Notes from Rasputin's own diary of these journeys have him finding in Jerusalem a mysterious artifact. A strange, gilded box which reportedly belonged to a Jewish Goldsmith, Eléazar Beider. This commissioned box had been built for him in Paris by a French artisan and architect called Philip LeMarchand. He had named it Filigree and Shadow as a representation of the personalities involved in creating that joint commission, with some aspects using Eléazar's enormous skill at designing exquisite jewellrey.

How then, did this strange box find it's way into Rasputin's hands? The Jewish goldsmith Eléazar had called it the Hofesh Configuration (Hofesh meaning Freedom in Hebrew). Supposedly, the apparently harmless box would allow its possessor to release himself from the limits of flesh, granting him great power. How Eléazar came to use that power is uncertain. What is known is that he disappeared under mysterious circumstances near the end of his life. Legend goes that Rasputin bought it from the streets on Jerusalem, in the Via Dolorosa (the Way of Suffering; The Twelve Stations of Christ's bearing of the cross).
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