. j. r / l EDEN i ■-..'.: -. -■■ y# J^J-a&tw"' 906 /-jCopyngm Entry CYASS Ct XXc. No. COPY B. DEDICATION to all the people of the independent republic of the united states of america, the holders of the republic in the past, present and future (we are the descendants and children by adoption of the fathers of this government, which holy government was given us by god through the heroic efforts of both the silent and living victors of the american revolution and rebellion), this volume is respectfully dedicated by The Author. CONTEXTS TARTS AND FIGURES. PAGE Part One 21 Part Two 35 Part Three 78 erubim ...[/... Figure One, The Cherubim ...]/. At front Figure Two, The Circle of the Age. . \i. 34 Figure Three, The Prophetic Zodiac 80 Figure Four, The Seraphim . . .1/ 91 Figure Five, The Bow as a Token of a Covenant 132 Figure Six, The Bow of Perpetual Generations 133 Figure Seven, The Globe 1 62 Figure Eight, The Rose of Sharon 200 The Book of Life 204 TEXT. Three Reasons For This Book Being Odd 17 Instruction on the Cherubim 21 Instruction on Figure Number Two '35 Annunciation's Tribute of Love and Respect to the Presidents 41 The Twelve Articles 43 The Four Cards 73 The Holy Prophets 75 The Almanac 81 The Seraphim 92 Fairy North and South America 95 The Gardener and the Hunter 97 The Great Park 98 Genesis on Creation 99 CONTENTS. PAGE The Report of the End of the Age 108 A Talk on the One River With Four Heads in Reference to the Words Cherubim and Eden 119 The Indian 125 The World's Grand Jubilee Told in Poetry * 126 The Covenant 134 The Ancient Landmark 135 The Antediluvian People 135 The Rebuilding of the West Hemisphere 139 Supplication 139 The Annunciation's Numbers in the World's Hieroglyphic. 140 The Light of the World 143 Sunrise and Sunset of the Ages 145 The Prophetic writings are a Mystery 146 The Vision of the Sealed Book 148 The Seven Last Plagues 151 The Prophetic Scale 151 Adam's Wife Named Eve 154 The Seers 155 The Study of History by Geographical Lines 163 The Battle of Armageddon 171 The Unsealing of China 1 74 The Nations On the Fortieth Parallel 1 78 The Wheel On the Highway of Time 183 The Route of the Visions 187 The Names of the Divisions of Time in Each Hemisphere During the Circle of Six Thousand Years 194 The Gathering Together of All the Tribes and Nations of the World 196 The Rose of' Sharon 201 The Book of Life 205 PREFACE The Annunciation of the Eden Age is, I sup- pose, the first intimation to our nation of the end of the age. And its mission is to cause the think- ing person to remember the twentieth century is U the closing century of an age, and always is.-«L_ / Just as the twelfth month is the closing month y of a year and always is, so is the twentieth cen- tury the closing century of an age. And as the Xew Year, with its new style of date, is always at hand at the close of the twelfth month, so is the Xew Age, with its new style of date, always at hand at the close "of the twentieth century. It is the custom of the nation to have the com- mon almanacs of the coming year distributed among the people during the last month of the year, so also should the World's Almanac of the Ages be distributed among the people during the last century of the age. Consider this the Twen- tieth Century Almanac. The divisions of a year are twelve months. y / <^c?. pVC^rtt The divisions of an age are twenty centuries.^. &Q (j£aJ There are fifty-two common weeks in a year, and \ there are twelve prophetic weeks in an age. (See figure two on the prophetic weeks, page 34. ) As the twentieth century after Christ is now here, and this being the last century of the two 9 io THE EDEN AGE thousand years since Christ, it closes the period of time known as the Christian or Gentile A ge, which age is styled '"A. D." The time of this Gentile Age is represented on the Cherubim (Fig. No. one) between the arrow named Christ and the one named Eden. It is the part of the outside circle numbered three, and is the fifth and sixth thousand years, from the point at which Moses (the great Jewish leader) began to reckon time ; which point was Eden, and is considered by all Bible historians to be about four thousand and four years B. C. (See the date in your Bible in the reference col- umn at first chapter of Genesis.) This age will be complete at nineteen hundred and ninety-nine, A. D., which is ninety-five years in the future, this being the year nineteen hundred and five, in which the annunciation was written. The style which this Gentile or A. D. Age was recognized by the foremost nations of the world was the letters A, D, which mean "A day of our Lord/' and signify the beginning of the new count of time for this age, at the birth of Christ, as near as possible'. At the close of this century this Gentile Age will be ended, and the style of reckoning which is A. D. will be null (void). This United States government will at that time be in the hands of a generation which at this present time is unborn, whose duty it will be THE EDEX AGE n to nullify this form (A. D.) used to designate the past age, and institute or substitute the word Eden. It will be their duty to order the new style in force, which style should come in vogue during this present century, and should continue in force from now on until the opening of the twentieth century in the future. Then, and at that time, teachers of the ages will come forth teaching the people the end of this Eden Age, just as I am come teaching you the end of this A. D. Age during this twentieth century. Changes are taught and wrought by the sim- plest kind of teaching through all ages. People of the past are no more than people of the present, and people of the past did the teach- ing of the past, and people of the present must do the teaching of the present time, and should look to the future, as the past is ours no more. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. The end of the age teaching is done only three times during the circle of the cherubim of the ages (6,000 years), and that is during the twen- tieth century of each age, and therefore sounds very peculiar to the people who are living at the time of its appearing. * CIRCLE TEACHING Circle teaching is the only way the human race can be redeemed in mind of the day and asfe of 12 THE EDEN AGE time in which they are living. Therefore, con- sider the ages, as you do the years, months, weeks and days. It is, year after year ; January after January and Monday after Monday. These names hold good century after century ; so do the names Eden, Flood and Christ hold good age after age. We are told that at the end of the days (ages) the God of Heaven would establish or set up a kingdom (ruling) which should never be thrown down. Therefore, let us not be too supersti- tious lest we fail to see the beauties of the ever- lasting kingdom (ruling) and be found trying to throw it down instead of keeping it up. Circle — Continual—Everlasting. This future two thousand years I introduce to you in the name of Eden. This being the foremost nation among the na- tions of the world it is expected to lead in setting examples for the benefit of all nations. That is why I write this annunciation in the name of all the children of the American Republic, this being of national interest, instead of individual. This age should be established as the Eden Age. This should be the style or form by which the. coming age should be known, which form I believe to be the duty of some one living at the beginning of this century to introduce, which is the only object of this annunciation. The foundation upon which the unborn genera- THE EDEN AGE 13 tion must base their work, must be laid by this present generation, which is in possession of the government, and the properties of the states, at the beginning of this twentieth century. This foundation, or style of reckoning, must be set forth by some individual ; some one person has to always set forth or proclaim a new thing or theme, then others stand for such proclama- tion, and that makes them parties of the theme, and furthers the cause of the thing proclaimed. All history teaches us there has to be a fore- runner in every discovery, and the forerunner might be called the scapegoat (see Leviticus xvi, 8), because such person looks simple in the eyes of the majority of the people. John the Baptist's theme sounded simple to the people ; so did Co- lumbus's theme that the world was round ; so did Fulton's theme of the steamboat, and so does the Eden theme of Samuel the Scapegoat. The individual that first breaks into new things, or puts on the new style of clothes, is noticed more particularly by the people than those that follow later, and they are usually looked at as simple and out of place. This is all right. It is the' reward given all persons who become the forerunners of all new themes. There is a very sympathetic story written of the persons that taught the beginning of this age at the Christ period of time under the Govern- ment of the East. But under Old Glorv of the 14 THE EDEN AGE West, I glory, knowing also that every man, who becomes an introducer of different thought at this day and, time, must bear his shame willingly, and call it all joy when he falls into different temptations, for such was the fate of all intro- ducers of the new themes during the past age down to the close of the nineteenth century, ac- cording to history. Therefore, if I should be- come the central figure of the finger of scorn on account of this epistle, I shall bear my shame will- ingly, knowing that this new age must be estab- lished in the interest of all people, kindred, tongue and tribe. The end of the age must be taught, for the time is at hand. There should be no selfish motive in this procla- mation. It should not be done in the interest of any one individual, sect or creed. The form or fashion, which I herein set forth, and the reasons why such form is set forth, are open for investi- gation, inspection, comment and discussion by all persons who wish to wrestle with the subject: public speakers, newspapers, magazines, etc. This is done in the interest of all the children of the great American Republic, though penned by one alone ; it is in the name of all, and I consider the interests, of all. We have now reached the fifth year of this century, and no special publication has been made on this subject (that is, to my knowledge), and THE EDEN AGE 15 now I set my hand and pen to this document to set in order the things I believe to be necessary at this time. I have been speaking publicly on this subject since the first year of this century, and expect to continue so doing, what time I live in this cen- tury, knowing that long before this century is past I will have taken my departure, and I now publish this document, which I believe will be a great help to many persons, especially those that are interested in past, present and future history, the future welfare of themselves and their de- scendants ; and also give you a clearer conception of my views of the welfare of the coming gen- erations, all through the coming Eden Age. The style which I have herein set forth, and the year, month and day that I publicly intro- duced it, will be seen on figure Xo. 1. On the scroll at the right of the Eden arrow will be seen Eden 5, 4, 3, which means Eden fifth year, fourth month and third day. In the common style it would be reckoned as April the third, nineteen hundred and five, A. D. I consider this the proper year to announce the style ; the first of Genesis is considered four thou- sand and four years B. C., and we teach in our schools that Rome missed the date four years ; so I introduce four years late. But I consider the lost number in the count in each age is six years instead of four years ; during this six years 16 THE EDEN AGE the lost count is introduced. We have been in the six years — five years now — and I consider this the finding and the announcing of the lost count. (See article No. 10 in Part Two.) Count the years between the lost six in the morning and evening of this age, leaving out of the count the two sixes marked lost, and the result is twenty centuries. This four or six years is not lost, you will find, by studying deeply the common and prophetic history. I believe it to be the duty of this independent republic of America to think about this form or fashion herein set forth, and to consider carefully the object and the design of the annunciation, so that our children may be able to accept the same at the close of this century, for the purpose for which it is intended. This is the desire of the one who penned this proclamation ; not in his name at all, but in the name of all the children who have figured in America's history from the earliest dawn or land- ing of civilization, on her golden shores ; from the discovery down to the present time, ever in memory of the American Indian, the first pos- sessor ; Christopher Columbus, our beloved dis- coverer ; Pilgrim Fathers, declarators and the preservers of the Union, God blessed forever and ever. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. INTRODUCTION THREE REASONS FOR THIS BOOK BEING ODD Certainly you find this book quite different from any book you have ever seen or read, and it is right you should. First Reason : Because it is circle teaching, and is teaching the end of this age, and the begin- ning of the new or Eden Age, which teaching is only indulged in during the twentieth century of each age. And as I am living in and am a citizen of this republic of America, in the middle age or prime of life, at the opening of the twentieth century, and, being well acquainted with common and prophetic history, I have, under the protection of this holy government, which was purchased with the blood of our fathers, the privilege of intro- ducing to you the end of this age and the birth of the new. This would have been very unlawful under old government of the East, to have openly declared the end of the age, which things men did do, knowing at that time that it was strictly against the government, and many sacrificed their 17 18 THE EDEN AGE lives for it. But under Old Glory, our flag, which was given this nation for the protection of the proclamation of the Eden Age, I glory. Having openly declared the end of this age, and announced the new, over and above politics, re- ligion, business, individuals, sects and creeds, I feel it my duty to write this short book of expla- nation (the Annunciation) for having done so. Second Reason : Because this book teaches you of the three ages in short and prophetic style. The two ages back of Christ are handled in pro- phetic history, and this last, or third, age is han- dled in both common and prophetic history. The second part shows you the prophetic weeks of this third age, and these weeks are the same in each age, and are applicable to each coming age, just as the twelve months of the past year are applicable to each coming year. (See figure No. 2, page 34.) The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. Third Reason : For its peculiarity. I want it peculiarly different, so I can explain the peculiar theme, which is the prophetic divisions of time, known as the prophetic scale, or measuring reed, spoken of by Daniel and John the Revelator, as the time, and times, and a half time. And in common meaning is three times, and a half, which is a fraction, and we further divide the three whole numbers into halves, and then this gives THE EDEN AGE 19 us seven halves, and is the number of the clays of the prophetic week, which is seven divisions of time, which Daniel calls the seven times, and John calls them the seven churches, candle-sticks, trumpets, stars, plagues, seals and thunders, and many other names are used, but all mean the same. In these three times and a half, which is the number seven, is hidden the mystery of the fu- ture, and these weeks grow longer through the first thousand years of an age, and they become shorter in the second thousand years of an age. This is why the nations lose knowledge of the meaning of the time, and times, and half time, during the two thousand years of an age, on ac- count of their changing length. And when these periods of time become so short at the close of the age, the nation sees them fulfilled, which causes us to recognize the end of the age, and teach a new age. After nineteen eight is past we will be entering the period of time in which the prophetic writings will become plain to many people, which things I want to reveal to you in a plainer and simpler way, by entering into a line of thought which I will call the Almanac. After considering this line of thought we will better understand the sayings of Daniel and John, for a time, and times, and a half time. It is like taking our common week and calling 20 THE EDEN AGE Monday and Tuesday one time, Wednesday and Thursday the second time, and Friday and Sat- urday the third time, and Sunday the half a time. These three times and a half are what is called the tombs of the prophets, which, later on in this work, I will try to write a short story about, showing you how the Great Ruler in different divisions of time brings into existence things that are not (page 135). PART ONE INSTRUCTION ON THE CHERUBIM The word "Cherubim" was first used by Moses in the third chapter of Genesis, and twenty-fourth verse. Its meaning is the circle of time. You can draw a cherubim of a year's time, a month's time, a week's time. The three grand divisions of the cherubim are the full circle of time, and the half time is the first half of the first division in start- ing around the circle again. (See numbers thir- teen and fourteen in figure eight.) The first thing to be considered in the Annun- ciation is the divisions of time. The first divi- sion is from Eden to the Flood, the second is from the Flood to Christ, the third is from Christ to Eden again, which time the present century will complete. Or, in other words, the teaching during this twentieth century must complete. It took ninety-six years of the century at the begin- ning of this age to complete the end of the Jewish Age. We know that from the birth of Christ to the Revelation was ninety-six years. And I know that from the birth of circle teaching in this 21 22 THE EDEN AGE twentieth century until the national revelation will take most of this entire century ; that is, for the nation to recognize the necessity of the change of this style of age. For the purpose of explaining circle teaching of the ages, I have drawn a cherubim- of the ages. (The design numbered one.) It is the zodiac of the ages, and has twelve signs in the inner circle, six in the middle circle, three in the outer circle. This is the foundation of circle teaching of the ages, and is the only way I can convey to your mind the necessity of changing the name of the age and the starting of a new count at the end of each two thousand years, which is the length of an age. But right here I want to say that it will be hard for you to understand why the first year of this century is Eden One. But if you will fol- low me through the line of thought you will then be able to see why it is. The appearance of the cherubim is like a wheel, in the middle of a wheel. In studying the cherubim we first notice the like- ness of the clock face ; then we notice the inner circle has twelve signs, which is typical of the twelve hours, on a common timepiece, and when these twelve signs are past, that circle of time is out or past. Then in the next circle are six designs. These represent the six thousand years from Eden to Eden again. Then in the outside circle are three designs, or divisions, which represent THE EDEN AGE 23 the three ages from Eden to Eden again, and are numbered one, two and three. Then we see the three arrows stationed around, at equal distance from each other, and named Eden, Flood and Christ, which divide the full circle of time into three grand parts, and we reckon them as the three ages, known in common history as the Ante- diluvian, Jewish and Gentile Ages. Next we no- tice the two long arrows, which are not named, but are numbered three and six, and evenly divide the full circle of time into two grand parts. This places six signs of the inner circle to the right of the arrows, and six to the left. The six to the right, and numbered twelve, one, two, three, four and five, show the time allotted the great nations of the western hemisphere to become renowned, distinguished and famous during the circle of the ages. And the figures at the left of the continent arrow's are six to eleven, and are three thousand years, the time allotted the nations of the eastern hemisphere to become renowned. The numbers of the time of the nations of the East are out, and the numbers of the antediluvian nations, which are the nations of the Americas, which are the antediluvian continents, are just now coming in. And as our nation is the Nation, according to the prophetic writings, the one in the western hemi- sphere, which has in her hand the antediluvian flag, money and government, and keeping the law 24 THE EDEN AGE which is the time, and times, and half time, and is stepping to the front at the beginning of the Eden Age, it is the one that will have to declare the new age. Just as the Romans of the East had to declare the change at the beginning of this age, we, the Romans of the West, must declare the change at the close of this age. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. America was discovered at the beginning of the twelfth sign of the zodiac, of the ages, which sign is the twelfth division of time on the cheru- bim, which is the last five hundred years of the six thousand years of the world's history. And during this twelfth division of time I can see the great and mighty nation was made, and was given this Christian government, flag and money, so that she could come forward through this twentieth century, which is the last and first cen- tury of the history of ages, heralding the Eden Age unto all nations. The twelfth month of the ages will soon be out, and the great design of the ages must change. The twelfth sign of the zodiac of the ages will be completely out at ninety-five years from now, and a new circle of ages will be at hand, and the fig- ures must change, and this changing of the style of the ages must be sufficiently taught during this century to establish the new style, so our people THE EDEX AGE 25 will be able to hold the great and first hundredth anniversary at the close of this century. January is always the name of the first part of the cir- cle of a year, and Eden is always the name of the first part of the circle of the ages. As I have said before, this is written more in the in- terest of the unborn generation than the present one, but let all of this present generation that are interested in this epistle read, whether they act or not, whether they believe or not. This is the annunciation. Eden one, one and one is past. It was passed at the close of the first year, first month and first day of this century. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. Unfold the figure number one, so you can notice it as you read. We will now notice the two great continents of God's creation, and by holding the figure upright, it shows the Americas to be the upper continents of the creation or globe. Xow while you are looking at this pic- ture, imagine you can see Christopher Columbus and his band in three small, rude crafts, taking a long, mysterious journey, sailing up to the up- per garden of God's globe. To what we might call the natural zoological garden of God's crea- tion, which we have found, by the great mounds and foundations of once populous cities, and the 26 THE EDEN AGE hermetically sealed vaults, to be the country in- habited by the intelligent ancient or Eden na- tions, at the beginning of the Cherubic Circle six thousand years ago. And this makes the story of God driving the intelligent .man out of the Garden of Eden more plausible, for we readily see that God drives us out of summer into winter, and out of winter into summer, and out of the west hemisphere into the east, and out of the east into the west, and in both cases it is time that God uses to drive man from one condition to another, and from one great continent to an- other, and God used time, so history shows us, to drive the Indian from intelligence to the opposite extreme and is using time to drive him again from the latter condition back into intelligence, and so when God gets ready to overthrow the world, he does it; and when he got ready to re- build the overthrown America, he sent his ser- vant, Christopher Columbus, to unlock the long- lost garden for us. He came over here where God had a people which we call the Indians, whose face you see represented at the right of his conti- nent, and he was keeping the sleeping or resting Americans for the servants of the east that had the word of God in their hands, in which was the promise of God that they should return into that land, and rebuild it again. (See Jeremiah xxxii, 15, also Deuteronomy vhi, 7.) THE EDEX AGE 27 The Indian was keeping this beautiful conti- nent in a natural condition, so it would have beautiful timber and fertile land for us to enjoy, and God watched over them just as He does us, and he sent the daylight and the darkness daily to them as He did to our ancestors of the East, and He sent them the spring, summer, fall and winter, the rains and the storms. But God kept him isolated here until the great prophetic timepiece began striking the midnight hour of the ages, then He sent our beloved Chris- topher Columbus to unlock America's golden shores, for the golden-sunset nation, which is to establish the Eden or golden proclamation for every tribe and nation, and teach them God's great purpose in so handling His creation, which is only perpetuation, which is a kingdom, ruling, or priesthood after the order of Melchisedek, which has neither beginning nor ending of days. Daniel spoke of this period of time, and called it the time of the end, when many would run to and fro, and said knowledge would increase, and that many people should come to the knowledge of the prophets, God's holy writers, saying: "But the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits, and they that understand among the people shall instruct many ; yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity and by spoil, many days. And some of them of under- 28 THE EDEN AGE standing shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, even to the time of the end ; because it is yet for a time appointed/ 7 The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. The descendants of the blood of the East are in possession of all the continents and the isles of the seas, and civilization and government are again seen throughout the entire world. The twentieth century is full of beauties, the greatest day and age of the world is at hand. Let us wake up from our deep sleep to all truth, and ask God's blessing upon the golden-sunset nation, in the ushering in of this century ; that we may be able to pass this great reform, which now confronts us, so early in the century without having to be- hold the great desolations that have always marked the close of mighty national reform in all the past centuries. For why should such great desolations mark the end of each era or epoch as we have seen by history all the way down the highway of time to the present ? May the Most High God bless our country and nation through this holy night, which now confronts us, and preserve her beauties, for the mighty and wonderful sacrifices she made each holy night in the past two centuries, at seventy-six, and from sixty-one to sixty-five, is the holy petition of the annunciation. THE EDEN AGE 29 For nations are always slow to recognize the things most essential to the welfare of those who shall follow after, and may our nation be fore- most in now seeing the need of a preparation of the future age, for the future generations, and this great thirst for wealth and possession, which is so visible at present amqng the children of the republic, be quenched by a deep and profound study of the past before great desolations mark the end of this running to excess. Ecclesiastes i, 10, reads : "Is there anything whereof it may be said, See this is new ? It hath been already of old time, which was before us." He knew 7 that the circle of the ages held all sea- sons, and at the Eden season we would have all the beautiful ships, trains, electric lights, gas en- gines, telegraph and telephones, printing presses, and all the Eden trinkets in the Eden season again, just as well as you know r the circle of one year holds all the seasons, and at the Christmas season, the people will have all the Christmas trinkets*, and at Easter season, they would have the Easter trinkets, etc. Everything in its season. This century will reveal many wonderful na- tional and world-wide events, and if I am not mistaken, they will be revealed in the early or fore part of this century. This is the rapid and shifting century, and when this century came to the Jewish Age to close it out at the days of 30 THE EDEN AGE Christ, there were not many people that were able to see that it was the century of the cross from the Jewish Age to the Gentile Age. Many people at this time will not be able to understand that this is the century of the cross from the Gen- tile Age to the Eden Age again. They will be confused and disgusted with the speedy changes, whip-arounds and turn-arounds and hurtle of re- ligious bodies, political bodies, social bodies, or- ders and organizations of every kind and char- acter. All financial affairs arid family affairs are in the shifting and sifting rolls through this com- ing eighteen years, after nineteen hundred and seven, for that is what John calls the six hundred, three score and six. And is, in common, the three sixes which are the beginning numbers of an age, and will mark all, "rich and poor, great and small, free and bond, and will cause all of them to receive a mark in the forehead, or hand, and that no man shall buy or sell, save he that has the mark, or the name of the beast, or the num- ber of his name." (Marking is educating.) Watch these three sixes, which are the eighteen coming years, and is the educating season ; and whatever you belong to, be true to it, and what- ever position you hold, be honest in it, and if you hold positions of trust, don't betray your fellow men. This is the season of treachery. Watch. I will now recite some facts about time. Eden, THE EDEN AGE 31 Flood and Christ, after Eden, Flood and Christ are regular in succession every six thousand years. Spring, summer, fall and winter, after spring, summer, fall and winter, are regular in succession every three hundred and sixty-five days. January, February, [March and April, after January, February, March and April, etc., are regular in succession every year, year after year. [Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Fri- day, Saturday and Sunday, after Monday, Tues- day, Wednesday, etc., are regular in succession, week after week, month after month, year after year, century after century, and age after age. You would have no faith at all in this almanac if it was predicting a natural burning up of the nat- ural creation, into natural ashes, and leaving no place to put the ashes. [Men, and hundreds of them, that are not geologists, know the earth and the stones, the hills and the valleys are more than six thousand years old. We read that at the Eden season, back in old time, man was put in the Garden of Eden to dress it and keep it (keep it dressed), and that God afterward drove the man out of the garden. ( See page 97, The Gardener and the Hunter.) Xow I reason like this : America was the Gar- den of Eden ; the intelligent people that possessed this country at the beginning of the past six thou- sand years was the man. (The word man, in 32 THE EDEN AGE prophecy, means people.) Intelligent people once possessed this American continent, and what we call "intelligence" became extinct during the time of the cherubim. This is what I understand Moses to mean in his writings. Now what we call the civilized or intelligent man is again in possession of all of God's creation, dressing it and keeping it like a garden ; yes, this Eden con- tinent is in the Eden condition again, at the birth of this Eden century, and we are exchanging commercial products with all nations,- of all cli- mates and territories of the world. And this is a beautiful day and age of the world, I think; yes, I count the first twenty-five years of this present century the most holy part of the Gentile Age ; that is, since the days of Christ. This machinery age is wonderful, and when I think of the beauties of the world to-day I am carried away up in thought to the highest point that mortal man can reach. If the Bible, the holy history of the world, is applicable to every religion of the world, it surely is applicable to every season of the ages of the world. At least I think so. When the three months of the spring season are past the season will change. When the three months of the summer season are past the season will change. When the three months of the winter season are past the season will change. When this third age goes out the THE EDEN AGE 33 style of the age will change. Who will lead, and who will follow ? Eden, is the name of the new age. The children of the American republic should lead, and the children of other govern- ments should follow. PART TWO INSTRUCTION ON FIGURE NUMBER TWO Figure two represents a circle of two thousand years of time, twenty centuries, and known as the Gentile Age, and numbered three on the cheru- bim, and styled A. D. The teaching of this A. D. Age was introduced during the first six years of the twentieth century of the Jewish Age, which six years are called the lost six in the morning of this A. D. Age. (It was John the Baptist's time.) The twentieth century of the Jewish Age became the first century of this A. D. Age, as you see it represented inside the circle. The first year of that twentieth century was A. D. I, the second year was A. D. 2, and the third year was A. D. 3, etc. All the way down through that century the figure next to the A. D. changed every year until that century closed at A. D. ninety-nine. Then the twentieth century, which was the changing century, became the first century of this age. That is, the last century be- came the first ; this is why I am teaching and try- ing to show you that this twentieth century in 35 Figure Two THE CIRCLE OF THE AGE 36 THE EDEN AGE which you and I are living is the last century of this A. D. Age and should become the first cen- tury of this coming Eden Age. This is the cen- tury to which the changing figures belong. When the twentieth century closed at A. D. ninety-nine, then began the century numbered one, and is the second century inside the circle of this age. And all through this century the figure that stood next to the letters A. D. was the figure one, and repre- sented the first century throughout the entire sec- ond century, thus: A. D. I, i — I and I, a day of our Lord, first century, first year, first month and first day. Fifty years later, A. D. I, 50 — 1 and I, a day of our Lord, first century, fiftieth year, first month and first day. Fifty years later, A. D. 2, 1 — 1 and 1, a day of our Lord, second century, first year, first month and first day. This shows the time at the beginning of the third century after Christ, and was the third cen- tury in this age, and is numbered two. And this figure two stood next to the letters A. D. through that entire century, and the figure three stood next to the letters A. D. through the following cen- tury, and so on all the way down the great street or highway of time to the present day. Now we are using the number nineteen hun- dred to designate this twentieth century. It is represented outside of the circle of the age as shown in figure two. And this century should be- THE EDEN AGE 37 come the first century of the coming two thousand years, and is the Eden Century of the Eden Age. This change is made by beginning the new count of time as set forth in this annunciation. The style of the age, and the count of time for the coming twenty centuries I have introduced at the close of the four years, and during the six years, which six years is represented by the first figure six standing outside the circle of the age. During this six years the close of the past age must be proclaimed, and the birth of the new Eden Age announced. This six years is called the lost six years at the evening of the Gentile Age, and becomes the lost six years at the morn- ing of the Eden Age. I have started the count of this age at the first year of this century so our descendants can hold the first hundredth anni- versary ninety-six years from the annunciation. The figures around the great circle with the dotted lines running from them, show the cen- turies of the age, and show the Declaration of Independence to be in the eighteenth century and seventy-sixth year of said century, and is referred to in common by saying seventeen hundred and seventy-six. At that time the seventeenth century was past, and seventy-five years of the eighteenth century, when the Declaration was made. All through the nineteenth century we used the num- ber eighteen to designate the nineteenth century. 38 THE EDEN AGE and you readily see that the Great Rebellion oc- curred in the nineteenth century, from the sixty- first to sixty-fifth year of that century. Now before I begin talking about the divisions of time, which are called the three days and a half, which time is also called the time, and times, and a half time, I want to call your at- tention to this fact : the Inquisition, Reformation, Revolution, and Rebellion, which are the great national events of the most progressive people on the globe, have occurred at the same period of time by Prophetic measure, in this the evening thousand years ; as did the great national events of the most progressive people, during the morn- ing thousand years of this Gentile Age, hence Daniel's vision of the morning and evening which was told is true. (See figure two, page 34.) You will notice in this figure the five crosses of the evening thousand years stand directly un- der the five crosses of the morning thousand years, and the prophetic rule, which is the time, and times, and a haif time ; and measured the time from one great national event to another in the morning thousand years of this age, is the same rule of numbers also that measures the time from one great national event to another in the evening thousand years of this Gentile Age (A. D.). Now, Christ is our understanding in the an- THE EDEN AGE 39 cient symbol of writing at the close of the age, and we should watch for the lost knowledge of the true understanding or meaning of this an- cient writing to return during this first twenty- four years of this twentieth century ; which time is indicated by the first four figure sixes stand- ing outside the circle of the age. The first figure six which stands between the circle and the cross, and marked Lost, is the first six years of this century, and is the time in which the lost prophetic count of time must be brought forth and given to our nation, this is the mission of the annunciation. Xow this is a Holy Cross during the years nineteen hundred seven and eight, and if you want to witness this cross you must be taught, Xow comes the time of the three sixes, which are the marking numbers spoken of by John in the thirteenth chapter of Revelation ; it is eigh- teen years, and John says during this period of time we all should be marked, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond. So let us think soberly about these things, for there is noth- ing mysterious about them at all. It is just com- mon, plain thought, but John has a hidden way of writing about the circle teaching, and the begin- ning and the end of ages, which teaching belongs entirely to the twentieth century, and can not be taught to the people, as we all know and have 40 THE EDEN AGE seen by past history, until the twentieth century is ushered in. Daniel in looking forward to this present cen- tury, which was ushered in at nineteen hundred and one, A. D., which century I choose to call the golden period of national matrimony. He wrote of it after this manner, saying, "At the time of the end many people shall run to and fro and knowl- edge shall be increased." So by the word of God, it is right, to so let knowledge increase until the purpose which God had in view be accomplished, at the close of the ages. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. I want to make mention of this nation's heroic leaders, who have served the American republic, since her birth at the year seventeen hundred and seventy-six, and on down the great highway of time unto the ushering in of the Eden Age, at the year nineteen hundred and one. And also the one that stepped to our nation's aid, at the death of President McKinley, and has served the na- tion's best interests in the most brilliant manner, through one of the most trying periods of time known to the children of the republic, of the sun- set land, which period of time is the first six years of this century, and is the seventh six years since the rebellion closed, which division of time I choose to call the lost six years, at the evening THE EDEN AGE 41 of the A. D. Age. It is represented in figure two, between the great circle and the first cross in this twentieth century, which cross represents the close of the year nineteen hundred seven, and the spring of nineteen hundred eight. I call this one of the greatest periods of time this present generation of all nations of the whole world ever knew, and there is two years of it yet to come, so to speak ; and the things that will be revealed in this two years we can not see until they are closed. But let us watch the close of the Holy Seven Times at the next cross. This book is written in the interest of all the children of the American republic, upon whose shoulders rests the law of God, and the testimony of Jesus Christ, unto this day. ANNUNCIATION'S TRIBUTE OF LOVE AND RESPECT TO THE PRESIDENTS. To all the beloved presidents of the American republic, and more especially in tender memory of our three assassinated presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, who suffered ' martyr- dom by the hand of the enemy as they were lead- ing the bride, the government of Uncle Sam, the Son of the American Wilderness, to the golden altar of National Matrimony. 42 THE EDEN AGE These are events in our history that can never be erased from the holy tablets of American memory. Never will that memorable day be forgotten, when our beloved President McKinley was offici- ating at the door of this Eden Age, the first year (1901), ninth month, and sixth day of this cen- tury, at the great marriage supper of the na- tions at the city of Buffalo, proclaiming to all nations, "that God and man had so linked the na- tions together that the days of exclusiveness are past, and that reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times." Just at a period of time we were entering what I choose to call the Golden Period of all the Ages, when all nations seemed to be coming closer to- gether in national matrimony, with silken ribbons of love to entwine, and decanters of frankin- cense and of myrrh ; all hailing the bride of the American land. Yes, all hailing the Bride of the sunset land, When that enemy stepped up with a gun in his hand ; And pretending to shake our chief executive's hand, That murderous one, his life did demand. And brought sorrow and mourning throughout the whole land. THE EDEN AGE 43 But the silken ribbons of love and decanters of myrrh Were presented to the bride, and she has them yet, sir ; Uncle Sam's the son, and the government's his bride, Roosevelt became our president, behind old glory, our pride. But the martyrs are gone who once ministered by our side, Yet in loving remembrance, they'll ever abide Forever. THE TWELVE ARTICLES I will now try to convey to your mind the un- derstanding I get of the meaning of the eleventh chapter of the book of Revelation, as penned by John, the Revelator. See figure number two. The measuring reed I understand to be like the fig- ures portray in the line where the crosses stand. I understand these three large numbers to be the three prophetic days, and represent the Temple, and the half day to be the half number, and rep- resent the altar, and I understand him to teach that the times and seasons of an age are just the same in every age, age after age, as the times and seasons of a year are just the same, year after vear. I understand that this n«Tire number 44 THE EDEN AGE two is the divisions of the coming age just as they were the divisions of the past age, just as the twelve months of the past year are the divi- sions of this coming year. And I understand John to mean that when the three days and a half (that means prophetic days, of course) go out, we face great national changes. I under- stand this row of figures with the crosses in it, and the three numbers and a half, represents what John calls the street of the great city, which is nothing more than the great highway of time, and as Daniel and John both tell us, is marked by great national visions at the end of each three times and a half. Because Daniel said : "Un- derstand, O son of man; for at the time of the end shall be the vision." And he also said that the invisible man clothed with linen which was upon the water between the two river banks, when he was asked how long it was to the end of all these wonders, said it shall be for a time, times and a half, and when he shall have ac- complished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished. This scripture is plain and simple. If we are never taught the meaning of the three times and a half, we will never understand them. The meaning of the three times and a half can not be taught until the twentieth century which is the end of the age. That's why John says these two witnesses lay THE EDEN AGE 45 dead in our minds all the way down the great highway of time until the close of the Gentile Age. John knew they could not be taught to the people until the twentieth century, which was the close of the circle of this age, and was the century of circle teaching; the wonderful century of the wonderful teaching. I will handle these divisions of time in articles. This is the A, B, C of the prophetic writings ; if you are ever able to see light in the prophecies of the Bible, you will have to study the times, and seasons, some. ARTICLE ONE This is the Christ dispensation. It is the mark- ing number, the beginning of the Gentile Age, two thousand years ago. It is the three sixes (see figure two), thus : 3, 6, 6, 6. This is the first three and a half, and is the seven threes, and is twenty-one years. The mark- ing numbers : These numbers always stand at the beginning of every age, and have to come back at the close of every age. When the nations reach this period of time, the dashing , changes of the government affairs and religious and busi- ness interests are at hand, and the holy ties be- come so straining that thousands of people can not keep pace, or up with the times. 46 THE EDEN AGE These three sixes marked the apostles ; the next dispensation was the apostolic dispensation (article two), in which forty-two years the apos- tles marked the people that heard the Christian doctrine, believed it and followed it through the eighty-seven years, which eighty-seven years were the Christian dispensation, and is marked article three. Now at the close of that Christian dispensation, the Roman nation was marked, and the fifth dis- pensation recognized the new age, as the A. D. age, under Constantine, Emperor of Rome, who embraced Christianity, and started the new count of time as near the Christ dispensation as possi- ble. The first six years in the apostolic dispensa- tion (article two) you will notice it is marked the lost six at the morning of this age ; I call the lost number, six years, while other historians call it four. Now figure the number of years between the. lost six years standing at the morning of the age, and the lost six years standing at the even- ing of the age, which six years we are now in, and you have twenty hundred years. Just twenty centuries, which is the circle of an age. John has told us to watch the three sixes, which figures of time stand at the close of the age, and now confront us, saying; for it is the number of a man: "He caused all, both rich and poor, great THE EDEN AGE 47 and small, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hands, or in their foreheads, and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name." Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understand- ing count the number of the beast ; for it is the number of a man, and his number is six hundred three score and six (6, 6, 6), six, six, six. John knew these three sixes stand at the entering in of each age, just as you know the thirty-one days of January, which is the first month of the twelve, stands at the entering in of each year. John called it the number of a beast and said it was the number of a man, and you can call January a beast and say it is the number of a man ; like this : you know that Judah was the first of the twelve sons of Jacob, and that from that tribe came the Christ, which is Alpha and Omega, which is the beginning and the end. The num- ber of the beast is the number of Christ, and He is the Man, which in prophecy mean people — the teachers of the end of the age. The teachers or leaders of thought during the coming eighteen years ; this people are called the Christ people and they will mark us when the time comes, for Alpha and Omega, which is Christ, the begin- ning and the end must be taught. Many times I have heard our protestant people 48 THE EDEN AGE interpret this number as the Pope of Rome, and I want to say right here in the annunciation that the whole book of revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ and not the revelation of the Pope of Rome ; the numbers are the numbers of Jesus Christ, not the numbers of the Pope. I think this is plain enough now for all people that are to understand, that the revelation tells what Christ will do, not the Pope. This book is not for or against any sect or creed, but is for truth and justice unto all, and for the revealing of Jesus Christ the father of us all. Now a short comment on the word mark. Do you know that this word mark is often used by Bible writers ? See Ezekiel, ninth chapter, fourth, fifth and sixth verses ; they are as follows : 4. And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jeru- salem (means the Holy Circle), and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof. 5. And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite ; let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity : 6. Slay utterly old and young, both maids and little children and women ; but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my THE EDEN AGE 49 sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house. Paul said of himself: "The marks which you saw and knew to be in Christ you now see in me," and again he said : "From henceforth let no man trouble me, for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus." These words mark and marks have a great meaning in the word of God, and whomever you see these marks in, you can know that he is a servant of God and can be called his son. Paul was a man who bore in his body the marks of the Lord Jesus, and in Colossians i, 26, he speaks of the mystery which is hid in the ages. You know that Job was a servant of God, and here is what he says about the age (chapter viii, 8) : "For inquire, I pray thee, of the for- mer age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (for we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow:) Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart ?" If we want to know deep things of this age, we must inquire of the former age ; this is what the an- nunciation of the Eden Age is for. The marking buy and sell means bartering ; bartering in this case means teaching ; teaching- is marking; there is no mystery about these things, and if we do not study these things we 50 THE EDEN AGE will never know them, or the meaning of them. More than that it is not for everybody to under- stand. Some are to be marked in the hand, which means they do what they are told, while others are marked in the forehead, and shall do the teaching. Christ marked (taught) the apostles. This Christ dispensation ended at the first cross. At that time the end of the Jewish Age was taught by the apostles, for the time was at hand. Paul fought the teaching of the end of the Jewish Age harder than any man, then finally ha'd to fight harder for it than any man. When a new theme is set forth it is better to study it before we answer it, for we are in no shape to answer any theme until we are posted on it. But the new things that come on from day to day are a 1 l right, if we could view them in their true light. We will now cross from the Christ dispensa- tion or numbers to the apostolic dispensation or numbers. ARTICLE TWO This is the apostolic dispensation. It is num- bered thus: 6, 12, 12, 12. These numbers carry a fraction with them, which is six and a fourth, twelve and a half, twelve and a half, and twelve and a half. Now I leave the fractions off here (see figure two with fractions added), and call this dispensation the seven sixes. It is forty-two THE EDEN AGE 51 years. It represented forty-three years and nine months with the fractions added. During this dispensation the gospel was preached by the apostles throughout all the east country where it was to be preached by them. Now Paul was the greatest laborer for the gospel that was living at the close of this dispensation. And we will add this forty-two years to the Christ numbers (Article One), twenty-one years, and we have sixty-three years. Now see the date of Paul's epistles and you will see the dates range from fifty-nine years to sixty-six years, A. D. Now Paul was doing his greatest work for the gospel cause at the close of this dispensation, and the date of his writings correspond with the close of this period of time. This six and three twelves was the gospel era in the morning thousand years of this A. D. Age, and the same numbers would come back at the evening of the evening thousand years. See the same numbers at the evening of this age (Article Ten), and you will readily see that the gospel preachers of the evening numbers, in the evening thousand years, in the evening hemi- sphere, where the Christian nation of the evening of the age (see Article Nine) was born, were sent out by all the missionary churches of this United States to preach the gospel of the king- dom throughout the east country again during 52 THE EDEN AGE these very same numbers which stand at the close of this age. This is what Christ meant when He said, "This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world as a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come" — the end of the world, which means the end of the three great ages, which time it took to< again encircle the world with civilization and government ; the end of the three ages, which is six thousand years, is now at hand. The new age is here ; Eden is the name of this century. Eden is the name of this coming thousand years. Eden is the name of the coming age of two thousand years. The apostles marked (taught) the peo- ple. This apostolic dispensation ended thirty- seven years and six months inside the circle of the age. And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. But the new things that come on from day to day are all right, if we could view them in their true light. We will now cross from the apostolic dispen- sation to the Christian dispensation or numbers. ARTICLE THREE This is the Christian dispensation. It is num- bered thus: 12)^, 25, 25, 25. It is the twelve and a half, and the three twenty-fives, and is eighty- seven years and six months. During this dispen- THE EDEX AGE 53 sation many people became teachers of the Christ doctrine, Christian teaching. The people marked (taught) the- government. The Chris- tian dispensation ended one hundred and twenty- five years after Christ. It ended in bringing in pagan Rome. And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. But the new things that come on from day to day are all right, if we could view them in their true light. We will now cross from the Christian dis- pensation to the pagan Rome dispensation or numbers. ARTICLE FOUR This is the pagan Rome dispensation. It is numbered thus : 25, 50, 50, 50. It is the twenty- five and three fifties, and is one hundred and seventy-five years ; is the seven twenty-fives. At the close of this dispensation all Christian wor- ship was put down by the government, and .pagan Rome was changing rapidly. (See cross, figure two, three hundred years after Christ.) The government, now marked (taught), was ready to declare the new A. D. Age, and did so under the reign of Constantine, sole emperor of Rome, at or about three hundred years after Christ. And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen 54 THE EDEN AGE them always do. But the new things that come on from day to day are all right, if we could view them in the true light. We now cross to the Christian Rome dispensation. ARTICLE FIVE This is the Christian Rome dispensation. It is numbered thus : 50, 100, 100, 100. It is the fifty and three hundreds, three hundred and fifty years, and is the seven fifties. Much could be said of the history of this period of time, but 1 am not enumerating events of the history, so I will cut it out. The European nations now marked (taught) were leaders of the new A. D. Age. This dispensation ended at the cross standing six hun- dred and fifty years after Christ. And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. But the new things that come on from day to day are all right, if we could view them in their true light. We now cross to the papal Rome dispensation. article six This is the papal Rome dispensation. It is numbered thus : 100, 200, 200, 200. It is the one hundred and three two hundreds, and is seven hundred years. It is the seven hundreds. This THE EDEX AGE 55 is the longest three and a half times during the age. During this dispensation Rome became uniter of church and state. Now these six articles are typical of the first six months of a year ; the days naturally increase in length during the first six months of the year, from January to June. So the prophetic days naturally increase in length during the first six dispensations of an age, which time I have represented in these first six articles. After the first six months of a year the days decrease in length unto the close of the year. After the first six dispensations of an age the prophetic days decrease in length unto the close of the age. The first thousand years was the morning of the age; it ended at the close of the first fifty years of the middle two hundred years of this dispen- sation. Rome reached great height at the close of the first thousand years after Christ. The sec- ond thousand years was the evening of the age, and it was ushered in during Rome's three times and a half. At the close of this dispensation Rome was losing her power among the govern- ments, and the great privilege of advancement went over to the English government. This dis- pensation ended thirteen hundred and fifty years after Christ. (See cross at 1350, A. D., figure two.) And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them alwavs do. At this time all the 56 THE EDEN AGE European governments were recognizing the A. D. Age. And Rome is, known to this day as tinker of church and state, a privilege that no other government has had. Her duty was to unite the morning thousand years to the even- ing thousand years of this age. Now it is the duty of this American republic to unite the past A. D. Age to the coming Eden Age. We now cross to the English dispensation. ARTICLE SEVEN. This is the English dispensation. It is num- bered thus : ioo, ioo, ioo, and 50. It is the three hundred and fifty years in the evening of the A. D. Age, and it is the seven fifties. It holds the same numbers, and is the same length of time as Article Five. The three hundred years was the -holy circle number, or temple it is also called, and the fifty years was the altar number, during which time the reformation became so unbearable that our forefathers (the seed of this nation) forsook the east hemisphere and came to the American wilderness, where privileges were not bound, and began life anew, and prepared the way for the great government that is now over you. So that by nineteen hundred and one the three last centuries of the old age would be done, and nineteen hundred and two would re- THE EDEN AGE 57 veal the Eden Age, the new. These prophetic days began to shorten, as the nations were then in the evening thousand years of the A. D. Age. You will now notice the altar num- ber follows the three whole numbers, while in the first six dispensations it was the precedent. England was the marking nation at this time. This dispensation ended at the close of the six- teenth century after Christ. (See cross at 1700 after Christ, figure two.) And at that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. We now cross from the English dispensation and country in the east hemisphere to the Colo- nist dispensation and country in the west hemi- sphere, for it is the dispensation that we children of America hold dear. Did you ever meditate for a moment on the ability of God to handle the nations of the world ? that the person chosen in mind to lead the mind of the people was always at the proper place when the proper time came? God is with us. ARTICLE EIGHT This is the Colonist dispensation. It is num- bered thus: 50, 50, 50, and 25. It is the three fifties and twenty-five, and is one hundred and seventv-five years ; it is the seven twenty-fives. 58 THE EDEN AGE . It holds the same numbers, and is the same length of time as Article Four. This is the first dispensation of America's history. It began at the close of the sixteenth century, A. D., and the first and chief dates of settling in the Americas were from the first to the seventh year of the seventeenth century. Such dates are referred to in common by saying sixteen hundred two, three and four, etc. Sixteen hundred and seven James- town, Virginia, was settled, and this is sufficient to make us understand the beginning of Amer- ica's history, under the intelligent hands, was at the beginning of the seventeenth century. This dispensation is the time from the entering into the holy land of America to the birth of the Christian nation, flag, money and government. God's prophetic rule always gives us something new at the end of it, but we generally pay a good heaped-up and running-over measure of the blood of the Son of Man for it, and will con- tinue to do so, if we do not lift up our heads more to his holy writings. This dispensation is the first time, and times, and half time, in the wilderness of America, which I call the golden- sunset land ; it is here jGod has promised the human race that the long-lost knowledge of the meaning of the three times and a half would be visited again upon man during the twilight cen- turies at the evening of the third great age. This THE EDEN AGE 59 century is the golden century of the three ages ; it is the Eden century, and it is the century of the world's jubilee, as told in poetry (page 126). This is a great day and age of the world, my peo- ple, and I would like to help you take a more broad and tolerant view of the period of time you are now living in. The long-lost knowledge of the holy writings is returning to the children of men. I know and I fully realize that many people have all they can do to keep pace with these speedy times, and life sometimes becomes a great burden, but we must lift up our heads and let the King of Glory come in. But back to the thought on the colonist dis- pensation. The seven times were seven twenty- fives, and was one hundred and seventy-five years. This brought our fathers down the great street (see Rev. xi, 8 and 9) or highway of time to the year seventeen hundred and seventy- five A. D. The holy prophetic Sunday night was upon them, and the holy song of the Seraphim (titled) three times and a half, had been sung (passed) to them. (Isa. vi, 3.) Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of Hosts. (Rev. iv, 8.) Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is yet to come, and means for a time and times and half time. Now while that great cloud and pillar of fire was upon our fathers, which darkness is the 60 THE EDEN AGE prophetic night, Uncle Sam, the son of Mother England, was born, and the government was to be upon his shoulders. Think about that great night for just a moment. Now can you see the fulfillment of that scripture which reads : "Our fathers all passed under the cloud and through the sea ?" Yes, at that time our fathers all passed under the cloud and through the sea, keeping the holy count for you and me, so we could an- nounce at the end of the ages three ; the rebuild- ing of the vast Americas, during the centuries three, under the rulings three. The first ruling was the king's ruling over the colonies, and was the time from sixteen hundred to seventeen hundred and seventy-six. The sign- ing of the declaration of independence closed this ruling. The second ruling was from the declar- ation unto the rebellion. The rebellion closed this ruling. The third ruling is from the rebellion down to the present time ; the numbers of it go out in the year nineteen hundred and seven. These three great rulings did, during the three last centuries of the three great ages, rebuild the west hemisphere of God's globe. During these three last centuries the three great continents — North America, South America and Africa — be- came the greatest gardens of the world. This colonist dispensation ended at the declaration (1776 A. D.). (See cross at 1875 after Christ.) THE EDEN AGE 61 The nation was now made that was to teach the world (preach the gospel). At that time many people wanted to follow the old style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do, though they have often read the history of Paul, which they know to be true and portrays to us plainly how chief spokesmen to this day will do. Like Paul, except they say, "You'll have to show me the new." But they, later on, if like Paul, they'll do, forsake the old custom by accepting the new. The altar number of this colonist dispensation was twenty-five years, and signifies to our fathers the size of the three grand numbers of the com- ing dispensation, but the golden century (this Eden one) was not theirs, and they could not see these things as you and I now see them in Eden. ARTICLE NINE. This is the second or government dispensation of America's history. It is numbered thus: 25, 25, 25 and I2y 2 . It is the three twenty-fives and twelve and a half, and is eighty-seven years and six months ; it is the seven twelves and a half ; leaving off the fractions it is seven twelves. It holds the same numbers and is the same length of time as Article Three. You notice it stands directly under the third dispensation. (See figure 62 THE EDEN AGE two.) This second dispensation (in America) be- gan at the year seventeen hundred and seventy- six. You note its first grand number closed the eighteenth century. Its second grand number brought our fathers on down the highway of time to the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five. Its third grand number brought our fathers on down the highway of time to the year eighteen hundred and fifty. Its altar number, which is the half time the sacrificial number, was then at hand, it was twelve years and six months, and brought our fathers on down the highway of time to the year eighteen hundred and sixty-three (1863), July, the year of the emancipation proclamation ; then was seen the great sacrifice for the new dis- pensation. When the altar number is at hand, John says: "He that is unjust let him be unjust still (this saying is national, of course), and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still ; and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still ; he that is holy, let him be holy still. And behold I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do His com- mandments." The rebellion crossed our fathers from the evening Christian numbers to the evening apos- THE EDEN AGE 63 tolic numbers, the three twelves and the six, which numbers will be handled next (Article Ten). While this prophetic night (rebellion) was upon our fathers the burden was wonderful. The holy song of the seraphim (titled), three times and a half, had been sung (passed) to them. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty. The signs of the Holy Almanac were out, and the Christian dispensation was finished. The dis- pensation of the evening apostolic numbers are at hand, and during this apostolic dispensation this Christian nation had to dispense the gospel in all the world as a warning to all nations, then the end would come, the end of the three great ages, called the end of the world. (Matt, xxiv, 14.) "And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the w r orld as witness to all na- tions, and then shall the end come." (St. Mark, xiii, 10.) "And the gospel must first be pub- lished among all nations. " This has been done by the missionary churches of the United States during the forty-two years since the rebellion closed. This nation has preached the gospel to all nations as a witness. From the year eighteen hundred and sixty-one to sixty-five our fathers all passed under the cloud and through the sea, keeping the holy count of time for you and me. (See cross at 1962^ after Christ.) At that time many people wanted to follow the old style and 64 THE EDEN AGE fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. Remember the story of Paul, it is true; he that fights hardest for the old style must be con- verted, and turn and do the same thing for the new. Zachariah iv, 10, says the seven are the eyes of the Lord, which run to and fro through the whole earth. John, in Rev. v, 6, says they are the seven spirits of God, sent forth into all the earth. Well, the number seven is called many different names, but Daniel says they are the seven times, and his book and the book of Rev- elation are the almanac of the Bible, and are the only books that have the signs of the zodiac, which signs are the holy seasons, and are called the time and times and a half time. Daniel called the number seven the seven times, and I will call it the seven divisions of time. Christ, speaking of the end of the world, the three times and a half, said, at the end of the world there would be two in the field, one shall be taken and the other left. And at the end of the first three times and a half in America, there were two in the battlefield, Uncle Sam and the King of England. One was taken (King) and the other (Uncle Sam) was left (at 1776). At the end of the next three times and a half (world or circle) there were two in the battlefield, the THE EDEX AGE 05 man for the Union and the man for the Confed- eracy (the Blue and Gray) — "the one was taken (the Gray) and the other left (the Blue)," at 1865. Christ also said there would be two wom- en grinding at the mill : one shall be taken, the other left. You may want to know what that saying means, so I will tell you what I under- stand that saying to mean. The word "woman" is used by the prophetic writers instead of the word government. (Women is government.) The circle of time, which is the three whole num- bers without the half, is considered the millstone. (Mill is the circle of time.) Christ was a prophet, and that language of his interpreted is this : There shall be two governments at the grinding ; one shall be taken and the other left. The circle of time, from sixteen hundred to seventeen hun- dred and seventy-six, is typical of the lower mill- stone. The circle of time, from seventeen hun- dred and seventy-six to eighteen hundred and sixty is typical of the upper millstone. And at the grinding of seventeen hundred and seventy-six the king's government was taken and the republic was left. The circle of time, from seventeen hun- dred and seventy-six to eighteen hundred and sixty, became the lower millstone at sixty-one ; the grinding lasted unto sixty-five ; this coming circle of time, which is yet standing, represented at that 66 THE EDEN AGE time the upper millstone. And at the grinding of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to sixty-five there were two governments, the Confederate and the original Union. One, the Confederate, was taken and the original Union was left. The gray was taken and the blue was left. The prophet Daniel said, that during the A. D. Age from Christ to Eden no original govern- ments shall be overthrown ; that images would come up at the end of the holy count of time, and that the stone, which is Christ, before whose face the fiery flame proceeded, would smite the great image. ARTICLE TEN This is the third or gospel dispensation of America's history. It is numbered thus: 12, 12, 12 and 6. It is the three twelves and six, and is forty-two years ; it is the seven sixes, without the fractions, as shown in figure two. It holds the same numbers and is the same length of time as Article Two. Article Two is the apostolic dispensation at the morning of this A. D. Age, and this Article Ten is the apostolic dispensation at the evening of this A. D. Age. The numbers of this apostolic dispensation since the rebellion closed go out in the year nineteen hundred and seven. (See cross at 2007, figure two.) At that time many people will want to follow the old THE EDEN AGE 67 style and fight the new, just as you have seen them always do. Remember the story of Paul ; it is true ; the fighter for the old must be con- verted and become the chief fighter for the new. You will notice we are now at the close of the seventh six years since the rebellion, which time is represented in the first figure six, standing outside of the circle of the twenty centuries. This is what is known as the lost six years at the even- ing of this A. D. Age, and is the six years in which the Eden Age and the new count of time must be brought forth. And this I have done in this fifth year of this twentieth century. It is a plain and evident fact that this Chris- tian nation's missionary churches did send gos- pel preachers during this evening apostolic dis- pensation into all the east hemisphere to preach the gospel (which Christ said was a witness) to all nations. Xow this has been done, at least it is visible to me. Xow I consider we are at the end, which is the marking numbers of the coming Eden Age. The Eden Age is announced. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. ARTICLE ELEVEN This will be the fourth or prophetic dispen- sation of America's history. It is numbered thus : 6, 6, 6 and 3. It is the three sixes and 68 THE EDEN AGE three, and is twenty-one years ; it is the seven threes. This dispensation is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and end, the first and the last, of the divisions of the ages. The number is six hundred three score and six, or six, six, six. It is the number of a man, and the man is Christ, and this coming dispensation is the Christ dis- pensation, and Jesus Christ will be revealed by the Book of the Revelation, and this American nation, during this dispensation. Watch it. The highest degree or standard of morality must be lived up to by this nation during this twenty- one years. Many men of high rank and file en- tered our holy penitentiaries during this last six years, the first six years of the Eden century. It positively will not do for men who are serving the holy American nation to defraud them. For the marks of the Lord Jesus Christ are yet with this holy people. Be true to your trust in this dispensation. You, like a great many other per- sons may want to know, What about the end of the twenty-one years? So I will say this: We will at that time be just twenty-one years in the Eden Age, which is two thousand years time in the future ; it has the same grand divisions of time that this past age had. Figure two shows the dispensations through the coming Eden Age to be the same as the past A. D. Age. (See Job viii, 8.) For enquire, I THE EDEN AGE 69 pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers. Circle teaching has appeared to this nation. The object of this comment is not to lead any one captive in some religious theory, but is to show persons that are interested in circle teach- ing and the nation's interests that the one who wrote the annunciation knew how to compile the prophetic seasons, and style the new age. These things are not individual, but are the nation's in- terests all together, and are therefore written in the name and in the interest of all the children of the republic known as the American nation. This is a compilation in the interest of our nation. Had God intended the book of Daniel and the book of Revelation for church doctrines and in- dividual interests they surely would have been used as such. But they are the almanacs of the ■ages, and are for the purpose of educating men in the different ages, in their respective order, in their season, to herald the new style of the ag*e. This being the Eden season I have announced it, and for no purpose under the sun except for the purpose which God intends it, which is to change the style of the age and begin the new count and dating at the beginning of this, the twentieth century. Now at nineteen hundred and seven we will be at the gate of the Christ dispensation, and I hope this gate will be standing wide open 70 THE EDEN AGE and that the privilege of entering it will not have to be executed with the sword and the gun like we had to do at the dispensation whose gate stood at the year 1776; also the one whose gate stood at the year 1861. But O God, open the gate of this Christ dispensation with the sword of Thy mouth. ARTICLE TWELVE All through this century the figure that stands next to the word Eden will represent the year, and must change at the close of each year. Example: This year is Eden, 5. Next year is Eden, 6. The next year will be Eden, 7. Forty- five years from now is Eden, 50. And so on until we have written Eden, 100. And that will be the first hundredth anniversary, which I have said before should be held ninety-six years from the annunciation. At that time, and from that on, there will be four figures in the style. There should stand a figure one next to the word Eden, representing the first century, and should stand there during the entire century. This should be the reading of the new dating at the first hundredth anniver- sary. Example: Eden, 1, 1, 1, and 1. This is the way to read it : Eden, first century, first year, first month and first day. One year, THE EDEN AGE 71 one month and one day later would read, Eden, 1, 2, 2, and 2. One month and two days later would read, Eden, 1, 2, 3, and 4. The style of the age has been handed to our nation, etc. To the Children Living at Eden 1,1,1 and 1 : Be it known to all of you who are interested in the first hundredth anniversary of this Eden Age, that my mind was isolated to a high view of God's globe of creation and the nations, God's children of the same, and I became a prophetic watcher (watcher by the prophetic writings of the Bible) of the movements of the kings, presidents and head rulers of all the nations of the world, at the morning of this century the blooming of the Christ numbers of this Christ dispensation, at Eden 1, 1 and 1. . And I declare unto you that our nation was (according to the prophetic writings) holding and enjoying the Eden season and the things of the same, though many may not have known it at the time, yet as a watcher I beheld the great altering of treaties, and the holy matri- mony of the nations which began to take place at this time. I observed the mighty interests of the nations, the mighty ships and ship routes of the seas, the mighty trains and their routes on the land, canals and their location on the globe, the exchange of 72 THE EDEN AGE commerce of all the nations of all parts of the globe, the banking systems, manufacturing estab- lishments, industries of every kind, and fine arts of man's hand. I also observed the cryings and the murmur- ings of discontent among the people and the cry for reform in the spiritual and temporal govern- ments, and the mighty efforts of the holy heads, kings and presidents, to comfort them and sup- press rioting and striking during this holy dis- pensation. I considered it my duty to announce the Eden Age and publish the annunciation, and have done so. THE EDEN AGE 73 The first cards I received from parties who recognized the new style of dating. They show the name of the person, and bear the date of the year, month and day they were written. 74 THE EDEN AGE 9Le/L~* Sly A- , /3. «W^ ime for ICE TE GOODS. Our lin< I will see yo 'd Wrigh t. THE HOLY PROPHETS The holy prophets were like our cartoonists. They always drew a very peculiar picture of things they saw, always representing their views on the times by some kind of a beast made up of parts of different kinds of animals. Daniel said the first beast was like a lion, and had eagle's wings; the second was like to a bear,' and the third was like a leopard, and had four w T ings of a fowl. John said he saw a beast that looked like a leopard, and it had feet like a bear, and a mouth like a lion. And he said he saw another beast that was like a lamb, and had two horns and spoke like a dragon. The cartoonists to-day are our prophets at this day and age, but these things seem too simple to people who do not study ancient history, and don't understand that the ages follow after each other in succession, just as the days, years and centuries do. I know it is hard for a great many persons to understand the prophecies in the Bible, because they see no beginning or ending to them, and it 75 76 THE EDEN AGE gets to be monotonous, because it is circle teach- ing, and is right around and around again, the same thing over and over again, and no begin- ning or end. And you will never be able to ap- preciate them until you know where the begin- ning is. Now here is the secret. Judah is the be- ginning, and the name represents the first num- ber of the angelic circle, and if the name of Judah is not used, nor the names of any of his descendants, then they are not writing about the ^first quarter of time. If they use Reuben's name, or the name of any of his descendants, then they are talking about the second number of the twelve numbers of the angelic band or circle of time. And if they use the name of Levi, or any name of the tribe of Levi, they are talking about the eighth division of time. If they use Abra- ham's name, they are speaking of the outside circle of time, and the first part of it, and if Isaac's name is used, they are talking about the second division of the three grand divisions. And if Jacob or Esau's name is used, they are telling about the third division of the grand three. They call the three grand numbers, or di- visions, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Esau. And they are talking about the half time whenever they are using Ephraim's name, or Manasseh's, or Israel's, and whenever they mention the last days they have reference to the half time, the THE EDEN AGE 77 thirteenth and fourteenth quarters. You have got to know what tribe the name used is a descendant of, and all this study is so vast that there are but few people who will ever show you as much as I have, for they positively will not put their time and their mind to it. Reading prophecy is a very peculiar profession, as it is a conversation with the dead, and persons who don't believe in past, present and future history have no use for the prophetic teachings, and they are open only in the circle teaching, and are for the majority of people to hear the prophetic historians handle, just as the gospel is for the people to hear the preachers handle, for the edification of the churches. And during this century the prophe- cies will be handled to the edification of the church, just as they were during the twentieth century of the Jewish Age two thousand years aeo. PART THREE PART ONE Instructs you on figure number one, And shows you where Moses his reckoning be- gun. The cherubim shows us the ages, from three back to one, And portrays to us plainly that the Eden Age has begun. At the first year of this century, nineteen hun- dred and one, And in the new style of reckoning, was Eden, one, one and one. PART TWO Instructs you on figure number two, And shows you how prophetic historians reckon time, too, From the beginning of an age to the close of it, too. It's a peculiar way of reckoning, but you'll find it true If you'll give it the study that you had ought to do. 7 8 THE EDEN AGE 79 Until you understand circle teaching, which teaching I know to be true, And will cause you to realize that the old age is out, and w r e've entered the new. PART THREE Instructs you on figure number three, The thing I am now trying to get you to see ; At which things you will wonder, and still won- der at me, For even attempting to teach the end of this age, number three. Yes, while every one is so busy — yes, too busy to see The beauties in the cherubim, which is twelve, six and three. It's the only thing that will bring back the long lost knowledge of Eden to thee. Its numbers are simple, just twelve, six and three. w h w o U Q O N U H W B P-. • o O CO Pd •H Oh O N w o in o -p CD • • "^ s E H Eh Eh C* .q to > •p H CD W e rH •H Eh CO H H w s Eh © •H 1 s| CO Eh n CD B i «i •H Eh □ H SS M EH CD u 'CJ EH to Q w CD 5 □ 2 l-H 02 Q ■p CO •H S □ EH •H EH H □ o < c 03 O .-2 H 3 C2 CO THE ALMANAC The almanac is as true a book as you have in your possession. Of all the books in our great libraries the almanac is the only one that you will find among them that foretells the future and keeps the divisions of time. It is always put up in the year preceding the year it is to be used, and is applicable to a year's time, and may be called the book of time. Then, again, it is the book in which to keep the divisions of a year's time, which is twelve months, and in this case may also be called the book of the times, and when the twelve months (times) are passed, that year's time is no longer. It also has other divisions of time in it. It is divided into what we call weeks, and we consider there are fifty-two weeks and a fractional part to each year. Then it has another division called days, and there are three hundred and sixty-five days and a frac- tional part to each year. There are four divisions of time considered in the almanac. First is the year, which is the whole or full time. Second is the months, which are the twelve times. Third Si 82 THE EDEN AGE is the weeks, which are the fifty-two times and a fractional part. Fourth is the days, which are the three hundred and sixty-five times and a fractional part. Now, the third division is the peculiar one, because it is made up of the holy number, seven. Every one of the fifty-two di- visions, called weeks, is just seven days long. The months are not so. They vary in length, and the second month is the one which the addition of days belongs to during the fourth year, called leap year. The Zodiac of the prophetic almanac has four divisions of time to it. First, is the whole or full time from beginning to end. Second, is the three times and the half a time. Third, is the seven times, the second division reduced to equal parts. Fourth, is the fourteen quarters, which are the seven times equally divided. (See figure num- ber three, page 80.) But back to the week : it is the only division of time made up of the number seven and kept by the nation. The almanac is the book published for the keeping of the time, and may be called the book of time, or the book of the times. It is the book, of a year's time, and is the book of months, weeks and days, and may be called the book of the time and times, and the dividing of time. (See Daniel vii, 25-28.) It is a very pecu- liar book if you will think about it for a moment. THE EDEN AGE 83 It is used by many of our great firms as an ad- vertisement of their goods, hence it is free to the people. And we can not easily do without it, as it figures in almost all business transactions, bonds, deeds, mortgages, notes, checks, etc. In fact all business transactions are based on its divisions of time. It matters not whether you have one in your possession, the seasons will come and go just the same, and the eclipse will come and go just the same, but if you want to watch the times and seasons by an almanac, get one. This prophetic almanac is typical of the com- mon almanac. The common almanac shows you the divisions of time from the beginning of the year to the close of the same. This prophetic almanac shows you the divisions of time from the beginning of an age to the close of the same. The divisions of time that make up an age, as you see in figure number two, are the same divi- sions of time that measured the Jewish Age, which age was the time from the Flood to Christ. And the antediluvian age was measured by the same divisions of time, which was the time from Eden to the Flood. We are now entering the antediluvian or Eden Age. And I put up this compilation so persons that are interested through this twentieth century in national interests can 84 THE EDEN AGE help to watch the old age out and the new age in. It does not matter whether you have one of these world almanacs or not, the time will go on just the same, but if you want to watch the old age close, according to the prophetic writers of the Bible, you want to study up on the divisions of prophetic time. If there has been a publica- tion of this kind since we entered this century I have not been apprised of the fact. Now I am going to call the common almanac the book of time, which means a year's time; and the book of the times, which means the months and weeks ; and the dividing of time, which means days. So our common almanac is a book of the time and times and the dividing of time. Remember the third reason of this peculiar compilation. To persons not posted on this theme, you will have to watch with me through the coming three sixes, the coming eighteen years, to know if I am posted on the theme I am handling. Then we will call this prophetic almanac the book of the time, and times, and the dividing of time. (See Daniel vii, 25.) Now the common almanac is a peculiar book for this reason : It foretells the movements of the heavenly bodies, the sun and moon, the ar- rival of eclipses and the departure of the same. This prophetic almanac is peculiar for this rea- THE EDEN AGE 85 son : It points out the arrival of the national confusion, or eclipse of the government, and the departure of the same. The common almanac has the twelve signs of the zodiac ; it is the book of signs, and we laugh at the persons that be- lieve in signs and talk signs, and but few people pay any attention to them ; yet they are there, and are used in every almanac, and but few of us know their meaning, as we do not teach the twelve signs of the zodiac in our public schools. We teach all the divisions of time of the alma- nac in the public school, take particular pains to teach the months, weeks and days, and number of days to each month, but do not teach the signs of the zodiac. Oh, no, no, no, that is not essen- tial, and I agree with you that it is not, unless you want to understand them, and if you do want to understand them, you will have to go to some one that understands them for your instruction. And when you understand them, you perhaps would, with a little practice, make a tolerably fair astronomer yourself. The prophetic almanac has twelve signs of the zodiac ; it is a book of signs, and we laugh at the persons who believe in these signs, too. (See page 80, The Prophetic Zodiac.) If you don't want to be laughed at, just refuse to believe in these signs and do not talk them, but few people will pay any attention to them anyway, for they 86 THE EDEN AGE never have in the past, and I suppose it will be the same in the future. Nevertheless they are in here, and must always be used in every prophetic almanac. And but few of us will ever know their meaning, as we do not teach them in the public- schools or meeting houses. We teach the mean- ing of all the things in the Bible, in the meeting houses and public places, except the meaning of the time, and times, and half time. We take par- ticular care to teach the Gentiles the inability of the Jewish nation to comprehend the prophecy concerning the coming of Christ, which prophecy was read every Sabbath day in the synagogue, not realizing that this Gentile people don't under- stand the time, and times, and half time, or, in other words, the seven times, as well as the Jew- ish nation did. This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, this three and a half times, and does re- veal him overthrowing the nation that claims to be his people regularly at the end of every time, and times, and a half. Yes, at the end of every three and a half, which is seven halves, and is the seven times, he turns things into great com- motion. Our people can not see this any plainer than the Jews did unless it is shown to them. But it is no use to teach you this zodiac. Oh, no, unless you want to understand it, and if you want to understand, and should take a notion to study it, THE EDEN AGE 87 you might make as good a prophet as I, for if you want to follow any profession in the world, you must take it up as a study, and practice it. For it is by study and practice that we come to great abi/ity in anything ; don't forget that ; keep that in mind while you read this book. There are many books in the world besides the almanac, yet the almanac is the book of the time, and the times, and the divisions of time, and there are so many other books in the Bible, besides the book of Daniel and Revelation, but they are the only books of the time, and times, and a half time. In other words, the book of Daniel is the al- manac among the books of the Old Testament, and the Revelation is the almanac among the books of the Xew Testament. And John used many of the signs of the common almanac in the signs of the Revelation. The man on horseback with the bow, and the man with the balance in his hand, the scorpion, the woman, the beast, the dragon, etc. In fact, the book of Revelation is the book of visions, and it does not matter if you don't understand it, it is not a book of church doctrines or church theories. It is for men to read and understand, so they can give you the divisions of time, and establish the new age, just as the zodiac of the almanac is for the persons that keep and give you the divisions of time, vears and centuries. 88 THE EDEN AGE In this annunciation I give you the divisions of the three ages. Then I show the age in two divisions, allowing two thousand years to an age ; this first thousand years represents the morning of an age, and the second thousand years repre- sents the evening of an age. Now, I reason this way : Let the east hemisphere represent the morning hemisphere of intelligence, and this west hemisphere the evening hemisphere of intelli- gence. Now, let us reason this way. Why was the world's surface made up of so much water, and so smftll amount of land ? Why was not the world's surface made up of three-fourths land and one-fourth water ? Why was it that the west hemisphere was in such a condition as it was when found by Columbus? Why would God have such a people as the Indian? And why would God have so many different kinds or tribes of Indians ? Why should there be so many dif- ferent nations or tribes in the east hemisphere? There were the Chinese, the Jews, the German, the Italian, the Englishman and many others. Every kindred, tongue and tribe belongs to the Creator, and everything is just as it is for the per- petuation of the human race, and all flesh. It .is by boxing the colors together that we get them all one shade ; it is by boxing the nations together that we make them all one, and when God gets ready to box the east and west hemispheres to- THE EDEX AGE 89 gether, he does so ; and now at the end of three centuries, this west hemisphere presents about the same appearance as the east hemisphere. All things are all right. This book is not the foundation of politics, business, or religion. It is the world's almanac of the twentieth century, of the third age. It is written more in the interest of the unborn gen- eration than the generation of to-day. Yet, this present generation may appreciate this writ- ing more than I think they will, and should they, I say, let them read. This book is only a hint of the end of the age, a composition I have seen fit to compile in the interest of the children of the present time ; yet more especially for those that follow after. Remember this : there was the commercial period to Christ's life. It was at the close of His life. Remember this : there was the commercial period to Joseph's life. It was at the close of his boyhood years. Christ was sold for the redemption of the world spiritually. Joseph w r as sold for the re- demption of the world temporally. The truth, the light, the life and the straight way. will al- ways be forfeited at the end of the three times and a half. This is the body and statue of Jesus Christ. Don't take my word for it, if you don't want to, but search the holy history and the 90 THE EDEN AGE common history, and if it be not true it is because there is no light in the Revelation and testimony of Jesus Christ. But I say unto you, that the perjuring of the body of Jesus Christ will be seen in all walks of life during the half time of each dispensation. Not establishing my own righteous- ness, but the righteousness of others, I remem- ber the passage which reads : There is none righteous ; no, not one. Let our law-making assembly remember the laws must be changed as we pass down the high- way of time, for the benefit and the advancement of all classes of the people, and must change rap- idly during this rapid dispensation. So may it be. *3 o fin H 92 THE EDEN AGE THE SERAPHIM I have drawn a figure here that represents the seraphim. Persons acquainted with the sixth chapter of Isaiah's writing will no doubt be able to see great light in this figure. But persons who are not acquainted with the prophetic writings, or the ancient Assyrian figures which we have in hieroglyphics on the tabs that are in our muse- ums, may not fully comprehend the meaning of the seraphim. The Ark of the Covenant, the Cherubim and the Seraphim are all three one and the same thing. They all hold or represent the holy num- bers, which are the divisions of time from one great event in the government to another ; illus- trated by different designs. The Assyrians in portraying the holy count usually used three men and the half of a man, as if severed from the head to the feet. This was their way of showing the severing of the gov- ernment at the end of the holy numbers of time : three and a half. You will notice I have put a mark about the half seraphim. If you wish, take a penknife and cut the line so the half which holds the revealing numbers can be folded back, leaving the trinity numbers to themselves. Three is trinity. It holds the numbers from one to six, THE EDEX AGE 93 and from one to twelve. The half is the reveal- ing numbers ; as you will notice it holds the wings numbered thirteen, fourteen and seven. The fourth division of time is always cut in twain. It is separate and apart from trinity. This is God's law ; it is his covenant with man, for the purpose of keeping man in memory of the power of God through all ages and make man recognize the end of his law, as taught by the holy prophets. The end of the ages. Man must recognize God's covenant when the time comes, and is fully here. God's covenant with the Gentiles will be complete at the close of this century. And a new age, and a new count of time must be established. This, many nations will not want to do just now, but they will, when the time comes, enter the new age under the new covenant. There were a great many people at the time of Christ who did not want to enter the new age under the new covenant, but time put them under it. There were a great many people who did not want to enter the new conti- nent, America, at the time of opening up for civ- ilization, but as the great highway of time passed by, many wanted to become citizens of it, but could not, according to law. So it is with this new age, many want to be supporters of it if they only knew it to be right. Study it a little. I have been a close observer of the movements, 94 THE EDEN AGE customs and habits of all the races and nations that inhabit the two great hemispheres of Al- mighty God's creation. The dates of many of the greatest historic events I have noted in this composition by the prophetic rule ; also the com- mon rule of reckoning. And having watched the speedy changes of the last few years has caused me to write this annunciation. I have described in as short and brief a manner as possible the gleanings of the sickle of my mind, hoping that you will be able to comprehend in part, if not in full, the thought I have in view of the annuncia- tion. This book is not published for fame or notori- ety. This is for independent thinkers of the present day and age. Get up, get up higher, get up until you see the beginning and the ending of the great moun- tain systems of the world. Get up higher, until you can see the beginning and the ending of all the rivers of the continents. Yes, get up higher, and still higher until you can see the beginning and the ending of the great continents of the globe, then you can view creation in her true sense, then you can see all the nations of the world in their respective countries, serving their government in a respective way, or confronted with revolution. Revolution is the great lake of fire and brimstone, in which the nations are THE EDEN AGE 95 plunged when the officials of government sell the Christ there is in them for Judas (the money man). This is the interpretation of Judas yet to this day. Watch the breaking of the alabaster box of very precious ointment, and the pouring out of the same on the head of Jesus, the head of the three times and a half. See all tribes of the earth mourn at the crucifixion of Christ ; behold, He cometh with clouds ; and every eye shall see Him, and they also which pierced Him ; and all kindreds of the earth shall w 7 ail because of Him. Even so, Amen. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, who stand min- istering for this nation at the gate of this Christ dispensation. God bless you. FAIRY NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA I want to call your attention to a line of thought. It is this : did you ever think about these two great continents, North and South America, in their natural condition ? Natural plains, natural forests, and the natural fountains in the Yellowstone Park ; and the greatest lakes and rivers, and the grandest water fall in the world, are in America. The most wonderful mounds of the world are in her chief territory. Our state of Nevada has the ancient hermetically 96 THE EDEN AGE sealed vaults, which are one of the wonders of the world to-day, and Arizona has the marks of foundations of once populous cities that were maintained by an irrigation system that our me- chanical engineers to-day have not surpassed. All these are things to be wondered at when we stop and think for a moment. And the beautiful wild animals — deer, elk, bear, buffalo and many other kinds — all running over the plains and in the jungles, and the wild fruits of every kind just as they grew from nature. These thoughts carry me away to the high mountain from which John in his day viewed the Creator putting the world (age) to come under subjection until all things are accomplished that are written in the word of God. And the Indian, the great red man of the world — the only red man of the world. (See Genesis xxv, 25.) He was the keeper of this massive and wonderful zoological garden. He was the natural man, satisfied with nature's things, living on the natural fleshes and fruits, just as nature provided them. He was not cut- ting the forests and destroying the natural re- sources of this country in the way and manner we are. No, he was not. He was the natural man, satisfied with nature's gift, keeping the natural resources of this beautiful American zoo for the white man of the east hemisphere (with the word of God) to come into, according to the word of THE EDEN AGE 97 God, at the close of the Gentile Age, which period of time was and is the twelfth five hun- dred years since Eden of old. Here the Eden people were, too, and have rebuilt the fairy land, and the knowledge of the book of ancient history is soon to become theirs. Palestine is the holy land of the east hemisphere. America is the holy land of the whole world. This is where we are to hold the world's jubilee during this twentieth century. THE GARDENER AND THE HUNTER (See Jeremiah xxxii, 15.) The Indian, the hunter, has given the great hunting land over to the mighty gardener of the east, the tiller of the soil, and now the vast hunt- ing ground of the world has become the great- est garden on earth. There is no place like it in all the world. In this vast country are reaped the harvests of the world each fall. Throughout the great continents of America, which three hun- dred years ago was one vast wilderness, can be seen to-day beautiful cities, farm lands, high- ways, railways, canals, orchards, vineyards, tel- egraph and telephone lines. And some of the greatest world's fairs have been held, and at- tended bv manv nations, in fairy North America. 98 THE EDEN AGE THE GREAT PARK I like to think of America as a great park — her geysers as fountains, throwing their beauti- ful sprays high in the air ; the great lakes as lagoons ; her plains as lawns, and timbered dis- tricts as woodlands ; and the foundations of once mighty cities, the sealed vaults and mounds, as beautiful statues or monuments of buried nations, who inhabited this beautiful land all along down the highway of time from the Eden of old, six thousand years ago, unto the returning of intelli- gence at 1600 to rebuild it. We all realize that the story of man in the garden of Eden seems to be deep and beyond the reach of our minds, but I think if we would just stop and consider the three great ages of divine history and the two wonderful hemispheres of the creation, the Bible history, and the common history of the two, we might have a clearer conception of the story of God driving man out of the garden of Eden, or Eden continent (America), during the Eden Age, something like five thousand years ago. Remember, God is no respecter of persons, and is the same to-day, yesterday and forever, and his kingdom is one that shall never be thrown down ; his kingdom is from generation to genera- tion, world without end. Amen. THE EDEX AGE 99 GENESIS OX CREATION You will notice by a close observation of the first chapter of Genesis that it is the chapter of the six days of creation. The second chapter is formation. You will notice in the first chapter and the sixth day's work that God created man in his own image, male and female created He them. And God blessed them, and said unto them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and replen- ish the earth and subdue it ; and have do- minion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. " (This is not in- dividual, it is national.) Now the question, Did they multiply and replenish the earth, and sub- due it? This man, also the woman, were created on the sixth day, and on the seventh day God rested, and in the fifth verse of the second chap- ter, after the seventh day was past, he says, "There was not a man to till the ground." What became of the man, male and female, that He created on the sixth day, and gave orders to mul- tiply and replenish and subdue the earth, and were to have dominion over the fish of the sea and fowl of the air, and over every thing that moveth upon the earth ? For in the seventh verse of the second chapter he says, "He formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed in him &* if a ioo THE EDEN AGE the breath of life, and he became a living soul." And in the twentieth verse, He says there was no helpmeet for Adam, and God caused a sleep to come on him, and he took a rib from his side and made a woman and brought her unto the man. And Adam said she shall be called woman. And now remember the first man, male and fe- male, that God created, seems to leave no history (genealogy) of themselves. And the second man He formed, and then after He formed him, the Lord planted (not made) but planted a garden eastward in Eden ; not in the east of Eden, but eastward in Eden, and there he put the man whom he had formed. And there were two special trees in the garden. First, the tree of life, second, the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Of this latter one God commanded him not to eat, but he did eat of it, and the Lord God said, "Behold the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil, and now lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever : therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden." And note this peculiar saying. A river went out of Eden to water the garden — not that a river went out of the garden — but the river went out of Eden to water the gar- den ; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. Now just think of that. A river coming out of Eden, and when it got out of Eden THE EDEX AGE 101 to the garden then it became into four heads. This baffles the historians vet to this day, because this is just backward to any river to-day. A river by nature becomes a river from several sources, or heads. But this was a river that came out of Eden, and the one river became four rivers, and the first river or head was Pison ; and it com- passed or surrounded the whole land of Havilah. So the first river was in a circle, or surrounded a certain land named Havilah. This is circle teaching. The second is Gihon. It compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. This is circle teach- ing. For it surrounds the whole land of Ethiopia. The third river is Hiddekel : that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. This is hori- zontal teaching, and points you to the future at the close of the third division of time. The fourth river is Euphrates. Xow I am going to repeat what the Century Book of Facts says on this subject, which is found on page 539, not contra- dicting what the Twentieth Century Book of Facts has to say on this subject of the garden of Eden at all, but believe what it says — that the his- tory of the garden of Eden will remain a mystery until we better understand the prophetic writ- ings. And after quoting what the Century Book of Facts has to say about the history of the garden of Eden, I will reason a little on a simple line of io2 THE EDEN AGE thought, which is my own version of the river system God put up to keep His creation in order through all ages. Man or no man, this system keeps the creation of God's gardens watered. Here is the quotation : "The Garden of Eden — The question of the locality of the Garden of Eden, or the exact sense in which the Mosaic nar- rative is to be understood is involved in inex- plicable mystery. The endeavor to positively identify the river system of Eden with anything known at the present is useless. "There is no river on the face of the globe of which the Euphrates and Tigris (Hiddekel) are separate heads, as they are said to be in the sec- ond chapter of Genesis ; for, although the Eu- phrates and Tigris now unite for a short space on their way to the Persian Gulf, yet until the time of Alexander the Great they kept entirely distinct courses, and therefore it has been as- sumed that the deluge completely altered the physical character of the region denoted by the term Eden. This was Luther's notion, to which, however, it has been objected that the narrative in Genesis is so worded as to convey the idea that the countries and rivers spoken of were ex- isting in the time of the historian. Besides, the science of geology has thrown so much doubt on the universality of a deluge so late as the period assigned to Noah that it is hazardous to argue on THE EDEN AGE 103 the hypothesis of any extensive physical changes having taken place since the first appearance of man on the planet, at least if that be dated only some six thousand years back. In all theories which have been advanced regarding the location of Eden two things have not been explained by any one. These are the statements that the four rivers flow from one river, and the river Pison compasseth the whole land of Havilah, and Gihon compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. Until these are solved the location of the Garden of Eden will continue to remain a mystery." This ends the quotation from the Book of Facts. Now, I am going to reason along a line of thought like this : God rules by two extremes. God is considered by many nations to be the un- seen Ruler of everything, seen and unseen, spiritual and temporal, of bodies both celestial and terrestrial. The figure two shows up very prominent in everything, in both common and divine history. The number two is the creation number ; this is a wonderful thing when thought on for a moment. Now, to begin our thought on the creation number, let us take an imaginary trip to the extreme north of the great globe. Now here we are on the great high column, the tower of observation at the far north of the globe. The first vision that presents itself is the 104 THE EDEN AGE fact that God (we say) uses two great extremes to keep his globe of creation. These two ex- tremes are day and night, and neither one is ever taken off the globe, and the one never overtakes the other. These two extremes are at the most extreme point from each other all the time, each one following the other. It would be foolishness for me to even predict the stopping of either of these extremes. You know, and so do I, that these things have always been ministering to this old globe, and always will, for hundreds of years to come. Also winter and summer are two ex- tremes. Therefore, let us not be afraid to estab- lish the two thousand years to come as the Eden Age, for the benefit of all nations, and stop fool- ish predictions. Just look at the make-up of the creation, three- fourths salt brine, one-fourth land ; and two grand parts of that at extreme points from each other. And while the extreme called day minis- ters to the extreme east hemisphere, the extreme called night ministers to the extreme west hemis- phere. And while it is midday on the Atlantic Ocean it is midnight at the extreme point on the Pacific. Then when it is noonday to the Amer- icas it is midnight on the extreme east continent. God's globe is one body divided into four grand parts, the east and west hemispheres, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. For five thousand years the THE EDEX AGE 105 east hemisphere's human race was just the ex- treme to the possessors of the west hemisphere. The man of greatest intelligence was in the east ; the man of the least intellect was in the west. The country of letters and figures of A, B, C, and one, two and three, was the east. The coun- try without letters and figures A, B, C, and one, two and three, was the west. Xow let us look at the American Indian, the man of the extreme west hemisphere, as the one spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis, which God created, male and female, and were not to till the ground. Let us now look at the man of the intelligent type of the extreme east hemisphere, as the one spoken of in the second chapter of Genesis, which man God formed. (The word formed means fash- ioned.) And he put the man he formed in the garden (east continent), which garden God planted eastward in Eden. Eden means the be- ginning. So it should read this way, "which garden God planted eastward in the beginning, and put the man he formed or fashioned in the east garden (east hemisphere) to till it, and dress it, and keep it. Now turn to figure one. See the face of the Indian near the American conti- nent ; this represents the man and the woman in the holy land (see the poetry on the world's jubilee) of America, which man and woman were created by God to have dominion over the fish. 106 THE EDEN AGE fowl and all the bison, elk, deer, and kid, and all creeping things of the fairy Americas, God's natural sleeping zoo, the golden-sunset land. The land of the free, The home of the brave, The antediluvian nation, you now see, Brought forth from the grave, With Old Glory our flag, Which for the oppressed and Downtrodden nations does wave. Now notice the face of the intelligent person near the east hemisphere. This represents the man and the woman of intelligence, which God formed and put in the garden, which is the east hemisphere, in the beginning of this past six thousand years, which constitute this cherubim, or the time of this cherubim. They were put there in the Eden Age ; that is, in the beginning, which was Eden, the beginning of this past cher- ubim, and were kept there by the Almighty God as your writer Moses, who was a servant of God, has written to you and told you that the intelli- gent formed or fashioned man stayed there until the time of the completing of the cherubim of the ages. You see we had to come to America at the beginning of the twelfth division of the inner circle of the cherubim to prepare the great American park to make this nation, flag and THE EDEX AGE 107 money, and fight these great battles at the end of each three times and a half, so we could teach the time, and times, and a half time. You readily comprehend at a glance of the cherubim that the third great age was almost out. And the sixth day or the sixth thousand years was half out when we begun to settle America. And the only full measure of time on the cherubim that we had was the twelfth five hundred years, and God had to drive our pilgrim fathers out of the eastern hemisphere, or east garden, with the flaming sword, which was recorded by the com- mon historians as the sword of the reformation (War of the Reformation). You see John the Revelator had already told us that in the closing thousand years of this past age the nations would establish or resort to the fire and brimstone fighting, and at the close of this A. D. Age would be the first resurrection ; that is, the resurrection of the long-lost knowledge, the lost knowledge of Eden, the beginning, the first reckoning, the beginning of cherubim. And all the law is kept by the government. It is God's way to show the nations their interests and protect them, and es- tablish them : for whatever the government says is the nation's law. And this nation is- keeping the commandments of God and the testimony of Jesus. (See Rev. xii and xiv to close.) And I know, bv the testimonv, that this is the nation 108 THE EDEN AGE set apart by the God of Heaven to proclaim the world's jubilee. (See poetry on the world's jubilee.) Now, having shown you the two extremes, as : day and night, winter and summer, hot and cold, wet and dry, old and young, rich and poor, free and bond, male and female, life and death, awake and asleep — this should be sufficient to establish the number two as the creation number. Now, you know the scripture speaks of the first and second Adam, the first and second coming of Christ, the first and second resurrection, and the first and second tabernacle. The words first and second are often used. The old and new covenant. The Bible is made up of the first and second Testaments, the Old and New. There are the old" and new year ; there are the old and new age ; there are the old Eden, and the new Eden. Be- fore I begin talking about the river with four heads that watered the Garden of Eden I want to speak of the report of the end of the age. THE REPORT OF THE END OF THE AGE (i) Through the twentieth century of the Antedi- luvian Age, which century was four thousand years ago, we read that a man by the name of THE EDEX AGE 109 Noah reported the end of the Antediluvian Age. Was that report believed? You know it was not. Why? It was too simple and unreasonable for the people of that day and time. Why ? Just because they did not understand his theme, it be- ing based on the word of God. The teaching of the end of the Antediluvian Age was not univer- sally believed. Why? (See page 142.) (2) Through the twentieth century of the Jewish Age, which century was two thousand years ago, we read that a man by the name of John the Bap- tist reported the end of the Jewish Age. Was that report believed? You know it was not, by many. Why ? It was too simple and unreasonable for the people of that day and time. Why ? Just because they did not understand his theme, it being based on the word of God. The teaching of the end of the Jewish Age was not universally believed. Why? (See page 142.) (3) Through the twentieth century of the. Gentile Age, which century is the present one, we read that a man by the name of Samuel has reported the end of this Gentile or A. D. Age. Will this no THE EDEN AGE report be believed? You know it will not, by many. Why ? It is too simple and unreasonable for the people of this day and time. Why? Just because they do not understand the theme, it being based on the word of God. The teach- ing of the end of this Gentile Age will not be universally believed. Why? (See page 142.) We people of this day and time can easily see how the flood was at the close of the Antedi- luvian Age. But the people of that day and time could not. We people of this day and time can easily see how the crucifixion of Christ was at the close of the Jew T ish Age. But the people of that day and time could not. We people of this day and time can not easily see how Eden is at the close of this Gentile, or A. D. Age. But at the close of this Eden Age, two thousand years hence, the people at that day and time will readily see how this Eden century was at the close of this Gentile Age, by looking back to this day and time, just as we look back to the Christ century of the Jewish Age, and the flood century of the Antediluvian Age. So the report of this Eden century, and the end of this A. D. Age, is too simple for many to believe at this time ; and I can not blame any one, for I know as much about what a study it is, and what a study it takes for one to read until they THE EDEN AGE in comprehend the ancient writers, for I have tried it, and know there is work about it. But whether any one believes it or not, it is essential that it be done, and I have announced it for us all and in the name of all. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. A TALK ON THE ONE RIVER WITH FOUR HEADS It has neither beginning nor end. Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. Pison is the first head, and surrounds Havilah. Gihon is sec- ond, and surrounds Ethiopia. Hiddekel is third, and goes toward the east of Assyria. Euphrates is the fourth river. Now watch closely. There is only one great river with four heads on the globe, and it is the river that went out of Eden at the beginning to water the Garden of Eden, the cre- ation. It is one solid body of water, divided into four parts. It is the Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which four are all one body of water. The first part of this great body of water compasseth (surrounds) the first conti- nent, the Americas, called by the prophetic writer Havilah. Pison's waters surround the whole land of gold. Remember Deuteronomy, the eighth chapter. This is the golden-sunset land. Here are golden opportunities. Here are golden privi- ii2 THE EDEN AGE leges. Here is where we are going to hold the golden jubilee of the three great ages. This cen- tury is the sixtieth hundred years since Eden of the old time. This is the golden age of all the ages. (See Tribute, page 41.) This is the golden altar of matrimony of all the nations. This is the century of the releasing of all nations. This is the marriage supper of the divided nations of six thousand years. The Americas are the whole land of Havilah, surrounded by the briny deep. The east hemisphere is the whole land of Ethi- opia, and that great part of creation is sur- rounded by the great waters of Gihon (the briny deep), and there is no way to get from one of these surrounded continents to the other except by the inventions of man. Now the one great river with four heads is the mighty seas, which is all one and the same body of water. And as we are living right now at the beginning of the Eden of another circle of time it is right for all who want to come to the knowledge of the be- ginning, which is the knowledge of Eden, to do so, but you will find it like many did the great knowledge of the twentieth or closing century of the Jewish Age, too simple to suit you, and if so, throw it aside. But T say the time is at hand. Now, six thousand years ago was Eden, and it was the beginning of the three ages, which are past, or will be past in full at the close of this THE EDEX AGE 113 century, ninety-five years from now. And at that time God had both the east hemisphere and the west hemisphere under civilization and govern- ment as you see it now. This you may object to, but if you believe the first chapter of Ecclesiastes, you will not. You know the sun repeats its trips regularly around the globe. You know the night repeats its circuit or trips regularly around the globe. You ought to know that intelligence, which we call civilization and government, makes its trips regularly around the globe every six thousand years. And can't you see that what we call civilization and government encircle the globe of creation now at the close of the six thousand years, which is Eden, the beginning of another circle of six thousand years. The sun is twenty- four hours making its circuit around the globe. The night is twenty-four hours making its cir- cuit around the globe. Civilization and govern- ment are just six thousand years making their circuit around the globe. A year is just three hundred and sixty-five days and a fractional part making its circuit. God manages everything with system, and when civilization completely covers the two extremes, the east and west, it is then the beginning of another circuit of six thousand years, three ages, or twelve five hundreds. Eden is the name of this twentieth century. Flood is the name of the twentieth centurv from now. ii4 THE EDEN AGE And Christ is the name of the twentieth century, four thousand years from now. This is God's everlasting kingdom (ruling) which shall never be thrown down ; but use your pleasure, throw it down or hold it up, for at the end of each age we drink of that cup Bitter or sweet, There's no way to defeat The Christ who has placed These things at our feet. In the beginning of the past three ages, which was the first thousand years of the past six thou- sand, man (people) had the knowledge of Eden, because they were living in the Eden thousand years. There are three ways of looking at this present time and future. Thus : this century is the Eden century, speaking of the present cen- tury. This thousand years that began at (1901) the first year of this century is the Eden thousand, speaking of the present thousand years. This age of two thousand years' time that be- gan at (1901) the first year of this century is the Eden Age, speaking of the present age. (See figure one.) The first thousand years is always the Eden thousand of the cherubim of six thousand years. THE EDEX AGE 115 And this ninety-five years (according to the com- mon calendar, not the prophetic) will close the six thousand years since the Eden of old time, which was before us. At the close of this century, we will be entering the first thousand years of another six thousand (according to the prophetic calendar, we entered at 1901), or in other words, we will be entering the seventh thousand years since Eden of old, which is the Eden of this pres- ent time. And we should again come in posses- sion of the lost knowledge of God's globe, the creation, with its two great continents, with its two great people, the intelligent man of the east, who tilled the soil and kept the orchards and vine- yards of the east continent dressed ; the unintel- ligent man of the west hemisphere wandering over his possession in the natural condition, as nature and time kept it in its rugged condition, which was the natural creation with the natural created man, as spoken of in the first chapter of Genesis, which man had no record or genealog} of himself. Xow I am going to show you the four rivers of that one body or river, which went out of Eden, to water the garden and preserve it, and after having run through the garden and moistened the ground, that same water returned into the great reservoir, which body has no beginning or end. The great river is the briny deep of the n6 THE EDEN AGE world. It has no beginning or end, and its four heads or divisions are the Atlantic Ocean, Pa- cific Ocean, the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic Ocean. Thus the great river or body is divided into four parts or heads. Now this is a perpetual water system, and the Arctic Ocean is the upper pool of Gihon, and it is that part of the great system above the gardens, the two great hemi- spheres. It is the highest body of water, and is the freshest and coldest body above the conti- nents, and is typical of the piece of ice in a large cask of water. The Arctic and Antarctic Oceans are the refining points of the one mighty sea sys- tem. And there is something strange about this master water system, which is kept by nature through the ages of eternity, how all the streams come out of the earth, some seeping, some creep- ing, some rushing and some gushing, and most of them continuing southward through the great gardens or continents, moistening the great valley lands all the time, and eventually they empty their flow of fresh water into the great reservoir near the tropical or warm part of the seas, and then there seems to be a great heat in the sea, which causes the waters that flow down out of the continents to again return upward, to the north or fresh water pool of Gihon, by way of the briny deep, by the Gulf Stream. On the mighty continents the great waters flow toward THE EDEN AGE 117 the center of creation, and in the mighty deep the great flow seems to be northward. In other words, on land the waters flow downward, and in the seas the flow is upward. We are taught that three-fourths of the face of creation is water and one-fourth land. The sea is the brine, the salt of the world, the life of creation. The rivers and springs are the fresh-water fountains, which is the life of the human race, and all flesh of the land, God's garden. When the fresh water passes through the land and becomes stale, then it returns to the briny deep to be refined. Won- derful. The continents are God's gardens ; his serv- ants that dress, till and tend the gardens are the human race. They are like a lot of workmen on a large plat of ground, building a mansion for some millionaire. The servants can not compre- hend what the appearance of that place and palace will be until it is finished, and they look thereon. But the person having the work done, and the architect that drew the plans, and the master builder, are all able to comprehend the appearance the place will present before the be- ginning of the work. So the different nations throughout the whole world are the different bands or bodies of God's servants that are doing His will in helping to establish civilization and government throughout the whole world, and n8 THE EDEN AGE they should, through this coming thousand years, be able to see the great creation of God's globe rebuilt after the manner He desires, and they should be able to come to the knowledge of the Eden Age, and all nations start anew the count of God's three ages or seasons, which are the three grand divisions of time, and is the time from the overthrow of the world until the re- building of the same is complete. I handle the Bible, which is the history of the world by num- ber, and I see the progress of discovery and re- building goes by number ; therefore I introduce Eden by number. It is the seventh thousand years, which thousand years began at nineteen hundred and one, as I understand, by prophetic calendar. But most people say it does not begin until the close of this century, and I don't object to this. It is all right to view it in that way. The book of numbers in your Bible is a great book, and it is the numbers of time, and I am somewhat acquainted with the divisions of time or I would not write about them. I know that the cherubim is the circle of time, and that the circle of time is the cherubim, and that the circle of time is called, the time and times and a half time. I know that this same thing is the tabernacle of the con- gregation, the ark of the testimony is the same thing, the mercy seat is the half time. I know the two cherubim spoken of in Numbers vii, 89, THE EDEX AGE 119 are the three times and a half repeated. For ex- ample and to illustrate : I will say that the first circle of time or cherubim after the revolution at seventeen hundred and seventy-six, was the seven twelves (eighty-four years), and was the time from the year seventeen hundred and seventy- seven to eighteen hundred and sixty-one ; it was the three twenty-fours and a twelve years. This was one cherubim. The five years of the rebel- lion was the mercy seat. Then followed the sec- ond cherubim. It is the seven sixties, forty-two years, the time from the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five to nineteen hundred and seven. This is the two cherubim of this nation. The first cherubim was eighty-four years, the mercy seat was the five years' war. The second cherubim is forty-two years, just one-half the number of years of the first cherubim. Xow for the benefit of those who want to look up the words cherubim and Eden, to see in what sense they are used, I will give you the ready reference. Cherubim. Eden. Genesis 3 : 24. Genesis 2 : 8, 10, 15. Exodus 25 : 18-23. Genesis 3 : 23, 24. 1 Kings 6 : 23. 2 Kings 19 : 12. 1 Kings 8 : 6. Isaiah 51:3. Psalm 18 : 10. Ezekiel 2j : 23. Psalm 80 : 1. Ezekiel 28 : 13. 120 THE EDEN AGE Cherubim . Eden . Psalm 99 : i. Ezekiel 31 : 9, 16, 18. Numbers 7, 89. Ezekiel 36:35. Exodus 36: 35. Exodus 37 : 7. 1 -Samuel 4 : 4. 2 Samuel 6 : 2. Ezekiel 10: 2, 20. Ezekial 1 1 : 22. You can run these references and see what is said in each sentence about the cherubim and Eden. Much more could be said by me, but it would be useless to add anything more concern- ing the cherubim, ark of the covenant, the bow in the cloud, the ark of the testimony, for they are all one and the same thing, and are the num- bers of the divisions of time, established and set in the nation by the God of heaven, and the na- tions obey them when the stipulated time of God is at hand. It is all the numbers of time. I know that the sun rises in the east, and passes over our heads toward the west, and disappears, and will be seen no more until its appearing in the east at morning. So I know that the world was settled by intelligent men from the east, just after the manner of sunrise and sunset. You know that while it is day in the east continent, it THE EDEX AGE 121 is night in this west continent. So in the prophetic sense, while civilization and government was in the east hemisphere only, it was what might be called day there. And while the unintelligent or Indian was alone here in America, it was what might be called night here. Night, ignorance and superstition, the opposite to civilization and gov- ernment. Now as the man of the east hemisphere, the people we call intelligent, are in possession of both the east and west hemispheres, it is what John calls no more night there. So there is no prophetic night on the Americas now at this day and age of the world. The intelligent man now has a tolerably fair knowledge of the makeup of God's great creation, and knows pretty well about what every nation is doing wherever they abide. The first century of the twelfth design on the cherubim was the sixteenth century after Christ, and note this particular fact : That the progres- sive visions at the days of Christ began to move westward from the country of Palestine tow r ard Rome ; then from the country of Rome to Eng- land, which country is situated on the first meri- dian of the world's measure ; here is where the Bible was to be translated, and was translated. Then at sixteen hundred the people were ready to cross the great sea and come to America, the west hemisphere, and notice they did not cross, pass over, or leave the country on the first meri- 122 THE EDEN AGE dian of the world's measure, until the translation of the Holy Bible was accomplished both in the German and the English language. Yes, it seems that as soon as the Bible was translated from the dead languages (Greek and Hebrew) to the living languages, English and German, that the time was at hand for the settling of the west hemisphere, and the isles of the sea. Now, it is a strange thing when we stop and think about the part the English nation has played in the establishing of civilization and government over the world, since she translated the word of God in the sixteenth century. This was really the beginning of the Antediluvian Age, Time, Tomb. (See the Andediluvian People, page 135.) The first people of the world is the English people, on the first meridian of the world's meas- ure ; they were the first people to perform the first translation of the Bible, from the first lan- guage it was first written in. And in time to come people by study will be more able to see what a wonderful period of time that was, and how that was the finding time of the Eden continent, and was the end of the Gentile time, and how Jeru- salem of the west hemisphere (the Palestine of the whole world) was trodden down of the Gen- tiles until the close of the Gqntile Age, or in other words until the three last centuries of the Gentile Age be come in. The three centuries are THE EDEN AGE 123 now past and Jerusalem or the Palestine of the whole world (America) is ready for the holy teaching of the end of the three ages ; called by Christ and the apostles, the end of the world. I say these things will be looked at more in this way as we pass down through this century. At the beginning of the seventeenth century, the people of the east began to settle in this west hemisphere. We might call it the transplanting of the man of the east continent into the west con- tinent — the American park — to prepare it for the world's jubilee of the twentieth century. I like to think of America before it was discovered as a great park or natural zoo. I like to sit in medita- tion and imagine I am given the wings of the stork, and that I can travel the skies with great speed; in my vision of thought I imagine I visit this west hemisphere of God's globe in a mystical way, just before the discovery (1492) by Christo- pher Columbus. I like to imagine that you and I are sailing the sky far above the great sea, and we in a silent and mystic way come to visit God's silent, sleeping, sunset land of Americas. We will imagine it is a day in August (the lily month), and we" come in sight of this beautiful continent just as the sun is sinking low in the w T est, and while we are high in the sky a third mystic party joins us to instruct us concerning the fairy land of America through i2 4 THE EDEN AGE the coming five centuries, which centuries we are now almost past. And when He meets us, He says to us two, Behold the great view Of God's wonderful Zoo. This Indian land is reserved for you, For the closing of this age And the opening of the new. Which vision to the holy watchers, Will appear in view, At the beautiful dating, Eden — i, — i, — and 2. It has appeared to me, my kind reader, And I hope this will help you, In distinguishing the east hemisphere (the old) From ours, the west hemisphere (the new), And give you an idea of the cherubim, too, Which will instruct you just now From the old age to the new. And cause you to reverence the Holy Writ, The Old Testament ; and also the New, Which would open up fountains of knowledge, When the cherubim teaching would appear in view. Which promise God made to our fathers, Concerning the close of this old age, And the birth of the new, THE EDEN AGE 125 And was at that time in the far distant future, And is now the present to you. And I beg you come join me in seeking knowl- edge, Concerning the close of this old age, And the opening up of the new, And give to the coming generations, The teaching we know to be true. THE INDIAN Poor Indian, poor Indian, That once happy man, Who inhabited America's Great hunting land. Where is he? Where is he? I ask you my friend? Do you see his possessions, Now in your hand ? Thousands have gone To that bright, happy land, Where Jesus, our Savior, Extends them his hand. While thousands remain, In this free, happy land, Engaged in the freeing* That God does command. 126 THE EDEN AGE Poor Indian, poor Indian, Much enlightened to-day, Enjoying the freedom, That is given this way. Old Glory, our Flag, The red, white and blue, I hope all the nations, To it will prove true. America, America, Her fame be unfurled, While her knowledge and freedom Encircles the world. The Bible does lead, And it is the creed, And by it all nations Are soon to be freed. THE WORLD S GRAND JUBILEE Told in Poetry Now the white man of the east has come into the Americas, God's great park, and has been at work for three hundred years, generation after generation, preparing the great park for the world's jubilee. They have beautiful cities built, grand railways, and mail service, printing presses, telegraph and telephone service, electric lights, fertile fields, and beautiful roads, opened up THE EDEN AGE 127 throughout the great continent, and at the close of the past century, at the year 1898, Uncle Samuel announced the opening of the grand jubilee. The first thing he said was, "Give me the Isles of the sea," And the reason of this Many nations couldn't see. But after the siege at Pekin, China, By the new date, Eden, 1, 4, and 23, He had opened the doors of the bridal chamber. Of that ancient nation, Chinee. To receive the ark of the covenant, By Eden 21, — 4, and 3, For by Eden 5, 4, and 3 the nations agree The Ark of the Covenant is not for old Russee. (The time, and times, and a half, is the ark of the covenant.) And this should be a great warning, To the holder of old Palestine — Turkey, That the divisions of time in America, Which was the hundreds three, 128 THE EDEN AGE Has made Uncle Samuel commander Of the wonderful sea, In proclaiming the commandments, Jesus had spoken Around Old Galilee. Come ye, old governments, Come listen to me, We have rebuilt Fairy America, The land of the free, And are proclaiming to all nations The World's Jubilee ; Come hear the words of Jesus, They are flowing so free. And will bring back the Eden, That was taken from thee, And are returned to you children, By studying the cherubim — see, Its divisions are simple, Just 12, — 6, — and 3. In studying the cherubim, A vision appears unto me. I fancy I am sailing the sky Far above the great sea. Yes, away back yonder, too, Before Christopher's discovery, And as I passed over this American land, A messenger met me and beckoned his hand. THE EDEX AGE 129 And immediately he veiled from my sight, This beautiful American land. And I beheld some one standing. With a book in his hand. Said he unto us two, To me and to you, Would you like a more grand And holier view ? He beckoned his hand. And bade us adieu. The unveiler comes to us That great mist sweeper, And said unto us, I'll show you the keeper. And show us he did, He kept nothing hid. The Bison, the Elk, The Deer and the Kid Were seen in the vision. That from the east hemisphere so -long had been hid. And even the keeper — Indian, Of this beautiful place. Just then he came up ; And I looked in his face. I was sad, my dear reader. It looked so full of disgrace, 130 THE EDEN AGE I was going to speak, When the beckoning hand Beckoned "No" unto me, "You're in the holy land." I was wondering why This condition should be, When presently that Book Appeared unto me. And I read at a glance, God's promise in thee ; That in the far distant future, Near nineteen hundred and three, He would unveil the great mystery Of His power to the nations — see?- In rebuilding the vast Americas, In the centuries three. Which made us the people Commanding the sea, And if there be any more points, In this poetry, I will finish by saying, "They end the great ages, three." And now my kind reader, We are in the sixes, three, They are a rapid repetition, Of the centuries three. THE EDEX AGE 131 And will cause this great nation, Commanding the sea, To do the commandments Jesus ordered near old Galilee. Notify all nations, 'Tis Eden, again — see ? Lav down your great warfare. And rest under the tree. Eden, Eden, Eden, you see, Lay down your greal And rest under the tree Lay down your great warfare, Eden, Eden, Eden, you see, God bless the Trinity, That great number three. I THE EDEN AGE J 33 Figure Five THE BOW AS A TOKEN OF A COVENANT And God said, This is the token of the covenant, which I make between me and you, and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations . I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring a cloud over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud. (Genesis nine, twelve to fourteen.) The bow is the numbers of time, and when the cloud which is the national confusion is at hand, then you can see the cove- nant of God by number. THE BOW OF PERPETUAL GENERATIONS Figure Six from cloud to cloud, portrayed in the four last bows of the eleven bows of the Gentile age. The first cloud was the Revo- Wl IK 134 THE EDEN AGE THE COVENANT The covenant in the bow is typical of the sun- rise and sunset, showing what is meant by Dan- iel viii, 26, in which he says the vision of the morning and evening which was told is true. I expect by these marks to make you able to com- prehend where and when national changes belong and are to take place, according to the prophetic writings. This is the prophetic almanac. These numbers are the same as the numbers on the cherubim, except they have the half time added, which shows Daniel's interpretation of "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin," which is the last half of the three and a half and the last of the seven halves, and is mene, mene ; that is, they are the same. And tekel is the thirteenth quarter of time, and upharsin is the fourteenth quarter of time, and means the upheaval of the government at the close of it. These things are the only way God can bring man to a halt when he is going past the marks he has set. Don't you remember Deuteronomy xix, 14 says : "Thou shalt not re- move thy neighbor's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it." THE EDEX AGE 135 THE AXCIEXT LANDMARK (Proverbs xxii, 28.) ''Remove not the ancient landmarks which thy fathers have set." See the twenty-fourth chapter, first and second verses of Job. He there mentions the fact that the times are not hid from the Almighty, and that they that know Him see His days (times). Some remove the landmarks. But, my people, we pay dear for every transgression of God's law, and much could be said on many points, but I believe the annunciation is now long enough in comment on scripture. THE ANTEDILUVIAN PEOPLE The antediluvian people, four thousand years ago, dwelt in the west hemisphere, and they were a great and mighty people, and their government and power surpassed all* governments of the east hemisphere. They came up, or in other words, rose up out of this west hemisphere, just as we the American nation are doing, and have done during the last three hundred years. These three ages represent three great tombs, which are the tombs of the ages, and God brings the antedi- luvian nation forth out of the antediluvian tomb 136 THE EDEN AGE (time), in this antediluvian continent. They be- gan to open this antediluvian continent three hun- dred years ago, and it was sealed with seven seals. These seven seals are the three hundred and fifty years, which is our national hieroglyphic. It is the time and times and half time, and is the seven fifties, and each fifty years represents a seal, and, as we are past the three hundred years, we have opened the six fifties, which is the six seals, and we are now entering the seventh fifty years, which is the seventh seal, and it will be open in full at nineteen fifty, just forty-five years from this annunciation. By that time many people will realize God's power in handling nations and his ability to bring governments into existence, and his ability to bring about relations between gov- ernments, which relations are not existing to-day. These things are all brought about by those who are at the head of the governments and serving their nations throughout the whole world, wher- ever such nations as the change may take place in do abide. And there is a time when it is right to make a treaty with another nation, and there is a time when it is right to break off a treaty ; this is always a critical time, a time to be dreaded ; for when friendly relations between nations are broken there is usually national trouble. But enough said on that strain. We are unsealing the great tomb of the antedi- THE EDEN AGE 137 luvian nation, or in other words, the antediluvian age, known as the Eden Age, and whoever un- derstands the prophetic history must set in order the teachings of the ages, when the proper season is at hand. The antediluvian continent was dis- covered fourteen hundred ninety-two. It is Amer- ica. The antediluvian nation was born seventeen hundred seventy-six A. D. The antediluvian na- tion did divide or rebel at eighteen hundred and sixty-one A. D., and fought among themselves until the close of the year sixty-five. They were reunited during the year sixty-five, after they had laid the land most desolate. (Matthew xxiv, 15, the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet.) When they quit fighting the abomination of desolation was seen standing at the end. Daniel ix, 26, reads : "And after three-score and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off." Which being interpreted is: "And after three times, or whole double numbers, which rep- resent the three-score, and the half time, he calls the two weeks, which means thirteenth -and four- teenth quarters, and is tekel and upharsin, then the Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself." The people of the prince shall come and destroy the city and the sanctuary, and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined ; so now you ouo-ht to be able to better understand the three 138 THE EDEN AGE great numbers. You understand that three-score is six tens or three twenties, and is the prophetic three without the half. And the half is the thir- teenth and fourteenth quarters. (See figure five.) So Daniel just mentioned the three grand num- bers as the three-score, and referred to the half time as the two divisions, calling them the two weeks. (Tekel and upharsin.) And he tells us until the end of the war desolations are deter- mined, and Christ referred to the desolation spoken of by Daniel. (Matthew xxiv, 15.) The sixth fifty was the fifty years just closed at the beginning of this century, and that sixth seal held the rebellion. And the fifth seal held the wars of eighteen twelve and forty-seven. And the fourth seal held the revolution. Now we will repeat the seals from four to seven. Fourth seal held the revolution. Fifth seal held the wars of the years eighteen twelve and forty-seven. Sixth seal held the rebellion. And this seventh seal will hold its wonders. It will reveal the antediluvian nation and its or- ders. All nations are God's. THE EDEN AGE 139 THE REBUILDING OF THE WEST HEMISPHERE And true as you know it is, Yet as fiction it may seem, The rebuilding of the west hemisphere Seems to me as a dream. And the Bible, the Book Which has played the chief part, The commandments of God, From which we never should part, Knowing it to be true, And that if ever we did, The sacrifice of God's Lamb, for the Commingling of people, Would forever be hid. Then let us mingle together, And others' burdens help bear, And so fulfill that holy petition. Our Saviour's sweet prayer. SUPPLICATION Father, the eternal God, we ask Thy blessing upon all nations, kindred, tongue and tribe, knowing that throughout the whole world, Thy nations abide. They are under Thy guidance, though they have speared Thine own side. Yet Thou art the light of the world, and all nations Thou dost guide, by Thy sweet story of Jesus, 140 THE EDEN AGE who on the cross suffered and died, for the re- uniting of Thy divided nations. Jesus was cruci- fied, and instituted the song of the Gospel, a hymn of great pride, and the children of this re- public have sung it world-wide. As a sweet in- vitation to all nations, wherever they abide, their presence is requested at all national festivals held on this far western side of the creation of God, where does abide the antediluvian nation and Old Glory, their pride, The United States of America. THE ANNUNCIATION'S NUMBERS IN THE WORLD'S HIEROGLYPHIC The annunciation was written at the close of the six thousand years of the world's history. The annunciation was written at the close of the six fifties, of the three hundred years' labor in rebuilding America. The annunciation was written and published at the close of the first six years of the twentieth century of the Gentile Age. The annunciation was written at the beginning of the seven thousand years of the world's his- tory. The annunciation was written at the beginning of the seventh fifty years of America's history. The annunciation was written and published THE EDEN AGE 141 during the first seven years of the Eden century of this Gentile Age. It is a history of the Antediluvian Age. It is a history of the Jewish Age. It is a history of the Gentile Age. The annunciation's number in the world's hi- eroglyphic is six, six, six, and seven, seven, seven. Which being interpreted is, A compilation intro- ducing the seventh thousand years of the world's history ; and the seventh fifty years of America's history, since the sixteenth century, and written in the first seven years of this Eden Age. It is a prophetic explanation of the three great ages, which is the time from Eden of old unto Eden of to-day, which vision was revealed to me by a deep study of the prophetic and the common history of the three great ages, and the three last centuries of the three great ages, in Amer- ica under the three grand ruling parties. The kings of England to seventeen hundred and seventy-six. The second or united slavery party, from sev- enteen hundred and seventy-six, unto eighteen hundred and sixty-one. The third or united freedom party, unto the present writing. The reopening of the three great continents. North America, South America, and Africa, and the settling up of the mighty continents in so 142 THE EDEN AGE short a period of time, has caused me to look deeply into the prophetic writings of God's word, over and above board of politics, religion or busi- ness, and read to understand. And having come to much understanding, I saw the need of such a writing as this, The Annunciation of the Eden Age. So I have written what I think necessary at this time, which is just enough to cause per- sons interested in all nations' welfare to think. i. The Twentieth (20th) Century of the An- tediluvian Age was called Flood. 2. The Twentieth (20th) Century of the Jew- ish Age was called Christ. 3. The Twentieth (20th) Century of the Gentile Age is called Eden. This seventh thousand years is the Eden thou- sand years ; this twentieth century is its birth, and this seventh thousand years is nothing more than the first thousand of another circle of six thousand years. I have written this just as an introduction to our nation, and when the proper time comes the nations will realize the necessity of the change of the style of the age, and will do what is right about it then, and as the time for that is not here, we need only read, watch and think. I am the Rose of Sharon, said He. And His power never faileth. It will be manifested. THE EDEN AGE 143 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD The highest point of the light of the world, which light is the sun, is at the point numbered twelve on our common timepiece. The highest point of intellect, civilization and transportation, inventions and contrivances of man can be seen on God's creation, at the point numbered twelve on the prophetic (cherubim) timepiece. The noon hour is the greatest meal hour of the day, that is, there is usually more of a variety of eatables on the table at that hour than at others. And at the noon hour of the ages, at which hour you and I now are living, is to be seen the great- est variety of eatables and drinks the world has ever known since this same time back in Eden of old time, and there are ninety-five years yet un- til this twelfth prophetic hour is complete. When the twelfth hour is past then the light of the world, which is the great sun, is on its downward trend ; no man, people, nation or na- tions can stay it, or prolong it, but it will go down out of sight, and will be gone from us about as long as it was with us ; while it is gone all na- tions are at rest, and at the early morning of the next day it rises with all its strength, beauty and power, and does God's service as correctly 144 THE EDEN AGE through this day, and all future days, as it did through all past days. How great are the ministering bodies, the sun, moon and the stars to our God's creation. The end of the age should be taught, for the time is at hand. When the twelfth hour on the great prophetic clock face of the ages is past, the highest degree of intellect, government, civilization, transporta- tion, inventions and contrivances of man can be seen on the downward trend, and no man, people, nation or nations can stay it or prolong it, but the highest stage of civilization will go down out of sight, and all nature will rest from this pres- ent condition of rapid hustle and speed, but as it will be two thousand years from now to the sun- set of these things, no man will be able to realize it is going on unless he educates himself to look forward through the coming six thousand years just as he looks backward through the past six thousand years. The three redeeming words are, Past, Present and Future. We must learn to look forward to the coming Eden season and backward to the past Eden sea- son, just as we learn to look forward to the com- ing winter season and backward to the past winter season. It is the future for us, the past is not ours. We must have faith in the future history to be able to look through it. And we must have THE EDEX AGE 145 faith in the past history to look backward through it. Some one away back yonder told us when Eden was of old time, and some one now will have to tell us when the Eden of now is. (See figure one.) SUNRISE AND SUNSET OF THE AGES The sunrise of the ages was at the arrow named Christ and noon is now, and is at the arrow named Eden, and sunset is two thousand years in the future at the arrow named Flood. And it will be night of the ages from the Flood period to the Christ period again, just as it was before. Christ has told you in His word that God is not the God of the dead, as you suppose, but that He is God of the living. He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and they were astonished at his doctrine because he said that God was not God of the dead, but that he was God of the living, and that He mentioned Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who had (so they thought) been dead lo these many years. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob means the three grand divisions of time, by which all the prophets were educated in the Holy Writ, of which time it is written thus : "It is not for you to know the times and seasons, which the Father has put in His power until the Holy Ghost is come upon you, and then you shall fore- 146 THE EDEN AGE know these things// Holy Ghost means the holy understanding — the true understanding — which is the times and seasons, and shows us how to foreknow or foresee national changes, as Peter has already said, "knowing this first of all, that no prophecy is of private (that is individual) interpretation," but is national and is not spoken by the will of man at all. Peter says no prophecy came by the will of man, but they spake the things that they knew were ordered by the spirit. THE PROPHETIC WRITINGS ARE A MYSTERY. The prophetic writings are a mystery to this day to all the people who do not understand the times and seasons. I am aware of this fact, sure I am. I expect to be able to instruct but few per- sons in the times and seasons to the extent that I am myself ; some few may become more familiar with the times and seasons by studying my writ- ings on the same. If so, all right, or if not, all right, I can not help it. I can not tell what this book may accomplish as an instructor of the end of the age. But this I do know, we are in the great century of understanding, and I also know that many persons will say to this day the very things recorded in Isaiah, the thirtieth chapter and tenth verse, which is thus : "They say to the seers, see not, and to the prophets, prophesy not THE EDEX AGE 147 unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceit ; get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us." 'Yet the eighth verse reads: "Now go write it before them in a table, and not in a book, that it may be for the time to come forever and ever" (perpet- ual, continual). And I teach Eden, Flood and Christ after Eden, Flood and Christ. I know the fourth division of time, which is the half time, is called Israel ; the three grand divisions of time are known by the names of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the half time is Israel, and that the people of the half time are called by the prophetic writers the house of Israel, the chil- dren of Israel, etc., and are a rebellious people or children that will not hear the law of the Lord. The book of Revelation is the law of the Lord, and you know that it is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the Lord, and you also know that the people do not and will not hear it. Why? Because it is in figurative language, and people do not know who does understand it, and I will say this : it is a national book and foretells the movements of the nation that is living out the law of the Lord. The churches do not handle it as church doctrine, none of them, and rightly so ; it is not. And you can believe, or not be- lieve, the person that handles it in a national 148 THE EDEN AGE way; that's all up to you. I am not after fame and notoriety, converts or followers to any re- ligion, politics or business, but am laboring in the interest of the new age and the people of the coming two thousand years. We are now pass- ing the end of the third age, which is named Ja- cob, and this seventh thousand years, which is the half of an age, is Israel, and the people of this thousand years are the house of Israel, of the ages. THE VISION OF THE SEALED BOOK (Isaiah xxix, 10.) "For the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep, and hath closed your eyes ; the prophets and your rulers, the seers, hath he covered. u And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee ; and he saith, I can not ; for it is sealed. "And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee ; and he saith, I am not learned. (This has reference to the book of Revelation.) Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, THE EDEN AGE 149 but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men ; .. "Therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a mar- velous work among this people, even a marvelous work and a wonder ; for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay. "And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness." So read several verses of the twenty-ninth chapter of Isaiah. We are very near that day now, of which He spoke, saying, "That the deaf should hear, and blind see/' meaning prophetic deafness and blindness, not natural (blind to the prophetic writings). The seven churches are the seven divisions of time. The seven golden candlesticks are the seven divisions of time. The seven candle- sticks are the seven churches. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, which are the seven divisions of time. The word angel means spirit, and spirit means life, manner and custom, and the seven shades, or shadows, are seen in the people's custom and their habits. 150 THE EDEN AGE which change as the divisions of time pass, and we are now living in the seventh shade since the rebellion. The spirit of the people shows this to be tlv x seventh shade, calling six years a shade, but if seven years be a shade, then we lack a year and six months of being into the seventh shade, and seven times seven years equal forty-nine years, and that added to eighteen hundred and sixty- five would give us the year nineteen hundred and fourteen as the close of the seventh shade ; but I feel safe in saying we are already in the seventh shade, but if not, we will begin to enter the seventh shade at nineteen hundred and seven. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God (Rev. iv, 5), which are the seven divisions of time. And there stood a lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes (Rev. v, 6), which are the seven spirits of God sent forth into all the earth, meaning the seven di- visions of time. The seven seals are the seven divisions of time. 'And the seven trumpets (Rev. viii) are the seven divisions of time. And the seven thunders (Rev. x) are the seven divisions of time. And the seven angels (Rev. xiv) are the seven divisions of time. THE EDEN AGE 151 THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES The seven last plagues (Rev. xv) are the sec- ond seven divisions of time ; thus the first seven divisions of time after our declaration was seven twelves — eighty-four years ; twelve years was a shade or plague ; add eighty- four years on the year seventeen seventy-seven, and we have eighteen hundred and sixty-one, the breaking out of the rebellion. This represents the first seven plagues, and God always creates with tw r o. There had to be another seven plagues to make the first and last, and the image flag went down at the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and then began the seven last plagues of the nation, and they are the seven times six years since the rebellion, which is forty-two years. Six years represent a shade or plague, and when the year nineteen hundred and seven is past this nation will be of. age; for at that time this nation will be past both the seven first plagues and also the seven last plagues, which do constitute and com- plete the prophetic scale. The prophetic scale The prophetic scale is made up of seven notes, just like the common music scale, like this: There are three major steps, and then a half step, thus : 152 THE EDEN AGE Do, Re, Mi, then the half- step to Fa, Sol, La, Si, then the half step to Do. This now represents the full scale, and is three major steps and a minor repeated, and is eight notes, or three and a half two times, which is from Do, the first note, to Do, the eighth. The eighth is the first on a different place on the staff, after the run of the seven notes upward. And in prophecy it represents the seven divisions of time. This is what John meant in Rev. xv by saying, "They sing the song of Moses and the Lamb." They that had gotten the victory over the beast, and over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of his name, which number is six hundred three score and six, or, in other words, is six, six, six ; saying, great and marvel- ous are Thy works Lord God Almighty, true and just are Thy ways, thou King of Saints. And this nation's prophetic scale began at the declara- tion of independence, and we are now signing the high Do, this six years. Here I will figure it for you, as I sing it so you will be more able to understand it. Thus, beginning at l 77& The first note is Do, and is twenty-four years 24 The second note is Re, and is twenty-four years 24 The third note is Mi, and is twenty-four years 24 THE EDEN AGE 153 The fourth note is Fa, and is twelve years 12 And is the half step and brings us down the highway of time to the year i860 Five years they dwelt on that sad tone, Fa (the turmoil) ah 5 1865 Then began the fifth note, Sol, twelve years. 12 Sixth note, La, twelve years 12 Seventh note, Si, twelve years 12 Eighth note, Do, the six years 6 Which is the half step, and brings us down the highway of time to the year 1 9°7 The first three and a half is made up of seven twelves and is eighty-four years. The last three and a half is made up of seven sixes and is forty- two years. This completes the prophetic song of this nation. She is complete at nineteen hun- dred and seven. The prophetic song is the time allotted for the making of a nation. Paul says if the law has made you free, then you are free indeed, and I am free born, and can freely speak of these things, for I am not under the bondage of any organization, sect or creed of any kind, but am first and last for the govern- ment of us all, and. am an admirer or lover of all the religious bodies that exist under the pro- 154 THE EDEN AGE tection of our government, and I see the necessity of all of them. Every one of them, I said, pro- tected by the government, and that includes all of them, doesn't it? I am not as individual in my views on God's word as most men ; but I am what you would call a religious man, and can eat all kinds of meat, that is all kinds of doctrines, yet I was raised up by the strictest sect of Phari- sees of this day and time. You see, I believe God's word, that every branch that beareth not fruit He, the Father, taketh away, by us, His servants, when the time comes. But back to the government which is the mother of all living. adam's wife named eve You remember the scripture says that Eve was the mother of all living. Or, in other wards, Adam called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living. Because she was the mother of all living, and at that time was not the mother of any one living, and had no mother, but was the descendant of the body of man. I think this is most applicable to the government, for it has no mother and is yet the mother of all other living governments, organizations, spir- itual and temporal, and it is of man, and it is the mother of every united effort of man. So I am for Mother Eve first and last, for she is the THE EDEX AGE 155 mother of all of us United States children ; yes, Eve is. We are the antediluvian people, and our government is the mother Eve, the antediluvian government, and in her will be found the antedi- luvian teaching and count of time, when the proper time comes. In her will be found the long- lost knowledge of prophetic astronomy, and this great nation has great work to do. I know it, for I am one of the seers of this century. I see it is the Eden century, and that we must have the Eden knowledge by the close of the century, and I see what the Eden history is, but you know what part the seers have always played all through the past, don't you? If not, then I will tell you. THE SEERS The seer is the one who saw and reported the matter, and that is just about all they ever did do. It is about the least and last profession that any man can enter into while he lives in this, material world, for it is a profession that people can not understand until they study it. Just like every other profession, you have to serve some time at it before you see the beauty and light there is in it. But there is no cash income in this profes- sion, and I suppose you will see very few books on visions and hear very few sermons on the rev- elation of Jesus Christ. But part two and the 156 THE EDEN AGE figure number two shows you the great street or highway of time, from Christ the begin- ning of this age down to the present time, and it is like a railroad with telegraph poles along it (you notice the crosses look like poles), and you notice there are five poles in the first thousand years, and also five in the second thousand years, and you notice they stand under the first five, and these represent the ten horns which John, in Rev. xvii, 16, has spoken of after this manner, saying: "And the ten horns, which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and make her desolate, and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled." So it is true that the nations keep each age of two thousand years, as is recorded in the word, until the end of each age, then it is fulfilled. The apostles set up this age two thousand years ago, and it was right for the nations of the ten divisions of time to agree and give their ruling unto the A. D. Age, until the word of God be fulfilled, and when it has been fulfilled our people will be slow to recognize the fact that the time is out, for this reason. Some one skilled in prophetic history must proclaim the end of an age and set a new style that is in harmony with the prophetic his- THE EDEX AGE 157 tory, and this is so peculiar to any Bible teaching that the people are used to hearing that they will be slow to believe it; and they are so prejudiced and so set in their religious beliefs and ideas that they think everything is a departure from the truth that is not just what they have been used to hearing. They don't know and can not know, that the prophetic history establishes the ages, and not the common history, unless they be taught. And the prophetic history is not the foundation of any religion, and the people think that if you take Bible for the foundation or base of your talk, that you are of some sect or creed, and that your object is to lead them cap- tive. People at this day and age of the world, ought not to be as slow in recognizing the end of an age, or, that is, the teaching of the end of an age, as they were in the days of the apostles, for we are at the close of the circle of the three ages and we are well enough read in all history of the past to know that people have always fought the new things through the past until the present ; now we should be able to see the folly of such actions, and I hope we have learned to love the new things and desire them ; hence I feel like we ought to readily recognize the teach- ing of the new Eden Age, and appreciate the same more than the people did the teaching of the end of the Jewish A^e, for we have manv ad- THE EDEN AGE vantages over the people of that day, which ad- vantage is books, maps and charts of the whole world, and have a fair knowledge of the globe and its nations, and in fact a fair knowledge of everything ancient and modern ; that is why I think the end of this age should be established by teaching instead of desolations, as was the past age. Now there is only one book in the world that has this peculiar statement in it, and it is the book of Revelation, and the seventeenth chapter, and the peculiar statement is this : "And the beast which was, and is not, and yet is, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." This is very peculiar. The beast, which was, and is not, and yet is. How could anything have once been, and not be now, and yet be? How could anything once be, and not be, and yet be? This is prophetic speech of the past, present and future. Was, is of the past ; is not, is speaking of the present, and yet is, refers to the future. How can any one get eight out of seven? This being interpreted is as follows : To-day is Friday, and I, in speaking of Sunday, would say, the day which was and is not, and yet is, even it is the eighth day and is of the seven, and it goeth away. (Perdition means going to naught.) And haven't you often heard persons say, Sunday and Sunday is eight? or Monday and Monday is eight? Yes, when you THE EDEN AGE 159 are talking about the seven days of a week you are talking about time. And there are seven names for the seven days, and the eighth day is named one of the seven names, and is nothing but the first day of another seven, and is the new start. So you see that peculiar language is sim- ple and plain. John calls the eighth day the Beast, because when the seven prophetic days run out, and the first, which is the eighth, is at hand, then there is war. It is the day of circum- cision, what we call in common history the day of war, and war is always done on what is called the first or eighth prophetic day ; and John sees fit to call it the Beast, and he knew it belonged to the eighth day, which was the first or begin- ning of another seven days, and that it would be marked by war. And he said in the same chapter that they that dwell on the earth shall wonder (whose names w r ere not written in the Book of Life from the foundation of the world) when they behold the Beast, which was, and is not, and yet is .• Which, being interpreted, is : War which has been, and is not now, and will be in the fu- ture, on the eighth prophetic day. War has been, but is not now, and will be again in the future, when the time comes. And having seen these things myself, I expect by this book to be able to help you see the same thing when the time comes. And when you do see the Beast, which i6o THE EDEN AGE was, and is not, and yet is, then you will wonder, for the war which was once waged among us, and is not now waged among us, but will again be waged among us, belongs to the eighth pro- phetic day, which day is always the first day of every seven days. These things come not by the will of me or any other man, but by the will of God. There is much said concerning the watch, and it is our duty to watch. These things are not the will of man, but the will of God. You know by reading this book that I have spoken boldly on this subject. My views of the holy vision, and my words concerning the same, are not bound by anything or any body. To write a document like this a man has to be free born and an independent viewer of the interests of all. Not boasting do I say this, but of a truth. I am known by the peo- ple of my community just as you, my reader, are known in your community. I am for indepen- dence, and speak the truth as I understand it. But when the last trump shall sound, and you see the two go into the field, dressed in the war clothes, with the beautiful dress, cords and tas- sels, glittering spears and prancing horses, and you hear the thunderbolts from the heavy ar- tillery, the shouting of the captains, the great cloud of smoke rising, and the disappearing of great men, mighty men, horsemen, footmen, flags and artillery in the holy fire; then, if never be- THE EDEX AGE 161 fere, you will comprehend the bitterness I have tasted in the holy supper of the Passover. Then, if never before, you will appreciate the annuncia- tion of the holy age. Then, if never before, you will appreciate my boldness of speech. Then, if never before, you will see more light in the reve- lation of Jesus Christ. Then, if never before, you will see the necessity for contending for peace through the revelation of Jesus Christ. Amen. Why should they take the greatest privileges from the kings of England at 1776? I ask you the question, Why did they lay deso- late the greatest enterprises, slavery and planta- tions, at eighteen hundred and sixty-five? I say to you, watch the Holy People (the sol- diery) lay the land most desolate at the end of the world, the Holy Xumbers. This is a book of the wars waged at the close of each three times and a half. ( See Numbers xxi, 14.) "Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord." 1 62 THE EDEN AGE Figure Seven THE GLOBE THE STUDY OF HISTORY BY GEO- GRAPHICAL LINES Figure Xo. 7 represents the globe of creation, and shows the prophetic count of time from Eden to Eden again. The outside circle shows the count of the centuries, one after the other in succession, to the sixtieth, which is the Eden century again. This century we are now living in is the six- tieth, and completes the circle of time from the Eden condition of old time to the Eden condi- tion of the present time. The second circle shows the count of time from the beginning of an age to the close of it. Twenty centuries complete an age. The third circle represents the boundary of the globe of creation. The fourth, or inner circle, represents the fortieth parallel, crossing the greatest countries on the globe, along which the great Bible visions are witnessed. I have outlined the United States and the Chinese Territory with dotted lines. These are the two largest pieces of territory crossed by the 163 164 THE EDEN AGE fortieth parallel at this day and age of the world. The dark part of the design represents the briny deep, the sea system or water system of crea- tion. The dotted lines, running out to the point named Flood, show the position of the great prophetic clock hands at the time Noah preached, taught and sung the flood in the ears of the peo- ple. (At the flood century.) According to his- tory Noah was one hundred and .twenty years introducing the Flood Age. The dotted lines running out to the point named Christ show the position of the great prophetic clock hands at the time the apostles preached, taught and sung Christ in the ears of the people. (At the Christ century.) According to history the apostles were about sixty years (one-half the time allotted Noah) in introducing the Christ Age. The great prophetic clock hands as they now stand are pointing to the Eden century again, and I, Samuel, must preach, teach and sing Eden in the hearing of the people of this time. (At this Eden century.) According to history, I am al- lotted about thirty years (one-half the time al- lotted the apostles) to introduce the Eden Age, and it will keep me very busy. When you get the annunciation, read up on the theme and help me. The three last centuries of the Antediluvian Age, which was the seventeenth, eighteenth and nine- teenth centuries, was the time in which the pyr- THE EDEN AGE 165 amids in Egypt were built. China and Egypt were rival countries at that time, and in Egypt was the greatest and most progressive people on the globe. Labor commanded the best wages in Egypt ; the most stupendous undertakings were accomplished during that twentieth century, which is called Flood, and of the two rival coun- tries (China and Egypt) Egypt surpassed China during that century, and China became a sealed nation; and about seven hundred and some odd years afterward Moses rose up and led the chil- dren of Israel out of Egypt, and during the eighth century, after the flood, which was the twenty-eighth century in the outside circle or count (see figure 7) the Egyptian government was completely dissolved, according to the word of God. Moses, now leading the children toward Palestine, dies in the land of Moab. Joshua now leads the children into the country of Palestine, and by the close of the tenth century after the flood, w T hich was the thirtieth century from Eden, the building up of the country of Palestine began, and during the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries of that age, which was the thirty-seventh, thirty-eighth and thirty-ninth centuries after Eden, Palestine became rebuilt, and was the greatest country on the globe at that time. It and the European countries became rivals, and during the fortieth century the Euro- 1 66 THE EDEN AGE pean nations laid Palesttine in desolation. Christ was taught in Palestine during the twentieth century of the Jewish Age, which was the for- tieth century after Eden, but they had no desire to hear the meek and lowly Jesus; nor the apos- tles of the same, but fought against progressive teaching, and the rival country surpassed Pales- tine, and the European country excelled all others, until the dawn of the seventeenth century after Christ ; then the children or outcasts of the east began to flock into the Americas, and during the fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth cen- turies after Eden, which was the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries after Christ, Americas became the great progressive and advancing nation or people of the world. This United States became the greatest labor field of the world. Here labor commands the highest price ; here the most stupendous undertakings must be accomplished during this twentieth cen- tury. It is here where the new age must be taught, and from now on the teachers of the tem- poral and spiritual interests of the nations of the world will come out of our nation. She is the bride, the Lamb's wife, the antediluvian govern- ment. Who will heed or hear the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the holy land of the whole world, America? (Mother, Mother Eve.) The Eden government and the rival countries of the world THE EDEX AGE 167 to-day are not on the same continent. Now the rival countries are the east and west hemispheres ; the surpassing must be accomplished by this, our west hemisphere. Tis after the manner of sun- rise and sunset. Like this China and Egypt, Egypt surpassed China in the twentieth century after Eden. Palestine and Europe, Europe sur- passing Palestine during the fortieth century after Eden. Now the east and west hemispheres, the west surpassing the east, during this six- tieth century after Eden. Now during the first twenty-one years of this century we must have the most holy obedience to the government of our Lord (temporal Lord), which w 7 ill require our blood or imprisonment if we do not render holy obedience unto the same, for the time is at hand (see article n, page 67) for the. highest standard of morality (moral duties) of this nation. For the true understanding of the ancient holy writ- ings are soon to be visited upon this nation, and it must be visited upon us for the preservation of our nation and the works of our hands, the beauties of our country, for the coming five hun- dred years. God bless us all, and help us to look to the wonderful changes of the future and the appear- ance of the holy government with pure hearts and clean hands. Not our will, but thine, O Thou Eternal God. 1 68 THE EDEN AGE Palestine, the holy land of the east hemisphere, lies between the thirtieth and fortieth meridians, and between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels, and in the country of Palestine was seen the teaching of the morning, . the beginning of this A. D. Age. This age was taught here, and there in old Palestine was where the people witnessed the morning visions of this A. D. Age. They were visible to many people at the time the apos- tles were speaking of them, and they were visible to thousands of people at the close of the first century after Christ. But the nations did not want to change the style of the age, and did not, so history tells us, until about three hundred years after Christ. Some historians say it was done by Constantine about three hundred years after Christ. Palestine of this west hemisphere is the United States. This is the evening Palestine of the even- ing hemisphere, and in it will be seen the evening visions of the evening or ending of this A. D. Age. The declaration was one vision. At the re- bellion was another ; and watch for the others, for there are two yet. The visions of the end of this age will be seen here in the states. Don't you know that every state that went out of the Union at the sixties lies between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels, just as old Palestine of the east does, and don't you know that the rebellion THE EDEN AGE 169 broke out just sixty years before nineteen twenty- one ; or, in other words, at nineteen twenty-one people will point back to the rebellion, saying, just sixty years ago the rebellion broke out. You will notice that the cross that stands over the cross of the rebellion is the same distance inward from the beginning of this age as the rebellion cross is inward from the close of the age. That is this, the cross that closed the apostolic dispen- sation in the morning of this age was just sixty- five years and five-eighths inward from the begin- ning of the age, and the cross that opened up the evening apostolic dispensation stands imvard from the end of this age just sixty-five years and five-eighths. These are points by which we w r ill watch the ending of this A. D. Age. Now I re- alize this fact : There are but few people who will be able to comprehend the annunciation's mission in the fore part of this century, but toward the close of this century many persons can, by con- sulting its pages, comprehend the annunciation's mission at the morning of the century. There may be many people more than I think able to comprehend this writing, though founded on the prophetic rule. You will have to study the rule or scale on which it is written, and this many persons will not do at this present day, but as time rolls on, and this subject comes more into public discussion, toward the close of this cen- 170 THE EDEN AGE tury, people will become more familiar with the subject, and blinding superstition will have less power, and hundreds of people will seek plain, simple truth more than we do at the present time. I have done the best I could in giving short ex- planations on all that I have commented on, and perhaps I have shortened my explanations too much to suit most people ; nevertheless, I think this best in this one special publication. But back to the study of history, by geograph- ical lines : The parallel along which all the visions of the prophetic writings will be wit- nessed is the fortieth. The parallel runs along over the greatest countries of the globe (see fig- ure seven) and it crosses the country occupied by the greatest powers of the world. What I mean is this : all the nations that have figured in the opening and closing of the three great ages have, according to common and prophetic history, lived and possessed territory on and along the fortieth parallel. During the time from Eden down to the flood, which was two thousand years, the time we refer to as being back of the flood, China was the most enterprising and ad- vancing nation on the globe. (We call them the yellow race.) When the twentieth century of that two thousand years began to dawn the na- tions were running to and fro among each other, and were having peace conferences, and were THE EDEX AGE 171 signing peace treaties, until the}' had put about twenty-one years of their twentieth century past them. During that twenty-one years of their twentieth century, while the}' were running to and fro among one another, and singing peace, peace, peace, every one was just as busy as he could be silently preparing their great armies and strengthening their fortifications ; at the same time all signing peace treaties at peace con- ferences, and having luncheons, suppers, festi- vals, balls and meets, and doing honor to one another, until the limit of feasting was complete by the number of years passed, and their soldiery or armies were ready to begin what John the Revelator calls (Rev. xvi, 14, 16) the battle of that great day of God Almighty, "and he gath- ered them together in a place called in the He- brew tongue, Armageddon. THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON Armageddon, in the common tongue of to-day, is the first twenty-one years of the twentieth century, during which time you can see the signs of quarreling and fussing among all nations of the globe, whose interests are mixed with one another. They will eventually in time mistreat the treaties of one another until this mixing will terminate in great battles in this Armageddon century. Yes, this is the Armageddon century ; it 172 THE EDEN AGE is the war century of the nations and closes the age. Don't you see the greatest battleships the world ever saw, and the mightiest guns, right now being prepared for the battles of this cen- tury ? I do ; I see the preparation for Armaged- - don began right at the first years of this twentieth century, and is going right ahead to this day. These things the people or nations will not heed, reach or understand, though it is written for their instruction in the holy word of God. Don't you remember John the Revelator said : "He that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword" ? Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Yes, John spoke of this several times. But as these things are all written in fig- urative language in the book of Revelation the people will not study it until they understand it, but they turn it down and consider it past under- standing until the time is out, which time is the first twenty-one years of this twentieth century ; and when that time is up, as Ezekiel has said in forty-one and four, "So he measured the length thereof, twenty cubits, and the breadth, twenty cubits, before the Temple : and he said unto me, This is the most holy place." Yes, at the twen- tieth year of the twentieth century of each age is the most holy place. I know it, too. So in the twentieth year of the twentieth century of the Antediluvian Age was the most holy place, and THE EDEN AGE 173 the great nation's feasting and frolicking was broken up by the God of Heaven, not mysteri- ously at all ; no, no, there got to be so much fraud, graft, theft, suicide, divorce, slander, lies, back- biting, enmity, hatred, blasphemy, disobedience, unthankful, unholy covenant breakers, and with- out natural affection, privately and publicly, re- ligiously and governmentally, and they began to break treaties, and the treaties between all the great nations were broken off, and world-wide national confusion prevailed throughout the whole civilized world at that time. The pro- phetic writers call the confusion that prevailed during that twentieth century the flood. And the nations quareled at that time among themselves, just as a family sometimes does, un- til they were all broken up. All love and har- mony between the nations was broken up and hatred prevailed. So all nations at that time had great treaties with each other, and as they began to enter their twentieth century at the end of that age they were doing just exactly like you see them doing now in the first twenty years of this twentieth century, holding the great feasts and festivals, and honoring one another and giving gifts, and it was the cup, the cup, the cup. (You know Christ and John the Revelator both men- tioned the cup.) And they were proclaiming peace, peace and plenty (Christ said, "And when 174 THE EDEN AGE they say peace and safety then sudden destruc- tion cometh as travail upon a woman with child.") And before that twentieth century went out they started what John calls the battle of Arma- geddon, the wars of the twentieth century, in which all nations took part, and completely broke up all national relations ; and they were without any great national leaders from that time, until the days of Moses. During that four or five hun- dred years of confusion China become a sealed nation, that is, she became very strict and rigid in her laws, manners and customs, and became what we might call sealed up against other na- tions. The Jewish nations rose and fell during the twenty centuries from the flood to Christ, and at their twentieth century they became a sealed nation, and are sealed to this day. We, the Gen- tile nations, have governments and have risen and fallen through this twenty centuries, China as a nation staying sealed for four thousand years, until the first year of our twentieth century. THE UNSEALING OF CHINA Then we w T ent at the siege of Pekin the first year of Eden, which was Eden 1,4, 14 (April 14, 1901), and unsealed her and opened her up to re- ceive the Ark of the Covenant, which is the keep- ing of the numbers, and now the Gentiles or Ro- THE EDEX AGE 175 mans are to be sealed during this twentieth cen- tury, and the yellow nations should be the rising nations five hundred years from now ; so that China will again be the greatest nation by the close of this Eden thousand years. But China became a sealed nation during that twentieth cen- tury, which century was the cross from the Ante- diluvian Age to the Jewish Age, which century was called by the prophetic writers, "The Flood." And now during that twentieth century called by the prophetic writers "The Flood,' 7 which was four thousand years back, the great nation, which we might refer to as ancient China, at that time was the mightiest nation on the globe. And she began to see her decaying among the powers, and she could behold the fact that the patriarchal na- tions were plucking her cedars of Lebanon and were rising omvard and upward above her, for her day of excellency was past, and the Jewish Age was at hand, and the Jewish nations were to plant and grow their cedars of Lebanon unto heaven during their age of two thousand years to come, and it was the flood century, and the God of heaven was closing up the antediluvian law custom and habit, which law custom and habit must become dead, or, in other words, be cut off at the flood period. And God sealed up the great Chinese nation, and the patriarchal nations took the excellency and grew mighty and waved 176 THE EDEN AGE their cedar bows in the breeze of advancement of the Jewish nations, on to the rise of the Medes and Persians, and on clown to the days of Alex- ander the Great, about three hundred and thirty- five years B. C., which was the warning to the Jewish nations that their twentieth century was nearing, and that the white or Gentile nations were plucking their cedars of Lebanon, and soon all Jewish laws, customs and habits must decay, become a back number, the Gentile laws and cus- toms to precede, and at the Christ century, which was nearing, would be the cross from the Jewish Age to the Gentile or Roman age, for the third age belonged to the Gentiles or Romans ; and as Paul, one of the seers during that century, re- marked, that through the blindness of the Jews and the bringing in of the Gentiles the riches of the world would again come back. Yes, the riches of the world was to come through the Gen- tiles, and they did. The discovery of all the ter- ritory of the briny deep was reclaimed by what we might term the Romans. And all the enter- prises of the world to-day are what they are by all nations and all individuals standing stanch for what they see to be right nationally, col- lectively and individually. And you and I are living at the dawn of the Antediluvian Age now, and we are the antediluvian nation plucking the cedars of Lebanon of all the nations of the east THE EDEN AGE L // hemisphere ; and let us not be too proud, for God is with the nations of the world through this age as He was through all past ages, and the time must come when a certain nation must rise up and pluck our cedars of Lebanon. Now I will show you why. The sun comes up at the extreme east, doesn't it? and passes over the globe from east to west, and it is the light of the world, and at the evening it departs from our sight at the extreme west and can not be seen by us any more until it again reaches the extreme east and visits that hemisphere first ; then it comes right on westward again until it gives us its full power. So with the nations that are the world's leaders, the power departs from them when the time comes, and will not return unto them again, until their time (age) comes. The power is with the yellow race through the Antediluvian Age, with the dark Jewish race through the Jewish Age, and the power is with the white or Roman race, through the Roman or Gentile Age. I speak as a historian of six thousand vears. THE NATIONS ON THE FORTIETH PARALLEL Watch the rise and fall of nations along the fortieth parallel. Now begin with me at the ex- treme east, and on the fortieth parallel. See here, it crosses Japan's territory, and now fol- lowing westward, it crosses Korea, and it enters the territory of the Chinese empire at Pekin, China, and following on through the Chinese em- pire it cuts off just a little point of the Russian empire's territory, then crosses the north of Tur- key's territory, and on over Greece and across the south point of Italy, and right over Spain's territory, and comes across the Atlantic Ocean and enters the United States territory just south of New York and just north of Washington City. Now this is the key to all ancient history, and on this parallel the visions of the nations that are to proclaim the end of the old age and the begin- ning of the new will be witnessed. Now if you get a map and look at it you will readily see that the United States and China are the only two large territories crossed by this par- allel. You know that China is the first and most 178 THE EDEX AGE 179 ancient nation of the world to-day, and that the United States is the last and most modern nation of the world to-day. You know these are what might be called the first and last nations, and between the first and last the great exclusion bill or sheet was drawn up about the year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and you know that the last nation visited the first in battle on the first year of this century, which is the first century of the first or Antediluvian Age. (See poetry, second verse.) Xow the first and last of the six thousand years is this present century, and com- pletes the full circle of the cherubim, and is the beginning of a new six thousand years, and is what I call the golden century, or altar of na- tional matrimony, and the uniting of the nations is at hand, and the uniting of the ages is at hand, and the greatest work of this golden century of the ages is to be executed by the golden-sunset nation of the sunset land, which is America. Her mission is to proclaim the sunset of the full circle of the three ages, the holy cherubim of God's word. This century is the twilight hour of the ages, and is typical of the twilight hour of. the day's time. God bless us. Many of us will never understand the great hand of suicide that is so prominent among us ; also the great divorce evil, which seems to be una- voidable ; also the terrible drink habit and great 180 THE EDEN AGE thirst for fraud, robbery, murder and vices of every kind and character ; but I will say, watch the territory from east to west between the par- allels thirtieth and fortieth, for along there is the vision. Yes, the visions that were seen by all the Bible writers were seen on land lying between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels, and the men who wrote them lived on soil lying between them, and I am to-night sitting at home writing the annun- ciation on soil lying between them, and when you go to studying about it you will be wonderfully surprised to see the greatest light comes from such a study. Can't you look with me at Japan's country? It is between them. Then and there, just six thousand years ago, was seen the sunrise of the great visions, and from there they go to the Chinese territory. Japan and China are one and the same thing, and the visions of advance- ment for the coming two thousand years belong to the yellow nation, and will be with them until the close of this Eden Age, nineteen hundred years from now, and then they will enter their twentieth century, which will again flood them. Then the flood century will again cross them, to the dark or Jewish nations, or bloods, and the Jewish nations will begin to enter their age again, and that will bring the visions on westward into the territory which now belongs to Afghanistan THE EDEN AGE 181 and the north part of British India, Persia and Turkey, and the north part of Arabia, all that ter- ritory lying between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels, and between the west boundary of China and the Mediterranean Sea, and it will again be two thousand years passing through that territory through that second age again, and then they will be nearing the Christ century, and then the white or Gentile bloods will begin com- ing in again, and at the Christ century will cross in full to the A. D. Age again. And that will bring the visions (the visions are visible prog- ress) still on westward around the Mediterranean Sea. Just as it was at the days of Christ tw r o thousand years ago, and during the first thousand years after Christ, the visions (visible progress) was in the Roman territory, and then during the following five hundred years, which brought us down the great highway of time to the close of fifteen hundred, A. D., the visions went up into England's territory, which is north of the fiftieth parallel and on the first meridian of the world's measure. Well, how came the visible progress to go up between parallel fifty and sixty ? For this reason : You will notice by consulting your geog- raphy that the climate of the temperate zone climbs to the seventieth parallel, which is just north of England several hundred miles at ex- actly the extreme north point of Norway and 1 82 THE EDEN AGE Sweden. Nowhere on the whole globe does the north line of the temperate zone reach a point so far north as this. Nowhere. This, then, brings England in about the same climate that belongs to the fortieth parallel ; and for three hundred and fifty years or more the progressive vision was with England, and while the rapid changing visions were at the extreme north there was such rapid progress of changes that it was a blessing to England when the visions flew back- ward to America in the colonies ; for while the three times and a half, which is the progressive measuring reed, and was to England three hun- dred and fifty years, they were in a constant tur- moil. Religious beliefs and political beliefs were constantly changing, and the translation of the Holy Scriptures kept the rulers of church and state in constant dread and fear, and out of that great north light (see Ezekiel i, 4) "came a great cloud, and a fire unfolding itself, and a bright- ness was about it, and out of the midst thereof, as the color of amber out of the midst of the fire/' Yes, Ezekiel was right as he wrote his vision of the future, and foresaw by knowledge which God gave him by showing him that about thirteen hundred and fifty years after Christ the progressive visions would go north of the secret parallel, the fiftieth, and about that time the na- tions would be ready for the translation and THE EDEN AGE 183 would introduce firearms in war, which thing John saw, and called fire and brimstone ; and while the vision was there they did establish the fire and powder fighting and did also establish the translation of the Holy Bible, the true his- tory of the ages. And at sixteen hundred the visions of progress and rapid changes flew, or, in other words (see Zachariah v, 9), they lifted the Ephah between the earth and the heaven. Then said I to the angel that talked with me, "Whither do these bear the Ephah?" And he said unto me, "To build it an house in the land of Shinar ; and it shall be established and set there upon her own base." And so the cherubim was established by six- teen hundred with the flaming sword, and the seed of the nation of progressive visions con- tended for an open Bible in their hand, did take King James' translation in their hand and come on westward to America, and then, at sixteen hundred and two, three, five and seven,- began the visions of progress in the territory in America (the land of Shinar) between the thirtieth and fortieth parallels. THE WHEEL ON THE HIGHWAY OF. TIME And they passed down the highway of time from sixteen hundred to sixteen hundred and 1 84 THE EDEN AGE fifty. This put them past the first time. Then the wheels of time rolled on down the highway of time to seventeen hundred. This put them past the second time. (They were progressing rapidly, and were proud of it; yes, they were.) Then the wheel of time rolled on into the year seventeen hundred and fifty, and our fathers were wrestling mightily with progress. This put them past the third time. Then the wheel of time turned one-half, and that brought our fathers down the great highway of time to the end of the first three and a half times in America, and there was the year seven- teen hundred and seventy-six on the post of time. There was the great night of seventy-six, and seventy-seven overtook them, and while they tar- ried there Uncle Sam was born. This was the child contending with the king. This was the first mighty vision in America. Then the wheel of time turned over a little faster. It now turned over in twenty-four years, and brought them on down the highway of time to eighteen hundred, and changes were speeding right along, and the first time after the revolution was past. Then the wheel turned over again in twenty- four years, and it was eighteen hundred and twenty-four on the landmark. This put them past the second time after the revolution, and they were proud of their progress. THE EDEN AGE 185 Then the wheel turned over again in twenty- four years, and the date was eighteen hundred and forty-eight. This put them past the third time after the revolution, and they were proud of their visible progress. Then the wheel turned one-half, twelve years, and brought them to a post along the highway of time, marked eighteen hundred and * sixty, A. D. Then night overtook our fathers, and they turned into the field of bat- tle and tarried there five years, from the fore part of the year of eighteen hundred and sixty-one to sixty-five, and the cherubim, the wheel of time and flaming sword, which turned every way to keep the tree of life, w r as w r onderful. But the enemy (Confederacy) they met there in the high- way of time was hard to wrestle w T ith, but they conquered and slew the enemy and started on their journey of progress again down the great highway of time. Now the wheel of time turned over more speedily than before. It now turned' over in twelve years, and brought us down the highway of time to the year eighteen hundred and seventy- seven. This was turning fast, was it not? Yes, sir, every twelve years was fast. This put us past the first time after the rebellion. Then the wheel turned over again in twelve years, and brought us to the year eighteen hun- dred and eighty-nine, and this put us past the 186 THE EDEN AGE second time after the rebellion. And actually things were going at such a rapid gait that lots of the people could not keep pace with the visions of progress, but the nation's leaders kept shout- ing, "Come on, come on," and so did the spiritual or religious leaders. Now the wheel turned again, and I noticed the mark on the third great post after the rebel- lion and the figures of time were thus: 1901. And I said, nineteen hundred and one, A. D. Then said I, "There must now be a half turn, which is six years," and he said, 4k No, you have the wrong conception ; the wheel must turn over in half the time it has been turning, that is, the speed must be as fast again." "Well," said I, "who will be able to stay in or up with the wheel through the six years from nineteen hundred and one to nineteen hundred and seven?" Said he, "Some of the best ones and most speedy ones will not be able to keep pace with these speedy times. Graft and fraud will overtake them. Now," said he, "at the close of nineteen hundred and seven we will be past the three twelves and the six, which is forty-two years, and is the three and the half times following the rebellion. Then will begin the three sixes, the marking numbers at the year nineteen hundred and seven." Then, from the year nineteen hundred and seven to nineteen twenty-five the custom and habit of the THE EDEN AGE 187 people will change so speedily that many can not keep up. And the national affairs will be contin- ually changing, and changing so fast that the na- tions will be continually altering and changing of treaties, until national discontent and confu- sion will reach a climax ; then the prophetic meas- ure will again begin to lengthen. And this will then cause the custom and habit of the people to be slower, and continue to grow slower until the first thousand years of this Eden Age is past ; then the prophetic three and a half will again be- gin to shorten and continue to grow shorter, and cause the people to again become speedy until the close of the Eden Age. THE ROUTE OF THE VISIONS The visions of progress appear at the begin- ning of the Eden Age, at the ship door of the yellow nations, the Japanese and Chinese ; they are with the visions of progress for the entire age of two thousand years ; then ends the Antedi- luvian Age, the age of the yellow nations. Then the twentieth century of that age breaks up their power, just as October and November break up this summer season's power; then what may be called the Jewish nation will again come into the progressive visions because the Jewish Age will again be at hand. 1 88 THE EDEN AGE And the progressive visions will depart from the territory occupied by the yellow nations, be- cause by nature it no longer belongs to them ; and they become the sealed nation, and the great wars of conquering and overthrowing and subdu- ing of nations and the taking of territory will go to the Jewish nation during the twentieth century from now, which nation to-day has no territory, no flag, money or government. But in their age again the God of Heaven will raise them up a leader, and they will come into possession of the temporal power of the world (just like He raised Uncle Sam up for us and gave us rule over our enemies). Then progressive visions will leave Chinese territory. Then where and on what ter- ritory will they appear? Two thousand years from now they will be entering the Jewish Age (see figure one), which period of time is repre- sented between the arrow named Flood, and the arrow named Christ, which division of time holds the numbers five, six, seven and eight of the in- ner circle of the cherubim, in which divisions in time past lived the patriarchal fathers, Moses, Daniel, Zachariah, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Malachi, and, in fact, all the Jewish nations lead- ers and prophets, who held the temporal power at that time, and whom God was with and fought their battles for them in time past ; and don't you believe that, in their age or season again, God THE EDEX AGE 189 will be able to again raise up leaders for them just as He has raised up Uncle Sam at the begin- ning of this Eden Age for us, and give us na- tional leaders, and give us rule over our enemies to conquer them, subdue them, subdue their rul- ing, and take their territory, and dictate some things to them ? I do ; I believe it. I know it by God's word. I know that when the Jewish Age went out two thousand years ago the Gentile Age came in, and the Gentiles have been the progres- sive nation. But on what territory will the pro- gressive visions be in that age again ? Well, in the past Jewish Age, they were seen on that ter- ritory which lies between China's west boundary and the Mediterranean Sea, which country be- longs to Afghanistan, Persia and Turkey just now. Permit me to say all this country, that is, the chief part of it, lies between parallels thirty and forty, and I know in the Jewish Age again the visions of progress will be seen there, just as well as you know that during the time of No- vember and December corn shucking will be seen again. And I know that all through the Jewish Age the visions will be in that territory until the close of the age, and then it will be the Christ century to them at the close of their age, and then during their twentieth century their last privi- lege in Jerusalem will again be taken from them, just as it was in the past, and then the visions 190 THE EDEN AGE of progress will move westward along the Med- iterranean Sea, just as it did in time past, in the days of Paul, until it fulls in the Romans as it did before, about one thousand and two hundred years after Christ. Then it will go north from the territory around the Mediterranean Sea to England's territory, and be with them again about three hundred and fifty years; and then what? It will not have another American wilderness to go to, will it? Then what will the progressive vision do? Where will it fly then? Now please explain your theory farther, for I am at the end. Then where will the vision go five thousand five hundred years from now ? Well, sir, in two thou- sand years from now will be the twentieth cen- tury of this Eden Age, and in the east hemisphere there will be some persons teaching the end of this Eden Age, which I am now introducing, and it will sound just as foolish and unreasonable to the majority of people at the close of this Eden Age as my teaching sounds unreasonable at the close of this A. D. Age and the birth of the Eden Age. I teach the end of this age by calling this twentieth century Eden. The end of the age teachers in the future will have to teach the end of this age by calling their twentieth century flood. They will have as hard a time trying to make the people believe the end of the age as Noah did, will they not? Well, just so one fam- THE EDEN AGE 191 ily believes it, it is all right. Just. so the purpose God intends to accomplish is accomplished, is all there is to it any way. Only one family believed the end of the age teaching at the time of Noah, but it accomplished God's purpose ; so when I sometimes mention Eden to some they laugh and say, "Your case is worse than Noah's, because his family believed him, and there were eight of them, and there were but three of your family, and I doubt if the two believe you." Then we have a good hearty laugh, and just so, "so the purpose is accomplished." I enjoy the study of ancient history. It is a great study, and the study of time is a deep study, and is very interesting, and the study of history by geographical lines is very enlightening. But back to the question again. Where will the vision fly to from Eng- land again in the far distant future, as America is now under civilization and government, and not a wilderness ? Well, did you ever think about this country in the far distant future ? Did you ever think that this country could go back to the condition it was found in by Christopher Colum- bus? You know by these great mounds here in the chief states, the hermetically-sealed vaults of Nevada and the foundations of ancient cities in Arizona, that the highest stage of civilization once dwelt here, about five thousand years ago, and went down to the Indian condition during the 192 THE EDEN AGE ages of time, which condition Christopher Colum- bus found it in at his discovery of the same. These things teach us there is the going down of civilization, government and country, and that there is the coming up of civilization, government and country. This we know to be true in the Americas, for we have seen this country or land rebuilt (see Jer. xxxii, 15), and put under civ- ilization and government during the three last centuries of this Gentile Age. Notice figure one ; see the noon hour on the cherubim is this Eden century, and then at the close of this century it will be just like the sun starting down after twelve o'clock of the day. The sun starts down at twelve o'clock, and at six it is almost gone. Now look at the cheru- bim. You readily see we are living in the time of the figure twelve at the Eden arrow, and at the close of this century the people who study national interests will observe the starting down of the nations, and at six o'clock on the cheru- bim is just three thousand years from now, and that is so long that no man living to-day will ever see the sunset of civilization on God's globe without studying it, will he? No, sir ; we live so short a time that we see but few world-wide changes. And if we want to see the overthrow of the world and the rebuilding of the same we must be taught that from Eden down through THE EDEN AGE 193 the three thousand years unto the days of Moses the world is on the overthrow or going down. Then we must be taught that from the days of Moses to. the close of this century is three thou- sand years, and that during this three thousand years is the rebuilding and re-establishing of civilization and government throughout the whole world. Then the six thousand years is the coming up and going down, or, in other words, the overthrow and rebuilding of the world. Just like the sun going down from the hour of twelve to six, and rising from the hour of six to twelve. So on the cherubim we are near the going down numbers, and the going down will begin at the close of this century ; but it is three thousand years going down, and if we are not taught how and what the going down is we will never know it is going on. Intelli- gence never departs from the east hemisphere during the circle of the six thousand years> but the area of it diminishes very much. Intelli- gence rises in the east and goes out over the whole world, and puts everything under sub- jection, and practices and prospers until the numbers seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven and twelve on the cherubim are past, and then it be- gins to go down. And it will go completely down out of the upper continent of the globe, which continent is the Americas, during the six 194 THE EDEN AGE thousand years, the circle of the cherubim ; then the sunset land reverts to nature for rest until the twelfth five hundred years of the cherubim, which is the close of the three great ages. Then the sunset land again comes back from the nat- ural condition to civilization and government. So you readily see where the vision will go to from the country of England five thousand and five hundred years from now. Yes, Ecclesiastes says the earth abideth forever. The history of the six thousand years abideth forever. Yes, the word of God abideth forever, and God and Christ are the same to-day yesterday and for- ever, world without end, Amen. THE NAME OF THE DIVISIONS OF TIME IN EACH HEMISPHERE DURING THE CIRCLE OF SIX THOUSAND YEARS Now watch closely the thought. Two thou- sand years from now the nations of the east hem- isphere will be at the flood century. Two thou- sand years from now the nations of this west hemisphere will be at the mound-building cen- tury, the turtle century. Four thousand years from now the nations of the east hemisphere will be at the Christ century. Four thousand years from now the nations of this west hemi- sphere will be at the wolf century. Eden, Flood and Christ are the names of the three closing THE EDEN AGE 195 centuries of the ages on my cherubim. Bear, Turtle and Wolf are the names of the three clos- ing centuries of the ages on the Indians' cher- ubim. During the third and fourth thousand years from now the Jews will come into poses- sion of government and territory again in the east hemisphere. During the third and fourth thousand years from now, the Indian condition will come upon this west hemisphere and the Indian laws and customs will again prevail in this America. Forty centuries from now the nations of the east hemisphere will be at the Christ century, which is the scattering century of the Jewish tribes of the east hemisphere (Matt, xxvi, 31). Then saith Jesus unto them, "All ye shall be offended because of me this night, for it is written, I will smite the shepherd and the sheep of the flock shall be scattered abroad. Forty centuries from now the Indians of this west hemisphere will be at the wolf cen- tury, which is the scattering century of the In- dian tribes of this west hemisphere, Americas, and great commotion will prevail among them during that century, just as the great commo- tion prevails among the intelligent tribes or na- tions of the east continent at the end of the age. During the twentieth century of each age the nations in both continents or hemispheres un- dergo a great national change. Commotion and 196 THE EDEN AGE ■ disturbance of national or tribal affairs comes upon them which marks the end of the age in both hemispheres. The Indian national leaders kept this circle of the cherubim of time through the five thousand years' time here in America, just as it was kept by the national leaders of the east. I have used the three names on my cherubim, Eden, Flood and Christ, which are the names used by the historians of the east hem- isphere. The Indian used the three names, or de- signs rather, bear, turtle and wolf. The head of all maps is toward the north ; so my cherubim head is Eden, and the Indian's cherubim head is the bear, the northern animal, which indicates the head of his prophetic timepiece. The second design on my cherubim is flood, and indicates inundation. The second design on the Indian's cherubim is the turtle, and indicates inundation. The third head on my cherubim is Christ, and indicates the scattering of the Jewish tribes in the east hemisphere. The third design on the Indian's cherubim is wolf, and indicates the scattering of the tribes of the Indians here in the west hemisphere. THE GATHERING TOGETHER OF ALL THE TRIBES AND NATIONS OF THE WORLD "Thus saith the Lord, I will gather them to- gether out of all the countries whither I have THE EDEN AGE 197 scattered them. Not for your own sakes do I do this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you : be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, house of Israel. Thus saith the Lord God. In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities, I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded. And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by" (meaning the Americas) /'and they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the Garden of Eden." (That is just what I say, too ; it is just as it was at Eden before.) "And the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced and are inhabited. Then the heathen that are left round about you shall know 7 that I, the Lord, will build the ruined places and plant that that was desolate ; I the Lord have spoken it, and I will do it. Thus saith the Lord God ; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel to do it for them ; I will increase them with men like a flock. As the holy flock, as the flock of Jeru- salem in her solemn feasts, so shall the waste cities be filled w T ith flocks of men, and they shall know that I am the Lord." So reads the last verses of Ezekiel, thirty-sixth chapter. I think 1 can see that the great wastes are about all built up at the close of the six thousand years since Eden of old. Eden was the name of this 198 THE EDEN AGE country six thousand years ago, and it is the name of it now, as it is here again. December was the name of this month six centuries ago, and now it has been here six hundred times and more, and every time this period of time comes it is called December. So whenever the period of time comes that you see the whole world re- built, and all nations gathering together in world fairs, feasts and festivals, then the season of Eden is again here. And this Eden century is the gathering together of all nations. That is why I call it the golden altar of national matri- mony, because it is the marriage supper of the Lamb of God, and John says, "And he saith unto me, Write, blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God. And I fell at his feet to worship him, and he said unto me, See thou do it not ; I am thy fellow servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus ; worship God, for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy." (Rev. xix, 10.) They that are called to the marriage supper is this United States people, for they are the ones that have the testimony of Jesus, and in them will be found the testimony, and it is the spirit (life and power) of prophecy. In this nation will be found the prophetic read- ers at the close of the age. Do not take my word THE EDEX AGE 199 for it, but watch for yourself. The time is at hand, and an}' man who organizes a band, body or church, on his views or visions, will in very few years find himself forsaken and kicked out by the very band he organized, or, in other words, the band he united. The days of exclu- siveness are past, and Jesus Christ's church was established for the redemption of the world. Watch for the redemption of the world. Here's the secret. God bless us all. 200 THE EDEN AGE THE ROSE OF SHARON THE EDEN AGE 201 THE ROSE OF SHARON The rose of Sharon is the numbers of time in a circle. You will notice in it the three divisions of time, the six divisions of time and the twelve divisions of time. These represent the trees in line in the circle or angelic garden, and the num- bers thirteen and fourteen, you notice, stand in the midst of the garden and represent the two trees in the midst of the garden, which are the tree of life and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. And we keep eating, which means con- suming time or eating time, until the full circle is eaten up, or, in other words, is consumed, and then when the twelve divisions are past we go into the thirteenth division, which number is the tree of life, which number of time is not in the line of the circle, and is the invisible number to the persons not skilled in the prophetic count. This way the twelve is the complete circle, and the person not skilled in the prophetic count does not, and can not, see where we get the thirteenth and fourteenth quarter until he studies the theme and comes to understand that the thirteen and fourteen are nothing more than the first and sec- ond quarters of the next circle of time. The number fourteen is the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and just as soon as the fourteenth number of time is consumed, eaten, or past, then we, in a national sense, get our eyes open and be- I 202 THE EDEN AGE come as gods, knowing good and evil ; then we are driven out of that garden or circle of time, or dispensation of time, into a new circle of time, which is a new garden, with the same numbers again — just like a new year, with the same months again. (See article eight.) When the king ate of the thirteenth and fourteenth divi- sions of time then he was driven out of the an- gelic circle at seventeen hundred and seventy- six, and confederacy was driven out of the an- gelic circle at eighteen hundred and sixty-five, and I predict that before long another party will be driven out of this present circle or angelic garden. For if I am reading the figurative writ- ings of the Holy Bible correctly the time will go out during the year nineteen hundred and seven. The signs in all the religious bodies of the land are pointing that way. The signs in all the polit- ical bodies of the land are pointing that way. The signs in all the social bodies of the land are pointing that way. I am certain that we can be- gin looking for great confusion in our spiritual and temporal governments, which confusion can not be averted by any man, but will become so great that it will change the course or trend of the nations from the present custom and habit to what God requires. John says, "Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy and keep those things which are THE EDEX AGE 203 written therein, for the time is at hand.'' (Rev. i, 3.) My people, I know there are but few persons who will ever read it to you, and I know there are but few persons who will hear it, for this reason : The book of Revelation is the mathe- matical count of time, and must be read by num- ber, and there are but few persons who will ever read to you the divisions of time, and there are but few persons who w r ill ever hear the divisions of time read or explained. Why ? Because the expounding or teaching of the divisions of time is for the twentieth century, and is for the teach- ing of the ages, and the sealing of the nations. John speaks after this manner: "The leaves of the tree w r ere for the healing of the nations. Also the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it ; and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honor into it, and they shall bring the glory and honor of the nations into it," etc. (See Rev. xxi, 24 to close.) This is national. This is national. This is national. - One, two, three. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts. "And he saith unto me, these sayings are faith- ful and true, and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to show unto his servants the things which must shortly be done. Behold, I come quickly ; blessed is he that keepeth the sayings of the prophecy of this book. Even so, come, Lord Jesus." = ^-^^ B fa fa fa o o o M fa H i 3 •H THE BOOK OF LIFE. This represents a little book open, and the in- scription is the same on each page ; it is the holy numbers of time. The first line of figures is the three and a half times, and it is the Hebrew count of time. The second line of figures is the seven times, and it is the Greek count of time. The third line of figures is the fourteen times, and it is the Latin count of time, called the four- teen stations from the birth of Christ unto His crucifixion. This represents the superscription, or title, that Pilate wrote over Christ's head : It is eight words, as follows : Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews. (0 (*)_ (3) (4) (5) (6)- (7) (8) Then said the chief priests of the Jews to Pi- late, "Write not, The King of the Jews ; but that he said, I am King of the Jews." (i) (2) ( 3 ) ( 4 ) (5) (6) Many chief priests, preachers and leaders of the public mind no doubt will say that I should not 205 206 THE EDEN AGE have written the eight words or numbers ; but what I have written I have written. Then the soldiers (notice the word soldiers), when they had crucified Jesus, took his garments and made four (notice the number four) parts; to every soldier a part (there must have been four soldiers crucified him) ; and also his coat; now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said, therefore, among them- selves, "Let us not rend it, but cast lots for it, whose shall it be" ; that the scripture might be ful- filled, which saith, "They parted my raiment, and for my vesture they did cast lots." These things, therefore, the soldiers did. (Yes, the soldiers did.) And the soldiers continue unto this day parting the government, which is the raiment of Jesus Christ, at the close of the fourteen stations of time. And the soldiers to this day cast lots for his seamless coat. See John xix, 19-25. See Luke xv, 28, "And the scripture was ful- filled, which said, And he was 'numbered' with the transgressors." Yes, "numbered." His number is six hundred threescore and six at the revealing, and His number is eight at the crucifix. I understand this. You may not if you have not given it a great amount of study. And I positively will not dwell long on any topic in this annunciation. This represents the little book that John took THE EDEX AGE 207 from the hand of the angel (Rev. x, 2). The book was open, not closed, and the angel told him to take it, and eat it up ; and it shall make thy belly bitter, but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. I have eaten the book, and must prophesy for John, — or speak these things from his writings, just as the preachers of the churches preach the gospel for the apostles from their writings, their preaching accomplishes the things the Lord in- tends for the gospel to at this day and time, by the living and willing human beings that sacrifice many pleasures and privileges and stand before you at all times ministering as priests and preach- ers of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And my prophesying for John, the Revelator, from the book of Revelation, which is his writ- ings, will accomplish just whatever the Lord in- tends it to, at this day and time, and I am a living and willing human being that has sacrificed every selfish desire and view of politics and re- ligion and become isolated in my views and among my associates and stand before you as a prophet, ministering without respect to creeds or persons, the prophesy of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. The eleventh verse of the seventeenth chapter of Revelation reads as follows: "And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition." Into hell. 208 THE EDEN AGE war. John also said the number of the beast is the number of a man. The beast is the man of war (man in prophecy means people), the fight- ing power of the government, the holy people that protect us, and keep the holy law of God and pre- serve our nation. Our soldiery is our nation's Lord or ruler, it's our fiery rod of iron by which the nation is ruled, and the soldiery is called by all the prophetic writers : The holy people. Don't you remember Daniel told you it shall be for a time, times, and a half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished. Christ will be plainly and simply taught during his dispensation of time which is numbered six, six, six. (See figure two, article eleven.) There were three crosses reared to complete the cruci- fixion of Christ; when this was done (See Matt, xxvii, 54) them the centurion (a military officer), and they that were with him watching Jesus (the holy divisions of time), saw the earth quake (the great war which is the shaking up of the people), and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, "Truly, this was the Son of God." Two is creation, and three is completion, and when the third cross is reared in this Palestine country of America, between the thirtieth and the fortieth parallels, there will be many people teach- ing the end of this Gentile age, just as there were THE EDEX AGE 209 many people teaching the end of the Jewish age two thousand years ago at its visible close. Christ is the Man, Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last, and Christ must be taught. The Revelation is the revelation of Jesus Christ, the beginning and the end, and will reveal Him if properly taught during this Christ dispen- sation, which is the first twenty-one years of this twentieth century. Christ was the overthrow of the Jews while the keeping of the numbers of time was w 7 ith them. Christ is the overthrow of the Gentiles, while the keeping of the numbers of time is with them. The keeping of the numbers of time must go over to the Chinese nation about the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one. (Eden 21, 4, 3-) Then the Gentiles will be permitted to behold the holy millennial reign of peace at the close of this Gentile age. All our holy writers that have written such books as "The Millennial Dawn," "The Voice of the Seven Thunders," "Opening the Book of the Seven Seals," and many other holy writers of books too numerous to mention, have all done their part, holy and true, in the cause of the re- vealing of Jesus Christ. Now, later on down the highway of time, I am, by their aid and my own study of the visions of God's word, permitted to hand you this book. 210 THE EDEN AGE which is a continuation and a furtherance of the thought they have in view, and is the new thought that is due us at the opening of this new century and new age, and at this time we must make the change in our teaching by word and teach by number. For Christ is revealed by number. The figures in this book are pictures of the furniture of the holy temple of God. DICTIONARY TO THE HOLY NUMBERS. One, is seed. Two, is creation. Three, is the end of the age. Four, holds the wonderful event. Five, holds the secret. Six, is the finisher. Seven, is the revealer. Eight, is a repeater of the first. Remember this : There are two sticks, or meas- uring reeds. (See Ezek. xxxvii, 16.) There is the national measuring reed, and there is the gov- ernmental measuring reed. On the first reed is the three times and a half, which is the nation's measure ; at the end of this measure the nation must change. On the second reed is the three times and a half, which is the government's meas- ure ; at the end of this measure the government must change. Nations and governments are meas- ured and numbered by God, and it is written in the word of God, and will always be taught by man, his servants on earth, in their proper season, but before the nation will read up and accept the THE EDEN AGE 211 universal teaching of the servants who know the times and seasons which the Father has put in his power, and foreknow these things ; they will lay the land most desolate. Now I have said enough on the book of life. God bless all the writers and speakers on the Bible, His word, for their works are holy and true ; and I would to God that the members of all the religious assemblies of our land would live more in obedience to their professions, and the trust committed to their care. God bless us all, and give us union, not di- vision ; give us peace, not confusion. Let us all speak the same thing. The bounds of my love for all people, kindred, tongue and tribe, are unlimited in the annuncia- tion. Holy and True. Union forever. Amen. 212 THE EDEN AGE To the children that follow after. Yours in Christ (Eden 5, 12 and 31). Your servant, S. O. McClung. AUG 10 *9<#6 '