ON THE SIGNATURE

cannot endure being enclosed, and therefore
pulls much more violently to itself to
hold the sting original: "Stachel"; refers to the second property of nature, the motion or friction that resists the first property of contraction, and yet the sting thereby only
becomes stronger. Thus the sting wants to go
upward and crosswise, and yet cannot
accomplish this, because the hardness, as the desire original: "Begierde"; the first property of nature, which acts as a magnetic, contracting force,
holds it; so it stands like a triangle
and a cross-wheel original: "Creuzrade"; a symbol of the internal circular motion or "wheel of nature" that cannot escape itself, so that (because it cannot
move from its place) it becomes turning; from
this the mixing in the desire arises, as the
essence or the multiplicity of the desire; for
the turning makes a constant confusion and
breaking, from which the anguish original: "angst"; the third property of nature, a state of intense friction and spiritual tension, as the pain,
the third feeling of the form, arises.

But because the desire, as the harshness original: "herbigkeit"; the astringent, bitter quality of the first property,
thereby only becomes more severe (for from the
stirring arises the fury and nature, as
the movement), the first will toward
desire becomes entirely severe and a hunger; for it
is in a hard, stinging, dry being,
and cannot escape from it either, for it
makes the being itself, and then also
possesses it; for thus it now finds itself out of the
Nothing into Something, and yet the Something is
its own opposition, for it is a restlessness. The
free will is a still Love and Wrath,
Father and Son; this is now the origin
of enmity, that nature runs against the
free will, and a thing finds itself within
itself; and understand here the center original: "centrum"; the focal point of divine manifestation or the heart of the natural wheel