I have given here some hints of my experience at and after the trial of Etzler’s machine, by the means of which so much regarding the inner life of man and the spirit world and the dreadful condition of mankind has been disclosed, that volumes would be needed to explain it.  That experience is testifying, that time did not yet arrive for establishing the centre.  People were ridiculing me and reproaching the machine, not knowing that I have only occasioned its building, and that I warned those who undertook to build it, that they should reflect upon the point, that at its first trial the pieces foretold by the seeres would break, although they would be repaired and the mistake of the inventor corrected, if they would persevere in the work of the Lord.  But the wife of the man who undertook the work and gave the pledge, was instigated by Jesuites and their agents and made him blind in the work in which he had to persevere, that by our experience it became at length manifest, that the trial of the machine was made for great instruction of nations.  People were deluded by the blind leaders of the blind and would not hear us, when we invited them after the trial for co-operation to establish a centre without trying any machine, but only using machines which have been tried by others and found to be useful.  But when we will be in all directions secured with abundant means, we will support inventions for the common welfare.

Here is no room for further explanations, that wherever I endeavoured to start a centre of our co-operation on the plan of the common stock association, great spirit manifestations showing the dreadful condition in the existing Babylon took place, and the inner life of man was more and more developed and all our sufferings have been abundantly rewarded with imperishable treasures.  We give here some hints on one case the full explanation of which would need as large a volume as this volume is.  During the building of Etzler’s machine George Karle found John Zeigler in a hermitage in which he employed one half of his time to chopping wood and the other to studying the Bible and to prepare for a happy home in the spirit world.  Karle gave him some instructions regarding our mission and some of my books.  Zeigler discovered soon that by studying my books he would receive light which he could not obtain in other ways, and then he studied them deeper than any other mortal man, and whenever his presence was required, he came to give us assistance, and then he returned to his hermitage.  In the latter part of 1849 and the commencement of 1850 I was preparing in Indiana and Illinois and especially near the line of both states people for our message and for co-operation to establish on the grand prairie our centre.  When I thought to have found the best location for it, I found soon a man of property who paid for the land according to our plan.  Then I wrote to J. G. Zeigler who was from his hermitage preparing people by letters for our message, that