THIRD TREATISE.

"The War in Europe, its remote and recent causes" in connexion with

our Epistle to the Bishops of Illyria, to be communicated to the

Emperors of Austria and France for the resurrection of the mortals

as well as their departed friends from their misery and distress

into the state of true happiness.

Instead of the treatise which was prepared to occupy this place in this

book, we write on the 4th day of July, 1859, a New Treatise, while

others are keeping the shadow for reality, rejoicing in companies and

filling my ears with explosions of crackers and thunders of guns and my

nostrils with the most disagreeable smell of gun powder, while I am

mourning in my solitude in the midst of hundreds of thousands of people

of the City of New York and neighbourhood, because they would not

receive our message of peace and learn how to bring forth fruits of the

true liberty of nations. This treatise was occasioned by the book "The

War in Europe, its remote and recent causes" written by J. H. Duganne,

and published a few days ago by R. M. DeWitt, Nassau St., No. 60, New

York. I mention it here, because it contains a collection of facts and

events, by the perusal of which any body, if he reflects upon what he

reads, may be aware of what we continuously repeat, that people and

their political and ecclesiastical governments have apostatized from

Truth and Justice, and cannot establish the promised peace, except

according to the plan which is given in the fifth or last treatise of

this book. The causes of Revolutions and Wars and manifold other plagues

are contained in the apostasy of men from Truth and Righteousness. This

apostasy brings mortal men into the association with departed deluding

and destroying spirits, as you know, if you have comprehended the

preceding treatises, and you will receive the more proof of this

important truth, the farther you will proceed in studying this book.

Mortal men are in close connexion with congenial departed spirits. The

life of man in his mortal body is a manifestation of influence from the

sphere of spirits, for whose society he is prepared. By them he is moved

and supported for action; they influence those who are congenial with

them. But men, if they are not versed in the inner life, are not aware

of this influence; although this is the first and most necessary

knowledge for the abolition of revolutions and wars and manifold other

plagues, which originate from the influence of destroying spirits, who

themselves may be so ignorant, that the magnetic fluid which they

communicate to men is pestilential, as a man who is infected with one or

the other kind of plague, may be ignorant of his dreadful condition, and

of the fact that he infects also others who, in their ignorance of

matters, are united with his deleterious condition. If, for instance,

the Emperors of Austria and France, and their Generals and other

Officers, and all who sympathize with one or the other, and contribute

their share for the destruction of the enemy, would know the proper

condition of spirits with whom they are associated and by whom they are

inspired in their destructive work, they would be exceedingly

frightened, and would cry: "What shall we do to be saved?"

Many years before I knew anything about my present mission, I was aware

by comparing the reports of the Bible with the reports of other ancient

and modern works and with our own experience in regard to the spirit

world, that angels and demons in the Bible are departed men and women of

different high and low spheres, made manifest to men in mortal bodies,

when there was suitable to give to men tangible testimonies, that

mortals are in close connexion with departed congenial spirits. The

legion, for instance, in the fifth chapter of Mark, is a legion or

regiment of soldiers who have been destroyed in a battle. The captain

and his legion had the grave or the cave in which dead bodies were

located, for a suitable location to their degraded condition; and the

magnetic fluid, which they inhaled into their inner or magnetic bodies

which are used by spirits, came from the decomposed and rotten cadavers,

and was the most delicious influence which they could communicate to

their worshipers, and their captain has shewn his terrible madness by

the attacks upon his medium, while he was compelled to make manifest,

what he really was. But when he was not compelled to show his real

condition, he was deceiving in like manner, as now departed Emperors,

Kings, Generals and other warlike spirits are deceiving, till they

bring their worshippers on the battlefield, where they effect such

carnages, as we read now many reports in newspapers. In this madness the

victors and their bishops and priests are feasting and singing "Te

Deum," while the defeated are praying for the reverse, and neither party

are prepared to reflect upon the crimes which they have committed by

having killed their fellow men, who should have been educated and should

have progressed in knowledge of truth and practice of virtue as long as

their constitutions by applying the right means for the support of their

physical strength and health, would have admitted. But alas! they have

been wantonly killed, when they were least prepared for Heaven and best

disposed for the infernal regions! And others have been mangled and

wounded, so that they are crippled for all their lifetime and also

hindered in the right use of their intellectual and moral faculties. And

all who were drilled for war, were instead of progressing in virtue,

retrogressing into corruption. Volumes could be written on this point of

the deepest humiliation of the human race. Which are "the remote and

recent causes of the war in Europe?" The book which occasioned this

treatise, contains a series of most detestable facts and proceedings as

forerunners of the eruption of the volcanoes of the infernal furies

which are destroying now in the wholesale human life and property;

because governments and nations are not in truth, but in delusion and

confusion, the necessary consequence of which is destruction. Truth will

make you free. This is the teaching of the master whose religion the

belligerent parties profess with words, while their actions are

instigated by the infernal furies. Also this book contains

superabundance of testimonies of our mission, which is expressed on the

title page. In my five German volumes published within the years 1838

and 1842, the mystery of iniquity of all governments which profess to be

christian governments, has been disclosed, and their highest duty has

been made evident to abolish those abominations and to unite with us for

the introduction of Christ's reign, which will be the universal Republic

of Truth and Justice, Harmony and Peace on the whole globe. In those

volumes as well as in all my following publications it is made evident

that Peace can never be established on the globe in the present course

of political and ecclesiastical affairs, and that, what they call peace,

is only an armistice, during which the dragon and his host are inspiring

the governments to amass means for new eruptions of revolutions and

wars. The book which occasioned this treatise, contains a collection of

testimonies confirming and illustrating our teaching, that true peace

cannot be established, till governments and nations arrive on our

ground. If the Emperor of Austria would evacuate this moment all places

which he occupies in Italy, and if the Emperor of France and his allies

would have in sincerity no other object in view, but the only one to

make Italy perfectly free, I mean to make Italy a true Republic, and

would sacrifice all their strength and influence to this only object,

they could not realize their object, till they would learn and receive

our message of Peace and adopt the plan given in this book for the

introduction of the promised New Era. As long as they neglect to do

this, they remain under the influence of deluding and destroying

spirits. But these their masters are so controlled by our leaders, that

when the measure of crimes of governments and nations is again and again

filled, new eruptions of destructive revolutions and wars take place on

such days and under such circumstances, that by our explanations of

correspondences they become peculiar warnings; as we have already given

specimens of this kind also in this book; and many more will be given on

suitable places of the following pages. Readers should not forget that

we are preparing them for the Epistle to the Bishops of Illyria.

Before we commence to translate that epistle, we must give a brief

epitome of the contents of the treatise, which was to be printed in lieu

of this treatise, and to which reference has been made in the preceding

treatise, and we must write on this 4th of July, 1859 in the midst of

great noise and continuous cracking and thunder of guns and so much

smell of powder, that it becomes very tedious. This morning it appeared

in newspapers, that Samuel Jackson's pyrotechnical establishment on 10th

and Reed Streets in Philadelphia was yesterday afternoon destroyed by

the explosion of fireworks, which were prepared for the exhibition on

this day; but they yesterday burned Mr. Beck to death. We mention this

case, because we saw it besides many other cases amongst the news of

this day, and this Jackson is one of the many strong mediums of

destroying spirits whom we endeavored many years ago to deliver from

those spirits; but they continue to prepare tremendous fireworks. In the

octava of the outbreak of the infernal furies in the French Revolution

of February, 1848, spirits commenced to awaken materialists by raps

through the Fox Girls in the vicinity of Rochester of this State of

New-York. They became at length generally known as Rochester Rapping

Spirits; because in the City of Rochester people first commenced to

assemble in large numbers and hear those rappings, or also carefully to

investigate, whether those raps came, as they purported, from spirits or

from some other cause. As soon as I read in newspapers the reports of

those manifestations, I understood the correspondences and also, why our

leaders let the infernal powers exhibit their craft in this manner.

Deluding and destroying spirits from the same spheres from which they

have inspired their fighting mediums in Europe, commenced to give

testimony in this country that there is truly such a relation between

the living in the mortal bodies and the departed as has been disclosed

in our publications, and at the same time also to show how they were

duping and deluding such as would not hear our explanations regarding

the true condition of spirits, but were quite pleasing with the answers

which they received through the daughters of Mr. Fox and other mediums

who commenced then to be developed in large numbers, that is, deluding

and destroying spirits or infernal demons shewed by manifold perceivable

possessions, that they were closely attached to congenial men and women.

I made use of that opportunity and assured citizens of the United

States, that rapping spirits would be dreadful destroying spirits also

in this country, if their operations will not be stopped by the

application of the means which are comprehended in our message of Peace.

But I did not try those spirits in circles of spiritualists, till I

received order from my leaders to do so. Opportunity was given in

Pittsburgh, Pa. by the reports published in some English and German

newspapers regarding the mediumship of Christina Beil, (as the name of

that medium of German parents is correctly written, but English

reporters wrote it Beail, although it is the German Beil, that means a

hatchet or axe)[T]. Her mediumship aroused a general attention, and

while crowds of attendants were convinced that raps by which questions

were answered, were produced by spirits, sceptics denied it, and Mrs.

Swisshelm published in her "Saturday Visitor" the results of her

investigations of spirit rappers at Christina Beil's mediumship. She

thought, that raps must have been produced by some trick of one or the

other mortal, although she was not able to discover the trick. The same

confession was made in German newspapers by a German Lutheran Pastor.

The excitement moved a skilful German chemist who was also a strong

materialist, to investigate the matter in the expectation that he might

find out the trick. But he was sincere and confessed, that raps

purporting to come from spirits, were produced by beings who understood

the questions. But under the circumstances of his investigations they

could not be produced by mortal men, and must have been produced by

invisible agents.

A few days before my reading of those reports, a rapping spirit had been

shown to me in an extraordinary manner, to relate which in this epitome

there is no room. But by that manifestation I was instructed, that I

should try the rapping spirits of Christiana Beil in the presence of

sufficient witnesses. The same German learned chemist, and a German

Pastor of the Reformed Church and other witnesses were present, when I

tried the spirits of Christina Beil. Also that pastor belonged to that

school of theologians who send their departed into such an eternity,

from whence there is no return to mortal men. Such folly is according to

our knowledge of the condition of the departed most pitiful materialism

in disguise. But at our meeting with that medium in the house of her

mother, soon a number of rappers commenced to show by raps in a number

of places of the room, that they were ready to give answers to our

questions. The medium commenced to ask, and instantly all others became

silent, and the strongest amongst them gave answers with raps. To the

question with whom he wished to converse, the pastor was shown by strong

raps as the person with whom the spirit wished to converse, and he

signified by raps also that he was ready to give his name by pointing

out the letters of his name with raps. The pastor repeated the alphabet,

and was quite astonished, that the letters spelled the name of his

peculiar friend, a medical doctor and open materialist, who was

expressedly denying man's immortality while he was in his mortal body,

from which he departed a few months before that meeting. The pastor gave

a number of questions, and expected to get some answer, with which he

would be able to show, that such an answer could not come from that

doctor. But at length the pastor confessed, that by nobody else except

by that departed doctor he would expect all those answers which he had

received.

When all was done which would convince the greatest sceptic, if he was

prepared to reflect upon the facts, I interfered and remarked, that

after having received sufficient testimony from that spirit, we wished

to converse with some other, if any is present. Soon raps were heard of

so different a sound from the former, that any observer could perceive

the exchange of spirits. The first gave answers to German questions;

therefore also the second was asked, whether he wished to converse in

German. He answered in the negative, and the medium was pointed out by

raps as the person with whom he wished to converse. Then English

questions were given and he consented to give his name. The alphabet was

repeated, till all the letters of his name were pointed out by raps. And

his name alarmed the medium exceedingly, that she commenced to cry, and

also all her acquaintances were very much excited. I asked the reason,

and was told, that that spirit was expected amongst the first when that

girl became a medium, but they had never any test that he was present,

and that they gave up all their hopes of getting any answer from him.

Therefore his manifestation was so unexpected, that it produced such an

effect upon the medium. I understood the whole matter. That spirit was

the principal guardian of that medium or she was principally possessed

by him, and he had rapped generally in the name of others, when the

inquirers were so congenial with the medium, that he could look into

their wishes. But he did not give his name, that he might not be

discovered as the deceiver who rapped in the name of others. At length I

came in the charge of my mission in March, 1851. I was acquainted

several years before that with that pastor and exhorted him to study my

books and then to proclaim our message of Peace. But my message was not

popular and it teaches, that the belief of the close connexion of men in

mortal bodies with congenial departed spirits is the A B C, to arrive

gradually to a deep knowledge of true religion and to the true freedom

and deliverance from lying destroying spirits. But pastors who became

materialists, were scared when they perceived, that my message

presupposes the close connexion with congenial departed. At length

mediums or possessed by departed spirits alarmed the materialistic

pastors. The mother of the medium belonged to the congregation of that

pastor and she invited that pastor to come and be a witness. My leaders

were controlling the legion of spirits, who came from different quarters

with their witnesses, and in those circumstances the medical doctor

Reitz, a peculiar friend of that pastor, was the strong rapper and the

next was the lying spirit who, when there was no stronger than he,

rapped in the name of others, till he was at length in our presence

compelled to give his name. After that remarkable trial of spirits, I

said to the pastor, that he should instruct the trustees of his church,

to give me permission to deliver some lectures in that church and to

explain that of which he was a witness, but which he could not

understand in the connexion of things, in which it must be understood

for the commencement of the New Era, which according to the testimonies

given in his congregation, should be powerfully proclaimed from his

church. But the pastor thought that his congregation were not prepared

for so deep things. Although I insisted, that I would make them very

popular in the German language, which was the language of his

congregation, and that it was his highest duty to make use of the

opportunity to learn what is most necessary for Harmony and Peace of

nations, he remained as obstinate as other Roman Catholic and Protestant

Pastors.

Then I wrote an article for newspapers, in which I have shown what

should be generally known regarding the spirit manifestations which

commenced with raps by the mediumship of the Fox Girls to delude, as

cunning foxes are accustomed to delude, such as would not receive truth

which was disclosed in our message, and were discovered, when they were

tried according to our mission at the medium Christina Beil's, which,

means the Christian hatchet or the Christian axe, an instrument for

destruction, that they were deluding and destroying spirits, by whose

influence destruction of life and property will continue until it will

be stopped by receiving and spreading our message of Peace. That article

was prepared in English and in German; but editors who have spread

deceiving reports regarding spiritualism, refused to publish my article.

I sent it then to Boston, to be published there in a paper of

spiritualists. But it was not popular and could not be published.

Matters were to arrive so far as those will find them, who study and

comprehend this whole book.

After that trial of spirits I returned several times to Pittsburgh and

paid always my visit to that learned chemist, who was converted from a

materialist into an enthusiastic spiritualist. He, like many others, was

expecting through his mediums to receive truth regarding the spirit

world. But he was offended, when I endeavored to make him comprehend,

that those spirits with whom he came in communication by his mediums,

were materialistic spirits who did not speak through his mediums from

the miserable condition of their inner life but from the surface of

their outward condition as they while in their mortal bodies were

accustomed to boast, and to cheat and delude their fellow men. In the

treatise which would have occupied this place, if I had net been moved

to prepare this for the celebration of the 4th of July, 1859, and its

octava, that people might commence to learn, how they could become

independent from the invisible and visible tyrants by whom they are now

enslaved, and inspired for revolutions, wars and other crimes, I have

explained some very important spirit manifestations at my meetings with

the learned chemist in Pittsburgh as preparations to the spirit

manifestations which took place at my last visit to the City of Boston

and neighborhood, and which constitute the principal part of that

treatise, the publication of the whole of which must be delayed, and we

give here in a synopsis as preparation to our Epistle to the Bishops of

Illyria, the following items:

Boston is the City, in the cathedral Church of which by our mediumship

A.D. 1838, such, spirit manifestations took place, by which we have

received the key to open the door for the promised New Era of Harmony

and Peace on earth. We will give in the next following treatise of this

book some light on those manifestations. But when our disclosures on

those manifestations had not been received, at length spiritualism of

the last fashion gained a peculiar stronghold in Boston, although

materialism made great exertions to check also the modern fashion of

spiritualism. Since A.D. 1838 I returned several times to Boston, and

was trying to move some influential men or congregations for an

examination of our message and of the credentials of our mission. When I

arrived at the end of October, 1858, again in Boston I attended on the

next Sunday the conference of spiritualists, which was at that time on

Sundays usually held in Boston. As soon as they finished their

ceremonies by which their conference was opened, I found proper to speak

a little in my Illyrian mother tongue, to arouse the attention to what I

spoke then in English, and in the English language I rebuked

materialists and testified our mission to restore true spiritualism.

After my speech a medium arose, whom I did not know, but found out

afterwards, that he was Agent of the Fountain House, where spiritualists

had their resort and their speculations. He was rebuking a lecturer who

was opposed to spiritualism, and, as I understood from the rebuke,

misrepresenting facts, and came to that conference to expose

spiritualism from his materialistic position, denying any manifestation

from the departed. During that rebuke, for a proof, that spirits

manifest themselves, he invited that lecturer and other materialists to

a meeting, in which he offered to give an exact description of my mother

whom he affirmed to have seen standing on my side, while I was speaking

in the conference, and that although I was a perfect stranger to him, he

was certain that she was my mother, and that he would give an exact

description of her, so that he was confident, that I would confirm his

description. There were spiritualists in the Conference who knew me,

that I troubled them in the Utica Convention and elsewhere, and they

seemed not to be favorable to that proposition.

On the next following Sunday I made again an attempt in said Conference

to find out, whether there was any influential person amongst them ready

to take an active interest in examining our message and the credentials

of our mission. I commenced to speak from the point which was mentioned

in the last conference by the medium testifying, that he saw my departed

mother standing in her glory on my side while I was speaking. But I made

the remark that I had two mothers in the spirit world, to wit, my first

mother by whom I was born, She had great care during her life for my

welfare, and having been a great medium of spirit manifestations before

her departure, always anxious to know truth and act accordingly, she

progressed with me also after her departure and became one of those my

guardians, who take care for my provisions and protection against

danger. In this her care she found a strong medium of spirit

manifestations, an aged lady who was looking for the third angel, REVEL.

xiv:9, because according to the testimonies which she had received, she

was certain, that since A.D. 1836 he was preparing somewhat, and while

she was looking for him since that year in Europe, she was directed by

her guardian to America with the assurance that she would find him in

this country. At length she heard one of my German lectures and

comprehended, that I had the mission of the third angel. When she

commenced to testify this, my mother appeared to her and entrusted her

the care, which she herself had for me before her departure. My mother

was an Illyrian, but this new mother was a German. Whenever I had

opportunity to stop and write in her house, great spirit manifestations

occurred. At length also she departed and is acting amongst the women

who have amongst the departed peculiar offices for the introduction of

the New Era. When I mentioned in said Conference somewhat about these

matters and understood from the speeches of others that their spirits

were drawing the audience in other directions, I turned also to other

places, and tried besides others those professors at Cambridge, Mass.

who were appointed A.D. 1857 as a committee to investigate the physical

phenomena which were believed by some to have been caused by spirits,

while others attributed them to other causes, and those professors,

after having performed their investigations, published their opinion

that spirits had nothing to do with the phenomena which they had

investigated.

When I read that publication, I saw that readers, by the authority of

those professors, were strengthened in materialism. Therefore, at my

return to Boston I felt it to be my duty to try to move those professors

of Cambridge from their materialism, I saw personally those three, who

belonged to the committee who have published their opinion regarding the

phenomena, called spirit manifestations, and also the fourth who did not

belong to the committee, but was the strongest operator to explode the

truth, that departed spirits are in close connexion with congenial

mortals, and that they, when circumstances are favorable and it agrees

with the Plan of Divine Government, give also to exterior senses of men

perceivable proofs of this connexion. I said to them, that A.D. 1838

were greater spirit manifestations in the Roman Catholic Cathedral

Church of Boston by my mediumship and the mediumship of 144 witnesses,

than mortal men could expect. Whereas that catalogue of witnesses as

well as the events which happened in connexion with our proceedings,

have been published in my books, I could by the means of that catalogue

in a short time convince the professors of the great Truth of close

connexion and mutual influence between mortals and their congenial

departed, and by the public testimony of the professors the pernicious

influence of their report regarding the spiritual phenomena would be

abolished, and the way for the circulation of our message of Peace would

be opened. They should therefore appoint time and place to meet with me

for this most important investigation of what departed spirits are able

to effect through mortal men. With all my exertions to move the

professors they remained obstinate sinners against the Holy Ghost who

gave them opportunity to learn what is most important to correct the

pernicious effect of their report and to cease to brutalize their

students with their materialism. I started from Massachussets to New

Hampshire, because in that State besides other spirit manifestations in

Concord a Convention of those adventists was held, who besides other

blasphemies of the living God and his Christ teach also, that man dies

as a beast, but that when Christ comes on the clouds, he will awaken the

righteous from death, but the wicked will be eternally annihilated. As

all other pestilence which is spread in the Papal and in the Protestant

sects is supported by the use and abuse of the Bible, likewise also

these "annihilators" made their discoveries of the annihilation of the

wicked by the means of the Bible. They are spread through the country

and especially through the States of New England, and are only a branch

of the dreadful materialism which has brought the human beings so on the

surface of the matter, that they stifled the most needful knowledge

regarding the spirit world. I warned all sects of Adventists as well as

others, everywhere. At length I met in October, 1858, with a portion of

the Adventist annihilators in a Conference in Providence of Rhode

Island, and tried to convert them from their folly. But they were not

ready to hear facts and then reflect upon them with a sound reason, to

know man in his interior life.

There are different sects of the Adventist annihilators; but that same

sect, with whom I met in Providence, have appointed for November, 1858,

a Convention in Concord N.H. The appointment contained a general

invitation, without confinement to their sect, and I thought that there

might be an opportunity for me to find some investigating minds who

would listen to our message of Peace. But when I commenced to speak in

their Convention, and their Popes saw that there was danger for their

spirit annihilation, they applied to the audience with their complaint,

that they found in Providence, that I did not believe in Christ's coming

on the clouds and annihilation of the wicked and am rather a kind of a

spiritualist. Therefore if I would remain I had to be silent, or I had

to leave the Hall. I replied, that in their circular was no confinement

to their sect, but their invitation contained exactly the opportunity

for the proclamation of our message. But the possessed Popes by spirits

of delusion and destruction became fierce and enraged, and I found best

to leave them in their hall. My leader showed me that I should return

towards Boston. At my return I was trying spirits on several places. It

is to be understood that volumes could be written, if I would explain

what I mention in this synopsis preparatory to my Epistle which I have

sent in my hand-writing to the Bishops in Illyria to be communicated to

the Emperors of Austria and France, and which is to be printed in this

treatise, that it might reach monarchs and their agents in this book, if

it should not have reached them in hand-writing. But the events which

occupy the largest portion of the treatise which would have appeared

here, if the celebration of the 4th of July had not moved me to write

and publish this in lieu of the other, may be expressed in this epitome

in the following sentences:

During my travelling I am most time walking on foot. While I was walking

on foot from Linn, Mass. to Chelsea City, I found the tollgate keeper

standing without occupation on the turnpike, and asked him for a

direction to the strongest spiritualist in Chelsea City. He directed me

to a merchant. He was not at home, and I asked his clerk, to give me

directions to some other spiritualist. He put several on a paper, the

first of whom was Mr. Mansfield, and I was impressed to go to him. I was

quite a stranger and without asking about the occupation of this

Mansfield, I asked only for a direction to his house. When I found it, I

was told that Mansfield was at his office No. 3. Winter Street in

Boston. Without asking, what his occupation was, I came at length on the

3d of December, 1858, into his office. When I was in his office, the

portraits of the dead drawn by some entranced medium with whom I was

personally acquainted, and other paraphernalia reminded me, that that

must be the celebrated medium J. V. Mansfield, of whom I read in

newspapers, that many sealed letters not only from different quarters of

America but also from other parts of the Globe, were directed to

departed acquaintances of the writers, and answers were asked from the

departed which he could not give also in the case, if he would read the

letters. But answers were to be given without opening the letters, by

him as writing medium of spirits. He had to return the letters without

opening the seal, and to add the answers as written by his mediumship.

While reading the reports regarding that medium, I thought to see him,

when I would come again to Boston. But while I was in the first part of

November, 1858, in Boston I did not remember this, and came at my return

from New Hampshire in the briefly related manner on the third December,

1858, against all my expectation to him. I think that he was present at

the two above mentioned Conferences in Boston, in which I spoke before

starting for New Hampshire. When I conversed on the 3d of December with

him in his office, he invited me to come on Saturday, December 4th 1858,

to his office and from thence to ride with him to his house in Chelsea

City and spend Sunday, December 5th, with him. I was impressed to do so.

That Sunday was the second Sunday in Advent. On the 4th, after the

arrival in his house we both were tired and went to bed at 10 o'clock

P.M. I rested well, till I was awakened by a female departed spirit who

was in great distress and entreated me to give her assistance to kill

her husband. I understood it in a spiritual sense to stop the pernicious

course of her husband, and promised her my assistance. As soon as I

promised her my assistance my leaders took her in protection and they

expelled at the same time the whole company of her task masters out of

the room, and then from two places on the outside of the house, from

which they were compelled to remove. After that spectacle, the detail of

which here is not the place to explain, the clock struck four. From this

circumstance I understood, that the scene commenced at three o'clock.

There are certain hours, according to our spirit language by numbers

most convenient for certain communications. As the communication

requires, also the hour is selelected by my leaders in which they draw

me into the inner state in which they show me, what is congruous to my

mission. They put me, in that instance, from my sleep into the inner

state of knowledge of what was going on. In this state I not see the

female, although I was conscious, that she was surrounded by enemies of

her happiness. The whole scene and explanation belonging to the treatise

which will be published in an other time, these hints may suffice, to

understand the following items. As soon as I saw after that scene Mr.

Mansfield and his wife at breakfast, I told them that I had a great

spirit manifestation, which Mr. Mansfield could not understand, except

if he would study some of my writings to know somewhat about my mission

He read and I explained the substance of some points in my writings to

make him known somewhat about my mission. Afternoon, while reading one

of my pamphlets, he started suddenly and went very fast into another

room, and brought directly some paper, put it on the table and said,

that while he was reading my pamphlet, a spirit was impressing him to

ask me to write questions which he would answer. I knew not who the

woman was, who asked at three o'clock in the morning of that day my

assistance to kill her husband, but I understood, that if I would follow

the direction of my leader, he would reveal it in due time, I knew, that

at that spirit battle, at which that female was taken under the

protection of our leaders, the principal champion was the martyr John

George Zeigler, an American of German descent, who in his mortal body

studied deeper than any other man, my five German volumes, and forsook

then all for our holy mission. While he was travelling in a steamboat he

was pushed into the Ohio River by an enemy of our holy mission, and

departed into the spirit world, in which he received such offices as he

was most qualified for them. He having been the principal amongst those

who took the woman in protection, while she asked my assistance, I

thought, that if I would write to him questions, I would receive the

information, who that woman was. It is to be understood, that Mr.

Mansfield wished, that I should write so, that he could not see what I

wrote, and then to wrap my writing, to which the spirit had to give

answers. But I thought I could write in German, because I was certain

that Mr. Mansfield could not read German. Therefore I said to Mr.

Mansfield, that I determined to write in the German language to the

spirit whom I had in my mind, to whom while he was a mortal, I wrote

sometimes in German, sometimes in English, but he answered always my

letters in English, and he, if he is present, will answer also through

you in English. But Mr. Mansfield remarked, that I should write my

questions in English, that he had lately great troubles with questions

which have been sent by Otto Kunz from Pittsburgh in the German language

to his departed, and that the last number of the Spirit Age contained an

article of Otto Kunz in this respect. I remarked, that I was acquainted

with Otto Kunz, (he is the learned chemist, by whom I was preparing my

way in this treatise, for what follows) but that I did not hear anything

about him for a long time, (to wit, since the summer of 1856, when I saw

him the last time before my meeting with Mr. Mansfield). I added that I

should like to see, what Otto Kunz had published. He brought then from

an other room the number of the Spiritual Age, which has the date

December 4th 1859. It must be added, that I had not before looked into

that number, nor heard anything about Otto Kunz's article. But when Mr.

Mansfield handed me that number, I read Mr. Kunz's article laid the

paper on the table and said to Mr. Mansfield: I will write in English to

the spirit whom I have in my mind. I had yet John George Zeigler in my

mind; but when I took the pencil, I was impressed to write to Charlotte

Kunz (the departed wife of Otto Kunz) in English, in the supposition,

that she could not write English, while she was a mortal, and that also

in the spirit world she did not learn to write English, that therefore

to my English address we must receive some unexpected disclosures. I

wrote therefore while the medium Mr. Mansfield turned in the opposite

direction, that he could not see, what I wrote: "Charlotte Kunz, if you

are present, please to write what you find proper." I folded my writing,

that Mansfield could not see it. He was soon entranced, and gave the

signs, from which I understood, that she was the person who asked at 3

o'clock A.M. my assistance, and then the communication was written by

Mr. Mansfield in a correct English style and correct orthography and

signed "Charlotte Kunz." The communication contains characteristic

marks, that the controlling spirit was intimately connected with deep

mysteries explained in my German books, but that he was not the writer,

but one of the company belonging to J. V. Mansfield's guardians, wrote

through him according to the wishes of Charlotte Kunz, but wrote so, as

if she herself had written. After the communication directed to me has

been written, and Mr. Mansfield reduced into his normal state, I

requested him, to copy the communication, and to give the original and

the copy to me; because I was asked in the communication by Charlotte

Kunz, professing that she was the writer, that I might write to her

husband. The handwriting of the copy was different from the original. I

preserved the copy and sent the original to Otto Kunz, with my

handwriting, remarking, that that communication has been produced by his

wife under the assistance of our leaders, that he, Otto Kunz, might

contribute his share for starting the centre of our Peace Union. I have

quoted in my writings to Otto Kunz one of the characteristic notes

testifying that the communication had certainly been produced under the

assistance or control of my leaders. And that characteristic note had

reference to Dante's Prophecy in the 33d Song of Purgatory. I speak of

that prophecy in the Epistle to which we are preparing the way. I have

explained also to Mr. Kunz several years before my meeting with his

departed wife the substance of that prophecy. I thought, if he at the

receipt of that unexpected communication would remember my explanation

of that prophecy and other testimonies of my mission, he would not be

too hasty in judging about what he could not understand in the

communication but would expect my farther explanation regarding my

communication; because the explanation could not be given in a letter,

and he was also not prepared in those circumstances to study the

treatise in which that communication is copied verbatim, and the

preparation for its understanding and its explanation is given, and that

treatise would have been published instead of this treatise, if we would

not have prefered this in the expectation, that this might be more

congruous to the present European War, which gives me opportunity to

exhort nations and governments. And for this purpose, to communicate

other important things in this treatise, we give only an epitome of the

treatise which will be published in another convenient time. But Mr.

Mansfield who has astonished many people in all quarters of the Globe by

having given more than forty thousand answers to sealed letters directed

to departed persons, became so remarkable, that he in connexion with the

well known spiritualist Otto Kunz deserved a peculiar treatise, and

appears also in this connexion of matters as a peculiar witness; because

that which has been made evident in many cases in which we tried

remarkable mediums, was in a peculiar manner confirmed, while we tried

the spirits of J. V. Mansfield, to wit, that he has certain guardians by

whom many are deluded, because those guardians give through him answers

which are found correct, when they reach and control the writers of the

sealed letters directed to their departed. But when this is not the

case, answers are not correct. Mr. Mansfield told me, that the largest

portion of his answers is correct. Such points in regard to the

relations in which the departed have been with the inquirers are

revealed in the answers, as Mr. Mansfield could not know them. From this

circumstance is also explicable, how people could be so moved, that he

had received many thousands of letters, although each applicant had to

send one dollar fee to the medium, and three dollars in case of a

guarantee that either an answer, if received would be sent, or the money

returned. When we speak of correct statements in many cases, we add that

in those communications was much of delusion regarding the spirit world.

At length when the measure of abominations was filled, I had to try his

spirits in the manner, the substance of which is given in this epitome,

the treatise being prepared to be published, whenever a publisher is

ready to publish a new book, which would contain that and other

treatises. From that treatise it is evident, that when Otto Kunz wrote

his letter to his departed wife and sent it to Mr. Mansfield to be

answered by his mediumship, the tyrants by whom Mr. Mansfield is

guarded, took her under their subjection. But to give in a new manner a

most solemn warning to all spiritualists who will not progress on our

ground, I was sent to Mansfield, and our guardians took under their

control Charlotte Kunz and the spirits who are writing through Mr.

Mansfield. The enemies of the truth, that departed spirits may use men

as their writingrnediums must explain the answers by assertions which in

most cases appear most ridiculous, for instance, I heard the assertion,

that Mansfield opens the letters. But he returns sealed letters as he

receives them; although we would not deny the possibility of temptation

to open one or the other letter of persons, with whom his guardians were

not congenial, and therefore could not give an answer. But if I had

shown to him my line directed to the departed Charlotte Kunz, although

he has been before that in correspondence with her husband, Mr.

Mansfield with all his guardians would not have been able to give the

characteristic notes which are in the communication testifying, that

some of our leaders was the superior, while J. V. Mansfield's guardian

was writing that communication with Charlotte Kunz's signature, although

there are the strongest marks in the communication, that she could not

write it, but that a deluding and destroying guardian of J. V. Mansfield

wrote it, partly according to her wishes, partly according to his own

impulse, partly according to the dictation of our leader who controlled

him, that he inserted the characteristic notes given by our leader. This

is the epitome of that treatise, which was to be given in this treatise

as a peculiar preparation to my epistle to the Bishops of Illyria. But

before we commence to translate it, we must add also the following

remarks. When our leaders compel in one place "the Secret Enemies of

True Republicanism" to bring to daylight their abominations for our

peculiar use to enlighten this degraded generation, they send us

corresponding testimonies also from other places, and we have collected

in said treatise some extraordinary testimonies for an illustration of

the answers of the sealed letters by J. V. Mansfield's mediumship. A

peculiar witness in this repect was Doctor Randolph, whose spirits I

tried several years before my meeting with Mansfield; but he was not

ready to be converted from darkness to the light which is kindled by our

disclosures. At length when I tried Mansfield's spirits, newspapers

commenced to publish Dr. Randolph's confessions. He tells: "I was a

medium about eight years, during which time I made three thousand

speeches," &c. "And to day I had rather seen the Cholera in my house

than be a spiritual medium! for years I have lived alone for

spiritualism and its cognates. Henceforth I live to combat many of the

identical doctrines that I once accepted as Heavenly truths." "I enter

the arena," says he "as the champion of common sense, against what in my

soul I believe to be the most tremendous enemy of God, morals and

religion, that ever found foothold on the earth--the most seductive,

hence most dangerous form of sensualism that ever cursed a nation, age

or people." If Dr. Randolph had been brought from spirits of delusion on

our ground, he would have assisted us to open the door for the New Era.

But he returned to the sects, from which spirits commenced to manifest

themselves in their materialistic deluding manner, till we commenced to

show, what they were, and then they commenced to be caught in their

lies, and many spiritualists commenced to be scared; but they would not

progress on our ground, and returned to professed materialism and

sectarianism. But the concentration of all abominations of the perverted

spiritualism is in the Papal Imperial Royal Courts. Many spirits delude

monarchs and their supporters either openly by peculiar manifestations,

or without such manifestations deceiving secretly monarchs and

supporters, that they prepare at length for war and commence to fight in

horrible battles, which is the highest manifestation of the infernal

furies. That they might stop this abominable work in which they are now

engaged, I wrote the following epistle, which I give in a free

translation, and then I will add some remarks for a conclusion of this

treatise. You will find in this epistle some repetitions of what has

been mentioned in the first treatise of this book, because when they

were setting that in type I did not think about writing this treatise in

which what is repeated, should be repeated so often till it is

comprehended.

The Epistle is entitled:

"Most important events for rulers of nations."

To P. T. Anthony Slomshek, Prince Bishop of Laibach. Long Island,

State of New-York, June 13th 1859.

Reverend Bishop! Being in occupations of my office on this anniversary

of momentous events on this Island, I am impressed by the spirit who has

brought me to America, to write again after a long interruption, to my

native country, and to direct my Epistle to you, to communicate copies

of it also to the bishops of Triest and Goricia. I asseverate before

you, three witnesses, that I am not guilty of the blood which is shed in

the present terrible war; although I would be most guilty, if I had not

faithfully fulfilled the duties of my charge. If those to whom I have

written at Vienna, in our native country, and also in other countries of

Europe, had discharged as conscientiously the duties of their office, as

I did those of my office, the promised universal peace would have been

established not only in the whole of Europe, but also in other parts of

the globe. But whereas there was deficiency in respect to the

intellectual and moral preparations of those who were in the office, the

terrible consequences therof are more and more visible. To bishops I

write usually in Latin. But this epistle should be delivered by you to

the government of Austria, and published to the nations not only in

German, but also in as many other languages as possible.

Prince Bishop Anthony Slomshek! Having had more opportunity than others

who are at present bishops under the Austrian government, to obtain

knowledge about me during my residence in Europe and by wise providence

having become a bishop of the diocese, in which I was born, educated and

ordained a priest, I expect that you will receive light from the spirit,

to comprehend correctly the hints which may be concentrated into the

space of an ordinary epistle. You know that I had from my youth an

extraordinary desire to search not only the Jewish and Christian but

also the antiquities of other nations, and to compare the results of my

investigations with what others have brought to light in former times

and recently, to find out, how the promised universal peace will be

established. After my having been six years secular priest of the

diocese of Laibach, I entered the Benedictine Order of the Monastery of

Saint Paul in Carinthia, for the purpose of obtaining more time and

opportunity in that order which furnishes learned professors, than in my

native country for a continuation of my investigations for the peace of

nations. After my having searched two years in the library of the

monastery, I became Professor of Biblical Literature in Clagenfurt, and

in that city I became acquainted with you, you having been there

Spiritual Adviser of Students of Divinity.

During the ten years of my Professorship I had opportunity to examine

many points, which I would never have had opportunity to examine in the

Diocese of Laibach. But I did not know that the spirit who was my guide

from my youth, was preparing me for the office which has been entrusted

to me in America. Moreover, notwithstanding I had from my youth peculiar

inclination to study the Bible and to read not only the writings of the

Church Fathers but also the writings of the old Heathen and Jews for the

purpose of getting more light on the Bible, during the last ten years of

my Professorship I did not yet know that the office with which I am

commissioned in America, had been manifoldly prophesied in the Bible,

and the prophecy repeated by prophets of the christian centuries as well

as in our time by images suitable to the seasons. Neither had I any

thought to make a voyage to America, till the spirit of truth showed by

evident testimonials, that he called me to this country. Then he opened

also the way for me hither so wonderfully, that although the Prelate of

the monastery of Saint Paul resisted with all his power, and the monks

who were my friends, united with him to hinder my voyage, Emperor

Ferdinand was enlightened to let me have my passport to America.

Signs and wonders preceded and accompanied my voyage to America, and I

reached this continent first in Boston of the State of Massachusetts on

my birth-day, November 29, 1837. In that city all that was required for

the continuation of our work, has been so prepared by invisible agents,

that although I had not the least foreboding to remain in that city, I

became convinced by the signs which happened there, that in the Roman

Catholic Cathedral Church in Boston important ocupations had been

prepared for me. I did not yet know the particular occupations: but I

followed faithfully the directions of the spirit and performed in that

church all, that had been shown to be performed by me. On the 7th of

January, 1838, one hundred and forty-four witnesses signed their names

in my catalogue. Also those witnesses were guided by invisible agents in

such a manner, that they, too, performed in that church, what was

required of them, so that on Easter Sunday, April 15, 1838, in the

Cathedral Church in Boston, in the presence of these 144 and many other

witnesses by my instrumentality the solemn excommunication of the Beast

with seven heads and ten horns from the Church of Christ has been

performed, that is, solemn declaration has been made, that the mysteries

which are contained in those figuritive expressions, do not belong to

the Church of Christ and must be therefore abolished from the earth. A

long chain of signs, according to the prophecies, preceded that

excommunication, and signs succeeded and are continually repeated. By

these signs our mission, that is, my mission and the mission of my

fellow labourers has been confirmed, and the dreadful condition of those

who are opposed to our action has been most evidently developed. In the

years 1838 and 1839 the first two volumes of Memorable Events appeared

in print. Those events took place in my experience for a testimony, that

Christ appears by His messengers for the foundation of the promised

peace on earth. A box of those volumes was sent to the Emperor of

Austria, and my written explanation was given, that in my books the will

of the most High Majesty has been made manifest, to whom Emperors and

Kings are bound to submit and to learn to know the events which have

been explained in my books and to become with us messengers of peace to

the nations, and for this purpose to give my books to the best

theologians for the strictest examination, that the result of their

examination might be sent to me, to be published with my remarks, that

nations might learn what is required for the foundation of the peace of

the world. I assured the Emperor, that dreadful revolutions and wars

will be the consequence if my advice will be rejected.

After having received no answer to my writings to the Emperor, to the

parson of his court, to a number of bishops and other influential men of

the Empire, and A.D. 1840, my third volume appeared, in which was shown,

that the unexpected events which have been explained in the first and

second volumes, happened according to prophecies, and would not have

been unexpected to bishops, if they had studied prophecies and observed

the signs of the times, and reflected upon the disclosures given by our

forerunners upon these matters, I did not send that volume straightway

to Austria, but I sent a box of all three volumes to the King of

Bavaria, with a similar written warning to the King, as in the preceding

year to the Emperor of Austria, and with the most urgent demand, that

after the Emperor of Austria and his bishops had neglected to fulfil

their highest duty, he should become the messenger of peace to all other

monarchs and open the way to the circulation of our message. At the same

time a copy of all three volumes was sent to the King of France with the

most urgent written petition that he should order without delay a French

translation of the three volumes to be spread everywhere in France, and

our solemn assurence was added, that, if he neglects to fulfil this

highest duty, Revolutions and Wars will be the necessary consequence of

this neglect.

In an ordinary epistle farther hints cannot be given in regard to what

was done on our side, to move the one or the other government to order

the strictest examination of our message, which contains the means for

abolition[U] of all Revolutions and for the foundation of the universal

peace on the whole globe; but I remark, that when they would not hear

our warning voice, Revolution broke out in February, 1848, under such

preparatory, concomitant signs, and under such corresponding events,

that after having studied those events in my writings which have been

after that partly published in the English language partly preserved for

publication, you will see, that, after our warnings given under Heavenly

inspiration had been contemptuously rejected, the infernal furies had

received the power, to commence to spread the flood of Revolution

exactly on the same day, which gives the most evident testimony, that

Revolution broke out according to a higher calculation on account of the

contempt of our message of peace.

Emperor Ferdinand having been compelled by that Revolution to issue a

constitution, I read that constitution in a newspaper on the 18th of

April, 1848, and was moved on the 19th April, which was the birth-day of

the Emperor, to give him in consequence of my charge a written assurance

that by that constitution the government and people will be saved from

ruin, if the Emperor accepts my offer; because in this case I was ready,

to start directly for Vienna, and show how the Free Press which was

guarantied by the constitution, would be properly used for developing

and spreading truth, as people have a right to demand, and its abuse

impeded, as the government is bound to impede it. I have given the

Emperor the assurance, that this, our offer, was made under higher

direction for the true happiness of the Imperial Family and the people.

I have sent in the same writing our proclamation to the nations of the

empire, and exhorted the emperor, that if he would write to me, that I

should come to Vienna, he should at the same time publish our

proclamation in all languages of the empire; because, if he accomplishes

this, by our use of the free press the door will be opened for the

introduction of the promised peace of the world, but on the contrary

revolutions and wars would be repeated and governments and nations

ruined. Those highly momentous documents were sent to the minister of

the Austrian government in Washington to be forwarded to the emperor.

Informatian was given to the minister in my next letter, to which post

office he should send the answer, if he should receive any for me from

the Austrian government. After having thus notified him I have received

no answer; but very important signs were given of the approaching war in

which the emperor resigned the throne and Hungary was wasted.

The three monarchs to whom my books have been sent, but who have

neglected to make use of the means contained therein for the peace of

nations, have been compelled to give up their thrones, but nations could

not become partakers of the promise of the universal peace; because it

will not be established by the sword but by the means contained in our

message of peace, and we have received so many signs according to

prophecies as evidences of our mission, that whereas since the year 1838

to 1842 five volumes have been written in this respect, I repeated while

I was writing the fifth volume, that five hundred volumes could be

written, if we would continue to explain prophecies of past ages and

their development in the preparations for our mission and during our

mission, and the signs by which our mission is confirmed. But we have

explained superabundance of them, because by our explanation the

dreadful condition of governments and nations has been disclosed. Signs

continue steadily, although the blind leaders of the blind, while the

Lord appears as a thief, comprehend them as little, as the Pharisees

did, when Christ appeared and prophesied the destruction of the city and

the temple.

Confined to a common letter, I can give only some hints. While the

terrible war was raging principally in Hungary, I laboured industriously

at the commencement of the year 1849 to move the American bishops, to

appear either personally or to send their Theologians to a convention in

the city of New York, to whom I offered to read in the Latin language my

system for the abolition of revolutions and Wars and introduction of the

world's peace.

I did all I could to move the bishops to attend our Latin convention,

and to make as many objections and remarks as they would find suitable,

although all must have been made in writing and handed to me, to be

annexed with my remarks to my system and published in Latin and in

translations, that men everywhere, could learn our message of peace and

all nations might become partakers of the greatest promises and the

world's peace could be established.

After bishops had neglected their highest duty, I translated the Latin

system into English and German, and made most urgent applications to

several Presidents and to congressmen of the United States, to move the

American government, to assemble a convention for the same object, for

which I endeavoured to move bishops. In the meantime Lewis Kossuth

arrived in America, and I considered it to be my peculiar duty, to make

use of what was in my power, to direct him from the spirit of

destruction to peace and to explain to him my system in which is shown,

how without soldiers the rights of men will be restored and the peace of

the world established. After several letters of preparation, at length I

met personally with him in Cincinnati. But he was cunning and let me

come to him in company with others, and when I required to speak

privately with him, he excused himself with not having time to speak

with me privately, and directed me to Count Pulski, who was his

associate. I paid to this man several visits, and shewed to him that it

was necessary for Kossuth and his assistants, to study my system and to

retire with me for this purpose. But the result of all my labour was,

that at length Kossuth had sent to me the message that it was impossible

for him to give up his plan. He is a strong "Medium," as those are

called here who are possessed, and those who are possessed by destroying

spirits, have their work, to torment rulers or also to destroy them, if

they will not find salvation in our message of peace.

Having here only opportunity to give hints on points, on which I could

write volumes, I remark, that when the American government could not be

moved to call a convention for an examination of our message of peace, I

wrote, when Emperor Napoleon III. was preparing for war against Russia,

to his ambassador in Washington, that the emperor would gather together

the highest merits for himself and mankind, if he, instead of the war

preparations against Russia, would call bishops of his empire to Paris,

to examine with me my Latin system for the foundation of the world's

peace. By doing this he would make himself and his friends and at the

same time all nations happy; but in the opposite course he would prepare

misfortune for himself and France. I assured the ambassador of the

French government in Washington, that if he before he would write to the

emperor, himself wished to be convinced of my assertion, I was ready if

he would call me, to come myself to Washington and to explain to him my

system as long as would be necessary to convince him, that we have truly

received from Heaven the commission and credentials for the foundation

of the worlds peace, and that those regents will be in this and in the

future life most unhappy, who refuse to accept our invitation. I have

received no answer from the ambassador of the French government.

Although I am writing very closely in my advanced age without

spectacles, which I never used in my life, I have very little space in

a common letter, to mention also the following items: The nearer we were

approaching to the present Revolutionary Wars in Europe the stronger

were also the signs of warning, and they are building just now on the

land which has been bought for our Peace-Union, a hall for our

conventions, in which our system for the foundation of the world's peace

will be explained and messengers of peace will be educated to be sent in

all quarters of the world. But whereas, before their labors will

establish the world's peace everywhere on the globe, all monarchs and

their families might be exterminated, if they would not make use of the

means for the foundation of the world's peace, I write this letter on

this Feast of Pentecost and anniversary of momentous events. Your

predecessor, Anthony Aloysy Wolf, Prince-Bishop of Laibach, was one of

those Prince Wolves, who have received my first two volumes, but were

not prepared to study them, and to proclaim to Emperor Ferdinand and to

the nations, the great things which the Lord has done. Those wolves have

deceived in regard to our mission the Emperor, the priests and the

people, and by this deception they became the originators of all those

murders, which have been perpetrated in revolutions and wars and

manifold other manners, which would have been prevented by receiving and

spreading our message of peace. These are the fruits, when wolves are

made pastors of nations! By murders which are perpetrated in

revolutions, wars and other ways, those who are murdered, are turned

into infernal furies, instead of having been converted by suitable

education, into Heavenly Angels. By these furies which have been

murdered in revolutions and wars, nations which are now living, are

instigated to murders in revolutions and wars and in manifold other

manners and also to all kinds of other criminal deeds, the atmosphere is

disturbed and men are tormented with all kinds of plagues, and if they

are not murdered cruelly by force, their lives are shortened manifoldly,

so that also those who live longest, would have lived much longer, if it

would have been introduced amongst nations and duly used, what we know,

but cannot use till governments introduce that which we demand.

I was Professor of Divinity in Babylon which is spoken of in the

Revelation; but whereas I was sincerely searching after truth for my own

and the welfare of my fellow-men, matters have been disclosed to me,

which I had never expected, while I was prepared without my knowledge by

invisible agents for my present charge. According to this charge I am

now Professor of Divinity or Church-Doctor for the promised peaceable

Reign of God on Earth. As Church-doctor I will teach bishops and priests

as well as monarchs and other grandees of the kingdoms of this world,

when they will be ready to hear the Heavenly voice which is made

manifest through so feeble an instrument as I am, how to pacify the

furies into which men are converted by murders and how to draw them into

the resurrection, that is, from their low to a higher condition. My

apostolic name which I have obtained on the feast of the apostle Andrew,

November 30, 1795, is Andrew. But when on the 30th November, 1826, at

the solemn profession of the Benedictine order I adopted by higher

impulse the name Bernardus, then also Pope Leo XII. was inspired, that

he promulgated Bernardus a Church-doctor. He in his shortsightedness,

had in his mind the celebrated monk of the twelth century. But neither

that monk who was preaching crusades, nor Pope Leo XII. knew, that

Turks, heretics and other nations will be converted in true Christians

without blood shedding and Christ's peaceable reign will be established

on the whole earth. But the Pope spoke as prophet of our mission who was

at that time High Priest and prophesied, that, whereas I adopted in the

prophetical profession of the Benedictine Order the name Bernardus, I

had to pass as monk through the last epoch of my studies of preparations

for my present charge, till I became Doctor Ecclesiæ, Church-Doctor,

teaching what bishops and doctors of Divinity do not understand,

although it is highly necessary for the peace of nations. From my first

arrival in the Benedictine Order, when I determined to live there, till

I started for America, exactly twelve years passed.

By the memorable events which happened in the Cathedral Church in

Boston, a key was given us to unlock prophecies, which have been before

either entirely locked, or only in some measure unlocked. Some

interpreters have known, that the seven churches in the second and

third chapters of the Revelation were prophetical churches, typifying

the seven states, to which all churches of the Christian name since the

edition of the Revelation until the foundation of the universal peace on

earth may be reduced, so that every portion of the Christian name

belongs to the one or the other of the seven churches. In the third of

the above mentioned volumes, we, that is, I under the direction of

invisible assistants, have disclosed so much regarding the fulfilment of

the prophecies in our time, as is abundantly sufficient for testimony of

our mission. In our disclosure Thyatira in the 18th verse of the second

chapter of the Revelation is the type of the Roman Catholic Church. What

is said concerning that church until the end of that chapter, you

Bishops should at length consider and digest well. You kept fast what

you did not understand, till at length the Lord comes by our mission,

and unlocks by our mediumship the Divinity for His Reign of peace. We

have overcome and to us was given "the Rod of Iron and the Morning

Star." I speak in the name of all those who are co-operating with me

according to the Plan of the Most High for the universal peace of all

nations. We have "the iron rod," but not the iron sword. The iron rod is

only a symbol of our office to announce judgments to the disobedient

nations and to their rulers. They are bruised enough and broken. Those

who remain, should at length hear our voice, then their wrong systems

will be broken to pieces, but men will be saved. For we have received

not only the iron rod, but also the morning star. In the great

temptations through which we had to pass, we remembered the morning star

which appeared several times during the sun shine in close connexion

with our steps, and once in a peculiar connection with you, Prince

Bishop Anthony Slomshek! as well as in connection with the Emperor of

Austria! You remember that I wrote at a certain occasion my opinion in

regard to your sermons which appeared in print in our Slavonian mother

tongue, and in that my article I made also some extracts from my Latin

manuscript, "On the congeniality of languages[V]," to publish them with

that article in the "Carinthia"[W]. I finished writing that article on

the 6th February, 1835. When I was on the 7th February well nigh ready

to go to my students in the college, I was moved by the spirit to write

instantly a prophetical conclusion to that article. When I finished that

conclusion, I hurried to be in the college. After that there was much

talking among the Professors and others about the morning star which

appeared on that forenoon during sunshine. I explored exactly the time,

and found that the star appeared, when I commenced writing that

prophetical conclusion, and disappeared, when I finished writing. I

handed then that article to you, to deliver it to the editor of the

Carinthia. But there occured an accident, that the article appeared

later than I expected, so in the Carinthia, that the last part with the

great prophecy regarding the peace of nations was published on Easter

Saturday April 18, 1835, or on the Eve of the birth-day of the Emperor

Ferdinand the first year of his government. His birth day was celebrated

that year on Easter Sunday. An exact calculation was made by our

invisible agents. The poems of two panegyrists of the birthday of the

Emperor appeared in the same number immediately before our prophecy.

Those two adulators were types of the two adulators, Joseph Pletz Parson

of the Imperial Court, and Anthony Alosy Wolf, Prince Bishop of Laibach.

These two prelates have deluded the Emperor in regard to our mission,

and as a consequence terrible judgments came upon governments and

nations. But this writing is connected with the Morning Star, which

should be delivered by you to the young Emperor Francis Joseph and to

many nations as well as the ancestors of the Emperor, who are waiting in

the Empire of death for their redemption by our Message. It should be

delivered by you in the midst of terrible judgments. If you have the

spirit which I expect in you, you yourself will carry this letter

without delay to the Emperor, and explain personally, what is necessary

for his resurrection and strength. Now he belongs in the 16th verse of

the 17th chapter of the REVELATION. Kossuth, Mazzini and other heroes of

the Revolution are preparing the Harlot for Emperors and Kings, who are

fulfilling the judgments which are announced in that verse. But we to

whom this victory is promised, belong to those, who are united with the

lamb in the 14th verse of the 17th chapter of the REVELATION and will

overcome the Beast and its ten horns. To wit, we have the chain, with

which the Dragon, the seducing and destroying Serpent, will be bound and

cast into the abyss, REVEL. xx: 2, That is the magnetic chain of events

of past times in connexion with events of this time. In this chain the

genuine condition of the existing political and ecclesiastical

governments appears in its true light, so that, when this chain will be

duly spread and made known to Nations, they will be carried from the

existing Babylon into the New Jerusalem. Who ever amongst the rulers

comprehends this and carries the people into the New Jerusalem, into the

promised Reign of Peace, he himself and his family, as well as his

departed or yet in mortal bodies living congenial relations will be

brought into the true happiness; but on the contrary those rulers and

who are attached to them, who despise our apostolic voice, will be

exterminated. Judgement will not cease, till at length it destroys

themselves also. I have given in this Epistle as many hints as are

sufficient for such Bishops who are not entirely dead, to believe, when

I assure them, that, in our writings it has been made clear and evident,

that our chain or our system, which, for Peace of Nations, should be

made known to all political and ecclesiastical Governments, is

astronomically and historically correct. Therefore that of the three

named bishops, who receives first this Epistle, should inform the other

two of the matter and summon them to go directly with him to the

Emperor. Who comprehends this, and is inspired by the Holy Ghost who is

our director, for the accomplishment of Divine Decrees, is with us a

messenger of God. He should as such appear before the Emperor with this

Epistle, read to him the Epistle, and explain it, and summon the Emperor

to become with us a messenger of God, and may he be seemingly in profit

or seemingly in loss in regard to the Emperor Napoleon, to send this

Epistle to Emperor Napoleon, and require instantly an armistic under the

condition, that he is desirous to make immediately, with condescension,

a treaty of Peace, to hear the "Messo di dio," the messenger of God,

spoken of by the prophets of the Old and New Testament as well as by the

prophets of the succeeding ages of the Christian Era, and to fulfil the

will of the Most High for the welfare of nations. Amongst those

prophecies is one of the most remarkable in the 33rd Song of Purgatory

in the Divine Comedy of the great Italian Poet Dante, in which the

spirit Beatrice, Dante's departed wife, speaks of the "five hundred, ten

and five messenger of God," that is, of "Smolnker messenger of God."

The number 500, 10 and 5, that is the number 515, is opposed to the

number 666 in the Revelation, xiii: 18. The name which comprehends the

mysteries which are contained in the 17th and 18th verses of the 13th

chapter of the Revelation and also the number 666, has been delivered

into our hands, and all that belongs to the name, has been explained in

my books, in which to obtain the number 666, we had to write the name

with Greek letters, because the Revelation appeared in the Greek

language. And likewise also my name SMOLNKER, as it was originally

exactly pronounced, to wit, with short _o_ and short _e_ must be written

with Greek letters. This was the exact pronunciation of my name, as I

heard it pronounced by my grandparents and my parents. And the Greek

letters with short _o_ and short _e_ exactly pronounced in my name

SMOLNKER, give exactly the number 515, which is the number of the

messenger of God in Dante's prophecy. If you add this number to the year

1321, in which Dante died, you obtain the year 1836. "The messenger of

God" is in the quoted prophecy the same as the 3d Angel in Revel, xiv.

9. That the third Angel regarding whom the prophecy commences in the 9th

verse of the 14th chapter of the Revelation, had to appear before the

public about the year 1836, and also that that Angel or messenger would

not be a departed but a man living in his mortal body, has been shown in

the last century by Doctor Bengel and his disciples using admirable

astronomical calculations by the means of the prophetical numbers in the

Revelation. My first German teacher, a Franciscan Monk from Bavaria,

inserted the letter _i_ into my name, and taught me to write my name

SMOLNIKER, till at length Professor Valentine Vodnik wrote my name as I

write it now. The numbers of my name, after having received those

changes, if you calculate the years, commencing with Dante's death,

give also highly important stopping points in the development of the

mysteries of the Theology for Christ's peaceable reign. I can give in an

epistle only some hints.

By many of our forerunners many points have received partial

disclosures, or there have been prepared several links for the chain,

with which we will strangle the Harlot and the Giant who sins with the

Harlot, without hurting the flock and the fields, according to Dante's

prophecy. This prophecy mentions also the stars by which our advent is

announced, and in my books several apparitions of unexpected stars are

remembered in close connection with our office. In Dante's prophecy is

the messenger of God a collective name as well as the third Angel or

messenger in the 9th verse of the 14th chapter of the Revelation. One

man is representing the whole society by whom is accomplished what is

comprehended in the prophecy. The representative had to execute and

explain the mystery. At the expiration of the year 1836, which year has

been so mysteriously announced by the prophets, that I knew nothing

about it, I was called on the 5th day of January, 1837, at 5 o'clock

p.m. to this office. The call was delivered to me by an Angel of the

Lord, that I should make the resolution to prepare for my voyage to

America. And when I said: "O Lord! Thy will be done!" the same moment a

great light appeared over the City of Klagenfurt, where I was Professor

of Biblical Literature and you were Spiritual Adviser in the Theological

Seminary. You yourself have perhaps seen the light-ball, or certainly

heard much and read in newspapers about it. I myself have not seen it,

because I was in a deep trance and received at the same moment the order

by a Heavenly messenger.

Here is no space to say more about Dante's prophecy. In my third volume

of Memorable Events more than one hundred pages have been used for

disclosing Dante's strange prophecy regarding the Messenger of God in

the 33d or the last Song of Purgatory, in connection with other

prophecies with which it is parallel and in connection with the

prophecies which have been given A.D. 1814 at the first distribution of

premiums after the fall of Emperor Napoleon I, when our city of Laibach

returned under the Austrian government, and I received Dante's Divine

Comedy for the first premium out of the Italian language. And whereas I

am labouring since my arrival in America with the greatest zeal to save

men and to bring them from Purgatory into Heaven, warlike spirits are

murdering and casting them into hell. Yet I have great confidence that

by your intermediation not only the Emperor of Austria but also the

Emperor of France will hear the Heavenly voice, which is sounding in

this letter. I have written several months before the outbreak of this

war a book in the English language ("this same book from which we take

away other manuscript and publish this epistle,") to publish it as soon

as circumstances will be favourable. I have shown in that book by

peculiar events which occurred with Emperor Louis Napoleon, but which

are not comprehended by him and his mediums till they study to know our

chain to bind the dragon, Revelation, xx: 2. that Emperor Napoleon is a

very strong medium of destroying spirits, but that I foster the hope,

that he will comprehend our message of peace and draw also his Uncle

Nepoleon I. into our reign of peace and become a great apostle of peace

to the nations.

Both Emperors, the Emperor of Austria as well as the Emperor of France,

will become truly great if they accept our message of Peace, which

contains the substance, that they should directly conclude Peace, with

all mutual condescension and with our assurance, that soldiers who will

not be needed in God's Keign of Peace on Earth, will obtain according to

the plan which is to be published in the above mentioned book "(in this

book)" and which after the English edition may be translated also in

other languages, occupations most suitable to their strength and the

best spiritual education, to be truly happy in their mortal bodies as

well as after their departure.

But whereas no treaty of Peace can be of duration in our time, unless

the governments enter into Christ's Peaceable Reign, which to establish

we have obtained the mission, you, Prince Bishop Anthony Slomshek, and

also the other two witnesses who are bound to give you all possible

assistance, are particularly summoned to recommend most urgently to

both emperors, as soon as they conclude an armistice and prepare the way

to the treaty of Peace, to appoint also a healthy place, where according

to the geographical situation and other circumstances bishops of both

empires can easiest meet, for our Convention in which my Latin

manuscript which should have been examined A.D. 1849 by the American

Bishops in the Convention which was appointed in the City of New-York,

is to be examined according to the same rules mentioned above, and to

give me as well as the bishops information of this affair; because I am

ready to do all in my power for the Peace of Nations. You, Bishop

Anthony Slomshek are requested, to send me directly the result, after

having received and read this letter in your Consistory, and direct your

letter to

ANDREW B. SMOLNIKAR,

DONNALLY'S MILL, PERRY COUNTY,

Pennsylvania, in North America.

We cannot enter into explanations of the paints mentioned in this

Epistle to Bishop Anthony Slomshek. The substance of the remote and

recent causes of the war in Europe and of the causes of all revolutions

and wars is, that men are living on the surface, in materialism,

according to their animal lusts and passions, using their reason to

accomplish their animal desires, and neglecting the one thing needful to

grow in the knowledge of their true inner condition and the true

condition of the departed, and in corresponding virtue for high spheres

of spirits to promote the true welfare of the whole human race while

they are promoting their own welfare. The treasures which I collected

from my early youth to this advanced age for the promotion of the common

welfare, I carry with me into the spirit world. But those who, instead

of having cultivated their inner man, came on the surface into the

materialistic life, and lived according to their animal passions and

carnal lusts and according to the custom of their party and sect, and

supported blindly the performances contained in the traditions and

systems which have been delivered to them by their predecessors, were

preparing in their way for revolutions and wars, instead of having

learned our disclosures that the time had arrived for the abolition of

the Old Heavens and the Old Earth, that is, of the old ecclesiastical

and political institutions, and how they are to be abolished in the most

peaceable manner.

In this ignorance of things which have been disclosed in our

publications, those who keep up those Institutions, come in collision

with those who endeavour to destroy them without knowledge of their

prophetical meaning and of the truth which is behind the vail of the

outward form, and without preparation for a better state of human

affairs. This collision is continuously preparing revolutions and wars.

Men on the surface, not knowing the right means for true liberty, use

the means which destroy not only liberty, but also human life and

property, and life is wantonly destroyed, because men in their dreadful

degraded condition do not know how to appreciate it. In this condition,

if the old systems would succeed so far as to crush down with absolute

despotism all movements for deliverance, they could not keep for a long

time people in bondage of absolutism. Crevices would be always found,

from which the movements of the secret aspirations for liberty would

commence to be made manifest, till the eruption of the flood of

revolution and war would effect great destruction of life and property.

But also in the case, that the enemies of the old institutions would

succeed so far as to sweep away every vestige of them on the surface of

the Globe, they would be as little able as the supporters of the old

systems to preserve Peace; because there is no pacification in the

spirit world, except by receiving and spreading the means shown us from

the spheres of spirits by whom we are commissioned to introduce the New

Era of Harmony and Peace amongst mortals as well as amongst their

congenial departed. But the more materialism subdues the Globe, the more

the inner causes for new out-breaks of revolutions and wars are

operating to find crevices for the outbreak, so that there is absolutism

and despotism as necessary for those who without the use of the old

forms promise to make people free, as for those who promise the same in

the support of the new systems. Emperor Louis Napoleon and Emperor

Francis Joseph are quite remarkable representatives of the two systems,

while Napoleon makes such a use of the old form as to satisfy many of

the open opposers to it, and the Emperor of Austria endeavours to

sustain with hundreds of thousands of soldiers the inheritance of the

old abominations which should have been abolished by the application of

our message without murder of any man and for the greatest benefit of

the departed and the mortals of the family of Hapsburgh, while the whole

empire and all nations would have been benefited.

From the scattered hints in this book you may collect, that since

Francis Joseph's Government I was rather endeavouring to effect in one

or the other manner a movement in this country, by which at length also

the Bishops and the Government of Austria might be awakened from their

fatal lethargy; because I saw that my direct applications to the young

Emperor would have been for no use. I am in no direct correspondence

with my native country, and I receive news either in newspapers or from

occasional reports, and shortly before I wrote the weighty Epistle to

Anthony Slomshek I met with a countryman who was professor in Vienna,

during the revolution of 1848, and on account that he inspired students

for fighting, he had to leave the country, and he told me besides other

news, that he heard that Anthony Slomshek was Prince Bishop in Laibach.

Several years before that I received the news that he was Prince Bishop

at Saint Andrew in Lavant Valley of Carinthia, only five miles from the

monastery of Saint Paul, where I became a monk of the Benedictine order.

I wrote to him, when I received that report; but I received no answer.

At length the Epistle which appears in this treatise, has been sent to

him as to Prince Bishop of Laibach, on the above mentioned authority.

The Epistle would retain in this book the same value also in the case,

that the report should not be correct that he is Bishop of Laibach;

because the facts which I relate in the Epistle as facts known to him

are facts of my own experience and such as occurred in close connection

with my experience, and have been attested by many witnesses directly

after they happened.

Although I made few applications directly to Austria during the

Government of Emperor Francis Joseph, my fellow student Frederick

Baraga, Bishop at the Falls of Saint Mary at Lake Superior, extending

his diocese widely amongst Indians of North America, a peculiar favorite

at the Austrian Court, after having neglected the former opportunities

to study our message of Peace and to spread it in the Austrian

Government, was brought on the great Popish Feast of Christ's Body

(Festum Corporis Christi) May 22, 1856, to me in quite an unexpected

manner for both but in such a connexion with the present war in Europe,

that if this man, at least at that time had fulfilled his highest duty,

instead of the tremendous war, Christ's Peace would have already been

established in Europe. Therefore, not having room to write much, I must

mention at least somewhat about that our meeting showing the secret

causes of the present war and of all revolutions and wars since our

first proclamation of the great message entrusted to our care.

On that feast, which was celebrated A.D. 1856 on the 22d day of May, my

pamphlet: "Redemption of oppressed Humanity! Christ's manifestation for

the abolition of all kinds of Popery!" issued from the press in the same

Printing Establishment of Cincinnati, into which Bishop Baraga came on

that feast to see the proof-sheet of the title page of his Latin Book

for his missionaries. Our meeting on that feast in a Protestant Printing

Office was so unexpected, that we did not know each other, when we met

at the compositors' room which he left while I was entering into it. I

was then instructed by the compositors, that that gentleman was the same

Bishop Baraga about whom I spoke in the pamphlet showing that while

bishops were consecrating him or made him a bishop, they were crucifying

Christ in his members; to wit, that bishop after having become so great

an apostle of the Indians, that he was very renowned in our native

country and at the Austrian Government, was made a medium by my

leaders, that he opened the way for my voyage to America. But after

having discovered, that our mission was not for, but against the Pope,

he instead of having studied my books and examined our message of Peace

and the credentials of our mission, became enraged. I expected that at a

personal meeting with him I would make him comprehend our mission. But

there was no opportunity until that feast on the 22d May, 1856, which

was selected for the commencement of the spirit manifestations at my

personal meetings with that medium of spirits of delusion and

destruction.

After having written a considerable portion of the next following

treatise, I am aware that I cannot encompass within so few pages as I am

desirous to do, what is to be communicated there to nations, and I take

from this treatise some sheets away, in which I have given disclosures,

why we have mentioned in our Epistle to Bishop Anthony Slomshek also the

Bishops of Triest and Goricia, whose predecessors should have at the

same time opened the way to the circulation of our message of Peace in

which time Bishop Anthony Aloysy Wolf should have been their co-operator

for Peace. But Matthew Raunicher, who was at that time Bishop of Triest,

should have been the leader of this work; because amongst those who

belonged to the Austrian Government he was the first who received the

first two volumes of my works. But he was formerly Professor of

Dogmatics and as such also my professor, and was so fixed in the Dogmas

of his infallible Church, that he could not study my books, to learn

what all dogmatists of the so called christian denominations require, to

with signs according to prophecies by which an "extraordinary

ambassador" to the churches should prove his mission. I hope, that

Raunicher's disciples, Bishop Baraga and Bishops and Priests in Illyria

and elsewhere will learn at length that we have superabundance of signs

according to prophecies testifying our mission against the infallibility

of the Church, and for the great truth, that many of the Dogmas of the

church are the most shocking absurdities, of they are taken as they have

been delivered by the Papal Imperial Royal Hierarchy, but that we show

a deeper sense, in which sound reason and science are reconciled with

religion. But we close this treatise to get more room for the next

following treatise, to assist the Pope and his bishops to prepare for

their own and the ressurrection of their departed predecessors.