Volume 2

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his finger) with water, and then presented it to a row of
priests to drink. It was a kind of figure of Holy Communion.
I saw also that the High Priest, chastised by
God, was become very miserable and was struck with
leprosy. There was great consternation in the Temple. I
heard a most impressive lesson read in the Temple from
Jeremias and at the same time I saw many scenes in the
life of the Prophet and much of the horrors of idolatry in
Israel.
I saw also during another reading in the Temple that
Elias, after his death, wrote a letter to King Joram. The
Jews would not believe it. They explained it in this way:
They said that Eliseus, who brought the letter to Joram,
had given it to him as a prophetical letter bequeathed to
himself by Elias. I began myself to think it very strange,
when suddenly I was transported to the East and, in my
journey, passed the Mountain of the Prophets, which I
saw covered with ice and snow. It was crowned with
towers, presenting perhaps the appearance it wore in the
time of Joram. I went on then eastwardly to Paradise,
and saw therein the beautiful, wonderful animals walking
and gamboling around. There, too, were the glistening
walls and, lying asleep on either side of the gate, Henoch
and Elias. Elias was in spirit gazing upon all that was
then going on in Palestine. An angel laid before him a
roll of fine, white parchment and a reed pen. Elias sat up
and wrote, resting the parchment on his knees. I saw a
little chariot something like a chair, or throne, coming
over an eminence, or around by some steps from the inside
of the garden. It was drawn by three marvelously
beautiful white animals. I saw Elias mount it and, as if
on a rainbow, journey quickly to Palestine. The chariot
stood still over a house of Samaria. I saw Eliseus inside
praying, his eyes raised to Heaven. I saw Elias letting the
letter fall before him, and Eliseus bearing the same to
King Joram. The animals were harnessed to Elias's