while reading one of my pamphlets, he started suddenly and went very fast into another room, and brought directly some paper, put it on the table and said, that while he was reading my pamphlet, a spirit was impressing him to ask me to write questions which he would answer.  I knew not who the woman was, who asked at three o’clock in the morning of that day my assistance to kill her husband, but I understood, that if I would follow the direction of my leader, he would reveal it in due time, I knew, that at that spirit battle, at which that female was taken under the protection of our leaders, the principal champion was the martyr John George Zeigler, an American of German descent, who in his mortal body studied deeper than any other man, my five German volumes, and forsook then all for our holy mission.  While he was travelling in a steamboat he was pushed into the Ohio River by an enemy of our holy mission, and departed into the spirit world, in which he received such offices as he was most qualified for them.  He having been the principal amongst those who took the woman in protection, while she asked my assistance, I thought, that if I would write to him questions, I would receive the information, who that woman was.  It is to be understood, that Mr. Mansfield wished, that I should write so, that he could not see what I wrote, and then to wrap my writing, to which the spirit had to give answers.  But I thought I could write in German, because I was certain that Mr. Mansfield could not read German.  Therefore I said to Mr. Mansfield, that I determined to write in the German language to the spirit whom I had in my mind, to whom while he was a mortal, I wrote sometimes in German, sometimes in English, but he answered always my letters in English, and he, if he is present, will answer also through you in English.  But Mr. Mansfield remarked, that I should write my questions in English, that he had lately great troubles with questions which have been sent by Otto Kunz from Pittsburgh in the German language to his departed, and that the last number of the Spirit Age contained an article of Otto Kunz in this respect.  I remarked, that I was acquainted with Otto Kunz, (he is the learned chemist, by whom I was preparing my way in this treatise, for what follows) but that I did not hear anything about him for a long time, (to wit, since the summer of 1856, when I saw him the last time before my meeting with Mr. Mansfield).  I added that I should like to see, what Otto Kunz had published.  He brought then from an other room the number of the Spiritual Age, which has the date December 4th 1859.  It must be added, that I had not before looked into that number, nor heard anything about Otto Kunz’s article.  But when Mr. Mansfield handed me that number, I read Mr. Kunz’s article laid the paper on the table and said to Mr. Mansfield:  I will write in English to the spirit whom I have in my mind.  I had yet John George Zeigler in my mind; but when I took the pencil, I was impressed to write to Charlotte