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