Saturn

"As the sun is the heart of the life and an origin of all the spirits in the body of this world, likewise is Saturn a beginning of all corporeity and tangibility. Thus he does not derive his beginning and descent from the sun, but his origin is the earnest, acrid, and severe anxiety of the whole body of this world." - JACOB BOEHME (1575-1624)

"Saturn is the planet of death. Here he bestows a black robe."

— Dyas Chymica Tripartita, Das ist: Sechs Herrliche Teutsche Philosophische Tractätlein, c. 1625 by Johann Grasse

"These stars stand for lead, because lead of all metals is the heaviest, the softest. That is why the philosopher Socrates said that it represents death and destruction of all things."

— Solothurn, Zentralbibliothek, Cod. S I 185, c. 1593