** Babylon the Great is Fallen **

And after these things I saw
an angel coming down out of heaven,
having great authority,
and the earth was lightened by his glory.

And he cried out mightily with a great voice, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,
and is become a habitation of demons,
and a hold of every unclean spirit,
and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird.

(Revelation 18:1-2)

AR 753

"After these things I saw,"
signifies a continuation respecting
the Roman Catholic religious persuasion.
"I saw an angel coming down out of heaven,
having great authority,
and the earth was lightened by his glory,"
signifies a strong influx
of the Lord out of heaven by the Divine truth,
from which His church was in celestial light

"And he cried out mightily with a great voice, saying,
Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen,"
signifies that he made it known,
that by the Lord's Divine power
all who have been in that religion
and at the same time in the love of domineering from it,
were destroyed in the spiritual world,
and cast into many hells.
"And is become a habitation of demons,"
signifies that their hells
are the hells of the lusts of domineering
from the fire of the love of self,
and of the lusts of profaning the truths of heaven
from the spurious zeal of that love.
"And a hold of every unclean spirit,
and a hold of every unclean and hateful bird,"
signifies that the evils of will and thence of the deed,
and the falsities of thought and thence of design,
of those who are in those hells, are diabolical,
because they are turned away
from the Lord to themselves.