As soon as the man, or rather the departed spirit who urged him, that he performed all this, spelt the name Kaiser, that is, Emperor, the spirit seemed to be quite satisfied.  After a short pause he again operated upon the man powerfully, saying, that he had brought his name on the 7th Jan. into my catalogue.  I understood always, that he meant that man whose name was Kaiser, and I said, that his name is not in the catalogue.  But when he continued to assert, that it is in the catalogue, and I repeated that I perused oftentimes that catalogue and was quite certain, that his name is not in the catalogue, and we both remained, each on his point of certainty, I said at length, that I would convince him, that I was correct, if he would tell me, who was the next before him, who put his name in the catalogue.  And when he named him and also others before and after him, I opened the catalogue, and saw, that on the 100th place, which was according to that direction his place, was the name “Kaiser,” that means “Emperor,” instead of the name “Geyer” that means “hawk” or “vulture.”  Geyer was the name of the man who had brought on the 7th January, 1838, instead of his own, the name Kaiser.  But by all our precautions, that there might not be a mistake in any name and by all our uses of that catalogue until that moment no body discovered this!

That my business with that man required more time than could be spared, because others were waiting till I dispatched him, and then all that Easter Sunday there was other work so that I had no time to reflect upon that case, nor, if there had been time, had I dared to think, what might have been, behind the vail, without having received peculiar revelation.  Having been occupied on that Easter Sunday with other business as well as with hearing confessions of those who came from far, I was then tired and went to rest.  During my rest I was awakened by an Angel of the Lord, and heard the voice, that I should arise and write a communication.  I arose, kindled a light and saw by the watch, that it was one o’clock after midnight, and felt that there was a company of Spirits present, while I received from one the communication which was to be delivered on that day to the congregation.  That was the second day of Easter, a festival in the Roman Catholic Church, and we had our service.  That communication not belonging into this epitome, was mentioned, because it was a preparation to what follows.

After having finished writing that communication between 1 and 2 o’clock, A.M. on Easter Monday, April 16, 1838, I felt much stronger than at the receipt of the first communication that I was surrounded by a company of Spirits, amongst whom, at that moment, my mother approached next to me, and with an unexpected power of her voice which made such an impression upon my spirit and my whole system as may be easier felt than expressed with words, delivered the message that, I received in our ecclesiastical communion the man who directed my attention to the Emperor who was excommunicated, and that that Emperor was excommunicated who pretends to be Apostolic Majesty, and that I must write down this and publish in the book which was at that time in composition.