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That judges it is not God who imparts these secrets:
For surely, like your dream, the tempter must be bound,
Or all men would see how he would quickly cause confusion.
So now, from these lines, let the learned weigh this deeply:
And now I shall answer how thousands will weep;
Because I shall surely bind the tempter,
In a way so much like your dream, as all my shepherds shall find,
That when they come boldly to judge the word,
And say, 'We will see clearly if this be from God;'
Then the heavenly music shall sound in your ear—
'The voice is from heaven, we have nothing to fear.'
And then they are the first of the earth I will redeem;
And much deeper mysteries I then shall explain,
When you see the woman appear in wonders:
And wonders from heaven you surely will hear;
But this is a mystery you cannot discern,
Nor yet understand in what way I give warning;
Because through the WOMAN I will make it all clear;
And return the BONE A reference to the rib taken from Adam to create Eve, symbolizing the restoration of woman's status, to show you all here
How you will conquer Satan and regain Eden;
And she shall show you all plainly how it was lost;
And then you will all see the mysteries clearly;
And wonders from heaven shall appear to all;
Because I will fulfill it just like your dream—
And now, through another, I will explain the whole."
[I omitted mentioning that, before my dream at midnight, I was awakened by the most dreadful noise I ever heard in my life; and I was answered that it was like the noise of hell when the devils are chained down; then I slept and had the two preceding dreams.]
In 1797 I dreamed I felt myself almost dying, and whether I was awake or asleep I could scarcely tell; but I felt myself so shocked with pain that I said I could not live any longer. I thought I felt my spirit depart from my body and was carried through the air to some wondrous buildings, the most curious I ever beheld, and too remarkable to describe. I thought there were galleries, filled with and surrounded by soldiers. Before the galleries there was a large courtyard, in which stood a remarkably large oak, well-spread and well-grown,