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THE COSMIC EGG
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"In the beginning the universe was non-existent. It became existent as it grew. It turned into an egg.

AN INDIAN SCENE.

The egg lay for the time of a year. The egg broke open. The two halves were one of silver, the other of gold.

"The silver one became this earth, the golden one the sky, the thick membrane (of the white) the moun-