profession of the Benedictine Order the name Bernardus, I had to pass as monk through the last epoch of my studies of preparations for my present charge, till I became Doctor Ecclesiae, Church-Doctor, teaching what bishops and doctors of Divinity do not understand, although it is highly necessary for the peace of nations.  From my first arrival in the Benedictine Order, when I determined to live there, till I started for America, exactly twelve years passed.

By the memorable events which happened in the Cathedral Church in Boston, a key was given us to unlock prophecies, which have been before either entirely locked, or only in some measure unlocked.  Some interpreters have known, that the seven churches in the second and third chapters of the Revelation were prophetical churches, typifying the seven states, to which all churches of the Christian name since the edition of the Revelation until the foundation of the universal peace on earth may be reduced, so that every portion of the Christian name belongs to the one or the other of the seven churches.  In the third of the above mentioned volumes, we, that is, I under the direction of invisible assistants, have disclosed so much regarding the fulfilment of the prophecies in our time, as is abundantly sufficient for testimony of our mission.  In our disclosure Thyatira in the 18th verse of the second chapter of the Revelation is the type of the Roman Catholic Church.  What is said concerning that church until the end of that chapter, you Bishops should at length consider and digest well.  You kept fast what you did not understand, till at length the Lord comes by our mission, and unlocks by our mediumship the Divinity for His Reign of peace.  We have overcome and to us was given “the Rod of Iron and the Morning Star.”  I speak in the name of all those who are co-operating with me according to the Plan of the Most High for the universal peace of all nations.  We have “the iron rod,” but not the iron sword.  The iron rod is only a symbol of our office to announce judgments to the disobedient nations and to their rulers.  They are bruised enough and broken.  Those who remain, should at length hear our voice, then their wrong systems will be broken to pieces, but men will be saved.  For we have received not only the iron rod, but also the morning star.  In the great temptations through which we had to pass, we remembered the morning star which appeared several times during the sun shine in close connexion with our steps, and once in a peculiar connection with you, Prince Bishop Anthony Slomshek! as well as in connection with the Emperor of Austria!  You remember that I wrote at a certain occasion my opinion in regard to your sermons which appeared in print in our Slavonian mother tongue, and in that my article I made also some extracts from my Latin manuscript, “On the congeniality of languages[V],” to publish them with that article in the “Carinthia"[W].  I finished writing that article on the 6th February, 1835.