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Virgo, lucif.
ludit
coeteros.
7. Conclave.
Verus labor
sub tecto.
Labor
spurius in
7 conclavi.
Homunculi
duo.
Pascuntur
sanguine
avis.
182 HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS.
matter, saying,
she must now cast a mist before the other
artist's eyes, that we in the mean time should obey the old
lord, and not remit our former diligence. Herewith she
departed from us into the seventh room, whither she called
our companions. What she first did with them I cannot
tell, for they were not only most earnestly
speak of it, but we, by reason of our business,
forbidden to
durst not
peep on them through the cieling. Our work was to
moisten the ashes with our fore-prepared water till they
became like a very thin dough, after which we set the
matter over the fire till it was well heated ; then we cast it
into two little forms or moulds, and [so let it cool a little,
when we had leisure to look on our companions through
certain crevises in the floor. They were busie at a furnace,
and each was himself fain to blow up the fire with a pipe,
till he was ready to lose his breath. They imagined they
were herein wonderfully preferred before us. This blowing
lasted till our old man rouzed us to work again. We
opened our little forms, and there appeared two bright and
almost transparent little images, a male and a female, the
like to which man's eye never saw, each being but four
inches long, and that which most mightily surprised me
was that they were not hard, but limber and fleshy as other
human bodies ; yet had they no life, so that I assuredly
believe that Lady Venus' image was made after some such
way. These angelically fair babes we laid upon two little
sattin cushonets, and beheld them till we were ^almost
besotted upon so exquisite an object.
The old lord warned
us to forbear, and continually to instil the blood of the
bird, which had been received in a little golden cup, drop
after drop into the mouths of the little images, from whence
they apparently encreased, becoming according to propor-