27. A Certain Mystical Application Op the Seven Planets to the Soul Now the Planets Have a Certain Likeness to the Seven Days in Which All Time Revolves and Is Embraced ; and Amongst Them the Sun Is the Most Effective and Resplendent, Just as Also the Clearest and Most Effective Light of the Mind Which Is Inclined Down Ward Is the Enlightened Reason, Which in the Kingdom of the Soul, Makes the Lord's Day, Which They Call Sunday, and Also Makes the Final Days, Disposing All the Powers of the Soul to Rest, So That What Ever It, That Is the Enlightened Reason, May Order, They May Hear and Perceive, and in Accordance with Its Command, That Is, in the Whole Time of This Present Life, They May Dispose Themselves. But Another Day of the Week in Which Work Has to Be Done Is Called Monday, Which the Self-same Moon, 136 That Is, Discretion Adorns, Who Borrows Her Own Light from the Sun of the Enlightened Reason, Wherein the Whole Week, That Is, May Dispose Itself Temperately and Discreetly All the Time. for the Moon, That Is Discretion, Is the Earth's Neighbour, When Ever She Controls the Active Life. But the Sun, That Is the Enlightened Reason, Holds a Lofty Position Which Indeed Directs and Orders the Interior, Affective Life. Moreover Mars Will Adorn the Third Day of the Week, That Is Humility and Obedience in All Things. Mercury Will Adorn the Fourth Day, That Is Charity and Generosity. for Now We Are Occupied with the Middle of the Week, That Is, in the Meantime in Which Work Is to Be Done ; If We Waste Time, It Flows and Escapes of Itself, Then When the Eternal Festival Approaches We Are Idle and Vain. Jupiter Will Adorn the Fifth Day, This Is the Affection Drawn Out and Uplifted by Loving and Praising, in Love Towards God. for the Festal Day Is Approaching and Is Present at Our Gates, in Which the Palace of the Eternal King Is to Be Entered. the Sixth Day Venus Will Adorn, This Is the Divine Touch Which, Just as the Star of Venus in the Dawn, So It Arises in the Very Origin and Principle of All Created Action, That Is, in -the Unity of the Soul ; and Then the Sun Scatters Its Own Rays by Which the Illumined .reason Is Indicated. But When This Lightbringer of the Divine Touch Arises at Dawn, the Entire Kingdom of the Soul Is Gladdened, Because That Beam Is Seen to Start Forth and Proceed from the Changeless Heaven of Divine Unity, and It Happens the Oftener When This Star of Venus or Light Bringer, by the Clearness of the Sun and the Burning of Charity Is So Transformed That It Appears as Though That Which Is Loved Is Never to Be Possessed, for This Happens at Midday, When the Acknowledged Debt Is Discharged. for When We Behold God's Immensity and Our Own Littleness, We Both Perceive and Know That We Owe Much to God and to All Men, How Plainly We Seem to Fail in Everything, and to Afford Satisfaction Neither to God Nor to Men. for the Love Within Us Is Immense, and the Illumined Reason Shines Exceedingly Clearly. There Fore on Account of Our Failing We Decline Into Lowliness, and Thus .every Debt Can Be Dis- Planets and the Soul 13$ Charged. and This Very Star Is Called Vesper When It Satisfies Each and Everyone by the Illumined Reason and by the Burning of Charity. and So Far Indeed the Sun Has Driven Before Itself This Star (that Is Charity) of the Illuminated Reason, Whilst It Is Called Lightbringing, to the Arousing of All the Vir Tues : But After Each One Has Been Satisfied in Proportion to Its Powers^ Then That Very Self-same Star, (its Name Vesper Being Taken for Granted, That Is Charity,) Follows After the Sun, Desiring to Repose Endlessly in Unity If Only It Can Attain It. Finally Saturnjvill Adorn the Last, That Is the Seventh Day of the Week, by Which We Understand the Unsatisfied Craving, That Is, Hunger and Impatience, Because We Are Not Worthy to Apprehend God. But Saturn, That Is, That Hunger, Is Placed in the Uttermost Summit of the Affective Power, and That Is Indeed a Greater Hunger Ing Which Our Deficiency in the Virtues Brings About, as to Which We Seem in These Things to Satisfy God Least of All. for This Hunger of Which We Are Now Treating Craves for Fruition ; But That Other Hunger Vehemently Desires to Arouse and to Exercise the Virtues. and This Point, Which We Have Now in Hand, Has Respect to God, But the Other to Itself. Nevertheless Either Hunger Is Occu Pied in the Same Affection, But They Are Unequal in Their Action. That Hungering, Which We Have Said Is Signified by Saturn — Angry and Ireful Planet — Arouses in the King Dom of the Soul Lightnings and Fearful Thunderings, Huge Winds and Storms. the Light Nings, I Should Have Said, Are That Contact Which Moves the Soul to Impatience, and Reveals the Beloved in the Open Heaven of the Mind, Crowned with Incomprehensible Joys. Then the Thunders Are Aroused, That Is Vehement Surgings of Love, Because It Is Not Allowed to Gain the Beloved ; Which Things Stir Great Storms in the Soul's Kingdom, Above and Below ; and Were It Not That the Illu Mined Reason, Which God Has Annexed to This Storm, Restrained It, the Kingdom of the Soul Could in No Wise Wait Any Longer for the Banquet and the Coming of the Betrothed. But the Enlightened Reason Points Out Lucidly and Clearly That the Time Will Almost at Once Approach, in Which It Will Be Allowed, in Proportion to the Desire of All Its Powers to Gether with Every Delight and the Highest Joys, to Be at Rest In, Enjoy, and Possess the Beloved ; and This Causes the Loving Soul to Await Him Patiently and Calmly. Such, as in All the Degrees Now Mentioned It Has Been Set Forth, Should Be the Life of a Man, If He Wishes to Attain to the Soiperessential, That Is, in a Certain Divine Way, the Contemplative Life