The opening of the sixth seal

Preface

For some time I havTw strongly impressed to write and the impression at last became too strong to resist I asked the mysterious power influencing me, as to what I should write. The answer was given by my own hand that the time had come to open the Sixth Seal, and that I was the only agent appointed Ler the control of spiritual law that could liand this record to the inhabitants of the earth. This un seen agent who directs my pen signs himself The Spirit of Truth, and under his guidance I have endeavored to lead the reader's mind back to the organization of the heavenly bodies in space ; to give m detail the causes that brought about the furious war m Heaven, as found in the X2th chapter of Revelation ; fo say tLt the obedient officers of God are working iointly to reconcile the spiritual powers of ^^n to ^a- Le-s'laws of peace ; to bring to light t^ngs tbat h^^^^^ been kept a mystery from the foundation of the world^ The officers from the Spirit World tell me tha I am in the valley, and that they will soon take me to the summit. I have become so much infatuated with my spiritual company that I long to be with them and learn for mvself the hitherto unfathomable mysteries of the Great Beyond. The annexed ^;^^'''[^\'; be considered a direct revelation as the work of the Seventh Angel. Your brother,

INTRODUCTORY.

Ten anxious and gloomy years have passed since the author made good the order of the angel to him, found in the loth chapter of Revelation. My second revelation was finished when handing The Messenger to the inhabitants of Earth. This was only the unveiling of the New Testament Scriptures. The author then supposed his agency on the earth was finished, but this was a sad mistake. The little open book that St. John was ordered to swallow was not what the author supposed. The book that the angel gave to John to swallow was only a spiritual record sketched and laid in spiritual lines, by the spiritual agent, from the great page of nature, and given to the physical agent, John, who had then finished his mission on the earth, and passed back to the Ofiicial Court, holding the keys of mystery in his possession, until his second return to his exiled brethren on the earth, spanning the lapse of 1, 800 years. Having returned, he is now officiating with joint officers both on the earth and in the Spirit I^and, through w^hich joint operations they are near the end of the nineteenth century, opening up the Sixth Seal at the closing out of the Gentile nations of the earth ; at which time he will hand over his ofiicial record into the hands of the Executive Chief, the Son of God, who immediately thereafter will proceed to the opening up of the Seventh Seal, which will be the end of all mortality on the earth.

This agent being closed in by a wall of flesh, could not be fully made to understand that he yet held the little open book in his possession, the contents of which, when fully revealed to man, will bring to light the deep-laid plans of mediation, who through the cooperation of all the obedient angels, aided by the Spirit of Divine Power, would in the end bring into friendly relations the enemies of God.

The opening of the Sixth Seal again brings upon the stage of human events the grand officers of the Deocratic Government, which were the actors in this strange drama before the inhabitants of earth, who took part in one of the most extraordinary pantomimes that has ever been performed on the stage of human life. The members composing this dramatic company were the angels of the Great Red Dragon, numbering six million billion, who, many million years ago, contended against the great Archangel Michael and his angels, for the grand throne of power. Thus the Son of God who led his twelve obedient officers of peace through storms of affiiction for thirty-three years before his crucifixion ; who, previous to his departure, consigned the task to his apostles of perpetuating his great work of Christian Reform unto the closing out of the Gentile nations of the earth ; when he would return again to establish his kingdom in the world to come, spanning the lapse of 2,000 years.

The Apostle Peter held the keys to the kingdom, and St. John held the keys of mystery. While on the Isle of Patmos he received an officer from the shining courts above and placed in his hands a little open book which he swallowed, and also placed the voice of the seven thunders under seal, and left the human stage for the space of i,8oo years. This having already passed, the curtain rises once more, exposing to view an entirely diflFerent troup of performers, numbering six million billion, who participated in the contending armies in Heaven. These were the angels of God and were enrolled in the great Archangel Michael's ranks, of which army numbering eighteen million billion, is the one-third part of the stars mentioned in the 1 2th chapter of Revelation, that Satan drew away and were cast to the earth, a part of which conspired with Satan to overthrow the Deocratic Government. For this party there was no reprieve. They were despised even by Satan's party which Christ came to save. It was one of this party that asked Christ to heal her daughter, when he informed her that it was not mete to cast the children's bread to the dogs. They are the party the servant Jude speaks of as suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

It must be remembered by all who have read The Celestial Messenger that it was written by inspir?tion, and not by direct revelation. Inspiration is an impression made on the spirit or reasoning powers of man, which impression is conveyed to his fellowmen either by means of spoken language, or by writing. But revelation comes through some agent, either a physical or spiritual manifestation. Thus an individual receiving information outside of physical agencies must necessarily receive it by some intelligence in spirit life. St. John had to meet the spirit outside of his physical organism, for he informs us that he was carried away into a great wilderness, and he must have been absent from his body. Abraham had a direct revelation by two angels that gave him truthful and substantial information. Moses on the mountain talked with some agent which he supposed to be God; also in the burning bush he heard an audible voice that spoke to him, and another agent explained to him the manner and specifications of building the Ark of the Covenant. Elijah at Mount Horeb received counsel from spiritual agents, and also at other places and times. Daniel in the lions' den received an angel from God that had power over the lions ; also the same with the three children in the fiery furnace. An angel talked with Zacharias at the altar and named the unborn child, and spoke of his wonderful mission on the earth. The angel talked with the Virgin Mary and spoke of her favored condition, that she should be the mother of the Son of God, who should redeem the world from sin. The Apostle Peter confined in the inner prison w^as by an angel taken from the prison through iron-barred doors and solid walls of masonry, and thus outside of the famous walled city of the Jews he breathed the pure air of freedom. A court of shining messengers over the village of Bethlehem informed the shepherds who were watching their flocks on the hills of Judea, proclaimed the birth of the wonderful Redeemer.

It must be remembered by all who read the Scriptures that but very few on the Earth have been permitted to see spirits clothed with what appears to be human bodies; and it is not possible for mortal eye to see spirits. It is evident that the Apostle Paul was conveyed to the Third Heaven in the spirit, the same as St. John was carried away in the spirit into the wnlderness, for when he chronicles that view he was still on the Isle of Patmos. St. Paul, when receiving the wonderful information in Paradise that was unlawful to tell to the inhabitants of Earth, could not have been In his normal condition, for he informs us that he could not tell whether he was in the body or out of it.

The angel that informed St. John that he must make another prophecy before the inhabitants of Earth, was then speaking to him in the spirit, and after the lapse of i, 800 years has fulfilled that order. The contents of the little open book that John swallowed, he by the law of re-incarnation is now enabled to unveil to the Sons of Earth. This is his mission, having fulfilled which he can say it is finished and done, ready for the next movement in the reclamation of the fallen angels who through disobedience and pride fell from their high estate.