Kingdom of Matthias

In Matthias’s kingdom, women were subjugates of men and were to stay home, cook, clean, and perform sexual favors for the patriarchal leaders of the house- their husbands. He insisted that the earth and everything on it belonged to God and since he was embodied with God’s spirit, it all belonged to him. Their preachers lured young and female spirits out of their houses and into their beds. Matthias loved Christian preachers who, through their sermons of equality between men and women spread deviltry and destroying Truth. Matthias’ beliefs with regard to lifestyle were thus in direct contrast to the lifestyle being preached by the Christian clergy. Matthias dressed in robes fit to be a king, and seated on a throne of gold. Many of Mathias’s later beliefs can thus be seen as being rooted in his religious experiences as a child. On one occasion, Matthias whipped the ex-slave, Isabella Van Wagenen severely for getting sick. He insisted that sick people harbored detached spirits, or devils. He stated that women who lectured their husbands would be damned and that a woman was the capsheaf of the abomination of desolation, and was full of deviltry ( Johnson and Wilentz 93). Teachers put the older children into various schools; they even concocted devilish infant schools for the little ones.

After War of 1812, the United States was bursting with promises of material riches for anyone with the initiative and the funds to participate ( Wilentz 61). Matthias believed that Christians stoled women and children from their fathers.