… he saw in the great temple at Benares, beneath the dome which marks the centre of the world, a brass plate in which are fixed three diamond needles, each a cubit high and as thick as the body of a bee. On one of these needles, God placed, at the Creation, sixty-four discs of pure gold, the largest disc resting on the brass plate, the others getting smaller and smaller up to the top. This is the sacred tower of Brahma. Night and day, teams of priests follow each other on the steps of the altar transferring the discs from one diamond needle to another according to the fixed and immutable laws of Brahma [which require that the priests on duty must not move more than one disc at a time, and that no disc may be placed on a needle which already holds a smaller disc]. When the sixty-four discs shall have been thus transferred from the needle on which, at the creation, God placed them to one of the other needles, then towers and priests alike will vanish and the universe will end. (page 57, Volume 3.)