Later that same night, Rosenkreutz is in the study room of the rectory. Sitting at a table lighted by a burning candle he opens the Bible to the Gospel of St. John. He begins to read aloud the first five verses of the Gospel. [In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God; and the Word was a God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him was made nothing that has been made. In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of humanity. And the Light shines in the darkness; and the darkness grasped it not.]

     Rosenkreutz continues reading the Bible deep into the night. After finishing his reading, he closes the Bible and leaves it on the table. He rises out of his chair and carries the candle out of the room and into the small bedroom that is adjacent to the study room. He prepares for a night’s sleep as he places the candle on a stand next to the bed. Though it is summer, the night air is still cool and damp. He moves to the small window and closes and bars it to keep it from blowing open during the night. He then turns away from the window and moves back across the room. As he does a black rat suddenly moves up to the outside of the window and begins sniffing at the window and around it. As quickly as it appeared it soon turns and leaves.

     While the night hours pass, the room is dark with only the light of the moon beaming through the small window. Outside in the thick of the trees and bushes there are two glaring fiery red eyes looking back at the window from the bushes. The eyes then vanish after which there is a low sounding drone from the thick brush. A murky colored cloud now forms outside of the window. It slowly seeps through the cracks and begins to fill the room. Rosenkreutz is in a sound sleep as this cloud settles at the foot of his bed. The small amount of moonlight that was visible in the room has now been completely obscured. From out of the cloud steps a very large luciferic being. Once again his drone sounds but it is much louder now. It spreads its wings around the bed and rolls its heading while droning and hissing. Rosenkreutz is startled out of his sleep as he and the luciferic demon make direct eye contact with one another. The demon stands hissing like that of a large snake. It then reaches down and clutches the foot of the bed. In a very quick lifting motion it upsets the entire bed which throws Rosenkreutz from the bed to the floor.

      It overturns the bed, the night stand and everything else in theroom. The demon increases the intensity of the murky light until another light begins to appear in a corner of the room. The demon begins to cower and hiss at this formation of light. The light becomes the Divine Sophia. The demon desperately tries to shield itself from her light. Her light begins to create tremendous pain for the demon as it hisses and drones ever louder until the luciferic being finally begins to fade as it earlier appeared. Rosenkreutz expresses his gratitude to the Divine Sophia. The rest of the night passes with Rosenkreutz in prayer.

    The next morning as he makes his way to the village he passes along the side of a pond. As it is early morning, there are clouds of vapor rising from the water and a light fog has settled over most of the ground. While passing the pond the vapor gives way to an almost imperceptible appearance of the Divine Sophia. She tells him that once again he is to make another journey. He is to travel to the Black Forest and enter the Temple of the Initiates of the Rose Cross. She tells him that all during his life his soul had been veiled in the sense that he was not to remember his past life with the Initiates of the Rose Cross in order that he may experience this life to this point without their guidance. His memory of the details of his past life have been purposely veiled by his own guardian angel.

    However, the Initiates of the Rose Cross had given a symbol to him which is the Cross of the Seven Roses that stands in the chapel that had been built and placed there before Rosenkreutz had taken charge of the chapel and rectory. Though he was not fully conscious of it, the Cross of the Seven Roses worked upon the deeper impulses in his soul that were instilled in his soul during his previous life. In his previous life he had been initiated and imbued with all their wisdom that became One in him. He is to become the central figure of the Brotherhood and the leading individual of a new path of Christian esotericism. All that was instilled in him in his last life is now to come to fruition.