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

30. The Process is very short in both, and it is only of one Property which is thus: The Tree, understand the Life, is divided into seven Forms; now the Curse of God is come into the seven Forms, so that they are in Strife and Enmity, and one Form annoys the other, and can never agree unless they all seven enter into Death, and die to the Self-Will. Now this cannot be, unless a Death comes into them, which breaks all their Will, and be a Death to them; as the deity in Christ was a Death to the human Self-hood, and the seven Forms in the human Life; thus it is here also: The human Will was changed in Christ into the eternal Sun, viz. into the Resignation in God; so must all the Forms in the philosophic Work be changed into one, viz. into Sol: Seven must become one, and yet remain in seven, but in one Desire, where each Form desires the other in Love, and then there is no more any Strife and Contest.

31. Therefore let the Artist but consider how he may give Death to the Death with the pure Life, and how he may awaken the dead and disappeared Life, which is heavenly, and lies hidden and captivated in the Curse, so that it may again receive the Fire-Soul; and if he does but bring it so far, it Works of itself.

32. When the Virgin again receives her Bridegroom, who has been faithless, then he is prepared and fitted to the Work; otherwise he is no Way at all fitted; but all is in vain and to no Purpose [which he attempts]. There is not any Possibility for the heavenly Image according to God's Likeness in Man to be otherwise helped and restored after that the Fire-Soul had entered into its Self-hood, unless the Spirit of God introduced itself into the disappeared Image, viz. into the heavenly Essentiality, and gave itself in with the Image awakened in it into the Soul's Fire, viz. into the Wrath of Death, and be a Death to Death, viz. to the wrathful Anger of God, that it might be drowned in the Love, in the Blood of the heavenly Essentiality; and though there could be no parting nor Dying, yet there was a Dying of the Wrath, so that the Wrath was changed into a Joy and Love.

33. Thus the Artist's Work is exactly and throughout no otherwise: For Man was created out of all Beings, out of the Heaven and Earth; but when he became wholly earthly, and the Curse seized on him, the Curse also came over the earthly Being, from whence Man was made: Thus the Heaven was shut up from Man, and the Heaven also was shut up in the Earth, as Metals, Trees, and Herbs, in the Food of Man, and whatever belonged to his Ornament and Delight.

34. The Soul of the Earth, viz. the Property of the Fire of the first Principle is entered into its Self-hood, viz. into God's Anger; now the Heaven is hidden in it; therefore the Artist must in his Work reduce the Soul in the Curse and the Heaven again into one: He must introduce the Soul again into Heaven, or else there is no Possibility: Now he cannot bring the Soul in its Iniquity into Heaven, for it will not, and therefore he must bring the Heaven into the Soul, and wholly give in the Heaven to the Soul, that the Soul may eat of Heaven, whether she will or no; the Heaven must be as Death in the Soul, so that the Soul cannot get rid of it, how angry soever she be, and vehemently rages against it, till she be overcome in her Wrath, and enters with the Desire into Heaven, viz. into the disappeared Essence, and wills to murther it, as the Jews did Christ; and if she so enters into the heavenly Essence, then the Image of the heavenly Essence falls into the Jaws of the Murtherer.