at Jerusalem, but could not be accomplished in practice till the dispensation of the fulness of times, Ephes. 1:  10. or the New Jerusalem, will be introduced by messengers whom I represent.  If we should find before finishing the last of the 24 pages of the 8th sheet some space, we will give hints on the wonders and signs by which it has been shown, but explanation of these matters must be delayed, till we establish a Printing office at the Centre of our Peace Union Community.

“And fear came upon every soul:  and many wonders and signs were done by the Apostles.  And all that believed were together, and had all things common.  And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.”  Acts ii:  43, 44, & 45.  “And the multitude of them that believed were of one heart, and of one soul, neither said any of them that aught of the things which he possessed was his own; but they had all things common.  Neither was there any among them that lacked:  for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of all things that were sold, and laid them down at the Apostles feet; and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.”  Acts iv:  32, 34, & 35.

This was not the commencement of the Community in the Jewish Church, but of the great conversion of those who have been attached to the sects of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.  Besides these two sects there was a third sect, called the Esseni or Therapeutes.  They understood that the letter of the Jewish Bible kills and that there was in those prophetical books a deeper, a spiritual sense of what was to come, and they retired into the deserts of Egypt, and were acting from thence to convert the world to their community principles.  From that association the Christian Religion originated.  Jesus Christ was the descendant or offspring of the Therapeutes or Healers, who were powerful in healing diseases of demoniac influence.  Their spirittual power came from their strictly moral life, they did not abuse the procreative powers, but those who were married, used them only for obtaining children in the right season, and many of them lived in celibacy in the strictest continence all their life time.  Such was the life of the Therapeute Monk Eli or Heli, the Father of Jesus Christ, Luke 1:23.  He, while living in the strictest celibacy arrived to an advanced age, and when the time arrived for the procreation of the Messiah of the Jews, he became the medium of the spirit who was selected by the Heavenly Congress to seize him and to procreate by his instrumentality the Messiah.  And when the departed spirit called Gabriel or the power of God, was operating through Eli that is “My God,” Mary was seized by her guardian and submitted, that the offspring was not the origin of a carnal co-operation, but the work of a Holy Spirit, so that Jesus Christ was the concentration of the spiritual power of the highest association amongst the Jews as well as of