566. And the sixth angel sounded.- That this signifies influx out of heaven, manifesting the state of the church at its end as being completely perverted, is evident from the signification of sounding a trumpet, as denoting influx out of heaven, whence, in the lower [parts], changes take place, by means of which the quality of the state of the church is manifested: see above (n. 502); in this case, its quality at its end, because the sixth angel sounded. For the successive changes in the state of the church are described by the seven angels who sounded with the trumpets, and in this case its change about the end by the sixth angel sounding, for the end itself, which comes when a last judgment is at hand, is described by the sounding of the seventh angel; and because the state of the church at its end is completely perverted, therefore this is also signified by these words.