On Occult Philosophy or the Secret Miraculous Birth of the Seven Planets and Metals

Saturnus saw the angel, he stood up from his bed with the strange stilt, made a reverence toward the angel, and inflamed himself inwardly with love toward his sister, whom he did not know and also did not quite take into account. But because the desire was very great to satisfy his human will according to the lust of nature, he did not know what was happening to him; the great wisdom of his gray hair fell from him entirely; the white head came into a lack of understanding, so that he was more similar to an insane person than to an understanding one. Then a light came from heaven with a great brilliance; it was enclosed in a round, transparent sphere; it could speak very well and with modesty; it began and said: O Saturnus, you who think yourself now to be the cleverest in the world, I am sent by the Highest to announce to you the beloved, who is named Opis and is your dearest sister, who shall now be entrusted to you as the consort of your heart. O would to God, said Saturnus, that you are now speaking the truth, so that I