Secret Enemies of True Republicanism | Page 4

Dragon, the spirit of
delusion and destruction, REVEL. xx. 2. who has given his power, and
his seat, and great authority REVEL. xiii: 2, not only to the
representative of the beast or the Pope of Rome, but also to the ten
horns of the beast, or kings, that is monarchs, who hate the whore, that
is the Apostatized Church, the people who have apostatized from truth
and justice, and whom monarchs make desolate and naked, and eat
their flesh and burn them with fire, REVEL. xvii: 16.
"The Catholic Sovereigns" are according to the quoted passage of Mr.

Belly, "constituted by God and by their subjects." The number of the
Democrat, which occasioned this treatise, was providentially handed to
me. But here is no room to explain that which will be explained in our
"monthly theological course," which is appointed in this book, and in
which our system or the chain to bind the dragon, will be exhibited, and
in which will be made manifest, how far "the Catholic sovereigns" or
monarchs are constituted by their subjects, and how their subjects
would constitute them, if they were free and enlightened, as they
should be according to the will of God who has endowed them with
intellectual and moral faculties, to be duly developed. Here we mention
only, that the highest duty of monarchs is to do all in their power for
that development. If monarchs would fulfil their highest duty, their
subjects would become true republicans, and then monarchs would
cease to be, what they now are by the appointment of the dragon, the
spirit of delusion and destruction, by whose inspiration they are
executioners of the degraded people whose education has been
neglected, and who would have become true republicans, if monarchs
had become fathers and teachers of the ignorant. But obviously appears
to be as absurd, as Mr. Belly's assertion, that God has constituted the
monarchs, although it is manifest, that the dragon has constituted them,
or they are constituted "according to a severe divine judgment,"
according to his eternal laws, when people are so degraded, that they
are not prepared for a better government, what is expressed in the
following words of the Revelation; "God has put in the hearts of the ten
horns to fulfil his will, and agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast,
until the words of God shall be fulfilled," REVEL. XVII.: 17.
In those circumstances, after the destruction, of the first Napoleon's
power, it was best, when the rulers or fathers of nations have neglected
to fulfil their highest duty, that they have submitted their monarchies
under the protection of the Pope, the representative of the Beast with
ten horns and seven heads, till the prophecy has been fulfilled. From
neglecting that rule much greater evils, most dreadful revolutions and
wars originated. The history of the so called christian church, when
some portions rebelled against the Pope through the course of centuries
until this time, is the most horrible theatre under the dominion of the
dragon. Therefore, after the destruction of the first Napoleon we read in

REVEL. xvii: 13, that the ten horns or monarchs agreed unanimously
(in the Congress of Vienna, A.D. 1815,) to give their power and
strength unto the beast, that is, to make the Pope, the representative of
the beast, a partaker of their own power and strength. This was the
means for the support of their own thrones, till the prophecy has been
fulfilled by what has been executed through our mediumships in the
Roman Catholic Church, and has been explained in the first three of my
above mentioned five German volumes. Those three volumes appeared
between A.D. 1838 and 1840, and have been sent to three Roman
Catholic Monarchs, to wit, the Emperor of Austria, the King of Bavaria
and the King of France, with my hand writings, showing to the first two
their highest duty to enjoin their Theologians to examine those volumes
and to send to me the result of their examinations, to be published with
my remarks, that truth might be made manifest, and to the king of
France, that he should translate those volumes into French and spread
them as much as possible in his monarchy. All three have been most
solemnly exhorted to do what was required in those volumes to prevent
the repetition of revolutions, wars, and other plagues, which cannot be
removed but must be repeated, till the heavenly message of Peace made
manifest by our instrumentality, is received by governments and
nations. When our applications to and exhortations of political and
ecclesiastical influential men in America and in Europe were not
regarded, and in these days of Noah the earth was corrupt and filled
with violence, and all flesh had corrupted his way, I Mos. vi: 11