answer I called our messenger to give him the paper with the order to inquire at those who were acquainted with most people of our congregation, to find out those persons and invite them to come to me about important matters, without telling the case which I myself did not understand.  But at the moment, when I would give him the paper, I was severly shaken and heard the voice, not to inquire for any body but to perform that which I had been commanded to do.  The order having been given by the leader from whom other most important orders came, I was satisfied, that with the order were deeper things connected than I could expect.  I asked the messenger whether he heard any voice.  He replied, in the negative.  I understood that I was taken by him into the inner state, when he shook me and said to me not to inquire for anybody, but to perform the order.

From Monday to Tuesday in the week before Easter I was again shaken and awakened by my leader at 1 o’clock A.M. and heard his voice:  “Arise and write for the book the order given on the preceding night to be executed on next Sunday.”  To understand this order I must remark, that soon after my declaration made to Bishop Fenwick of Boston, that if he refuses to sign the Epistle I can have no ecclesiastical communion with him, which declaration was a polite manner in which I excommunicated the bishop, I commenced to write a book, showing that my extraordinary steps were made under higher direction testifying my extraordinary mission; because as soon as I was ordered to separate from the bishop, and to perform independently from all bishops in the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church, what would be shown me by the spirit, I understood my extraordinary mission; although I did not know, what the Heavenly Congress intended to perform by my mediumship.  And when I was commanded by the spirit at 1 o’clock from Monday to Tuesday before Easter 1838, to arise and to write for the book, which is now called the first of my five German volumes, I felt more than before the importance of the obligations of the 144 witnesses who have signed their names in my catalogue; and from this view I wrote that night what I inserted in the most suitable place of the manuscript, that it was then published for a testimony to all nations, that I did know nothing in regard to the deepest mystery which was intended by the Heavenly Congress with that excommunication.

One point more as preparation for the great celebration of the Easter Sunday, April 15, 1838.  On Wednesday before Easter the man who was excommunicated on Sunday Quinquagesima from our congregation, came to me after having separated from the woman with whom he was not married.  I understood that he was under influence of an invisible power brought to me, and that I had to take him into our communion and make it publicly known on Easter Sunday in the same general terms without mentioning his name, in which he was separated.  And I said to him, that I will mention this in our next meeting on Easter Sunday.