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A28534	Signatura rerum, or, The signature of all things shewing the sign and signification of the severall forms and shapes in the creation, and what the beginning, ruin, and cure of every thing is ... / written in High Dutch, MDCXXII, by Jacob Behmen, aliàs Teutonicus Phylosophus.; De signatura rerum. English	Böhme, Jakob, 1575-1624.; Ellistone, John, d. 1652.	1651 (1651)	Wing B3419; ESTC R19165	213,124	234

the fire and such a vital shine from the fire is also therein but if Mercury be enkindled in immoderate Heat then he burneth up the Cold Essence and maketh raging pains and akings according to the Impression and according to the Stings property whence ariseth in the Sulphur great Heat and Inflamation he dryeth up and consumeth the Water so that the Desires Hunger or Sting hath then no food to satisfie its wrathful Hunger whereupon he rageth and teereth in the Salt as it is the Poysons property so to do whence the painful distemper in the flesh ariseth 45. But if he obtains the Likeness again in the property as he standeth in the Centre of his Mother viz. in the Sulphur understand as she hath generated him in the beginning viz. as he at first came forth to the natural life in both Tinctures of Man and Woman understand in the Child where his life did Enkindle then he is freed from all Anguish and entreth again into the likeness of the Heat and Cold and albeit that the Strife ariseth in many even from the very Womb yet the Combate is first raised up after the beginning of the Life In the Lifes beginning the Life entereth into its highest Joy for the Gates of the Three Principles are opened in equal Accord but the Strife soon beginneth about the Conquest between the Darkness and Light 46. But now we are to consider what is to be done unto Mercury if he be Enkindled either in Heat or Cold whereby he raiseth up sickness and pains now it were very good that men had the Right Cure but alas it will remain hidden and covered by reason of the Curse of the Earth and the abominations and sins of men because they do awaken this Poyson in Mercury with their immoderate bestiality 47. Yet the poor Captive hath need of deliverance and though men have not the high Universal which reacheth the Centre and bringeth the Wheel of Life into its first Property yet men must take from the Mercurial Walm of the Earth its fruits thereunto seeing the body is also become earthly A man must accord or Assimulate one Likeness with another one Salt with another according as the Inflamation is in the Salt of the Body For look in what Property the Brimstone is Enkindled either in Heat or Cold in Melancholy or falling sickness whether the Brimstone be burnt too in the Body and Putrified or whether it be yet fresh and burning in the cold or hot fire even such an Herb such a Brimstone belongs to the Cure lest the Heat or Cold be terrified in the Salniter where the Salt ariseth by a strange Might which cometh into it and generate a Mort Salt and set open more and more the House of Sadness but it is not sufficient and powerful enough in its wilde Nature and Property as it groweth out of the Walm of the Earth it is not able to Master the Root of the Enkindled Mercury in the Brimstone but it doth more vehemently Enkindle it in such a Source and Property 48. That which thou desirest should happen to the Body the same must first happen to that which shall cure the Body Unto the Cure of a foul Sickness there belongeth a foul Brimstone and so to a cold or hot sickness the like is to be understood for look in what degree of the fire-or cold Mercury is Enkindled and in what Form among the seven Properties of Nature that is what Salt soever among the seven Salts is Enkindled even such a Salt belongeth to the Cure for sickness is nothing else but an Hunger now the Hunger desireth nothing else but its likeness but now the property of that Life which in its beginning of its rise did stand in Joy is the Root and the sickness is its immoderate Enkindling whereby the order or Temperature is broken and divided Thus the Root desireth in its Hunger the likeness but the Inflamation hath taken it away now the Inflamation is stronger then the Root therefore the Hunger of the Inflamation must be appeased and that which it self is must be administred unto it 49 But even as God cured us with his Love and restored us to the Salvation of the Soul when as we had enkindled the same in the poysonful Mercury of his Anger in like manner also this Likeness must be first cured and circulated in the Mercurial Wheel and freed from the Heat and Cold indeed not taken away from them this cannot be and it were also unprofitable but it must be brought into its Highest Joy and even then it will make such a Property in the Body in the Mercury of the Brimstone and Salt for the Root of Life doth again quicken it self therein and lifteth up the first Desire so that now the Hunger doth vanish in the fall of the Inflamation 50. Now it doth behove the Physician to know how he may deal with the Medicaments in the Likeness so that he do not enrage them and bring them into another Property for in their Property they are even as a mans Life is He must have a care that they remain in their Degree as they are originally brought forth in their Mother for no thing can come higher then it is in the Centre of its Original according to the Hiddenness but if it shall come higher then it must assume another Property on it self and so it is not in its own degree and hath not its proper Vertue but an improper one which indeed may very well be but it hath lost its Nature-Right wherein it standeth in Joy and is not able to effect any proper Operation in the Assimulate of its own Nature 51. Therefore there is nothing better then to let every thing remain in its innate Genuine Vertue only its Wrath must be changed into its own Joy that so it s own Vertue according to the good part may be advanced into its Dominion and then in the likeness it is powerful enough in all Sicknesses without any other mixture For the Original in the Life desireth no other multiplicity but only its likeness that it may stand live and burn in its own Power and Property 52. The Power of the most High hath given to all things even to every one according to its property a fixt perfection for all was very good as Moses saith but with the Curse the Turba is introduced so that the properties do stand in the strife of Mercury yet in each property in every Hearb or whatsoever is I say In whatsoever doth grow or arise out of the Walm of the four Elements there is a fixity hidden for all things which are in the four Elements are originally Sprung forth out of the Eternal Element in which there is no strife neither heat nor cold but all things were in equal weight of all the properties in a Love-play as it is even so now in Paradise and the same Paradise sprung forth in the beginning of this World before the Curse

called but few are chosen also I have loved Jacob and hated Esau also Hath not a Potter power to make of one lump of earth what he pleaseth I say the same also That many are called but few are chosen for they will not they give their free Will into Gods Anger where they are even apprehended and so are chosen to be children of Wrath whereas they were all called in Adam into Paradise and in Christ into the Regeneration but they would not the Free Will would not it exalted it self into the Wrath of God which apprehended it and so they were not chosen children for Gods love chooseth only its Likeness and so likewise Gods Anger yet the Gate of the Regeneration standeth open to the wicked whom the Anger of God hath apprehended Man hath the Death in him whereby he may dye unto the Evil but the Devil hath not for he was created unto the Highest Perfection 29. Thus it is also with Jacob and Esau in Jacob the line of Christ got the upper hand in the Wrestling wheel and in Esau the fall of Adam now Christ was therefore promised into the Humanity that he might heal the fall of Adam and redeem Esau which was captivated in the Wrath from the Wrath Jacob betokeneth Christ and Esau Adam now Christ is to redeem Adam from Death and Wrath wherein he was captivated But did Esau continue in Sin that I know not the Scripture also doth not declare it the Blessing belonged to Esau that is to Adam but he fooled it away in the Fall and so the Blessing fell upon Jacob that is upon Christ who should bless Adam and Esau so that the Kingdom and Blessing might be given of free Grace again to Adam and Esau although he was apprehended in the Curse yet the door of Grace stood open in Jacob that is in Christ therefore Jacob said afterward that is Christ when he was entered into Adams Soul and flesh Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden with your Sins and I will refresh you Also I am come to call the Sinner to Repentance not Jacob who needeth it not but Esau who needeth it and when he viz. Esau is come then saith Christ There is more Joy in Heaven for him then for ninety nine Righteous ones which need no Repentance viz. for one Esau that repenteth there is more joy then for ninety nine Jacobs who in the Centre of the Life 's Original are apprehended in the line of Christ There is more joy for one poor Sinner whom the Anger hath apprehended in the Centre of Gods Wrath in the Life 's Original and chosen to Condemnation if he bringeth the Sins of Death again into the Mortification or Death of Sin then for ninety nine righteous ones that need no Repentance 30. But who are the Righteous for we are all become Sinners in Adam Resp. They are those whom the line of Christ in the Humanity apprehendeth in the Lifes Rise or at the first point or opening of Life in them not that they cannot fall as Adam but therefore that they are apprehended in Christs Will-spirit in the wrestling Wheel where Love and Anger are counterpoysed and chosen to Life as hapned to Jacob so also to Isaac and Abel but this Line should be the Preacher and Teacher of Cain Ishmael and Esau and exhort them to Repentance and to turn out of the Anger and this Line did give in it self into the Anger which was enkindled in Adam Cain Ishmael and Esau and destroyed the Devils Sting with Love that Cain Ishmael and Esau had an open gate to Grace if they would but turn and dye in Jacob that is if they would enter into Christs Death and dye to sin in Abel Isaac and Jacob and Christ then they should be received into the Election of Grace 31. Jacob took Esau's Place in the Blessing wherefore did that come to pass In Iacob was the promised Seed of Abraham and Adam from this Line the Blessing should come upon the sinful Adam and Esau Jacob must be filled with Gods Blessing that he might bless the first born of angry Adam and Esau for the Blessing that is Christ must be born in our flesh and Soul that the Seed of the Woman might bruise the Head of the Serpent 32. The Anger must be drowned and appeased in the Humanity an offering did not do it but this Resigning into the Wrath that the Love might drown the Wrath. Jacob in Christ must drown Esau in the Love-power in his blood that Esau might also become a Jacob in Christ but Esau was not willing to receive his Brother Jacob and contended about the first birth that is Adam in sin will not nor cannot receive or accept of Christ he shall and Must dye to the sinful flesh and Will 33. Therfore Esau hath ever fought against Jacob for Jacob should drown him in Christ in his Blood this the evil Adam in Esau would not have he would live in his Self-hood therefore he strove with the earthly Adam against Jacob but when Jacob met him with his Gifts that is when Christ came with his free Love-gift into the Humanity then Esau fell upon his brother Iacobs neck and wept for when Christ entered into the Humanity Adam wept in Esau and repented him of his Sins and evil intent that he would kill Iacob for when Gods Love in the Humanity entered into Gods Anger the Angry Father bewailed our sins and misery and Iacob with his Humility drove forth mournful tears out of his brother Esau that is the Love in the Humanity brought forth the Great Compassion out of and through the angry Father so that the angry Father in the midst of his enkindled Wrath in the Humanity did set ope an open Gate of Mercy for Adam and all his Children for his Love brake the Anger which Love did put it self into Death and made an open Gate for poor Sinners in the Death to his Grace 34 Now it is commanded the poor Sinner whom the Anger hath chosen to the Condemnation of eternal Death that he enter into this same Death and dye in Christs Death to Sin and then Christ drowneth it in his Blood and chuseth him again to be Gods Child 35. Here is the Calling Christ calleth us into his Death into his Dying this the Sinner will none of Here is now Strife in the Sinner between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent which now overcometh that conceiveth the Child Now the free Will may reach to which it please both Gates stand open to him Many who are in Christs line are also brought through Imagination and Lust as Adam was into Iniquity they are indeed called but they persevere not in the Election for the Election is set upon him who departeth from sin he is Elected that dyeth to sin in Christs Death and riseth in Christs Resurrection who receiveth God in Christ not only in the Mouth but in divine Desire

the outward visible World and also the Divine Love-world with the Divine Heavenly essentiality that is with Heavenly Flesh and Blood and also with corrupted flesh and blood were formed into one Person God became man and made man to God the Seed of the Woman viz. of the Heavenly Virginity which disappeared in Adam and also corrupted mans Seed in the Anger viz. Maries Seed were formed into one Person which was Christ and the Seed of the Woman viz. of the Virgin of God understand the Heavenly Essentiality should bruise the head of the Serpent understand the wrath of God in the Corrupted man the head is the might of Gods Anger the Divine man understand the Divine property should change the earthly into it self turn the earth to heaven 12. Now when the Person was born Heaven stood in the earth of man Now the Incarnation could not have done it alone there must be yet after this another Earnestness for so long as Christ walked on the Earth the Humanity which was from Maries property was not almighty but the Humanity from God was omnipotent they were set opposite one against the other in two principles yet not shut up but both manifest in each other the Love against the Anger and the Anger against the Love 13. Here now was the Tryal of the Combate one with another whence also proceeded the Temptation of Christ and when the Divine World overcame then the great Wonders brake forth through the outward Humane World but all this could not accomplish it there must yet be a greater earnestness the Humane Property viz. the expressed Word was yet stirring in the inflamable Anger the Humane Sulphur must be changed into the Heavenly viz. into the Heavenly part and thereupon the Humane Self viz. the expressed Mercury was astonished when upon the Mount of Olives the Heavenly world in the Love did wrestle with the Anger in the Humane world viz. with the Self-hood so that the person of Christ did sweat bloody sweat even there the one was dismayed at the other the Love at the horrible death whereinto it should and must wholly yeeld and give in it self with the Divine Essentiality and be swallowed up by the Anger and the Anger was dismayed at its death in that it must lose its might in the Love 14. Hence the whole Person of Christ said Father if it be possible let this cup pass from me yet not as I will but thy will be done The Love-world in Christ said Can it not be but that I must drink down the cup of thy Anger then thy will be done And the Anger said If it be possible let this Cup of Love pass from me that I may revenge my self rage in the wrath of man for his disobedience sake as God said to Moses who stood in the Spirit of Christ as a Type of Christ before God Let me alone that I may devour this disobedient people But the Name Jesus which had incorporated it self in Paradise with the promise of the Womans Seed in the Aim of the Humane and Divine Covenant would not suffer him for the humility of the Name Jesus hath always inter posed against the wrath of the Father against his Fires property that his Fire might not enkindle the half poysonful Mercury in man save only at sometimes when Israel walked wholly in the wrath and disobedience as is to be seen by Corah Dathan and Abiram and by Elias 15. So it was here on the Mount of Olives the Anger would live in the Fires might in man and the Name Jesus put it Self into the Anger and here there was no other remedy but that the Name Jesus in Divine Love and Heavenly essentiality must wholly resign up it self to be devoured by the Anger the Son must be and was obedient to the Angry Father even to the death of the Crosse saith the Scripture 16. The dear Love-humility and meekness did suffer it self to be scorned mocked spit upon and Judged by the Anger that is the Jews must execute the justice of God for by mans self-action sin was committed and by mans self-action Death and Sin must be blotted out Adam had introduced his Will into the poyson of the outward Mercury even so must Christ viz. the Love freely give up its Will also into the same poysonful Mercury Adam did eat of the evil Tree Christ must eat of Gods Anger and as it went inwardly in the Spirit so likewise outwardly in the Flesh and even so also it goeth in the Philosophick work 17. Mercury in the Philosophick work betokeneth the Pharisees he will not endure the Love-child when he seeth it he gives it trembling and anguish and Venus also stands dismayed at the poyson of the angry Mercury they are in one another as if sweat did drop from them as the Artist shall see 18. Mars saith I am the Lord of Fire in the body Saturn is my strength and Mercury is my life I will none of this Love I will devour it in my wrath this betokeneth the Devil in the anger of God and being he cannot do it he raiseth up Saturn viz. the Impression which signifieth the worldly Magistracy and reacheth therewith after Venus and yet cannot get her into him for she is to him a poyson unto Death This Mercury also can much less endure for the Love took away his Dominion as the High Priests thought that Christ would take away their Government because he said that he was Gods Son 19. Thus Mercury is vexed at the child Venus for Venus hath wholly discovered her self and freely given up her self they may do now what they please she will go even into the Dragons mouth he shall only but open his jaws and this Mars in Mercury doth not understand but they take the fair child and shoot their venomous Darts against it and bind it with Saturns Might in their wicked bands as the Artist will see how they surround Venus her colour 20. Mars brings it first unto Mercury being he is the life as before the High Priest who must examine and prove the fair child but he doth hate it he cannot reach into the heart after its Love-will he doth only judg it externally because it is not of his property that it standeth forth with such a form as the Mercury himself and yet hath another Power Vertue and Will 21. But being there is another Mercury which liveth in its Love in the Child Venus therefore he cannot kill it but brings it unto Saturn as the Jews brought Christ from Caiaphas to Pilate who signifieth Saturn who also taketh the Child But seeing that he is a Lord of the Impression viz. of the darkness therefore he careth not at all for the property of the Child but for the Dominion only he seizeth on the Child with the dark Impression and strips it of its fair Venus garment and when Luna with the white splendor of the Sun seeth this then she hideth her self as the Disciples of

wherein the young man received his Virgin wherein God became man 33. Now when the Heavenly body and also the Earthly do thus yeeld unto these three Murtherers then appeareth the Image of John and Mary by the Cross as a Type for the young mans life and also the Virgins in the young man hath freely surrendred and given forth it self and now the two properties viz. the Divine and Humane do divide themselves in the form of each power which the Artist may see if he hath the eyes and understanding thereunto 34. And here when Saturn with his Impression and dark sharpness and Mars with his wrath and Mercury with his poyson-life do powerfully enter into the property of Venus then the Wrath doth force it self into the Love and the Love into the Wrath essentially mixed as assimulating one into each other here the wrathful Death is dismayed at the Love so that he in dying falleth into Impotence or a Swoon for it loseth the might of the Wrath and the Love is and standeth also in the Source of the wrath in Deaths flagrat as impotent or in a swoon and giveth it self forth wholly into the flagrat or stroke of Death and even then the Heavenly Essence viz. the Heavenly Blood floweth forth from it into the property of the third Principle viz. of the young man Here the Virgin giveth her Pearl to the Young man for a propriety and God and Man become one 35. For the Virgins blood out of the Divine Essentiality doth here now drown with its Love-essence the Young-mans blood viz. the Self hood the three Murtherers do surrender their life in the blood of the Virgin and then the red glee from the Fire and also the white from the life of the Champion do arise up together viz. from the Wrath the Life and from the Love the Meekness and both viz. the life of the Anger and the life of the Love do ascend together as one only life for in death they become one The Death dyeth away in the Love and becometh in the Love the life of the Divine Kingdom of joy for it is not a dying but a free surrendring of its Power Might and Will a Transmutation the Virgins blood changeth the Humane dead as to God into an Heavenly blood the life of the Young man dyeth and the life of the Deity remaineth sixt and stedfast for it standeth in its property in the Nothing 36. And here thou dear Seeker when thou seest the crimson-coloured blood of the Young man to arise out of Death with the Virgins white blood then know that thou hast the Areanum of the whole World and a treasure in this valley of misery which surpasseth the value of gold take it and esteem it more excellent and soveraign then that which shall again arise from Death if thou beest born of God then thou wilt understand what I mean 37. For this is the Type of Christ shewing how Christ hath drowned sin and the enkindled Anger of God in the Humane property it is not only an Offering for then Moses had accomplished it it is not a bare verbal forgiveness as Babel teacheth no no the Humane Will must from all its Powers enter into this death into this blood viz into the Highest Tincture 38. The Purple-robe which Christ wore could not do it the white hypocritical Pharisaical Priests coat could also not effect it no flattery or demure hypocrisie availeth here no comfortings soothings or giving God good words are effectual here the crafty malignant man must be mortified in Christs blood he must be drowned in the Virgins blood The seed of the Woman must bruise the head of the Serpent the Will must wholly disclaim and depart from its selfness and become as an ignorant Child and wholly enter into Gods Mercy into the Virgin-like blood of Christ that sin and the poysoned Mercury may be drowned in its Mars that the white Lyon may arise for the Lyon which now appeareth in the white colour in Crimson red is the Mercury of life viz. the expressed Word viz. the Soul which before was a wrathful Devil in its self-hood ruling and domineering in the Anger of God in the three forms of the poyson-source viz. in Saturn Mars and Mercury now it is the white scarlet-coloured Lyon from the House of David and Israel fulfilled in the Covenant of promise NE. 39. But that we may give satisfaction unto the Wel-wisher we will further shew him the whole ground even unto the Resurrection of Christ when the Jews had hung Jesus upon the Cross and He had shed His Humane and Heavenly Divine blood and drowned the Turba in the Humane blood then Jesus said Father forgive them for they know not what they do 40. When Jesus had broken Death in the Humanity and took away Self he did not then wholly cast away the Humane property wherein Death and the Anger of God was but then he did first truly assume it Understand he even then did truly take the outward Kingdom into the inward for the outward Kingdom was begotten as a Wonder out of the Eternal Wisdom in the Speaking Word and spoken forth into a form as a manifestation of the Deity in Love and Anger in Good and Evil so that Jesus would not that the outward Type of the wonders in the likeness of God should perish or quite vanish but the Wrath which had over powered the love in man should be forgiven that is it should be given into the Nothing viz into the Liberty that it might not be manifest in its own Self-property it must be Servant and only a Cause of the fiery Love and Divine joyfulness nothing should perish or be lost in man for God had created him unto his Image 41. Thus let the Philosopher observe that when the three Murtherers viz. Saturn Mars and Mercury do sink in the Crimson-coloured blood of the Lyon they do not perish but they are pardoned that is their wrath is changed into a Love-desire viz. out of Venus into Sol for when the fiery desire entereth into the watery desire then a shine viz. a glorious splendor doth arise from and in the Fire for Venus is white and the Fire-desire is red 42. Here now it is changed into one colour which is yellow that is white and red both in one colour which is the Majestical Lustre for when Mercury is changed into the power of joy then ariseth the Multiplication he changeth his Mother wherein he lay shut up in death into Sol he maketh the Earthly Heavenly in one property as the Virgin was for here the Virgin loseth her Name for she hath given her Love and Pearl unto the Champion who is now called here the white Lyon as the Scripture speaketh of the Lyon of the House of ISrael and David who should demolish the Devils Kingdom and destroy Hell that is break the Anger of God and change it into Love 43. This Champion or Lyon is no Man or Woman but