While I was writing the 4th of the five often mentioned German volumes I had to quote oftentimes the catalogue of the 144 witnesses, and was continuously aware, that not only the 90th, and the 100th, who have brought as Mediums not their own names but the names which were suitable to the office of those, by whom they were inspired, obtained the places which according to our language by numbers were most suitable to the mystery which they contain, but that also those who have brought their own names, brought them as mediums of invisible agents by whom they were controlled in such a manner, that those who had peculiar charges, obtained also the places with numbers corresponding to their charges.  After having observed many times this phenomenon I saw at length the necessity of publishing that catalogue with the names in the same order, in which they had been brought into the catalogue.  But at that time I was not aware, that the catalogue contains exactly 144 witnesses, the complete mystical number of their represensation; because on the 538th page of “the One Thing needful” that catalogue ends with “143 Anthony Larger,” and in my first three volumes as well as in “The One thing Needful” or in the 4th volume these witnesses are named “the 143 witnesses.”  On the 538th page the paragraph after the close of that catalogue commences:  “This is the foundation catalogue of the new reign of Christ on earth,” and in the same paragraph these witnesses are called the 143 witnesses; because they occupy 143 places, and I was not aware that there were 144 witnesses in that catalogue, till at length I heard the voice:  “Count exactly the number of the witnesses.”  I looked then at every place, and found that on each place of the catalogue is only one witness, except the 81st place in which are two sisters together, and therefore the number of witnesses in that catalogue is 144 in reference to the 144, 000 members of the Heavenly Congress Revelation xiv:  1, by whose wisdom names for that catalogue were wonderfully provided, and in reference to the 144 cubits of the measure of the walls of the New Jerusalem, Revelation xxi:  17, the chief corner stone of which being Jesus Christ, and the members of his peaceable kingdom are named lively stones. 1 Peter ii:  5.  And, those 144 were given to me as assistants to show what is to be done for the establishment of Christ’s peaceable reign on earth, to wit, all the ecclesiastical and political powers must co-operate with us to draw all nations into the new era.  Here we give only some hints, how wonderfully they are exhorted and urged by all other events, as well as by the formation of that catalogue in which is the concentration of wonders and signs.