Of the drawings in it I need say nothing, and of the _sistrum_ or sceptre only a few words.

It was fashioned of crystal to the well-known shape of the _Crux-ansata_, or the emblem of life of the Egyptians; the rod, the cross and the loop combined in one.

From side to side of this loop ran golden wires, and on these were strung gems of three colours, glittering diamonds, sea-blue sapphires, and blood-red rubies, while to the fourth wire, that at the top, hung four little golden bells.
When I took hold of it first my arm shook slightly with excitement, and those bells began to sound; a sweet, faint music like to that of chimes heard far away at night in the silence of the sea.

I thought too, but perhaps this was fancy, that a thrill passed from the hallowed and beautiful thing into my body.
On the mystery itself, as it is recorded in the manuscript, I make no comment.

Of it and its inner significations every reader must form his or her own judgment.