth with the Verbum Fiat into a Form, Signature, and Will; as Lucifer with his royal Throne, and Adam also did, when they both departed out of Resignation into Selfhood; the Instrument would be Master.

4. The outward working sensitive Life wherein the Anger of God was set on Fire did wholly die away, not that it should be a Nothing, but it fell into the Nothing, viz. into God's Will, into God's Working and Feeling, quite from the Will of the outward World, which is Evil and Good, so that it might no longer live to the World, viz. to the Astrum in the Walm, the boiling or seething Power of the four Elements; but to the Eternal Father's Nature in the Walm of the pure divine Element the Life of the outward World died.

5. Thus the true human Life fell immediately again into that Place from whence Adam had brought it, viz. into Paradise, upon which Christ said to the Thief, Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise; it fell into Adam's Death, whereby he died to Paradise, and sprang up in Adam's Death as a new Creature out of the old, like as the Branch springs from the Corn: And this it did from the Might and Power of the speaking Word, which of Grace was entered with living Essentiality into the disappeared heavenly Essentiality of Man, and had freely given itself into the Centre of the Soul-like Nature, and also into the Wrath of the Anger and Death in the Flesh, and changed the Anger into Love, and Tinctured the corrupt Blood in the Anger with the Love.

6. The divine Tincture tinctured the human; the divine Sun entered into the human; the divine Sun entered into Adam's Night, viz. into Adam's Sleep; God's Sun with the Name Jesus entered with Adam's Soul and Humanity in Christ's Person into Death, understand into Adam's Sleep.

7. When Christ died, then Adam died also to his Self-hood in Christ's Death; the Name Jesus was in Christ the Serpent-destroyer in Adam's Humanity; Christ entered into the Image of the first Adam, so that the first Adam in the Humanity of Christ became the same Christ, and Serpent-destroyer, indeed not in the same Creature, but in the same Soul's and Body's Property.

8. The first Adam fell into Sleep, viz. into the Impotence of the divine World, and died in the Death of Death; the second Adam entered into the Death of Death; and took the Death of Death captive in himself, viz. in the Humanity of Adam: He was a Death to Death, and brought forth the Life out of Death into the eternal Liberty: He arose in the divine Omnipotence in the Essence of the first Adam: God's Spirit in the speaking eternal Word brought forth Adam out of Death in Christ's Humanity. Adam arose in Christ's Humanity, and all the Children of Adam, which are Partakers of Christ's Kingdom, arise in Christ; all in Christ's Flesh and Blood, Soul and Spirit, but every one in his Creature which he has had here, and mortified in Christ's Death.

9. Every one is a particular Twig; but there is only one Tree, which is Christ in Adam, and Adam in Christ, only one, not two; only one Christ in all Christians; so that I may say, If I be dead in Christ to the World, I am the same Christ, viz. a Branch on the same Tree.