The next night after that solemn spectacle an angel of my Lord brought to me the message, (and attentive readers of this book will be convinced, that when my mission requires, I come in perceivable communication with Heavenly messengers,) that on the next sunday I should proclaim in that city, that that was a prophetical fire testifying that revolutions would break out again in the Austrian empire, because the bishops of that empire had neglected to fulfil their highest duty to instruct the Emperor in what he should do for the pacification of nations, and that the revolution should be a solemn warning to the citizens of the United States:  because judgments cannot be removed from this country, but must increase till churches of the great harlot and her daughters will be consumed, if these judgments shall not be stopped by the application of our message of peace.  Public halls are generally not opened for our proclamations, because we have no money to pay for their use.  But at that time the masonic fraternity were carrying their instruments into their building, from which they removed them during the danger while the church opposite their building was burning.  I said to them, that I had to proclaim a message against the Pope of Rome in correspondence with that fire, and requested them to grant their hall for that purpose, They granted it, and my proclamation was advertised in the daily newspapers of Nashville.  It was delivered on the next sunday after the fire in the German language before, and in the English language after noon.

In the next month after that proclamation the last dreadful European revolution and war commenced in Hungary in correspondence with the fact, that the bishops of Hungary were the last among the bishops of Europe, who have been under the direction of my Heavenly leaders most solemnly warned to prevent the revolution which commenced in Paris on the 24th February[E] 1848.  That was in the octave of the tenth anniversary after my first public appearance in my present mission and my solemn initiation by Heavenly messengers for this mission.  Ten years in commemoration of the ten horns of the beast were granted for repentance to the blind leaders of the blind, for whom I published A.D. 1838 the first volume of explanations of the mystery; and in that year I commenced to exhort Emperor Ferdinand and his bishops, that they should study that volume.  But after the publication of the fifth volume A.D. 1842, the bishops of Hungary were the last amongst the grandees of Europe, to whom I applied; to wit, when all my applications were disregarded, I published a Latin circular and sent copies of it to a number of bishops in Europe.  While I was preparing those copies for the mail, Samuel Ludvigh, a Hungarian scholar, came into my room.  He never before nor after that did come to me, although I met with him several times in other places, and warned him always, that he should study my writings to be converted from his materialism to the true spiritualism.