Doc. of Faith (Dick) n. 56

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56. That the religious persuasion of faith separated from charity is meant and described in the Revelation by the dragon and his two beasts, has not only been told me from heaven, but was also shown me in the world of spirits which is beneath heaven. I saw those who were in faith separated from charity assembled in a company as a great dragon with its tail extended towards heaven; and I have seen others of the same persuasion, separately, like dragons in appearance. For in that world such appearances are seen from the correspondence which exists between spiritual and natural things; and therefore the angels of heaven call them dragonists. There are, moreover, many kinds of them. Some of them constitute the head of the dragon, some its body and some its tail. They who constitute its tail are those who have falsified all the truths of the Word. It is therefore said of the dragon in the Revelation that with its tail it drew down the third part of the stars of heaven. By the stars of heaven are signified the cognitions of truth, while by the third part are signified all.


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