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HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
we regarded not any pains or inconvenience. I can truly
say concerning my Companions of high quality that their
minds never ran after their kitchen or table, but their
pleasure ^was only to attend on this adventurous physic, and
hence to contemplate
the Creator's wisdom and omni-
potency. After our refection we settled ourselves to work,
for the globe was sufficiently cooled, which with toil and
labour we were to lift off the chain and set upon the floor.
The dispute then was how we were to get the globe in
for we were commanded to divide it in .the midst.
sunder,
The conclusion was that a sharp-pointed diamond would be
best to do it, and when we had thus opened the globe,
there was no redness to be seen, but a lovely great snow-
white egg, and it mightily rejoyced us that this was so well
brought to pass, for the virgin was in perpetual
care least
the shell might still be too tender. We stood around about
this egg as jocond as if we ourselves had laid it, but the
Virgin made it presently be carried forth, and departed
herself, locking
the door behind her. What she did
abroad with the egg, or whether it were privately handled,
I know not, neither do I believe it. We were again to
pause for one quarter of an hour, till the third hole opened,
and we, by means of our instruments, came upon the fourth
stone or floor. In this room we found a great copper
kettle filled with silver sand, which was warmed with a
gentle fire, and afterwards the egg was raked up in it, that
it might therein come to perfect maturity.
This kettle was
exactly square. Upon one side stood these two verses writ
in great letters
O. BLI. TO. BIT. ML LI.
KANT. I.i VOLT. BIT. TO. GOLT.
1 This letter is omitted in one of the German editions.