18 And he said unto them, I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. -Luke 10:18 King James Version (KJV)
Apocalypse Explained, by Emanuel Swedenborg, [1757-9], tr. by John Whitehead [1911], at sacred-texts.com
...[13] In the same: I beheld Satan as lightning falling from heaven (Luke 10:18). Here "Satan" has a similar signification as "the dragon" who was also seen in heaven and was cast out of heaven [Revelation 12:9;] but properly it is the "dragon" that is meant by the "devil," and "his angels" that are meant by "Satan." That "the angels of the dragon" mean the falsities of evil will be seen in a paragraph. "Satan falling down from heaven" signifies that the Lord by Divine truth, which He then was, thrust all falsities out of heaven and subjugated those hells that are called "Satan," like as Michael cast down "the dragon and his angels" (of which above, n. 737)...
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling
CHAPTER 8.
1Again Elihu met his pupils in the sacred grove and said... 17Men seek salvation from an evil that they deem a living monster of the nether world; and they have gods that are but demons in disguise; all powerful, yet full of jealousy and hate and lust; 18Whose favors must be bought with costly sacrifice of fruits, and of the lives of birds, and animals, and human kind. 19And yet these gods possess... no power to save. 20This evil is a myth... 21The only devil from which men must be redeemed is self, the lower self. If man would find his devil he must look within; his name is self. 22If man would find his savior he must look within; and when the demon self has been dethroned the savior, Love, will be exalted to the throne of power.
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg.
Heaven and its Wonders and Hell From Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg.
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