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

35. Thus when the heavenly Essence gives its Desire to the Murtherer, the Murtherer is dismayed at the dear Love-Life, and arises in the Flagrat in the heavenly Essentiality; thus the disappeared Essence does again receive the Fire Flagrat into itself, and wholly unites itself with the Fire-Life; and so the Fire must burn in Love and Meekness, and forego its Right in the Centre, as the Light which shines from the Fire; thus and no otherwise the heavenly Essence obtains its Life; and as a Fire does thoroughly Heat an Iron that it appears as if it were mere Fire, and it is so, but the Iron does still retain its Substance; so the disappeared Essence, viz. the Heaven is manifest in the poisonful Mercurial and Martial Fire-Soul, and makes of seven Wills only one, and yet seven remain, but the Enmity ceases.

36. This is an Universal, which also changes the Enmity or Malignity of all Diseases in the human Body into one Will [into unity]; so that the raging and raving, viz. the seven Forms of Life in their Enmity become unanimous; and then the Hunger of the Disease ceases, and the Process to the Universal is as has been already mentioned. It is not my Intention to mention a clear Declaration thereof; it is clear enough; he that will not seek thereby a new Man born in God, and apply himself diligently thereto, let him not meddle with my writings.

37. I have not written anything for such a Seeker, and also he shall not be able to apprehend our Meaning fundamentally, though he strives never so much about it, unless he enters into the Resignation in Christ; there he may apprehend the Spirit of the Universal, otherwise all is to no Purpose; and we faithfully warn the curious Critic not to amuse himself, for he will not effect anything in this Way, unless he himself enters thereinto, and then it will be shewn him without much seeking; for the Way is Child-like [plain and easy].

The Thirteenth Chapter.

Of the Enmity of the Spirit and of the Body, and of their Cure and Remedy

1. Everything is in itself a senseless, and as a dead Thing or Being; it is only a Manifestation of the Spirit, which is in the Body: The Spirit is signed with the Body; whatever the Spirit is in itself in an incomprehensible [imperceptible] Operation, the same is the Body in the comprehensible and visible Working. There is one Form of the seven Forms of Nature superior and chief; the other hang to it, and give their signs also, according as each of them is strong in the Essence; and as the Forms stand in their Order in each Thing, so they sign the Body of every Thing and Creature in its Generation [or kind]: This is the Manifestation of the divine Wisdom in the expressed Word of Love and Anger.

2. There is not anything but it has its Soul in it according to its Property, and the Soul is a Kernel to another Body: Whatever lives and grows has its Seed in it; God has comprehended all Things in his Word, and spoken them forth into a Form, as the Will had Formed itself in the Desire, the expressed Word is a Platform of the speaking, and has again the speaking in it; this same speaking is a Seed to another Image according to the first, for both work, viz. the speaking, and the spoken [Word].

3. The speaking works in itself, viz. in the Eternity, and the spoken also in itself, viz. in the Time; the speaking is the Master, and the spoken is the Instrument; the speaking makes the Nature of Eternity, and the spoken makes the Nature of Time; each makes in its Comprehension two Properties, viz. Light and Darkness, wherein the Element of all Beings consists, which in the expressed Word operates itself into four Elements, but in the speaking Word there is but one: The Element in itself is neither hot nor cold, also neither dry nor moist; but it is a Lubet, viz. a desiring Will, wherein the divine Wisdom makes the different and various Colours; all according to the Desire's Property, in which there is neither Number nor End: But in the four Elements there is Number and End; for with the expressing (in that they are become self-full) they have taken a Beginning, and have formed themselves into a model or Platform of a Time, which runneth as a watch-Work; it forms, frames, and destroys.