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 had seven heads which are seven mountains. Their mountains too were seen, of which some yawned in the middle, and the apertures widened into huge spiral gulfs, into which those on the mountains were cast. Other mountains were torn up from their foundations and turned upside down, so that summit and base were inverted. Those who were thence in the plains were inundated as with a deluge, and covered over; and those who were among them from other quarters were cast into gulfs. But the things now related are only a small part of all I saw; more will be given in the explication of the Apocalypse. They were brought about and thoroughly accomplished in the beginning of the year 1757.

Thus was the spiritual world freed from such spirits, and the angels rejoiced on account of its liberation from them; because they of Babylon infested and seduced whomsoever they could, and in that world more than in this, their cunning being more mischievous there because they are spirits. For it is the spirit of each in which all his wickedness is hidden, since the spirit of the man is what thinks, wills, intends and devises. Many of them were explored, and it was found that they had no belief in anything at all; and that the abominable lust of seducing,—the rich for the sake of their riches, and