The Chymical Wedding:

—vens, elegantly adorned. In her right hand she carried a completely golden trumpet trumpet original: "Posaun." This instrument often signifies a divine announcement or the call to judgment., upon which a name was engraved that I could read well, but which I have been forbidden to reveal for now. In her left hand she had a large bundle of letters in all sorts of languages, which (as I learned later) she had to carry to all lands. She also had wings, large and beautiful, covered all over with eyes A reference to the many-eyed celestial beings described in the biblical books of Ezekiel and Revelation, symbolizing divine all-seeing knowledge., with which she could soar upward and fly faster than any eagle. I might have been able to notice even more about her, but because she stayed with me for so short a time, and I was still filled with terror and amazement, I must leave it at that.

For as soon as I turned around, she flipped through her letters back and forth and finally pulled out a small letter, which she placed upon the table with great reverence original: "Reverentz.", and without a single word, she departed from me. In soaring up, however, she blew so powerfully into her beautiful trumpet that the whole mountain echoed from it, and for nearly a quarter of an hour afterward, I could hardly hear my own words.

In such an unforeseen adventure, I, poor soul, knew neither how to advise nor help myself; I therefore fell upon my knees and prayed to my Creator that He would allow nothing to happen to me against my eternal salvation. I then went with fear and trembling to the little letter; it was now so heavy that even if it had been made of pure gold, it could hardly have been so heavy.

The Letter original: "Epistola."

As I now examined it diligently, I found a small seal, there—