If you keep all that has been said in this book, you will comprehend the hints which we have given as preparations at our approach to the development of what we have promised in the inscription of this treatise. Others have tried to show from their position, and Doctor Bengel with application of historical and astronomical erudition endeavoured to make it most evident, that the Beast with seven heads and ten horns in the 13th chapter of the Revelation, is the papal monarchy. At length came the 3rd angel or messenger, Revel. xiv: 9, by whose mediumship the whole chain was developed, which testifies the same. And Heavenly Congress of the 144,000 martyrs, Revel. xiv: 1, who superintend, that prophecy given under their direction, is exactly fulfilled, (as there is the case with the prophecies of the Revelation,) have given also such testimonies of this truth, that the most stubborn materialist if he studies to learn truth, finds superabundance of most striking evidences, that hosts of spirits were co-operating, that prophecy was fulfilling, till at length by unexpected events the Divine seal was attached to its fulfilment by our mediumship. We will give later in this treatise striking testimonies of this truth. But here was the preparation, that you may understand the following hints on the 9th and 10th verses of the 17th chapter of the Revelation in connection with the inscription of this treatise.
Doctor Bengel was the first who has discovered, after an investigation for many years in the Bullarium Romanum, in which the dates of the papal letters which are known under the name of the Papal Bulls, bear besides the time, the place from which they issued, that is, the place of the Papal See or Chair, or of the papal government. In the 17th chapter is the same Beast with the seven heads and ten horns which appears in the first verse of the 13th chapter, only that in the 17th chapter it appears in another state, to wit, the seer says in Revelation, xvii: 3d, "I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns." This woman is called in the 5th verse: "Babylon the great, the mother of harlots and abominations." The same woman is called in the 3d verse of the second chapter in the second epistle to the Thessalonians "the apostasia or apostasy," what your translators expressed with "a falling away." In the preceding treatise we quoted a prophecy in the 33d song of Purgatory in Dante's Divine comedy, in which the five hundred ten and five messenger of God strangles the harlot and the giant who sins with the harlot. That harlot is the same old woman, which is called in the 17th chapter of the Revelation, "the mother of harlots and abominations," and the giant is the representative of the Beast, at this time Pius ix, carrying on his shoulders the whole burden of abominations and blasphemies of the whole succession of the apostles whose master is the apocalyptical dragon, who has given him "power, seat and great authority," Revel. xiii: 2. The word which is in your translation seat, is in Greek "throne," which you understand. But by the worshipers of the Beast it is usually called "the Holy See," and you know if you have comprehended this book until this page, that the Pope had received his holy see from "his infernal holiness, the dragon." And we will concentrate and kindle an admireable light upon this subject in this treatise.
In the the 7th chapter of Daniel is the 4th Beast, having ten horns, the Roman Monarchy. This same monarchy became at length the papal monarchy, when the Bishop of Rome became monarch of the church and extended his monarchy or superintendency over the other monarchs and nations as far as he could, with the same view, as the heathen Roman Emperors had, to make Rome the mistress of the globe; only that the Roman bishop did this under a christian title, although his government was an antichristian government under a christian pretext. There was inspiration; but the inspiration was from the dragon and his host. The foundation of that Empire is expressed in Revel. xiii: 2. Any body who has a christian spirit and compares that which happened in Italy from Easter Sunday of this year until this day, July, 21st, 1859, is convinced of this truth. These are the fruits of the Papal monarchy! I have superabundance of other business, and am writing occasionally since the 4th of this month the preceding and this treatise, and the reader should keep continuously in his mind, that I give only some links in this time of great delusion preparing great destruction also in this country, that there not being opportunity to study the whole chain of our disclosures people might receive as much as necessary to know the "secret ememies of true Republicanism," and the inner life of man and the spirit world, that they might be saved, instead of being ruined and destroyed. "The seven heads are seven mountains. Also seven kings, five of whom are fallen, and one is and the other is not yet come." This is the state of things at the time, in the 9th and 10th verses of the 17th chapter of the Revelation. Rome is located on a number of hills, the seven principal of which are called by the ancient writers the seven mountains. Doctor Bengel has shown from the Ballarium Romanum and other documents regarding the Papal government, that since the Roman Emperor Constantine I. the Pope had the seat of his administration until the time in which Doctor Bengel wrote, on five of the seven mountains, to wit, 1. on the mountain Coelius, 2. mountain Aventinus, 3. Vaticanus, 4. Qurinalis, 5. Esquilinus. Farther is to be remarked that although Popes had some times their seats in other places, for instance in Avignon of France, others in opposition to them had at the same time their seat in Rome, or when in some Revolution they were driven from Rome, they returned as soon as they could. Doctor Bengel when he found, that in his time the seat of the Papal government was the fifth of the seven mountains, assured most solemnly, that that government would not be translocated from that upon another mountain until it crumbled to pieces, and he, by his admirable calculation, showed, that it would take place before the expiration of his century. It took place A.D. 1798, when Pope Pius VI. was taken captive and carried to France, and the French Directory located the seat of their government in Rome, not upon one of the five mountains which were successively occupied as the seat of the Papal government, but upon the mountain Capitolinus. On that mountain was the temple which was dedicated during the heathen Rome to all heathen Gods, and during the Papal Rome to all Saints or all Gods whom the Pope professed to worship. But then it was taken by the French Directory for the seat of the government.
All these things were axactly performed, by the influence of spirits of different spheres. Every actor in the great drama was influenced by spirits for whose inspiration he was best prepared. But all that took place under the vigilance of the highest order of spirits for the accomplishment of prophecies. In Revelation, xvii: 10 the seven mountains are called seven kings, that is seven monarchial or dospotic or antichristian governments, governments which originated from the inspiration of the dragon, the spirit of delusion and destruction. The seven mountains are types of these seven governments. But five are fallen, that is five kings or five monarchial governments are fallen at the time which the Revelator saw, that is, at the time, when the woman was sitting on the Beast having seven heads and ten horns. During those five kings or during the Papal governments on the live mountains that woman, which is the mother of harlots and abominations, was prepared and fostered by all the anti-christian deeds which have been perpetrated by the authority of the Papal Bulls which issued from the five mountains. People who came out from the exterior fashion of Popery, did not return to the christian truth and christian spirit, but progressed into materialism and endeavoured to effect with weapons of war, what can only be effected according to the plan given in the following treatise. The French Revolution broke out A.D. 1789, and progressed in tremendous destruction of life and property and in terrorism and distress of the survivors, that at length A.D. 1798 Pope Pious VI was carried captive to France, where he died; the Papal Monarchy or the Beast having seven heads, disappeared, or the woman was sitting upon the Beast, that is, took possession of the monarchy. That woman is called the harlot and the mother of harlots, and the apostasy, or defection from truth and righteousness. People polluted with this defection appear under the image of a harlot. And those who professed to act in the name of the Republic or the people, after having removed the Pope from his seat, located their government on the Mountain Capitolinus, in contempt of the saints or gods of the Pope, and supported their government with a more terrible despotism, than their predecessors, the popes, did. This government of the French Directory on the Mountain Capitolinus, is in this calculation the sixth government, or the government introduced in Rome after the fall of the governments on the five of the seven mountains. When the government on those five mountains was translocated from one mountain upon an other, the government was not destroyed but only changed, as circumstances required. But when the sixth government, (called in Revel. xvii: 10 "the one is" that is, the one which was in existence after the fall of the preceding five), was introduced, the former governments of the Papal monarchy were entirely abolished. When this took place, "the other" in Revel, xvii: 10 "was not yet come," and the government of the French Republic was in the greatest danger of being overturned. In those circumstances, "the other," that is Napoleon came. He returned from Egypt and saved the republic; but the republic could not be sustained, and Napoleon advanced gradually so far that he became at length Emperor; and of him is said: "he must continue a short space." Revel. xvii: 10. His government is in this calculation the seventh government. He thought, that the secular monarchy of the Pope was injurious to his Empire, and he required that the Pope, Pious VII, successor of Pius VI who died in France, should give up his secular monarchy. And when the Pope refused to do so, he was taken captive and brought at length to France.
Napoleon is in our magnetic chain the same, who according to the vulgar reading and translation is called "the man of sin, the son of perdition." 2d Ep. Thessal. ii: 3. We give only as many hints as are sufficient, to arouse governments and nations from their lethargy. Theologians not knowing how the Bible originated, nor how to make the right use of it, had made already of the first chapter of the Bible the greatest abuse, and came in collision with developments of astronomy and geology as well as with the true history of man, being in that chapter nothing else but the vision or the image of the creation of the mosaic Heaven and the mosaic Earth, or the mosaic ecclesiastical and political institutions, which are abolished by virtue of our mission in which we show the new Heaven and the new Earth. Interpreters and translators commenced to dupe people with the first verse of the Bible, where the Hebrew word "Elohim" is in the plural number. But they translated that word, "God;" although those who know somewhat about the true spiritualism, may easily comprehend, that those Elohim are the guardian gods or the guardian angels, departed ancestors of the Jewish Nation. At the administration of those guardians Moses produced the ecclesiastical and political institutions of that nation. Of those institutions, and of the books of that nation such a tremendous abuse was made, that from that abuse at length "the man of sin, the son of perdition" was produced. But this vulgar reading is taken in the first place from a wrong Greek reading. The genuine reading gives in the first place the translation "the man of lawlessness" that is, the man who came out from a lawless state, from a state in which the ecclesiastical and political laws have been overthrown. In the second place instead of "the son of perdition" should be translated "the son of destruction," that is, the man who came through that dreadful destruction of human life and property which is preserved in history, upon the Imperial Throne of France, that all in him has been fulfilled, what we read in the quoted chapter, and is explained in our magnetic chain in which we have given also the genuine reading and the genuine translation, where needed to understand the prophecy, as far as it has been fulfilled[X] in Napoleon I. But the explanation cannot be here repeated; but we had here to mention as much as necessary, that the supplement of its fulfilment might be understood by Napoleon III. and that the two fighting emperors and their tremendous armies in Italy, as well as all other monarchs, might learn their true position and be converted from the Dragon to Christ and become with us messengers of Peace. For this purpose we must give the following hints:
"And the Beast that was and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. Revel. xvii: 11. You must keep in mind, that the Revelator saw the state in which the harlot was sitting on the Beast, that is, occupying the place of the Papal monarchy. In that state of things the Beast or Papal monarchy was not in existence. But when the Revelator was contemplating that state with marvel, the angel who has shown him this state of things, gives some prophecies of what would follow after that state.
"The Beast that thou sawest, was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition" Revel. xvii: 8. The Papal monarchy, which disappeared for a certain time, had to re-appear, and that re-appearance is its ascension from the abyss, from so deep a cave that its bottom is not seen, from the realm of darkness in reference to Revel. xiii: 2, when it came into existence first by the spirit of delusion effecting great destruction, at the incursion of barbarian[Y] nations into the Roman Empire in the 4th, 5th, and 6th centuries. At that time the Bishop of Rome took advantage to commence to be Superintendent of the kingdoms which originated from the Roman Empire, and their number was successively ten, which are called the ten horns of the Beast. Napoleon's Empire "which continued a short space," having been the seventh government, the Papal monarchy which ascended out of the abyss Revel. xvii: 8, was in this calculation the eighth king or government, Revel. xvii: 11, and came out of the seven preceding governments, and commenced, when A.D. 1814 Pope Pius VII took possession of his territory after his triumphant return to Rome. Then the ten horns of the Beast, who "are ten kings" Revel. xvii: 12, (to wit, in reference to the origin of the kingdoms out of the Roman Empire in connexion with the origin of the papal monarchy,) the monarchs or their Representatives who after the overthrow of Napoleon's Empire assembled in the Congress of Vienna, "These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast." Revel. xvii: 13. The translation being not exact, we give only the sense, that they agreed, that the representative of the Beast or the Pope should be with them a partaker of his temporal power, or of his monarchy, which he has lost entirely during the sixth government, and died in captivity. His successor Pius VII, who commenced to restore it, was then taken by Napoleon; but after Napoleon's fall the old dynasties with the Papal monarchy were restored. And the people continued in the great apostasy which is called the harlot, and the monarchs were fulfilling and continue to fulfil at this time in the most tremendous manner the 16th verse of the 17th chapter of the Revelation, "making the harlot desolate and naked, eating her flesh and burning her with fire." In this tremendous condition they continued since they took again possession of their governments. Their proceedings and the whole management of their affairs appear anti-christian. These governments "make war with the lamb." Revel. xvii: 14. This they do continously, till at length we read reports of such destructions as are now in Italy. But to those who are with the lamb, called and chosen and faithful, the victory against the antichristian governments is promised in the same verse. Without having room for farther hints in this confinement to a small book, that it might be studied by many who could not be moved or would not have time to study a large work or would not have the means to buy it, we must give here some hints, how our victory against those who are in war with the lamb, has been secured by the most solemn promises and fulfilment of the most sublime prophecies. Readers should keep in mind all hints given on the preceding pages, and should know, that I was called to America by a Heavenly messenger. Then followed continuous signs, by which all things were prepared the right moment, that I was directed to Boston, Mass., and arrived in that city on my birth day, November, 29, 1837, when I was exactly 42 years old. I had no knowledge, that my invisible guardians had prepared all that was required, that in that city great works have been performed by my instrumentality. On memorable events which happened in the Roman Catholic Church of that city from December, 1837, until the 3d Sunday after Easter, 1838, by my mediumship and assistance of 144 witnesses many hundred pages have been written in my often mentioned five German volumes.
Readers of this book are accustomed to hear unexpected events, and we mention without explanations the following as preparatory to the light which we shall give in this treatise upon the present meeting of Emperor Napoleon and his army with Emperor Francis Joseph and his army in Italy, and upon the present Pope in their vicinity.
While I was preparing to start from Boston to other places, I was instructed by unexpected wonders and signs that I must remain in Boston and take care of the German Catholic congregation, and the priest who had charge of it, was by invisible agents compelled to leave directly Boston. For the use of our German Congregation the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church was granted at the time, during which it was not occupied by the Irish and American Congregation. We had our service on Sundays from 8 to 10 o'clock A.M. in that Church, and I explained prophecies in reference to our time and the necessity of true Reformation for those who would be partakers of the great promises for the fulfilment of which the time was approaching. This I knew as well as also, that I came to America to work in this country for their fulfilment according to the direction of my leaders. But I did not know, what, according to their plan was to be done.
On the 6th day of January, 1838, which was Saturday and the feast of Epiphany or Christ's manifestation, a great prophetical feast for our mission, I received the order from my guardian, the martyr in Revel. xiv: 14, who was crucified and burned by the Pope, and found by the Heavenly Congress, Revel. xiv: 1, as best qualified to be my principal director in what I had to perform in the cathedral Church in Boston. The name of that martyr and why he was found to be my leader in that work, is in other of my writings. By him I was instructed to prepare the congregation on that feast, that those who would be willing to co-operate with us for the great Reformation which was required for the fulfilment of prophecies, should be ready to come on the next following day after our Sunday service in my school room and sign their names and what they would be willing to do for defraying expenses in our enterprises. On sunday the 7th of January, 1838, I delivered again a sermon suitable to inspire the congregation for the great enterprise, and asked that those who were ready for co-operation, should come directly after the service in our school room. That was a step against all precedence. The catalogue of those who belonged to the congregation, was given to me before, and trustees took great care to collect large subscriptions for us. But all this should be rejected, and only those who would be ready to work with me for the great reformation without regard to the bishop, should come and sign their names and contributions, to be regarded as my fellow labourers in the great reformation. Although I have explained to them in my sermons as many signs as they could bear, that I came against all my expectations to America to prepare people for the reformation necessary for the fulfilment of the greatest promises, I, according to human insight into matters, did not expect that any would dare to sign his name. But I did, as I was ordered by my leader.