Jakob Böhme

“ Venus cloaths it, which Mercury cannot endure, seeing he is the Master-Worker, and he gives his Garment also; but the Silver has neither the Property of Venus nor Mercury, for it retains the Property of its Mother, viz. the Meekness in the Liberty, and is hatched, as the Gold by Reason of the Sun: The Moon has an heavenly Property, but in reference to its own proper Form from the Property of the Desire, it is of a very earthly Property ”

“ Love proceeds out of the Wrath, and is an Humility, or Submission: Thus likewise it came in the Creation into Order; therefore Venus stands in the Sphere on the Line of Mars under the Suit, for so is the Separation in Nature ”

“ AS it is before mentioned, all Things proceed out of one only Mother, and separate themselves into two Essences, according to the Right of Eternity, viz. into a Mortal and an Immortal, into Life and Death, into Spirit and Body; and the Spirit is the Life, and the Body is the Death, viz. a House of the Spirit: As the holy Trinity stands in the Birth, so also is the external Birth: There is likewise Essence and Spirit in Heaven ”

“ In every external Thing there are two Properties; one from Time, the other from Eternity; the first Property of Time is manifest, and the other is hidden, yet it sets forth a Likeness after itself in each Thing. ”

“ In like Manner as the outward Body of Man, which before the Fall in Adam was comparable to Silver, but when he died in the Lubet then the earthly Property only lived in him, and therefore he continually Hungers after Sol's Glance [and Glory,] he would fain take again his Splendor with Luna from the Sun, but he gets only an earthly Lunar Lustre, wherein he acts and exercises Pride, unless he be born again out of Sol's Splendor, that is, out of God's Power in the heavenly Mercurius ”

“ He is a great Lord, but his Dominion, by Reason of the golden Child which he has in his Bowels, stands not in his own Power: He is not Father of the Child, but Mercury is he which Forms the Child; but he puts his Morning Mantle upon it, that he can have no Joy with the golden Child; he corporises the fair Child ”

“ Then the Death arises, and the Child is born, and becomes afterwards its own, and a Child of the Liberty, and cares no more for its Work-Master: It is better than its Father, but not better than its Mother, in whose the Seed it lay, before the Father wrought in it; it bruises the Head of its Father's fiery Essence, viz. ”