The Star of _Venus_ is very difficult, and not well to be calculated, as all _Mathematicians_ and _Astronomers_ will bear me witness; for its course is found to be otherwise than that of the other six Planets, and therefore its Birth is otherwise; for the Birth of _Venus_ possesses the First Table, after _Mercury_, as for what concerns the Generation of Metals. _Mercury_ makes active, but _Venus_ provokes, giving Lust and Desire, together with the Beauty which gave occasion thereunto; though I am accounted no _Astronomer_, nor do I give my self out for one, who knows to calculate the Course of the Heavens; for I should spend my time in my Cell in Prayer, but that the spare hours after my Devotion is ended, may not be spent in vain, I have ordered and proposed it as my aim and intent to exercise my self, and to spend those hours in the knowledge of Natural things. So likewise it is not well to be reckoned what arises, grows or proceeds from _Venus_ or whence she arose, grew, or proceeded; for she is superfluously cloathed more than she needs, and yet must want that which she needs most of all in her Constancy.
But you must be advertised, that _Venus_ is cloathed with a Celestial _sulphur_ which far surpasses the brightness of the Sun; for there is more and more abundant _Sulphur_ in her than in Gold; but it requires a knowledge what the Matter of that Gold _Sulphur_ may be, which is, and rules so plentifully in Copper, and whereof I make so great a Cry: know then that it is likewise a flying very hot Spirit, which can pass through and penetrate, as also ripen and digest all things, as the imperfect Metals into perfect, which the inexpert will not believe. And here a Question presents it self at hand; _How the Spirit of Copper can make other imperfect Metals perfect, and make them ripe, whereas in its own Body it is imperfect and inconstant?_ For Answer, I say as I have often said, that this Spirit cannot possess or inhabit a permanent Body in Copper; for when the habitation is burnt by Fire, the Spirit goes away with it, and must with impatience leave its Lodging, for it dwells therein as a Sojourner; but it hath protection in the permanent fix'd Body of Gold, whence no man can expel it, without the Warrant of an especial Judge; for it is put into the inheritance as an Heir, and taken Root by her permanent Body, that she cannot easily be expelled. The Tincture which _Venus_ hath obtained, is in like manner found in _Mars_, more powerful, high and Noble; for _Mars_ is the Man, and _Venus_ the Woman, which I speak more of, seeing I write of them. This Tincture is delivered in _Verdigreece_, and likewise it is found in _Vitriol_, as in a Mineral whereof a peculiar Book might be wrote. In all these things a combustible _Sulphur_ is found, and yet a _Sulphur_ which is incombustible, this is a strange thing, one is a white Sulphur, the other is red in the operative generation; but the true Sulphur is incombustible, for it is a pure true Spirit, whereof an incombustible Oil is prepared, and it is the same Sulphur which is made out of one Root from the Gold-Sulphur.