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 those who had been in the first heaven since the Lord's time, the last judgment of which I now treat was executed.

The manner in which this last judgment was executed cannot here be described in all its details, for they are many; but they shall be described in the explication of the Apocalypse. For the judgment was accomplished not only upon all the men of the Christian church, but also upon all who are called Mahometans; and, moreover, upon all the Gentiles in the whole circle of the earth; and it was executed in this order:—first upon those of the Papal religion; then upon the Mahometans; afterwards upon the Gentiles; and lastly upon the Reformed. ..

The following was seen to be the arrangement in the spiritual world of all the nations and people to be judged:

Collected in the middle, appeared those who are called the Reformed, where they were also distinct according to their countries; the Germans there toward the north; the Swedes toward the west; the Danes in the west; the Dutch toward the east and north; the English in the centre. Surrounding this whole mid-region of the Reformed, appeared collected those of the Papal religion, the greater part of them in the western, some in the southern quarter. Beyond