The second book of wonders

My last book was a wonder to men, and such as strangers could not understand, as all names were concealed; but as I told them the next would be a greater wonder, it certainly will be to the believers when they know what has been revealed to me since the 12th of September. For I may say with David—

"The dawn of each returning day
Fresh beams of knowledge brings,
And from the dark returns of night
Divine instruction springs." A paraphrase of Psalm 19:2

Since this powerful visitation of the Lord came to me, like that in 1792, I have fresh things revealed to me every day. I am awakened every morning between three and four o'clock; I sit up in my bed until daybreak and have communications given to me as soon as I awake. When day breaks, I rise and go down into the dining room by myself; the moment I enter the room, I feel as though I were surrounded with angels, feeling a heavenly joy which I cannot describe. This has taken away my natural appetite; for three weeks past, I could not eat any breakfast and had no appetite for my dinner; neither could I drink my tea in the afternoon, and I had no appetite for my supper; yet I feel no lack of food.

As soon as I had finished my last book, new things were revealed to me; and I was ordered to have seven respectable friends meet together at four o'clock on Thursday afternoon, September 23rd, to hear read what had been revealed to me and what I was directed to do, so that they might be witnesses. However contrary to our judgment, or however contrary to my own feelings, they are witnesses of my readiness to obey.