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 I have come and the world shall be shaken 
 Like a reed at the touch of my rod, 
 
 And the Kingdom of Time shall awaken 
 To the voice and the summons of God. 
 
 No more through the din of the ages 
 Shall warnings and chidings divine, 
 
 From the lips of my prophets and sages 
 Be trampled, like pearls before swine. 
 
 Ye have stolen my lands and my cattle 
 
 Ye have kept back from labor its meed; 
 Ye have challenged the outcasts to battle, 
 
 When they plead at your feet in their need. 
 And when clamors of hunger grew louder, 
 
 And the multitudes prayed to be fed, 
 Ye have answered with prison and powder 
 
 The cries of your brothers for bread. 
 
 I turn from your altars and arches 
 
 And the mocking of steeples and domes, 
 To join in the long weary marches 
 
 Of the ones ye have robbed of their homes. 
 I share in the sorrows and crosses 
 
 Of the naked, and hungry and cold, 
 And dearer to me are their losses 
 
 Than your gains and your idols of gold. 
 
 I will wither the might of the spoiler; 
 
 I will laugh at your dungeons and locks; 
 The tyrant shall yield to the toiler, 
 
 And your judges eat grass like an ox; 
 For the prayers of the poor have ascended 
 
 To be written like lightnings on high, 
 And the wails of your captives have blended 
 
 With the bolts that must lead from the sky. 
 
 The thrones of your kings shall be shattered, 
 
 And the prisoner and serf shall go free; 
 I will harvest from seed that I scattered 
 
 On the borders of blue Galilee; 
 For I come not alone and a stranger; 
 
 Lo, my reapers will sing through the night, 
 Till the star that stood over the manger 
 
 Shall cover the world with its light. 
 
 —JAS. G. CLARK. 
 
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 Dear Reader: I do not consider it advisable to 
 send this little booklet upon its mission without first 
 setting forth my belief and understanding of our es- 
 tate after death. Said beliefs have been derived from 
 years of study along religious lines, and through many 
 experiences in spirit phenomena. As a young student 
 in theology, I discovered that almost every real 
 thinker had vastly different views regarding the na- 
 ture power and office work of the Holy Spirit and the 
 unfoldment of the spirit life in the individual life. 
 Also on the place of the dead and their activities after 
 death, and I wish at this time to state (without ex- 
 egesis) my conclusions, and at some future time to 
 set forth the evidences of the same. 
 
 First. The Holy Spirit is an invisible, universal, 
 intelligent, yet dynamic Presence, living in the con- 
 sciousness of those who desire it. Its purpose, to 
 point one to the Infinite, to develop character and 
 purpose in this life, and enable him to live right in this 
 life and enter the future state with a development of 
 sufficient power to be useful to the Infinite. For 
 guiding those whom they have left in this earth-bound 
 condition. Hence, master spirits (individuals in spirit 
 form) can instruct, edify and communicate with us of 
 this plane if our consciousness has been developed 
 enough to reach the vibration that those master spirits 
 live in. All life in all planes is the result of anima- 
 tion and development. When the mind is working 
 through high vibration there will pass before your 
 
vision the picture of the theme acted upon just as 
 plain to you as the furniture in your room or the 
 buildings along the street you are passing through. 
 When properly attuned in a certain vibration you can 
 call up and converse with those you desire in the 
 spirit realm. This may be attained through scientific 
 study of one's self in his or her development of spirit, 
 and through application and properly directed study. 
 This is the age of the superman and superwoman, and 
 to J>ecome one is to reach splendid places in the satis- 
 faction and joy of living. 
 Sincerely your servant, 
 
 N. H. BARRAGAR. 
 
Visitation No. 1 
 
 I have never been a believer in spiritualism, as I 
 understand spiritualism, or of occult phenomena in 
 my life, and have always disbelieved the stories of the 
 supernatural visitations, and although my life is near- 
 ing the half century mark, I had never, up to this time, 
 seen or heard anything that could not be explained 
 by the natural laws of cause and effect, except those 
 phenomena that will be explained. 
 
 The things that follow came to me in the way and 
 manner as I shall attempt to describe, and the impres- 
 sion made upon my mind is such that I feel impelled 
 to obey the voice and as nearly as lies within my 
 power to set down the things that have come to me 
 with such interpretation as was given in the hope that 
 others may profit by the lessons they teach, which 
 seem to me most potent and timely. I am unable to 
 explain the cause or the source of the phenomenum nor 
 to vouch for its significance in any way, but simply 
 give it to you as I am commanded to do. But you 
 shall judge for yourself. 
 
 I had long been a student of sociology and the 
 philosophy of human events, and of late had pondered 
 much upon the chaotic condition into which the whole 
 world seems to have been plunged by the great mael- 
 strom of the present war. 
 
 It was upon the night of the first of March, in the 
 year of our Lord 1917, that after an ordinary evening 
 spent in my family circle, I retired early to bed. For 
 some time I lay pondering the mystery of human his- 
 
tory and the tremendous events of the present world 
 war, and the governments of earth as they are now 
 constituted and as they have existed since the dawn 
 of history. There passed before my mind's eye in 
 panorama many of the great epoch marks of the past. 
 I seemed to see the nations that have struggled and 
 passed — the cities men have built, the civilizations 
 that have arisen, the proud kings that have ruled the 
 world; and even religions which by countless thou- 
 sands were believed to interpret literally the problems 
 of life, time and eternity, only in the end to die and 
 pass into the realm of, the things that were. I tried 
 to trace in fancy the story of the evolution of the race 
 from the dead past to the present great standard of 
 civilization, only again to lose its balance and as it 
 seemed to me, go mad. Very distinctly I remember 
 these thoughts that impressed me until at last slum- 
 ber came, and I passed into the realm of the sec- 
 ond self. I do not remember the hour, as I took no 
 note of it at the time, and whether sleeping or waking, 
 I cannot tell, but there appeared unto me the follow- 
 ing: 
 
 First, my eldest son, William, came to me and 
 spoke, and I said to him, "My son, I am called and 
 must go down town to meet some people on business 
 in a certain office building (the name of the building 
 and locality was designated to me) and wish you to 
 accompany me. He answered, "All right, I will go." 
 
 It seemed to be early in the evening, and together 
 we took the street car. We soon arrived at the build- 
 ing where it seemed I was to go. We took the ele- 
 vator to the fourth floor and paused before the en- 
 trance to room No. 416. I entered and my son fol- 
 lowed, and finding the room occupied, we advanced, 
 
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and there appeared unto us the most gruesome sight 
 imaginable. The room appeared to be a doctor's of- 
 fice. In the center there was an operating table, by 
 which stood a stalwart young American, over six foot 
 in height, and must have weighed 250 pounds; a per- 
 fect specimen of young American manhood; and then 
 we noticed that this young man was holding in his 
 hand a great cleaving knife, shining as if made of 
 highly polished steel. In his left hand he held the 
 dismembered head of a man with the fresh blood 
 dripping therefrom. Suddenly, dropping the severed 
 head upon the floor, which rested upon its cut-oft* 
 neck, he turned to the operating table and removed 
 the covering, disclosing to our view the body of an 
 enormous man, and stepping backward, he viewed his 
 work with a look of complete satisfaction. 
 
 Turning my eyes toward the head lying upon the 
 floor, I noticed that the jaws kept moving and the eyes 
 had a living expression, appearing to be as fully alive 
 as before it was dismembered from the body. Struck 
 with horror at this strange sight, I stood awe-stricken. 
 Looking back to the table upon which the trunk of 
 the man was lying, I saw that it kept breathing as 
 regularly as though the head had not been severed. 
 Again as I glanced at the head upon the floor and 
 noticed that the under jaw was still moving, that the 
 eyes gave forth the natural normal life light, filled 
 with intelligence, and upon a closer examination, to 
 my utmost horror and astonishment, I could see a 
 close resemblance of the head lying upon the floor to 
 Kaiser William of Germany. Glancing back to the 
 body lying upon the operating table, strapped down 
 closely, I noted as I looked that the feet also had been 
 severed between the ankles and the knee, and that the 
 
flesh on the legs that was exposed was torn and shat- 
 tered, that the bones had been broken as though by 
 some blunt instrument, instead of being severed 
 simply as a doctor might have done. Looking down 
 at the foot of the operating table, standing over 
 against the wall, I saw the dismembered feet with 
 portions of legs attached, and turning to the young 
 doctor standing by the side of the table, I said, "Sir, 
 what do you mean by doing a thing like this? This 
 is nothing short of first degree murder," for my soul 
 was stirred within me as I thought a cold-blooded 
 murder had been perpetrated by an unfeeling medical 
 doctor. He straightened to his full six foot of young 
 manhood as he said, "It is not for me to make an ex- 
 planation why this has been done, or why you have 
 been summoned here to see this thing, but presently 
 there will appear to you an interpreter who shall ex- 
 plain what this means." I was spellbound, and I 
 looked to my son William, whose eyes were flashing 
 with anger, and he was glaring at the young doctor 
 as though he was ready to fly at his throat. I raised 
 my hand and said, "Not so fast, my boy. Let us not 
 be hasty but wait and see what occurs." And as I 
 looked back toward the dismembered trunk, which 
 was still moving, the breast coming up and down with 
 the slow, steady, slumber-like, breathing of an indi- 
 vidual when lying in repose, and back again at the 
 head upon the floor in which still the same light of life 
 and intelligence beamed forth as in the full bloom of 
 life and manhood. The blood was still dripping down 
 from the wounds where the head and feet had been 
 severed. 
 
 At this juncture a door opened beyond the operat- 
 ing table and there entered a woman dressed in the 
 
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attire and fashion of two centuries ago— a splendid 
 looking woman, possible thirty-five years of age, one 
 who bore the mark of education and breeding and the 
 true dignity of womanhood; I lifted my hand in sal- 
 ute, and she answered the salutation and said to us, 
 "Gentlemen, it has been given to you tonight, and 
 especially to you, sir," (addressing me) "a blessing 
 which the world has been looking for amidst the cen- 
 turies, and a revelation of the things that are to follow 
 have been given to you as one blessed of the Infinite 
 that you may be able to give to the world in this hour 
 of great trouble and pain, the sequel to many things; 
 that shall have a direct bearing on the destiny of the 
 human family of every nation and clime." I said to 
 her, "Madam, I cannot understand. You will have to 
 enlighten me." And she said, "To make matters plain 
 unto you, you have been chosen by the Almighty Je- 
 hovah to be a messenger unto the world of things per- 
 taining to the development of mankind, and this is but 
 the first of twelve visitations of a heavenly nature 
 coming directly from the throne of wisdom, and here 
 are the conditions that shall be yours to prove to you 
 that these things are of the Divine Mind, and that you 
 are the chosen instrument to carry to the world the 
 messages that shall follow in these twelve visitations. 
 Take note carefully of the following tonight, and be 
 assured that each of the twelve visitations that shall 
 come to you are genuine and of the Divine Mind in- 
 tended for the enlightenment of the world. In each 
 visitation you shall be brought to this room, and be- 
 fore you upon the table shall lie stripped, the body of 
 this man, and the scene that now presents itself. Take 
 note of the dismembered feet and head, this living, 
 breathing trunk of humanity, the chairs that sit in the 
 
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room. Note the young doctor, everything that now 
 is in this room shall be here at each and every visita- 
 tion, and your son will be present with you in each and 
 every one of them. Accept no other visitation of a 
 spirit nature as being genuine and related to this 
 series unless it comes to you in this room, in this 
 company; and I shall bear witness in every visitation 
 until the twelfth visitation, or when the entire series 
 are complete. When these things occur, know with- 
 out doubting, lay aside your skepticism, and believe 
 that the Infinite Mind has chosen you in all matters 
 relating to the progress of the human family, as to 
 be the medium through which shall come the know- 
 ledge of the Infinite to the race of mankind in every 
 nation." 
 
 And I said unto her, "Madam, I cannot under- 
 stand why I should be chose of the Divine Mind to be 
 made an instrument to bear such a message. I am 
 only a man of common origin, many are better quali- 
 fied to receive such a trust, and with higher standing 
 in the world of mankind than I. Please explain to me 
 why I, above others, have been chosen to bear this 
 message. Please explain this to me; if you can make 
 it plain I will carry the message as far as in my power 
 lies." 
 
 She said, "Sir, from a child you have had but one 
 desire, and that desire was for wisdom and righteous- 
 ness. You have been true to the vows that you have 
 taken, you have followed the Divine Mind as it has 
 appeared to you in the midst of revelation, natural 
 law and reason. You have longed to know and to 
 understand. You have had many sorrows in your life, 
 but in the midst of all you have ever lifted your face 
 to God, and have been guided and lifted up in the 
 
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higher things. And because of your special fitness, 
 in your knowledge of the affairs of the world, in busi- 
 ness, political, commercial, social and moral relations, 
 God has chosen you to put those words upon paper 
 that shall have a mighty influence in the development 
 of the world, and you must do it in order to fulfill 
 your destiny, when fully convinced that this is the 
 work of God, to send this forth in written form, to 
 warn the world of the things that lie before it ; and to 
 lead them in the right, and you will find that God has 
 many splendid souls in the world, anxious and wait- 
 ing to do the bidding of His messenger/' 
 
 And saying this, she bowed her head and said, 
 'This is the end of this visitation. Keep your heart and 
 mind in tune, and ready to receive the gifts of God and 
 transmit them to the children of men. I will come 
 again under the same conditions, and others will come 
 with me to educate you and to set forth the things 
 that you are to do and to say to the world as the mes- 
 senger of Jehovah God. The visitations will come 
 just as fast as your heart and mind are ready to re- 
 ceive them. If you should depart and become hard- 
 ened and be filled with worldliness the visitations will 
 not come until your heart and mind become attuned 
 again to the will of God. Good night." Slowly and 
 quietly, as I looked upon her, the scene changed and 
 she vanished away. The things in the room seemed 
 to be filled with brilliance and I looked about me and 
 behold, the scene as I first beheld it — the room, the 
 head upon the floor still moving, the light still in the 
 eyes, keen with life and desire. Then casting my eyes 
 around, I beheld again the dismembered trunk, quietly 
 breathing, pulsating with life, and the blood dripping 
 from the great wounds that had been made by the sur- 
 
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geon, and I looked and beheld my son also standing 
 there filled with awe and astonishment. 
 
 Gradually, like the dying away of a moving pict- 
 ure upon the screen, the scene vanished, and we 
 walked out of the room and into the hall, and thus 
 back to our home. Bidding my son good-night, soon 
 again I was sleeping with no disturbing thought, no 
 awakening, until five o'clock on the morning of the 
 second day of March, when I awoke as the light began 
 to creep in at the window. Standing out before me 
 was the visitation of the night before, just as plainly 
 burned upon my mind as with a red hot iron upon the 
 flesh, all the scenes above related. I said nothing to 
 any one concerning the thing, and pondered it in my 
 heart, thinking it must have been a dream ; but I said, 
 "O God, if this thing be true ; if I have been visited 
 from them that inhabit the astral world, the spheres 
 beyond this world of ours, in Thy Own good time and 
 way prove it to me by bringing to me again the scenes 
 of last night's visitation and I will believe." Rising 
 from my bed, I pursued the average course of the day, 
 thinking and studying over the scenes of the night 
 before. 
 
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Visitation No. 2 
 
 Time went on and days lengthened into weeks, 
 and on the night of the 21st day of March, 1917, after 
 retiring, and whether sleeping or waking, I cannot 
 tell, but my son came to me, and I said to him, "My 
 boy, I am called to visit that room again tonight, and 
 I want you to go with me, and he said, "All right, 
 father, I will go." So again we took the street car and 
 came to the same room, where, to my astonishment, 
 there stood our young American doctor; there the 
 chair on the other side of the room, the operating ta- 
 ble, the living trunk of the dismembered man, and 
 the head still moving, life and light shining from its 
 eyes, and the feet still sitting at the foot of the table. 
 I bowed my head and said, Good evening, doctor," 
 and he said, "I am pleased to have you again here." 
 Just at this time the door swung open and there again 
 entered the woman of the previous evening, dressed in 
 the same attire of the centuries agone. I bowed my 
 head, but spoke no word, so overcome was I with emo- 
 tion that I uttered not a sound, but received her even- 
 ing salutation in silence, and the door at the foot of 
 the operating table opened, just off from where the 
 feet sat, and out from another room adjoining walked 
 five persons. As they came into the room I could 
 notice the close resemblance and dress and national- 
 ity of five of the nations now at war against Germany, 
 and as they quietly lined up along the wall behind the 
 operating table, they stopped and the lady speaker 
 said to me, "Sir, I presume that your unbelief and 
 incredulity in the dispensation of spiritual things has 
 
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largely passed away, and you are convinced to some 
 degree, at least, that this is a real visitation of the 
 heavenly presence, bringing to you the things that 
 are to be that mankind may be guided away from the 
 night of war that now controls the earth, from the 
 injustice, and ignorance, and error, and superstition 
 that has blinded the eyes of mankind, and made them 
 the servants of his satanic majesty." I answered, "My 
 skepticism has gone, and I am here to do whatever 
 the will of God is concerning these things. Make 
 known to me the fullest possible understanding of the 
 will of God in this matter and the purposes for which 
 it is bound, and I will be a servant unto the Most High 
 and unto the world of men." And she said, "I will 
 make it known to you, and make it plain what your 
 message shall be, and why these things are given. 
 First, let me interpret what lies before us in this 
 room. This dismembered body that you see strap- 
 ped to the table represents the German empire. These 
 men that stand behind me here are the representatives 
 of five of the leading nations that at this time are al- 
 lied against the Hohenzollern dynasty and Prussian- 
 ism. The head as you see it upon the floor, breathing 
 and with the light of life within it, represents Kaiser 
 Wilhelm. You see that he has been severed from Ger- 
 many but he still lives though he is disconnected en- 
 tirely from his people. His life shall not be taken, but 
 he shall live to see above the wreck and ruin that he 
 has set his heart upon, a living example of an uplifted 
 world, and a world of democracy, a world of right- 
 eousness, a world that shall be ruled by the people in 
 their sovereign dignity wherein the rights of each and 
 of all are equal to the rights of all and each. That 
 pulsating, living body strapped to the table with its 
 
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life blood flowing away, still living, still moving, rep- 
 resents the German people. They shall not be de- 
 stroyed in this war, but they shall loose the power to 
 walk. As you see, these dismembered feet represent 
 what these allied nations have done. They have crip- 
 pled Germany, they have housed her between the seas, 
 they have made the blood of the German people to 
 flow like water upon the valleys amidst the moun- 
 tains, and have caused her intense suffering and an- 
 guish and pain. But Germany shall not be destroyed, 
 although they have crippled her, and have in part dis- 
 membered her. But that young doctor that you see 
 standing there in all of his stalwart strength, repre- 
 sents the United States of America; your country, 
 the land of your birth, the land where righteousness 
 is in the very air ; where equality and democracy must 
 eventually come in all of its purity, until every man. 
 woman and child shall be dealt with in every condi- 
 tion of human life and effort in all righteousness and 
 all equity. That democracy and equality not alone 
 shall come to America, but the influence of American 
 ideals and democracy shall be carried forward through 
 example here and by the sword into every land, and 
 it shall not stop nor falter until the purpose for which 
 the United States was founded shall become an estab- 
 lished fact. For the rights of the individual as a free- 
 man shall be recognized, and royalty, caste and autoc- 
 racy, with its support of autocratic power, shall be 
 banished from every government on earth. The heel 
 of despotism that has ground into the very flesh of the 
 common people since the dawn of government shall 
 be destroyed, the splendid manhood of this land shall 
 be thoroughly aroused, and when in action will carry 
 the stars and stripes around the world, not for greed 
 
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or gain, not for the land or riches, but for the freedom 
 of every oppressed and down-trodden people every- 
 where. This war will last far down toward the close 
 of the year 1918, but remember that the armies of 
 freedom have not finished their task at home or 
 abroad when peace shall have been declared, but out 
 of this strife of hell and night there will arise a nation 
 that will seek to hold the territory gained and to 
 doubly enslave alien races, and to hold three times 
 the land held by them when war was declared in 1914, 
 and will fight rather than give up their booty, for the 
 dream of world dominion power is too deeply rooted 
 to be given up. And let me say that now is the time 
 to prepare, now is the time to train a huge army for 
 use in 1919 and 1920, for the United States must be 
 powerful enough to dominate the military situation 
 following peace in 1918, or fight a four-year's war with 
 one of her allies. Congress should call everybody at 
 the age of eighteen to universal training, press all 
 men up to forty years into service, train and equip an 
 army of not less than five million men within two 
 years from this date, or all that this war has cost in 
 blood and treasure will have been lost, and the very 
 thing that we are at war with Germany, to destroy a 
 dominant, arrogant militarism, will be established by 
 those you now call friend, for that which is wrong in 
 one nation is wrong in another; one set of autocrats 
 is no better than another, one world power is just as 
 dangerous as another, and one set of autocrats will 
 be just as merciless upon the backs of the world as 
 another, whether they be Huns, Greeks, Saxon or Ori- 
 entals. These that are lined against the wall were not 
 sufficient to put the German empire out of commis- 
 sion, but they had crippled her and housed her in the 
 
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 Fourteenth line, page 19, should be stricken from article 
 and the following substituted: 
 
 "perior right. Let us analyze German Kultur. What" 
 
midst of the mountains and the plains ; but , young 
 America, strong and valiant, the mightiest and most 
 powerful of all the peoples upon the earth, financially, 
 numerically, with valor and with patriotism for man- 
 kind, must come to the rescue and will unsheathe the 
 sword, and it shall never be laid down until Kaiser 
 Wilhelm and Prussian Militarism shall have been 
 banished from the German people, and a lesson given 
 to the whole world, for the ideals of equality, frater- 
 nity and brotherhood (democracy) have been so 
 deeply planted in the American mind that it could 
 not be trampled upon by 'German Kultur' ; for what is 
 German Kultur but the lust for power to rule by su- 
 'German Kultur' but the lust for power to rule by su- 
 is it? For the past two hundred years, amidst the 
 Germanic races there has been a form of teaching 
 going on that had for its purpose the indoctrinating 
 of all classes that they were smarter, more intelligent, 
 more economic, better workmen, made better goods, 
 and were superior; in fact, Germany was the home of 
 the philosophy, of the superman, and that he was fav- 
 ored of God as a people superior to other people 
 (simply aucocracy gone mad) and this (especially as 
 it related to their autocracy) made them as a people 
 high-minded, arrogant, and devilish. Their rulers 
 have thought that such a body of wise men had a 
 God-given right to extend their rule wherever their 
 desire or necessity seemed to lead. Coldly putting 
 this thing of German Kultur to the test, their conclu- 
 sions were "that as God had made them wiser and 
 better than any other race of men, that they should 
 have France and Belgium and all the small states to 
 the southward of the Meditterranean Sea, and also 
 needed to humble England and America and make 
 
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them pay huge indemnity, to be spent in pleasure by 
 the autocracy of Germany, all because they were 
 superman, according to the philosophy of Neitsche, 
 and this igonrant assumption was a stench in the nos- 
 trils of the world, and so the allies have determined 
 that no more in this history of mankind shall any 
 people throttle and destroy and enslave any race of 
 mankind anywhere. So America will enter into the 
 struggle on the second day of April, and she shall 
 fight on until she has destroyed that power that would 
 destroy the rights of the world, and in her destruction 
 a new regime of government shal lbe set up upon the 
 earth, looking forward to that blessed day when there 
 shall come to the earth peace, plenty, prosperity, 
 righteousness, yea, a new heaven and a new earth, 
 wherein shall dwell righteousness. Mark well what 
 is said unto you and carefully note it down within the 
 walls of memory, and when I tell you, set the thing 
 forth through the printed press, and make known to 
 the world the things that are given unto you, and 
 everything shall be made plain. Keep your heart and 
 mind in tune with the infinite, and a visitation will 
 come shortly unto you of the evtns that are to tran- 
 spire thorugh the world, given unto you to transmit 
 to the children of men. You shall be given the privi- 
 lege of being able to call up the departed souls and 
 receive and transmit to others messages from the 
 spirit world." And thus saying, with a queenly bow, 
 she again vanished and the men behind her, one by 
 one, filed out through the door and passed away, and 
 I turned again to my son, and, standing erect, still 
 astonished, still with eyes wide open, entirely over- 
 come by what he had seen, and I looked again and the 
 room remained the same as before. 
 
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Visitation No. 3 
 
 March 27, 1917. — Last night the third visitation 
 came. I stood with my son in the same room in which 
 were the table, the doctor, and the body, still dripping 
 with blood a sif it had been recently mutilated. The 
 same stately lady entered, and raising her hand in 
 salutation, she said: 
 
 "Tonight, gentlemen, we will continue the scenes 
 and the unfolding of the human drama before us. The 
 world is sick at heart and is seeking some relief, but 
 up to the present moment they have been unable to 
 fathom the mysteries of themselves. Perhaps there 
 has entered into your mind the query as to who I am, 
 but it shall not be given until the sixth visitation. 
 Question not till that time arrives. Tonight we will 
 have the estimable spirit body of the General Grant 
 to enlighten us of the affairs of the world. I beg 
 to introduce to you General Grant." And bowing in 
 graceful fashion, she drew back the curtain that cov- 
 ered what apparently was a door. 
 
 Instantly we arose and stood at military salute, 
 although there was no reason for our doing it, be- 
 cause neither my son nor myself had ever had any 
 military training, and consequently were not in the 
 habit of doing so. I have thought of this many times, 
 trying to solve this problem, because if this action 
 could be explained there would be a great light thrown 
 on similar instances in these visitations, as well as 
 give us the "modus operandi" of the faculties of the 
 mind when in the astral plane. Before our eyes stood 
 
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the self-same man that had attracted our attention in 
 the history of our Civil War. Answering our salute, 
 he stepped forward and spoke: 
 
 "Gentlemen, I am more than pleased to be here 
 to explain to you the conditions as we of the spirit 
 world see them, since you are to take the message to 
 the world. I am sure that our lady has given the tre- 
 mendous task to the right persons, for I feel perfect 
 confidence in you. So to you it may seem a little 
 strange that I should talk of the conditions that are 
 in existence many years after I am supposed to be 
 absent from the world, but I will tell you that we of 
 the spirit world know perfectly well all the conditions 
 of this sphere, far better than those who are struggling 
 under them. We know the past absolutely and we 
 can see the working out of the influences of this past 
 in the present, and what seems to be more remarkable 
 to me when I first came across the borderland is that 
 we are able to see into the future with more clearness 
 than you of the earth, with all your printed word as 
 reference can see the past. 
 
 "Since the earliest dawn of the mind of man the 
 sin of selfishness has been the paramount cause of the 
 struggles in the world. The caveman believed that 
 'might was right/ and to this day we still have the 
 same belief only in a more modern form. The forces 
 of evil, that is the adversaries of right — (I must say 
 that the world evil cannot be applied as you people 
 take it, in the world that I now inhabit. Evil, as we 
 see it, is not a separate and distinct thing from right, 
 but is the lack, or rather the misunderstanding of the 
 deeper principles of right). While, of course, in the 
 clay that this conception of right had its birth it did 
 not affect a person's surroundings as it does in this 
 
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day of close communication of all peoples in every 
 land, and, therefore, did not carry with it the force 
 that it does now. A deeper analysis of existing con- 
 ditions proves on every hand that it constitutes what 
 you earth-bound creatures are pleased to call a car- 
 dinal sin. 
 
 "By this misunderstanding of the laws of right 
 the peoples of the earth have thrown themselves into 
 a condition that with vastly increased numbers, in 
 population and an almost unbelievable growth in 
 wealth, is responsible for the world being on fire. A 
 thousand slain in the days of old was nothing, but 
 now we think little of a million slain, because might 
 must have its way. Ten million for war was almost 
 an unheard-of thing even as late as 1812. Ten bil- 
 lion today is a mere trifle. The strength of the world 
 has been magnified a million times in the last one 
 hundred years, and, of course, the power of the 'right 
 by might' theory has been increased accordingly in 
 its ability to cause all peoples to suffer. Of course, 
 the theory of 'desire to rule' is often given for the 
 reason for the present condition, but let me say that 
 the desire to rule would not be possible if it were not 
 for the strict adherence to the might theory. Of 
 course, the world accents this explanation and the 
 statement that the present ruler of Germany wanted 
 power for its own sake, as the cause of the present 
 status, but that is because they do not see that they 
 themselves are blinded by the same thing that the 
 Kaiser is. Kaiser Wilhelm first became a devoted 
 believer in the might theory, and backed by this, his 
 consciousness took the form of desire for conquest and 
 wealth, desire for national influence, and national ex- 
 pansion, all backed up by the belief that it was right 
 
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for him to have this and that might would give him 
 his desire. 
 
 "Germany fully realizing that she could not win 
 upon the high seas a world empire, because of the 
 giant strides that the British had made in their great- 
 est navy of the world, resolved, following the war of 
 1870 between France and Germany, that they would 
 make Germany the mightiest land power on the face 
 of the whole world. After their hard struggle with 
 France in 1870, they became obsessed with the idea 
 of the undefeatableness of her troops. This doctrine 
 was openly preached in the Reichstag from 1870 until 
 1880. On April 8th, in 1880, Kaiser William called 
 together his counsellors, which consisted of a thou- 
 sand of the leading lords and capitalists of the nation, 
 and they sat for ten days discussing the organization 
 of a society to be known only to the Germans, and to 
 be called 'The Society for World Power.' Some oppo- 
 sition arose during these assemblages, and the assem- 
 bly was finally dismissed without anything real being 
 accomplished. But there Emperor William had found 
 the voice of those present at the first assemblings, 
 those who would rally in sympathy and in touch with 
 the establishment of the military power, who through 
 this organization would be able to overrun the whole 
 world. Thus, on the 14th of July, 1880, he again 
 called together a hundred men that he had selected 
 from the nobility and autocracy of the German em- 
 pire, whom he knew to be fully in accord with his 
 plans of world conquest, and therein they formed the 
 world power society for the sole purpose of organiz- 
 ing every form of German ilfe to meet the one aim — 
 a military power unsurpassed in the annals of man- 
 kind. Every member of this society was placed under 
 
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oath and was plainly told that if he in any way caused 
 any information to get in circulation concerning the 
 purposes of this society or its membership, or any of 
 its data, that his life would pay the penalty. At this 
 meeting it was decided to call their organization 'The 
 Society for World Power,' and to meet annually and 
 oftener if necessary, to carry to fulfillment their pur- 
 poses, which were as follows: 
 
 "First, to so organize and train the farming ele- 
 ment in the most scientific methods of production that 
 they could raise from five to ten times the then yearly 
 average of production from each acre of land tilled. 
 The basic principle for this was to have plenty at 
 home, which would make the people contented and 
 love the Fatherland; to export the food not needed, 
 and thereby bring wealth into the country through its 
 exports of foodstuffs, and further to store away all 
 foods that could be kept to be retained to stand a siege 
 in case of war, bottled up as they knew they would 
 be by the English navy. 
 
 "Secondly, to develop mines and to lay in store 
 for use in war time 2 per cent of all metals either 
 mined or imported into Germany. 
 
 "Third, to develop chemistry so as to be able to 
 conserve and to make the most out of all forms of 
 material matter that fell into their hands, and to with- 
 hold all such discoveries of any importance from the 
 world at large, the same to be used for the benefit of 
 Germany alone. In this connection we. wish to state 
 that the use of liquid fire was demonstrated in the 
 summer of 1903, was fully tested out by the German 
 army in secret, and a knowledge of the same was 
 closely kept from the citizens of the empire or any 
 strangers that might have been within the gates. In 
 
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the year 1906 the next discovery that has proven the 
 greatest horror of this war, was the discovery of 
 death-dealing gases and how to use them. This was 
 fully approved and adopted by the German army 
 officials after successful experiments, the following 
 year, but was unknown to the world of science until 
 its horrors became known in the invasion of Belgium 
 in 1914. 
 
 "Fourth, to make every man in the empire a 
 trained soldier, which has been wrought to the high- 
 est point of perfection ; and 
 
 "Fifth, to nationalize all industries and to so 
 manipulate those industries as to make them subser- 
 vient to the empire, to accumulate sufficient wealth, 
 to stand the test of a long war as follows : 
 
 "First, by setting aside 10 per cent of all incomes 
 from crown lands, mines and fisheries, to lay aside 
 annually as a war fund 1 per cent of all taxes collected 
 in the German empire. This wealth, which grew to 
 enormous proportions, was not to be touched only in 
 the case of actual war, and was deposited in a secret 
 place especially built to receive it, and the public of 
 Germany was not informed as to the whereabouts of 
 this fund, although it was known to the political lead- 
 ers and bankers of Germany. 
 
 (Note : — Here is where the vast financial re- 
 sources have come from that has largely supplied the 
 German treasury in her expenditures which are al- 
 most past the power of men's minds to figure. Just 
 how well this plan was carried out, you read 
 the history of Germany from the year 1880 to 1914, in 
 her financial, commercial and industrial expansion, 
 and you will find the reason why she is so strong. One 
 of the principal sources of wealth lies in the frugality 
 
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and economy of living which was one thing the teach- 
 ing of Germany during the period of preparation for 
 war emphasized.) 
 
 "War Causes: In April, 1914, this society held a 
 session lasting six days, and it was debated whether 
 they should make war at this time or not, and it was 
 decided to be the proper time, and Prince Ferdinand 
 of Austria, because of his democracy and his anti-war 
 spirit, was chosen to be the sacrifice or excuse to set 
 the war agoing, for Prince Ferdinand and wife were 
 sent on a mission to Serbia by Kaiser Wilhelm. The 
 fact of Prince Ferdinand's assassination and the inci- 
 dents leading up thereto and closely followed there- 
 with, are too well known to be mentioned here, but in 
 this manner the excuse for war arose and Austria im- 
 mediately declared war against Serbia. Be it said 
 unto the rulers and nobility of the Austrian-Hun- 
 garian monarchy, that they were innocent tools to the 
 great scheme of world conquest that had been mapped 
 out by their German colleagues and some of their 
 own statesmen, for their destruction was planned by 
 the very people that they were seeking to help and to 
 protect, and in the years to come, when the truth shall 
 be fully known by the Austro-Hungarians, there will 
 not be a particle of love and friendship in their hearts 
 for the German deceivers, and may be the leading 
 cause for a bitter two-year war between these powers. 
 Had that nation known the duplicity and the deceit 
 of the mind of those who professed to be their friends, 
 the German rulers, they would have no more entered 
 into this war than they would have asked that a vol- 
 cano in their midst blow their country to pieces. 
 France entered into this war because her statesmen 
 realized that the preservation of the French nation 
 
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depended upon immediate action before the German 
 war machine had been allowed to go too far. England, 
 that had proudly boasted that she was the mistress 
 of the seas, was lying in waiting to show that power 
 in actual warfare, believing that with the full control 
 of the seas, she could humble and bring to her knees 
 any nation under heaven that dared to oppose her, 
 which assumption has so far been entirely exploded, 
 showing that in a real warfare of nations her great 
 navy can play but a small part in fighting the battles 
 of the people. 
 
 "America will be drawn into this war, (and a 
 state of war will be declared to exist on April 2, 1917, 
 and will continue for eighteen months). The mighty 
 and potent factor, the greatest of all, is the inborn 
 desire of every American citizen that the balance of 
 the whole wide world should have the same right and 
 freedom and exercise of personal liberty and con- 
 science as they themselves enjoyed. Or rather, that 
 they themselves look forward to in the full fruition of 
 the splendid idealisms of democracy that were laid out 
 in the preamble and the constitution of the United 
 States. In other words, we have dreamt of a great 
 world democracy wherein each race of people under 
 certain territorial divisions should have the right 
 within their own national life, undisturbed by any 
 force or clique of men, their right to life, liberty, and 
 the pursuit of happiness, and this factor of the Ameri- 
 can mind, together with the atrocities suffered in the 
 sinking of the Lusitania and the ruthless submarine 
 warfare on the shipping of neutral nations, and upon 
 their passenger-carrying ships, the brutal and cave- 
 man-like practices of the Germans in their warfare 
 through Belgium, France, Poland and Serbia, embit- 
 
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tered the American minds and caused it to revolt 
 against the inhuman atrocities that broke every inter- 
 national law and international moral, and is fast turn- 
 ing the ages back to the prehistoric times when might 
 made right, and slaughter was the right of those who 
 had dominion over the other fellow. Thus these events 
 followed one upon another, backed by the psychology 
 of the American people, will cause them to enter into 
 the war, and because they are right and stand for the 
 highest and noblest that the human mind can conceive 
 of in individual and national liberty, they will be a 
 factor that shall finally triumph over this monster of 
 German militarism that has sought to rear its head 
 in the enlightenment and education and civilization of 
 this twentieth century. Turkey entered this war be- 
 cause she was promised by Germany that Germany 
 would assist her in acquiring those possessions in the 
 Far East, at that time held by the British empire. 
 
 "In the year 1906, Emperor William of Germany 
 gave an invitation to the Czar of Russia that he meet 
 him and talk over matters concerning the two em- 
 pires. This meeting was to occur upon the Kaiser's 
 private yacht in the North Sea. Pursuant to that in- 
 vitation they met and for two weeks deliberated along 
 the following line, both being statesmen, educated, 
 fully aware of the philisophy of nations and the 
 strength of nations, agreed that the signal suc- 
 cess of all the great American democracy, coupled 
 with the widespread interest taken in socialism 
 throughout the whole world, if allowed to continue 
 for a period of ten years longer, would find itself swept 
 of nobility, autocracy and crowned heads from every 
 throne in the world. Therefore, if the house of Ho- 
 henzollern and of RomanofT were to be continued as 
 
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reigning dynasties of the world, that something must 
 be done and done immediately, to offset this fast 
 growing idea of the rights of the common people, as 
 expressed in democratic doctrine and in socialistic 
 propaganda. 
 
 "Secondly, that even in their own dominions those 
 two factors had become so expressed and so dominant 
 that something must be done, and they resolved with- 
 in themselves and between themselves that they 
 would immediately begin to prepare their countries 
 to meet the onslaught of democracy and socialism, and 
 talked long and earnestly on many affairs whereby 
 they could consolidate the interest in plutocratic gov- 
 ernment as against democracy, and finally concluded 
 that there was but one way in order to do this, and 
 that way was by the way of the sword. At this junc- 
 ture they considered one with the other the strength 
 of the German Empire and the Russian Empire, and 
 with maps of the world lying before them, they 
 studied and resolved upon plans whereby they could 
 absorb and destroy every other power in the world, 
 one by one, and leave just the two great reigning 
 powers of the world, one to be ruled over by the house 
 of Hohenzollern and one by the house of Romanoff. 
 At that time the direct lines by which they expected 
 their new governments to be guided were not fully 
 decided upon. There was some difference of opinion, 
 some wrangling over strategic points, but after thor- 
 ough deliberation, they parted. 
 
 "Two years later, upon almost the same dates, 
 their meeting occurred again. That would be 1908, 
 and each two years thereafter, until the year 1914, the 
 last meeting of these two giant conspirators occurred 
 before the opening of the world war. This last meet- 
 
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ing occurred in 1914, on the 11th day of June, as the 
 history of these two men will show, that they again 
 met and held several days' conferences together upon 
 the yacht of the Emperor of Germany, out upon the 
 high North seas, watched over by the German navy. 
 And it was then decided between these two monarchs 
 that all of that portion of the earth's surface begin- 
 ning at the most northeastern point of Norway, di- 
 rectly through the Gulf of Finland, down to the north- 
 eastern point of Poland, and thence on almost an air 
 line to the southeastern point of Roumania, bordering 
 upon the Mediterranean, so that all of the land lying 
 west of this line to the ocean should be the final and 
 ultimate spoils of what should be the German Em- 
 pire ; that all of that land lying to the east of said line, 
 terminating to the east of Turkey, out through the 
 Dead Sea into the Indian Ocean, all of that part of 
 Asia lying east of this line and of Europe should be- 
 come the Empire of Russia, ruled by the Romanoffs; 
 that all of the principal nations lying east were to be 
 subjugated during this war, and also the principal 
 nations now at war who had territory east of this line 
 should also be subjugated; and herein, in their terri- 
 torial divisions of the spoils lies the geratest and most 
 monstrous crime of all of the history of mankind. 
 They were to enter this war as enemies, each gather- 
 ing unto himself,, as friends, the very nations and peo- 
 ples that they sought to destroy, and after the war 
 had been partially fought and won, Russia and Ger- 
 many were to declare a separate peace, and from the 
 date of their separate peace they were to begin work- 
 ing in unison for the plan as above outlined in the divi- 
 sion of the governments of the world. Russia was to 
 center her fighting power against the Austro-Hun- 
 
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garian nation, and if you will note, from the very be- 
 ginning Russia did not fight Germany, nor did Ger- 
 many send her troops against Russia, in anything like 
 a battle; but Russia centered her forces against the 
 borders of Hungary, and forward through the pro- 
 vince of Galicia, and for a time seemed as though she 
 would entirely overrun the Austro-Hungarian mon- 
 archy. The plan was for Russia to entirely annihilate 
 the fighting force of Austro-Hungary and hold her as 
 the profits of war. In the meantime, the fighting pow- 
 ers of the Austro-Hungary people were expected to 
 destroy the fighting power of all the Balkan peninsula, 
 even into the country of Greece. In the meantime 
 German influence and power was to withdraw all of 
 the fighting ability, if possible, of the Turkish empire, 
 centering the fighting forces of the Turks on German 
 soil, and when Turkey, thus weakened by the strain, 
 for Germany, and Russia, freed from war on the Ger- 
 man empire, training all of her forces against the Ot- 
 toman empire in both Europe and Asia, could easily 
 dominate the situation in the East, and thus, when 
 the final conclusion of the swapping of war spoils had 
 been accomplished, Germany agreed to turn over to 
 the Russian people all of the possessions of the Eng- 
 lish people now held in the Far East, place that por- 
 tion of the Ottoman empire herein referred to by their 
 line of partition. They had carefully figured that all 
 of this could be accomplished by the year 1920, and 
 then would come a period of rest — a period of recon- 
 struction for these two giant powers. They had 
 further agreed that in the year 1921 they would make 
 such demands and such reprisals against the Ameri- 
 can people, that having sold munitions to their allies 
 and hampered them in the winning of the war, and in 
 
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order to cull out democracy and socialism, and for- 
 ever put their heel upon the freedom of the individual 
 man and his rise in government, and to so impose such 
 terms upon the American people that they would not 
 consent thereto, and thus these two powers, fed upon 
 the spoils of war and with mighty armies and navies 
 vigorous and in action, would swoop down upon the 
 American people and make them vassals to those two 
 European powers, forever enslaving them in a war 
 debt or indemnity that would keep them and their 
 children's children producing gold for the house of 
 Hohenzollern and RomanofT. 
 
 "Thus you see that unbeknown to the leaders of 
 the American government and the American people, 
 as far as the desires of Germany were concerned, or 
 of the house of RomanofT, they had been chosen for 
 the slaughter or for the plundering, or for both, at 
 the mercy of this giant combination ; and if they do 
 not enter into the war and begin preparing for the 
 same, that they will be caught as a helpless babe in 
 the claws of the wild animal, and would have been 
 destroyed over night, and the civilization and educa- 
 tion and enlightenment of the twentieth century of 
 time, as is exemplified by our American institutions, 
 as it concerns the rise of man, would have died over 
 night, and the world, as far as man's rights would 
 have been concerned, would have drifted backwards 
 a thousand years and more. But, thanks be unto God, 
 who reigns, those giant conspirators are doomed to 
 utter failure in the full fruition of their monstrous 
 schemes. The house of RomanofT shall fall, not from 
 without, but from within, and her known liking and 
 coalition with the Germans that are known to the 
 Russian people alone, will be their undoing, and he 
 
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shall be banished from the land of his birth, and his 
 family with him, into bitter exile, and shall never 
 again assume any place or factor in the history of the 
 world. The time is near at hand when the force of 
 popular government will take possession of the Rus- 
 sian government and hold it for a season, seeking to 
 bring her out of chaos and to drive the traitors of 
 Russian liberty and independence from the land. But 
 they shall not be successful. The forces of anarchy 
 and of ultra-socialism that have been lying smolder- 
 ing in the mind of the Russian people for the past 
 quarter of a century will break forth, and they in turn 
 shall sieze the government of Russia and shall seek 
 to give to the Russian people a license for liberty, and 
 shall run for a season in a wild, idiotic career, but their 
 power, too, shall be short-lived. Forced by famine, 
 torn by dissension, fire shall break out in a thousand 
 places in the Russian empire, and millions shall die at 
 the point of the sword, and millions more shall starve 
 before the harvests of 1918. During the latter part of 
 the year 1917 the conservative forces for a democratic 
 country will rally, and before the year 1918 is far ad- 
 vanced conservatism shall find its way into the house 
 of government of the Russian people, and shall begin 
 the establishment of a democracy that in the years to 
 come shall rival the American democracy in her devel- 
 opment of natural resources, domestic life, in educa- 
 tion and in moral life. The many millions of gold 
 stored away by the German people, her vast war ma- 
 chine, her trained soldiery that knows nothing but 
 the word of command, to obey or die, will be hard to 
 conquer, and they will fight on and on throughout this 
 year, and far into the next year. The cry of hunger 
 will be heard from all of the entente allies, and star- 
 
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vation will run rampant throughout her kingdom, but 
 the wisdom of the war lord of Germany has made pro- 
 vision for just this state of affairs, and the army will 
 be fed and housed, while their wives and children at 
 home die like rats in a hole of starvation, unbeknown 
 to the husbands and brothers and fathers fighting the 
 battles of the country. The entry of the United States 
 into this war will carry with it the sufficient moral 
 strength, financial backing, and food supplies and nu- 
 merical strength of soldiery to overcome and to de- 
 stroy all sources and forms of power that congregate 
 and cleave to German militarism. In a short time I 
 will visit you again, as I have a message to deliver to 
 the American people, to the President of the United 
 States an dto Congress, when it assembles after the 
 holidays. In that we will deal with problems that at 
 this time are invisible to the sight of tne American 
 statesman, and that have not been dealt with, but are 
 of the mightiest importance, not only to our own 
 country, but to the world in general. In my next visi- 
 tation I shall speak of the desires and purposes of an- 
 other form of militarism which we are now defending, 
 but in our hearts despise. Gentlemen, I bid you good- 
 night." And bowing, the General walked out into the 
 night, leaving myself and son standing in the center 
 of the room. We, in turn, bowed to the doctor and 
 went our way back to our home. On awakening the 
 following morning these impressions were fully writ- 
 ten upon my mind and I wrote down the notes 
 thereon. 
 
 *s 
 
Visitation No. 4 
 
 Evening of August 12, 1917. — On this date I spent 
 the evening, as usual, with the family, and retired. 
 During the time that I slept, at what hour I cannot 
 tell, there came to me this, the fourth visitation of the 
 series under consideration. Again I was in my own 
 home with my family around me, and my oldest son, 
 William, at that time living at Venice, came into the 
 home and we talked for some little length of time, and 
 he said to me, "Father, if I am not mistaken, this is 
 the evening that you were to visit the doctor's office 
 again." And I said, "Yes, this is the evening, and as 
 the time is drawing near, we had better go." And, as 
 in the preceding visitations, we went again to the 
 same building. On entering the same room, as upon 
 former occasions we found things just as we had left 
 them some months before — the same body strapped 
 on the operating table, the head and the feet dismem- 
 bered, sitting in their respective places. The young 
 doctor, the bright cleaving knife, everything that 
 went to make up the room as on former occasions was 
 again present. We saluted the doctor as we entered 
 the room, and he smiled and returned the salute, and 
 at the same time there opened on the other side of 
 the room the door that on former occasions the lady 
 had entered, and she came in and quietly addressing 
 us in a very business-like manner, said: "Some 
 months have passed by since I last met you, and much 
 time has been lost, and the reason therefore is simply 
 what was told you in the first visitation. Through 
 the force of circumstances you have given your mind 
 
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and attention to material matters, and to such an ex- 
 tent that the spiritual things of life could not gain an 
 entry therein. But as you have turned your attention 
 again in the last week's time to things of the spirit 
 nature, we come again to you with the fourth visita- 
 tion of this series. Events of the world are fast mov- 
 ing forward, and the time is at hand when the things 
 that have been shown you should be placed before the 
 American people and the world at large, that in the 
 formulating of public opinion and public knowledge 
 that a true understanding of the hidden crimes of the 
 rulers of Germany and of Russia might be made 
 known in their fullness to the peoples of the whole 
 world, and he that shall speak to you tonight will 
 open your understanding, give you the facts concern- 
 ing the greatest intrigue and the most diabolical con- 
 ception that was ever conceived in the mind of man 
 against their friends and those that trusted them. I 
 refer to the pact between Emperor William of Ger- 
 many and Nicolas of Russia; and you shall now have 
 the privilege of hearing General Grant again upon 
 the subject that I have just mentioned." 
 
 Quietly the door opened again and in walked our 
 ex-President and former General of the United States, 
 U. S. Grant. Following the usual salute, he immedi- 
 ately began, and he said : "Gentlemen, the time has 
 now come when the knowledge that I possess, as one 
 in the spirit world, should be made known unto my 
 fellow countrymen, especially, and to the world at 
 large. First, as I told you in my former visitation, 
 our country, our common country, has declared that 
 a state of war exists between the United States and 
 Germany. Steps have been taken, steps in the right 
 direction, but steps that should have been taken more 
 
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than two years ago, toward the raising of great na- 
 tional armies and the equipping of the same for cer- 
 tain and specific reasons, which will be set forth later. 
 Let me say that the men of the United States, practi- 
 cally the only free men upon the globe, have in their 
 make-up the mightiest element that goes toward the 
 making of the true soldier. First, they are born of the 
 amalgamated nations of the world, which within itself 
 is conducive to the highest power and elasticity of 
 body, and alertness of mind. Consequently they are 
 free, born and nurtured under the free sun and skies 
 of heaven, taught from the hour of their birth that 
 any loyal son of the United States has just as much 
 right on the face of the globe or any part thereof, no 
 matter how humble his origin, as any of the blue- 
 blood or aristocracy of any country, no matter how 
 great the place of their birth ; that their right to life, 
 liberty and the pursuit of happiness must not be vio- 
 lated, and thus the principles of the free man have 
 been so instilled within them that they have looked 
 out upon the world at large, with its bondage of rul- 
 ers and its bondage of caste and class, with that ab- 
 horrence and pity that only a free man could look 
 upon one of the human family in bondage and in slav- 
 ery. Third, their teaching has been of the broad 
 philosophic nature that has within it the tendency 
 toward the meeting and the determination to conquer 
 the same, no matter how great the obstacle that lies 
 before them. Therefore, these elements, when prop- 
 erly combined, as shall be later proved in the great 
 struggle that now is on, have within them the making 
 of the best soldiers that the earth has ever known; 
 men whose courage and whose fidelity to principle, 
 and whose alertness of mind and elasticity of body, 
 
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shall prove them more than the equals of any fighting 
 men. The great trouble with this country has been 
 in its mad rush after wealth and place among the na- 
 tions as the wealth-producing country, that they have 
 overlooked the fact that that wealth must be pro- 
 tected from the savage onslaughts of the marauder 
 and the brigand, whether it be an individual or a na- 
 tion. And thus, instead of the steady universal train- 
 ing of the young men as fast as they have come to 
 sixteen years of age, there has been practically no mil- 
 itary training at all, and we have been left alone in 
 the hour of trouble to raise and equip an army, which 
 is a superhuman task. And now, I desire at this time 
 to outline a course of action that in order to get the 
 highest results possible for the American people, 
 especially, and the world at large, should be followed 
 closely. 
 
 "Let me say to the American people, to their 
 representatives in Congress, yea, even to the Presi- 
 dent in the White House, that universal military 
 training should be taken up and that every boy ar- 
 riving at the age of sixteen years should be given one 
 month each year in a military camp, under the closest 
 discipline, and hardest training, until he has reached 
 the age of twenty-four, thoroughly informing him on 
 military tactics, training his body and mind in affairs 
 that belong to army life. In this manner there would 
 always be an army ready for service at a moment's 
 call, in any time of need. This should be done for the 
 following reasons: 
 
 "First, in order for a man to reach the highest pos- 
 sible attainment as a man he must first learn what it 
 is to obey commands, to receive a command and to 
 execute the same. The freedom of this country and 
 
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manner in which its children have been reared in the 
 past hundred years, to a large degree has reversed the 
 first order of things, that a young man should obey 
 the mandates of his parents and the laws of the land. 
 Instead, the homes of the country find an example 
 of the young men, after reaching fourteen to twenty 
 years of age, of absolutely becoming their own mas- 
 ters, of not receiving commands even from parents, 
 but practically do whatever they desire to do, and 
 many times not only breaking the laws of the home, 
 but the laws, of the land, acknowledging no restraint, 
 accepting no authority, but running practically wild. 
 If this was followed out in time it would break down 
 the very fundamental principle of home life and of 
 national honor, and result in disintegration of the 
 country in which it is practised. Universal military 
 training will have a mighty effect upon teaching the 
 young men that there is authority in the land, and 
 authority that he must respect and obey. 
 
 "Secondly, from the standpoint of his physical 
 manhood, it will develop and test his power of endur- 
 ance and harden and round him out, bring to him ath- 
 letic qualities and a firmness and stability that he 
 could not get in any other way. And with the pent- 
 up spirit and philosophy of young American man- 
 hood, properly trained for this period each year, would 
 cause him to throw his head erect and face the whole 
 wide world, a man to be proud of anywhere as soldier 
 or freeman and a gentleman. Such a course followed 
 out for a quarter of a century would fill our country 
 with a class of men that never before upon the face 
 of the earth have appeared. 
 
 "And, again, the present method of selective con- 
 scription should be followed out until we have at 
 
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least five million men under arms. But let me make 
 a note here, that there is one great and grievous wrong 
 now being done to the young American manhood, one 
 also that employs within itself the danger of a physio- 
 logical and psychological character, that I look upon 
 as a menace to the future growth of the American 
 people, if not remedied at once, by the Congress of 
 the United States, who has the only power of making 
 the laws of the land. I refer at this time to the influx 
 of the dark-skinned nations of the world, as they have 
 come to these shores by the millions. They have 
 taken their places in the workshops, in the factories, 
 in the schools, in our industrial and civic life until we 
 meet them everywhere. At this time under the laws 
 of the land only American boys, 95 per cent white 
 men, have been taken in the selective draft, and to 
 gather up from every state and hamlet of this nation 
 the young and the stalwart and vigorous, both of 
 body and mind, the white men of the Caucasion race, 
 and to place them in the front line of the battle, tak- 
 ing them away from their homes, from their loved 
 ones, and leaving in their stead the dark-skinned 
 races of the world to take their place in business, to 
 take their place in education, to take their place in the 
 family life, and propagation of the race, that in the 
 years to come in this fair country, will have a mighty 
 tendency, if not corrected, to destroy the power intel- 
 lectually, spiritually and scientifically of the Ameri- 
 can people, and is an outrage upon the patriotism and 
 the love that we all have for this, the greatest of all 
 nations. Immediate steps should be taken when the 
 next Congress meets to have such laws passed and 
 immediately enforced that shall say to the men of 
 conscription age in this country, who pay allegiance 
 
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to another country, that they must immediately enlist 
 in this country and bear their part of the burdens and 
 responsibilities that lie before them, or that they must 
 go back to the country from which they came, and 
 there do their part in the preservation and balance of 
 the world. Of course, there are some laws at this 
 time, some treaty rights, that seem to be a stumbling 
 block in the conscription of aliens, but in this tremen- 
 dously unbalanced condition of the world, when treaty 
 rights are dropped everywhere, and the old bound- 
 aries are being broken down and the world at war on 
 every corner, there should be no hesitancy whatever 
 on the part of our American statesmen to have such 
 laws and make such immediate demands upon the na- 
 tions of the world as shall cause them to comply with 
 and accept the principles that every man from every 
 nation must bear his part in the defense of the civiliz- 
 ation of the twentieth century. If it cannot be done 
 by peaceable means, if the other nations object, then 
 let them take their citizens home, and we should not 
 hesitate one single moment about putting such a law 
 into effect even if it took the combined forces of the 
 army and navy of this country to do so. Unless this 
 is followed out the next generation of children born 
 in this country will be 75 per cent of foreign blood. 
 It will bring to their cheeks the color of the dark- 
 skinned nations of the world, who have never blazed 
 a pathway toward any great success, national or 
 otherwise, and will have a tendency to destroy the 
 pure Anglo-Saxon blood that has ever, in all the his- 
 tory of mankind, been the men and women that have 
 done things, that have discovered continents, that 
 have blazed out the pathway for the advance of the 
 ages, that have put into effect those salient laws and 
 
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principles that have caused humanity to walk forward 
 upon the scale of mental and spiritual development. 
 To retard this progress by the destruction of the lives 
 of the white men of this age and leave these dark 
 skinned members of the human family to start the 
 world on the downward scale of disintegration is 
 nothing short of a crime against humanity. 
 
 "And again, internal dissension is sure to follow 
 in this country. Leaving the physiological aspect of 
 things aside, let us consider for a moment the finan- 
 cial and economic side of things. As the tendency to- 
 wards the concentration of wealth and power of great 
 corporations have so bounded us about and have had 
 such a tendency toward the making of law and creat- 
 ing of same, that today one of the great hindrances to 
 a full consent to the regime that now lies before us on 
 the part of the young men of this country is the belief 
 that the financial magnates and barons will be en- 
 abled to reap multiplied millions of dollars out of the 
 commercial interests of this country, while the men 
 who really make for a great nation are fighting upon 
 a foreign soil. To the Congress of the United States 
 let me say, that this attitude in the regulation of the 
 moneyed interests of this country is a prime necessity 
 that should occupy your minds at this time. The 
 things that have occurred in Russia and those nations 
 that have followed in Russia's path, will be more than 
 repeated in the United States of America unless there 
 are laws that mean something in the curbing of the 
 greed and exploitation of this people, upon the part 
 of the money barons of this country. Without criti- 
 cizing the statesmen of the past, I will say without 
 fear of successful contradiction, that the growth of 
 socialism and of anarchy and dissensions which, from 
 
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time to time, has appeared on the surface in our coun- 
 try would never have appeared had it not been for the 
 open flagrant violation of the rights of the common 
 people that has been allowed to go undisturbed, until 
 today the people are almost obsessed with the idea 
 that the great money barons that control the indus- 
 tries of corporations of this country are stronger than 
 the Government, and that instead of fighting for the 
 Government, for the grand old Stars and Stripes, and 
 for the principles laid down in the Constitution of the 
 United States, that they are fighting for the money 
 barons and for their edification and uplift in the sense 
 of amassing for them greater sources of wealth; and 
 while this is a mistaken idea, yet at the same time that 
 idea remains, and it is well that the question be taken 
 up at this time, for now is the time, amidst all times, 
 to remedy these conditions. The men who control 
 the vitals of this country, financially speaking, should 
 be immediately curbed, and if necessary their depart- 
 ment of industry should be taken over by the Govern- 
 ment and regulated whereby the law of supply and 
 demand should be the law that should govern the 
 price from day to day and from month to month. If 
 this is done, and the people at large, throughout our 
 nation, realize that we have statesmen at Washing- 
 ton, instead of demagogues and politicians, who are 
 intent upon doing the right by these people, and mak- 
 ing those who will not do right do the right thing, 
 then when the people see this, there will be no inter- 
 nal dissension; there will be no cause for criticism, 
 there will be no division among the people of our 
 land ; but in one solid phalanx, with one mind, with 
 one body, standing as a unit, they will become the 
 most solidified and harmonized and determined people 
 
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that the world has ever seen ; and this condition must 
 be and will be brought about, and when it occurs the 
 United States of America alone will have reached the 
 pinnacle and ideals of nations whereby the interests 
 of the world have been conserved and where the lash 
 of the masters, whether it be of the autocrat, the mili- 
 tarist or the financiers, shall have been removed and 
 equality of opportunity, equality of administration of 
 justice, and equality of effort, moral, intellectual or 
 spiritual, will have become an accomplished fact, and 
 then, indeed, will America be the viewpoint and the 
 cynosure of the eyes of the world ; be an example set 
 forth by statesmen in protecting the rights of the 
 people, indeed shall become a leader of nations whose 
 glory shall never cease. This state of affairs is noth- 
 ing more nor less than putting into action the material 
 teachings of Jesus Christ in bringing and hastening 
 the coming of the new heaven and the new earth 
 wherein shall dwell righteousness. 
 
 "Then, again, coming back to the army, the army 
 of the United States will win this struggle in a com- 
 paratively short space of time. And while some mis- 
 takes will be made that cannot be remedied, yet there 
 are some things that I would like to speak of here in 
 connection with the handling of the troops in France. 
 
 "First, America should win with her own laurels. 
 Our American boys should not be allowed to fight in 
 mixed regiments with foreign troops, for in the heart 
 of every American boy that goes to France, or any 
 other country to fight, there is a desire upon his part 
 to win laurels for his own country, and if they go in 
 mixed formation with other troops, the glory must be 
 divided, the honor must be shared. There should be 
 no American troops placed on the firing line until such 
 
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time as there are at least one million men on French 
 soil. The method of operation should be that the 
 American troops should occupy something like fifteen 
 miles of the fighting front that should be chosen in the 
 nearest and most direct line to Berlin. On the right 
 phalanx of this fifteen miles of battle 
 front the French should amass their ar- 
 mies, and on the left phalanx, looking toward 
 Berlin, the English should amass their armies. 
 The troops of the United States should be given the 
 lead to puncture the Hindenburg line, backed by all 
 of the powerful tanks and armored trucks and auto- 
 mobiles that could possibly be used, with the heaviest 
 possible artillery to go before the infantry. In place 
 of using a large amount of metal, or bullets, they 
 should use the bomb, and blow up every part of terri- 
 tory that they pass over, followed closely or in even 
 rank; army cars to distribute death-dealing gasses, so 
 that any portion of territory gone over or within im- 
 mediate reach of them could no more stand their on- 
 slaught than a child could stand the onslaught of a 
 powerful man. By this method, ranking behind this 
 mighty line of artillery and death-dealing gasses, 
 would be the American soldiers, fully equipped to the 
 last point of preparedness, packed in solidly, 
 with a splendid corp of engineers to keep up the lines 
 of communication. There is no power in heaven nor 
 hell nor on this earth that could stop that fifteen-mile 
 battle front, backed by the United States soldiers, 
 from driving a wedge into the very heart of Germany, 
 and to march triumphantly to Berlin within thirty to 
 forty days after the assault started. The French on 
 the right and the English on the left, should so ar- 
 range their forces and lines of communication that 
 
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they would form a barrier against side attacks, or 
 counter-attacks, and should move steadily forward, 
 broadening their lines of action as they followed the 
 wedge driven by American troops into German terri- 
 tory. By this means the brunt of the battle would 
 be born by the American troops in opening up the 
 battle front. Ably backed by the allied operations, 
 they would be absolutely irresistible and unconquer- 
 able, and would end this awful struggle in a very 
 short space of time. 
 
 "Then, again, the statesmen of the land should 
 be thoroughly awake and alive to the international 
 situation that will be presented at the close of this 
 war. Today more than one million square miles of 
 territory changed hands since this war began. Let 
 me remark here that a militarism of one great nation 
 is just as bad a thing as the militarism of another 
 great nation ; that the despotism of one dynasty can 
 easily be made as great a despotism as that of another 
 dynasty. The thing that we are making war upon 
 is that form of government that has ever betrayed the 
 trust of the common people, and held them in ignor- 
 ance and in bondage, and while the war will not last 
 more than another year, yet the issues growing out 
 of this war will require an army of peace sufficiently 
 strong, sufficiently equipped, and sufficiently overaw- 
 ing as to force all of those belligerent nations into line 
 when days of peace-making come, so that the small 
 nation shall not be disrupted by the larger one; so 
 that other nationalities speaking a separate language, 
 bounded by geographical and natural boundaries, 
 shall have the right and choice to govern themselves 
 free and unencumbered by any great nation, and shall 
 be protected in that right by the armies of this great 
 
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country. To foresee the things that lie before us and 
 to be prepared to meet them is the greatest of wisdom, 
 and it is up to the statesmen of this country to so lay 
 the ground work of the coming days of peace that they 
 shall be days of peace, and not bickerings for future 
 destruction of the human family. Today the people 
 of the Uinted States are the sovereign dictators of the 
 world. Today they have the finances of the world in 
 their hands; the balance of trade lies in their favor. 
 The foodstuffs of the world are stored within our boun- 
 daries ; the mightiest fighting force living upon the 
 earth is represented by the freemen soldiery of this 
 country. Never before in the history of the world 
 has such a state of affairs existed in one nation. By 
 the shutting off of our supplies of wealth and of food, 
 she could bring the world to their knees; but such is 
 the condition now, and not tomorrow. The 
 present time is the time to arrive at a definite and posi- 
 tive understanding with the nations that we now call 
 friends, that we are waging war together. Now is the 
 time to know just what they are doing, or rather what 
 they intend to do in regard to the acquisition of terri- 
 tory and of people that have already come into their 
 hands or will come into their hands before this war 
 is over. To get this conclusion now, to get this under- 
 standing now, to get this agreement now, as to what 
 shall be done with the other nations of the world, 
 would mean peace when peace comes. Everyone 
 should have the right to live, to develop, to advance 
 and to worship God according to the dictates of their 
 own individual conscience assured unto all, and 
 through all, unto each and every nationality under 
 heaven. This would be a stride toward the emanci- 
 pation of mankind, greater and better in all of its gov- 
 
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eminent than the advancement of the world for two 
 thousand years past. Then, let this be done without 
 faltering and without fear, and where the flag of free- 
 dom is unfurled, let us make it a flag of freedom in- 
 deed, unto the remotest corners of the globe. 
 
 "Then I will say to the American soldier, to the 
 man in the ranks, and to the man who leads the ranks, 
 that you are fighting the greatest battle that ever was 
 ever fought in the history of mankind; that since the 
 dawn of government, wealth, position and caste, has 
 held in slavery, in drudgery, and in ignorance, 95 per 
 cent of the entire world. Christ, the great Emancipa- 
 tor, came that He might make men free, and not bond- 
 men; that He might raise the individual worth and 
 character of a man, one equal with the other in the 
 sight of God, and all good men, but to this idea pro- 
 mulgated by the Christ, and set forth as the right and 
 freedom of all men from that of any other man. Op- 
 posed to this has been the doctrines of the rights of 
 kings that have come down from prehistoric times; 
 the right of the classes to sink their talons into the 
 flesh of the mass, to impose upon them excessive bur- 
 dens and tasks, to enslave them from one generation 
 to another, to withhold from them the right of educa- 
 tion, and advancement and enlightenment, for only 
 can the doctrine of the divine right of kings and of 
 aristocracy be established by ignorance ; for in the 
 hour ignorance flees and education and enlightenment 
 comes to a body of people, in that hour they will 
 throw down the shackles that bind them, and they de- 
 mand their rights as free men, untrammeled and un- 
 fettered and undestroyed by the will of the other par- 
 ty. Two thousands years of the world's history, my 
 boys, have gone on, and humanity has stood upon a 
 
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thousand battle fields to set aside the right of the few 
 to rule the many — the right of some to live in luxury 
 while the millions died in poverty and in ignorance. 
 Those battles have only been partly conclusive, each 
 of them in their places have wrought a good work, and 
 some small step has been made toward the final eman- 
 cipation of mankind and the great broad, humani- 
 tarian democracy wherein the right to rule themselves 
 undisturbed and the right to fair play and justice and 
 equality of opportunity has been their ideal; but to 
 you, the American boy, who must go to the trenches, 
 who must stand upon the firing line, and some must 
 die for this principle ; to you has been left the grandest 
 and noblest of opportunities to crown your country 
 thus with the highest glory that is possible to be given 
 to humanity, that of putting on the finishing stroke, 
 of putting on the last strong, masterful blow to de- 
 stroy despotism, to destroy militarism, to destroy 
 autocracy, which, in its last analysis, comes down to 
 the term of Prussianism or Kaiserism. It is great, 
 my boys, to fight for your classmates, or your friends, 
 or your city, or your nation, when you fight in the 
 right. It is well and splendid that you fight. And 
 what you are fighting for at this time is all of these 
 plus a final blow struck for the emancipation of every 
 man, woman and child in this whole wide earth. 
 Something that idealists have dreamed of and fore- 
 runners in the race of men have prophesied, and it 
 has come to you, as the crowning glory of the twen- 
 tieth century, to bear arms against tyranny, and to 
 know that in the hour that you bear them that you 
 shall be triumphant upon every battlefield ; that there 
 shall be no such thing as defeat, that with this before 
 you, knowing that if you should fail, which you shall 
 
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not, but if you should fail, that the mother that bore 
 you and the father that sustained you, and the broth- 
 ers and sisters, and the loved ones in the home, must 
 come under the iron heel of the despotic masters 
 whose liberty of speech, whose freedom of worship, 
 whose pleasures in life must be subordinated to Kais- 
 erism, to be made the tools and the serfs and the bond- 
 men and the bondmaids to Teutonic race as they are 
 seeking to engulf and to overwhelm the race of man- 
 kind. Such you don't want; such you will not have. 
 Your pride, your manhood, your belief in justice, your 
 love of country, your love of home, your love of all 
 that is sacred and just in the eyes of God and man, is 
 such that your arm shall not be stayed and that your 
 strength shall not fail you, nor courage be lacking in 
 the hour when you shall strike blows for God and the 
 world and for the right. Remember this and in every 
 blow struck, that the God of hosts is with you, stand- 
 ing by your side, fighting for you, giving you strength 
 and courage to do that which the great men of other 
 ages have looked forward to. Then, indeed, in that 
 hour ye shall become the victors and the emancipators 
 and the deliverers and the saviors and the final heroes 
 of the whole wide world, and God, in His infinite mer- 
 cy, in His justice, will render to you glory and honor 
 both at home and abroad, when these days of strife 
 have ended; and fight on and glory in the fact that 
 that which is in view is worthy of the hardest struggle 
 possible, and must be done and will be done by you, 
 the bravest lot of men that ever went forth to fight 
 for any cause in any portion of this history of man- 
 kind. 
 
 "Let us return again to some of the internal 
 things that should be accomplished in this nation of 
 
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ours. This is the time when radical changes must 
 come to the inhabitants of the earth ; these are the 
 days of disturbances. They shall run for a period of 
 years and all shall not be settled immediately. There- 
 fore, in view of what lies before us for the next twenty 
 years, there should immediately be set up in the Con- 
 gress of the United States a law authorizing the build- 
 ing of a highway, a macadam highway, not less than 
 150 feet wide, situated back, as judgment dictates to 
 the engineers, some five to ten miles from the boun- 
 dary lines of this country ; made sufficiently heavy so 
 as to carry armored cars of the heaviest type, and 
 heaviest class of artillery with the rapidity that mod- 
 ern machinery can carry, in order that in the course 
 of things, if any nation should attempt to invade this 
 country, in the swift mobilization of righting forces 
 a rate of forty to sixty miles an hour could be at- 
 tained on this national highway ; that would in itself 
 make possible the meeting of any emergency and dis- 
 tribution of any forces that dared to approach either 
 by land or sea. This would be one of the greatest 
 steps for the national advancement and protection 
 that is conceivable along the line of command, and 
 should immediately be begun and finished with the 
 greatest rapidity. Then, again, I would speak at this 
 time to the Congress of the United States assembled, 
 and declare unto them that one of the things of chief- 
 est importance at this time is to watch very closely 
 the trend of socialistic propaganda throughout the 
 nation. One fact stands out clearly outlined above all 
 other facts, that radical socialism and anarchy are the 
 two greatest factors for the destruction of this great 
 democracy. If allowed to go untrammelcd and un- 
 hindered, holding their secret sessions, formulating 
 
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their propaganda, working in the dark like a thief at 
 night, they will cause internal dissensions and de- 
 struction of thousands of lives and multiplied millions 
 of dollars' worth of property. During these troublous 
 times stringent laws should be passed not allowing 
 them to meet either in public or in private, only as 
 they taught those principles of assistance to the Gov- 
 ernment of the United States and to back said govern- 
 ment up in the thing that it is trying to do. Take note 
 of this and let determination and manhood and speed 
 mark the curbing of this evil before the time arrives 
 at the point of internal dissension that will require the 
 attention even of a large army that ought to be fight- 
 ing the enemy on foreign soil instead of curbing the 
 enemy at home. 
 
 "Again, I would call the attention of Congress at 
 this time to the laxity and supine sympathy that 
 seems to pervade some classes and many statesmen in 
 regard to dealing with alien enemies. There is much 
 of the mush methods of doing business, as we are 
 dealing with these people who are absolutely our ene- 
 mies and our laws should have teeth in tnem, and the 
 men who administer our departments of justice and 
 our United States Marshal's force should have that 
 strong and determined power behind them of Con- 
 gress to cause the destruction that is now going on (of 
 blowing up our railroads and munition plants, our 
 homes and public properties) to be stamped out. Bet- 
 ter that a few innocent men should die before the 
 firing squad than to allow this thing to go on, and to 
 half-heartedly do the work. That in a short time 
 would entirely stamp out the traitor and the national 
 desperado from the boundaries of this country. But 
 one of the chief factors at this time in bringing con- 
 
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trol to the alien enemy is the publication of the alien 
 newspapers in the United States. There may be some 
 few items of information to be gained, and new clews 
 to be taken by allowing these newspapers to be pub- 
 lished in the alien enemies' language, but the mere 
 fact of their publication is holding together in the 
 bonds of sympathy the alien enemies of our country, 
 while they meet in the darkness of night to do the 
 work of the assassin and the bomb thrower. Congress 
 should immediately pass without question, and not 
 play into the hands of the traitor by dilly-dallying, and 
 put into execution at once a law at once forbidding 
 the publication of any paper in the language of our 
 foreign foes. It will stop the publication of news- 
 papers throughout the country, for if it is not sup- 
 pressed by law the patriots of this country will take 
 it into their own hands and see that justice is dis- 
 pensed. 
 
 "Now, it has been given unto us these things, 
 which is put into execution will strengthen the Gov- 
 ernment, that will bring about solidarity and unity of 
 purpose and unity of sentiment, and a powerful dyna- 
 mo of a united and earnest people. Not one of these 
 things should be omitted ; they are potent and neces- 
 sary in this hour, for behind the scenes from the astral 
 plane from the land in which we dwell here, we know 
 and understand many of the things of the future that 
 we are not permitted to give to the inhabitants of the 
 earth, but there lies before the children of men the 
 most interesting fifty years of the world's history be- 
 fore things are to be finally settled, and the way of 
 the Lord shall find full sway upon the earth. Publish 
 these things, speak of those things, declare them from 
 the housetops unto the men and women of this coun- 
 
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try ; solidify, stand together, do the work of a patriot, 
 do the work of the great king, and all will be well, 
 and the principles for which our forefathers bled and 
 died upon the battlefields of the Revolution shall have 
 been an accomplished fact, and the glory of the Stars 
 and Stripes, the mighty conqueror of the West, will 
 have unfurled its banner of liberty and of peace and 
 of fair dealing unto every nook and corner of the 
 whole wide world. May God bless you and all those 
 that are associated with you, as He will in the execu- 
 tion of these things. At this time, I bid you good 
 evening." And bowing his head, he passed out. 
 
 We looked around about us. The lady quietly 
 smiled and bowed, and followed him out. My son and 
 I, with our hats in our hands, quietly walked out into 
 the hall, bidding the Doctor good-night. We again 
 went to our home. The next morning, on arising, the 
 things outlined here burned in upon my mind by the 
 proceedings of the nights before, they were placed in 
 note form, later to be developed and put before the 
 world. 
 
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Blind Faith or Demonstration ? 
 
 For many ages the thinkers of the race have been 
 studying, thinking and looking forward to the time 
 when the human intelligence would have some basic 
 principle in religion and philosophy that they could 
 rest upon and find satisfaction in and take the place 
 of that ancient doctrine of a blind submissive faith, 
 which, when analyzed by the light of reason always 
 leaves the analyzer floundering and unable to prove 
 the reason for a blind faith. We have all seen the de- 
 feat of some one in some project where there was 
 nothing to build upon but blind faith. I remember 
 when I was a boy an incident of this kind. We had 
 heard the story go round that during the Civil War a 
 vessel loaded with whisky and carrying a large quan- 
 tity of gold had struck a snag in the Missouri River 
 about seven miles from Atchison, Kan., and sunk be- 
 fore help could come. About thirty years after there 
 came a man who had some charts and began making a 
 survey of the district and stated at last that he had 
 located the sunken vessel and nothing could deter him 
 from digging for the ship in order to get this buried 
 treasure, but he was poor and needed money to get 
 help and machinery with which to excavate, and he, 
 through his blind faith, soon enlisted others with 
 money and they went to digging and kept at it until 
 they had spent $50,000, but no find. Thus we find 
 that the mere faith built on story or tradition, when 
 tested, usually results in loss and disappointment. 
 Now I affirm that blind faith (or faith without mate- 
 
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rial evidences) is good for only two things: First, to 
 help settle a nervous condition, and send the strength 
 conserved thereby to other parts of the body to help 
 (through this saving) with the duties and responsi- 
 bilities of life, for strength lost through worry many 
 times would earn enough money to pay the debt; 
 secondly, to make easy the deathbed ; faith with evi- 
 dences to back it, is a powerful factor for good. Our 
 orthodox religion taught us to put our faith in some 
 one who lived hundreds of years ago and to believe 
 that their goodness would save us if we only would 
 have a blind faith. This has been used over and over 
 again in all ages of the world, and, strange to say, has 
 had great success, but these modern times have, 
 through education and enlightenment so moved upon 
 the masses that the race consciousness has called for 
 and is fast finding its bearings, for exoteric goodness 
 or salavation from without is fast dying away, and 
 esoteric goodness or salvation from within is taking 
 its place, for we gladly say, with "Henley" : 
 
 "It matters not how straight the gate, 
 Or charged with penitence the scroll, 
 
 I am the master of my fate, 
 The captain of my soul." 
 
 For my sins cannot be laid upon Eve or upon the 
 Cross of Christ, but must be laid at my door, for I 
 alone am responsible for what I do and not another, 
 for Christ said: "Ye shall know the truth and the 
 truth shall make you free." And age upon age we 
 have been building up all forms of knowledge and 
 have learned that a blind faith leaves us the helpless 
 victims of our own credulity and priest, politician and 
 grafters, knowing how easy we are, prey upon us ; but 
 
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not so with the man of the "New Civilization/'* He 
 begins by asking for evidences and must be shown the 
 reasonableness of your proposition. 
 
 Christ said : "The kingdom of God was within you/' 
 and out of our souls have gone forth the cry: "Lord, 
 show us our strength." And as the race began to 
 realize their power the old race consciousness began 
 to pass away and self realization has begun; and in 
 realization we find soul development, or the unfold- 
 ment of the man, and as he unfolds the race receives 
 its new forms of thought in religion, government and 
 invention, and each in their turn produce material evi- 
 dence, and thus we become creators of new things 
 through the unfoldment of mind, for, "as a man think- 
 eth in his heart so is he" becomes a proven truth 
 through the evidences or realization of ability to dem- 
 onstrate through physical natural law what we pos- 
 sess. All substances in all planes are waiting to be 
 acted upon by intelligence, and promptly respond, as 
 the following quotation will prove: "And the earth 
 was without form and void and darkness was upon 
 the face of the waters," "and God said Let there be 
 a firmament in the midst of the waters and let it di- 
 vide the waters." (Gen. 2: 3-6.) This intelligence 
 acted upon matter and we see the result, and, as we 
 are not God in His fullness, we cannot as yet act upon 
 matter only in part, and that part limited mostly to 
 the things desired by the individual acting. Health, 
 wealth, love and usefulness are his to shape through 
 demonstrated substance proven by realization of the 
 things of this material universe, and all these are with- 
 in our reach, provided we desire them enough to reach 
 after them. But we can never advance in self realiza- 
 tion until we throw off the taking for granted that 
 
which the priest or preacher says, and launch our own 
 consciousness into the sea of self realization and soon 
 we can have all in health, wealth and happiness we 
 sincerely desire. 
 
 N. H. B. 
 
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