(126) Therefore thou must here know, that the Angels with their animated or soulish Birth, in which they qualify and unite with God, have strove and fought in God’s Power and Spirit against the kindled Devils, and turned them out from the Light of God, and driven them together into a Hole, that is, into a narrow Court, Quarter, or Compass, like a Prison, which is the Place or Space in, upon, and above the Earth, up to the Moon, which is a Godless of the earthly Birth or Geniture.

(78) Or dost thou suppose, that the Word in Daniel is nothing, concerning the Angel Gabriel, who said; that the Prince in Persia withstood him one and twenty Days, and that our Prince Michael came to help him? Thereby it may be seen how the Princes and Throne-Angels strive against the Kingdom of the fierce Wrath, and assist Men; the Cause whereof is this, the Devil awakens the Anger against Men; and the Angels of God (viz. the Throne-Princes) keep it back, because God yet wills not Evil.

(5) And against the angels whom He had sent upon the earth, He was exceedingly wroth, and He gave commandment to root them out of all their dominion, and He bade us to bind them in the depths of the earth, and behold they are bound in the midst of them, and are (kept) separate.

(65) And in this Heaven the holy Angels dwell amongst us, and the Devils in the other Part: And in this Heaven Man lives between Heaven and Hell, and must endure and suffer from the Fierceness many hard Blows, Temptations, Persecutions, and many Times, Torments and Squeezings.

(30) Spirit of Evil. The war in heaven relates to the destruction of the planet Ragnarok and to the fall of the angels. The virgin can be interpreted to signify the secret doctrine itself and her son the initiate born out of the "womb of the Mysteries." The Spirit of Evil thus personified in the great dragon attempted to control mankind by destroying the mother of those illumined souls who have labored unceasingly for the salvation of the world. Wings were given to the Mysteries (the virgin) and they flew into the wilderness; and the evil dragon tried to destroy them with a flood (of false doctrine) but the earth (oblivion) swallowed up the false doctrines and the Mysteries endured.

(53) By this you may understand, what great Power the Spirits of the expelled Angels have had in the heavenly Nature; and what Manner of Substance this Perdition or Corruption is of; how they have corrupted and spoiled Nature in Heaven in their Place with their horrible Kindling, from whence the horrible Fierceness which is predominant in this World exists.

(141) what vehement and furious War and Fight there is betwixt the hellish and heavenly Quality, which Fire the Devils blow up, and the Holy Angels quench it, I leave to every holy Soul to consider of.

(60) And I besought the other angel that he should show me the might of those monsters, how they were parted on one day and cast, the one into the abysses of the sea, and the other unto the dry land of the wilderness.

(19) And Uriel said to me: 'Here shall stand the angels who have connected themselves with women, and their spirits assuming many different forms are defiling mankind and shall lead them astray into sacrificing to demons ⌈⌈as gods⌉⌉, (here shall they stand,) till ⌈⌈the day of⌉⌉ the great judgement in which they shall be judged till they are made an end of.

(109) And the great Prince Michael with his Legions fought against him; and the Devil with his Legions had not the Victory, but was driven from his Place, as one vanquished. [Rev. 12.] Now it may be asked, What Manner of Fight was this? How could they fight one with another without Weapons? Answer.

(2) He continued further in his discourse and said: "The third order is called Triple-faced Hekatē, and there are under her authority seven-and-twenty [arch]demons, and it is they which enter into men and seduce them to perjuries and lies and to covet that which doth not belong to them. "The souls then which Hekatē beareth hence in ravishment, she handeth over to her demons which stand under her, in order that they may torment them through her dark smoke and her wicked fire, they being exceedingly afflicted through the demons. And they spend one-hundred-and-five years and six months, being chastized in her wicked chastisements; and they begin to be dissolved and destroyed. "And thereafter, when the sphere turneth itself, and the little Sabaōth, the Good, he of the Midst, who is called in the world Zeus, cometh, and he cometh to the eighth æon of the sphere which is called the Scorpion, and when Boubastis, whom they call Aphroditē, cometh, and she cometh to the second æon of the sphere which is called the Bull, then the veils which are between those of the Right and those of the Left draw themselves aside and Zorokothora Melchisedec looketh out of the height; and the world and the mountains are agitated and the æons become alarmed. And he looketh on all the regions of Hekatē, so that her regions are dissolved and destroyed, and all the souls which are in her chastisements, are carried off and cast back anew into the sphere, because they are dissolved in the fire of her chastisements."

(72) Thus he is an eternal Enemy to the Heart of God, and all the holy Angels; and he cannot frame any other Will in himself. His Angels and Devils are of very many several Sorts, all according to the eternal Birth. For at the Time of his Creation he stood (in the Kingdom of Heaven) in the Point, Locus, or Place, (where the Holy Ghost in the Birth of the Heart of God, in Paradise, did open infinite and innumerable Centers,) in the eternal Birth; in this Seat or Place, he was pcorporised, and has his Beginning in the Opening of the Centers in the eternal Nature.

(2) for on the first day He created the heavens which are above and the earth and the waters and all the spirits which serve before Him — the angels of the presence, and the angels of sanctifi- cation, and the angels [of the spirit of fire and the angels] of the spirit of the winds,* and the angels of the spirit of the clouds, and of darkness, and of snow and of hail and of hoar frost, and the angels of the voices8 and of the thunder and of the lightning, and the angels of the spirits of cold and of heat, and of winter and of spring and of autumn and of summer, and of all the spirits of His creatures which are in the heavens and on the earth, (He created) the abysses and the darkness, eventide (and night), and the light, dawn and day, which He hath prepared in the know- ledge of His h,eart.

(108) Now when this horrible Lucifer, as a Tyrant and raging Spoiler of all that is good, showed himself thus terribly, as if he would kindle and destroy all, and bring all under his Jurisdiction, then all the heavenly Hosts and Armies were against him, and he also against them all; there now the Fight begun, for all stood most terribly, one Party against another.

(50) And as long as he set his Imagination in the Heart of God, the Paradise was in him, [and he in the Paradise,] and the Band of the Abyss in him (in the Source) was a Paradise of transcendent Joy; and the Kingdom of this World held him from beneath also in the Band, because it goes forth from the Element. But so long as he set his Mind in the Heart of God, it [the Kingdom of the four Elements] could not lay hold on him [or master him,] and it was impotent, as to him, as this World is impotent as to God. 5 1. And thus the Spirit and Soul of Adam stood in the Midst (in the joyful Paradise) forty Days, as one [only] Day, and all inclined to him; one [whereof was] the Kingdom of Hell, of the eternal Originality out of the dark Mind, out of which his Worm of the Soul (in the opened Gate) was gone forth; and secondly, [there inclined to him] the Deity of the Kingdom of Heaven in the opened Gate, in the pleasant Luster; and thirdly, the Spirit of the Stars and Elements [inclined to him] drawing him to their Bands, and heartily desiring him.

(54) And Michael, and Gabriel, and Raphael, and Phanuel shall take hold of them on that great day, and cast them on that day into the burning furnace, that the Lord of Spirits may take vengeance on them for their unrighteousness in becoming subject to Satan and leading astray those who dwell on the earth.'

(11) The holy Angels live in the Power of Meekness, of the Light and Joyfulness: And the Devils live in the Power of the rising or elevating Quality of Fierceness, Terror, and gross Darkness, and cannot comprehend the Light; into which Condition they precipitated and cast themselves through their Pride and Elevation of themselves, as I shall show afterwards, when I shall write of the Creation. But

(94) that the Spirit first goes over the astringent and bitter Qualities unperceived, it signifies, that the Gate of God is every where in this World all over, wherein the Holy Ghost rules, and that the Heaven stands open every where, even in the Midst or Center of the Earth; and that the Devil no where can either see, comprehend, or apprehend the Heaven, but is a grumbling and snarling Hell-Hound, which afterwards first comes out from behind, when the Holy Ghost has built or raised to himself a Church and Temple, and destroys it in the Wrath, and bangs behind at the Word as an Enemy, who will not endure that a Temple of God should be raised or built in his Land or Country, whereby his Kingdom might be lessened or diminished. Of the Third Day.

(92) And from hence the wild, fierce, and evil Beasts have their Original in this World. For the Host or Army of Lucifer had kindled the Saltiter of the Stars and of the Earth, and half killed, spoiled and destroyed it.

(9) now when God had bound up the Devil in the Darkness through the Closure of the Heaven, which Heaven is every where in all Places; then he began again his wonderful Birth or Geniture in the seventh Nature-Spirit, and all generated again as it had done from Eternity.