able to
secure their services on this occasion. The intention was to let Joseph
die of hunger, and keep his disappearance a secret.

Here conclude the descriptions of all that occurred on the day of
the Passion of our Lord; but we will add some supplementary matter
concerning Holy Saturday, the Descent into Hell, and the Resurrection.

CHAPTER LIV.

On the Name of Calvary.

Whilst meditating on the name of Golgotha, Calvary, the place of
skulls, borne by the rock upon which Jesus was crucified, I became
deeply absorbed in contemplation, and beheld in spirit all ages from
the time of Adam to that of Christ, and in this vision the origin of
the name was made known to me. I here give all that I remember on this
subject.

I saw Adam, after his expulsion from Paradise, weeping in the grotto
where Jesus sweated blood and water, on Mount Olivet. I saw how Seth
was promised to Eve in the grotto of the manger at Bethlehem, and how
she brought him forth in that same grotto. I also saw Eve living in
some caverns near Hebron, where the Essenian Monastery of Maspha was
afterwards established.

I then beheld the country where Jerusalem was built, as it appeared
after the Deluge, and the land was all unsettled, black, stony, and
very different from what it had been before. At an immense dept below
the rock which constitutes Mount Calvary (which was formed in this spot
by the rolling of the waters), I saw the tomb of Adam and Eve. The head
and one rib were wanting to one of the skeletons, and the remaining
head was placed within the same skeleton, to which it did not belong.
The bones of Adam and Eve had not all been left in this grave, for Noah
had some of them with him in the ark, and they were transmitted from
generation to generation by the Patriarchs. Noah, and also Abraham,
were in the habit, when offering sacrifice, of always laying some of
Adam's bones upon the altar, to remind the Almighty of his promise. When
Jacob gave Joseph his variegated robe, he at the same time gave him
some bones of Adam, to be kept as relics. Joseph always wore them on
his bosom, and they were placed with his own bones in the first
reliquary which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt. I have
seen similar things, but some I have forgotten, and the others time
fails me to describe.

As regards the origin of the name of Calvary, I here give all I
know. I beheld the mountain which bears this name as it was in the time
of the Proph