among the planets hath a goodly splendor, and lively sprightly light; a certain joy, for the contemplative melancholy of Saturn, breaks out in Jupiter into action, which causeth in him flashing rejoicing lights, with a quick brightness and shining. This cannot be better expressed, than by a wise contemplative person, who being desirous of wisdom and secret knowledge, seeks it with a kind of melancholy contemplative look, if we consider only his outward appearance, for so far he is truly saturnine, so as we judge him sad, when indeed he is only serious; and although his countenance be heavy, yet his heart is pleasant inwardly, and this is the right saturnine property. But when the wise man, after much melancholy and contemplation, hath found out the secret he sought for, then he falls with great joy from contemplation to action, and then the pleasure that was only inwardly, appears outwardly on his face; for the color (tin) is bright and lively, though his outward appearance be dark and cloudy, so that Jupiter is nothing but the centre of (lead) manifested; for in Jupiter, which is the next planet under Saturn, the contemplative influence begins to be active, which causeth such a bright light, and such a lively stirring brightness in Jupiter, for he is the first, active planet wherein the joy of the contemplative faculty is manifested, which it sets forward for action, and descends from Saturn to Jupiter. then, as we have said, is the first active planet, for in him, that which first begins to break out into action was formerly conceived in Saturn, even as the thoughts which are silently concealed in the heart, are actually and audibly manifested in the mouth, where the very thought begins to break out into action, in the voice, in articulate formed sounds and words: not without reason, therefore, did the wise men attribute to Saturn all scholars and philosophers, as also all priests and hermits, all melancholy and reserved persons, who love a solitary and retired life, and who are always full of thoughts, and are more disposed to contemplation than to action. On the contrary, to Jupiter all statesmen, magistrates, and tradesmen, who use their heads more than their hearts, and who are always busied in outward mechanical actions, and not in the inward profound speculations of the mind; and truly all professed mechanical arts were found out first by the speculation of the mind, for they are but the inventions of contemplative spirits, so that the statesman receives his politics from the philosopher, the one finding, and the other executing, so that contemplation still precedes action, as Saturn is before Jupiter in the heavens, even as thoughts are conceived in the mind prior to the action of speech.

Again, who can see the leaves and flowers that are in the tree; certainly no man, but when the tree hath put them forth, then they are manifest to all men; even so our thoughts, while they are in the heart, appear to none but God and our own souls; but when manifested by words or actions, they are known to all, the heart is the forge of the saturnine properties wherein the thoughts rise and are formed, and such as the thoughts are, such are the actions; therefore if the saturnine properties be good, those of Jupiter must be the same, the saturnine being the source of all. Therefore, a wicked man being of the saturnine or melancholy nature, he is exceedingly wicked and dangerous.