On the 24th day of June 1839, I returned from Philadelphia to Boston with many collections to write the third of my five German volumes, and to show, that the memorable events which have been reported in my first and second volumes, happened according to prophecies, as signs testifying our mission.  When, on that day, as is reported in my 3d volume, I was praying in my room and preparing to write the 3d volume, Emperor Napoleon, in his Imperial splendour stood before me with the invitation, that I might become his medium.  I looked into his inner state, and the magnetic outward splendor disappeared, and his inner wretchedness and distress were manifest, and he could not stand any longer before me, and, with an explosion like a powerful thunderclap, he left me and took the direction to Europe.  The title of my third volume, if we translate it from German into English, reads: 

“Memorable events in the life of Andrew Bernardus Smolnikar.  Third volume containing the Explanation of Prophecies, by which Christ the Lord, has confirmed that he has appeared unto us for the fulfilling of his promises, in order to restore his reign upon the whole earth and to give his peace to all nations, and has at his appearance appointed the author as an extraordinary messenger, and performed by him all the mysteries for the foundation of that peace &c., New-York, 1840.”

We read, “Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.  For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness[G] in high places.”  Ephes. vi:  11 and 12.  These are the secret enemies whom we must know, and we must stand on a ground, on which they cannot come, and from which we will conquer them.  When Napoleon was allowed to approach me with the invitation, that I should follow him, that is, that I should become his medium, he was allowed in a like manner, as the tempter or devil in the 4th chapter of Matthew was allowed to tempt Jesus.  Napoleon was one of the dragons or devils, who was permitted to do so for a great instruction to all rulers on the globe.  There is not one, but there are many dragons or devils, leading each his sphere of infernal demons or degraded departed spirits.  You will understand the more the mystery, the farther you proceed in studying this book.  Now is renewed and fulfilled, what is written in the gospels, and what in the Bible was not understood, receives light by our experience.  Jesus could not descend from his height, to become a medium of one of these rulers of darkness.  And likewise I could not do this.  This dragon, this spirit of delusion and destruction, when I commenced to look into his interiors was made manifest, and he could not stand any longer.  He was compelled to leave me instantly and to be tormented seeking another medium.  At length[H], because our message of Peace has been rejected and people were so degraded,