you add this number to the year 1321, in which Dante died, you obtain the year 1836.  “The messenger of God” is in the quoted prophecy the same as the 3d Angel in Revel, xiv. 9.  That the third Angel regarding whom the prophecy commences in the 9th verse of the 14th chapter of the Revelation, had to appear before the public about the year 1836, and also that that Angel or messenger would not be a departed but a man living in his mortal body, has been shown in the last century by Doctor Bengel and his disciples using admirable astronomical calculations by the means of the prophetical numbers in the Revelation.  My first German teacher, a Franciscan Monk from Bavaria, inserted the letter i into my name, and taught me to write my name SMOLNIKER, till at length Professor Valentine Vodnik wrote my name as I write it now.  The numbers of my name, after having received those changes, if you calculate the years, commencing with Dante’s death, give also highly important stopping points in the development of the mysteries of the Theology for Christ’s peaceable reign.  I can give in an epistle only some hints.

By many of our forerunners many points have received partial disclosures, or there have been prepared several links for the chain, with which we will strangle the Harlot and the Giant who sins with the Harlot, without hurting the flock and the fields, according to Dante’s prophecy.  This prophecy mentions also the stars by which our advent is announced, and in my books several apparitions of unexpected stars are remembered in close connection with our office.  In Dante’s prophecy is the messenger of God a collective name as well as the third Angel or messenger in the 9th verse of the 14th chapter of the Revelation.  One man is representing the whole society by whom is accomplished what is comprehended in the prophecy.  The representative had to execute and explain the mystery.  At the expiration of the year 1836, which year has been so mysteriously announced by the prophets, that I knew nothing about it, I was called on the 5th day of January, 1837, at 5 o’clock p.m. to this office.  The call was delivered to me by an Angel of the Lord, that I should make the resolution to prepare for my voyage to America.  And when I said:  “O Lord!  Thy will be done!” the same moment a great light appeared over the City of Klagenfurt, where I was Professor of Biblical Literature and you were Spiritual Adviser in the Theological Seminary.  You yourself have perhaps seen the light-ball, or certainly heard much and read in newspapers about it.  I myself have not seen it, because I was in a deep trance and received at the same moment the order by a Heavenly messenger.