Sect. XII.
THe three Graces are Handmaids to Venus, Thalid, Euphrosyne, Aglaia; Viridity, Gladnesse, Splendour; properties attend∣ing Ideal Beauty. Thalia, is the permanence of every thing in its entire being; thus is Youth called green, Man being then in his perfect state; which decaies as his years encrease, into his last dissolution. Venus, is proportion, uniting all things. Viridity, the duration of it; In the Ideall World, where is the first Venus, is al∣so the first Viridity; for no Intelligible Nature recedes from its being by growing old. It communicates this property to sensible things as far as they are capable of this Venus, that is, as long as their due proportion continues. The two other properties of Ideal Beauty are Illustration of the Intellect, Aglaia, Repletion of the wil with desire and joy, Euphrosyne.
Of the Graces one is painted looking toward us; The conti∣nuation of our being is no reflex act. The other two with their