as a dragon.”  Here are the orders of monks under the image of a Therion, a ferocious beast, which appears as a lamb to those whom it entraps for the Pope, but it is ferocious, although it hides its ferocity, as a dragon, till its delusion is made manifest, when it destroys the enemies of the Pope.  It is caught in all six shapes into our catalogue, the explanation of the mysteries of which in our volumes shows to all monks and priests the urgent necessity to become with us messengers of the new era And the explanation from the 11th verse to the end of the 13th chapter of the Revelation and of other mysteries is in our volumes showing the dreadful condition of monks and priests in their present course.

We have given some hints without explanations which are in my printed volumes and in the manuscript, which N.B.  On this great prophetical Feast, August 15, 1859, of Mary’s Assumption into Heaven and of Napoleon I’s Birthday, I mention that I was since the twenty-first day of June last, on which day agreement was made with the printer and the manuscript of the First Treatise was given him for printing this book, confined to New York, wishing to have it printed as soon as possible.  But those Messengers from our sphere who have the commission to count according to our spirit language by numbers, pages and lines in my publications and days for their printing in agreement with the calendar, for this purpose controlling the spirits of the compositors, did not hinder them to annoy me in manifold ways.  At length I wrote on the 1st inst. my complaint and carried it to the same attorney who without charge wrote the agreement; but not having found him in his office, I myself carried it to the printer, expecting a good effect.  But I was as much disappointed, as when I commenced to write the Fourth Treatise and thought that it would not become larger than the largest of the preceding Treatises.  But having become more than twice as large, we stopped the composition of the Fourth Treatise at the end of the 168th page, which according to the printer’s calculation will be finished on the 17th inst.  The portion of the Fourth Treatise which appears in this edition is a necessary preparation to comprehend the proper position of Pope Pius IX. and of the Emperors of France and Austria, and to understand the mysteries of the dates of the remarkable events in the last war in Italy.  Those dates testify that those events happened under strict control of our leaders watching the infernal furies destroying men, and in so exact a correspondence with events of our mission, that if you comprehend this book and act accordingly, you will open soon the door for the New Era in America and in Europe; but if you neglect this the three extraordinary witnesses have such a position as to continue judgments.