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THE APOCALYPTICAL KEY;

PART I.

SYNCHRONISM I. Of the Woman driven into the Wilderness.

SYNCHRONISM II. Of the Two-Horned Beast (who is also the False Prophet), with the Ten-Horned Beast (who is likewise called the Image of the Beast).

SYNCHRONISM III. Of the great Harlot, or Mystic Babylon, with the same Seven-headed and Ten-horned Beast.

SYNCHRONISM IV. Of the Hundred and Forty-four Thousand Sealed, who were Virgins, with the Babylonian Harlot and the Beast.

SYNCHRONISM V. A Corollary of the General Synchronism of all the circumstances previously enumerated.

SYNCHRONISM VI. Of the Measure of the Interior Court by the Reed of God, with the Snares of the Seven-headed Dragon, and his Battle with Michael concerning the Birth of the Child.

SYNCHRONISM VII. Of the Seven Phials; with the Beast and Babylon declining to their Fall.

PART II.

I. THE CARDINAL POINT OF THE SYNCHRONISMS; OR, THE SYNCHRONISM

SYNCHRONISM II. Of the contemporary term of the Interior Court, and the Battle between the Dragon and Michael concerning the Man Child, with the first Six Seals.

SYNCHRONISM III. Of the Phials with the Sixth Trumpet.

SYNCHRONISM IV. Of the Thousand Years in which the Dragon or Satan is bound, with the Seventh Trumpet, or the Interval from the Destruction of the Beast.

SYNCHRONISM V. Of the Thousand Years of the august Kingdom of Christ, and of the Seventh Trumpet, or the Interval from the Destruction of the Beast.

SYNCHRONISM VI. Of the New Jerusalem, the Spouse of the Lamb, with the Seventh Trumpet, or the Period from the Destruction of the Beast.

SYNCHRONISM VII. Of the Palm-bearing Multitude of Persons innumerable, rejoicing in triumph, out of all nations, and kindreds, and peoples, and tongues; with the Seventh Trumpet, or Period after the Destruction of the Beast.

THE EPOCH OF THE APOCALYPSE.

THE CLOSE OF THE SYNCHRONISMS AND OF THE APOCALYPSE.

A COMMENTARY ON THE REVELATION OF SAINT JOHN, ACCORDING TO THE RULE OF THE APOCALYPTICAL KEY.

THE FIRST PART

Of the two Apocalyptical Prophecies.

Of the first Prophecy, which is that of the Seals; and in the first place, of the events signified by the six first Seals.

Of the First Seal.

Of the Second Seal.

Of the Third Seal.

Another mode of interpreting the symbol of Wheat and Barley.

Of the Fourth Seal.

Of the Fifth Seal.

Of the Sixth Seal.

From the ancient monuments of the Egyptians, Persians, and Indians…

Circumstances, which throw light on the First Seal, and partly also on those which follow.

The following things throw light on the Third Seal.

These relate to the Sixth Seal.

THE VISION

The Reason of the Order of the Sons of Leah.

The Reason of the Order of the Sons of Rachel.

A MEMORABLE SENTENCE,

The Meaning of the Seventh Seal, that is, of the Seven Trumpets.

The First Trumpet.

Corollary taken out of Achmet, of the signification of Hail, Fire, and Trees, in the interpretation of Dreams.

The Second Trumpet.

The Third Trumpet.

The Fourth Trumpet.

Of the Three Woe Trumpets.

THE INTERPRETATION

THE MEANING

THE MEANING

THE ICHNOGRAPHY

THE MYSTERY

THE MEANING

THE MYSTERY

NOTE.

Of the Metropolis of Christian Apostasy, the mystic Babylon.

THE FALL OF ANTICHRIST,

And first, Of the Phials generally.

HYPOTHESIS

AN EXPOSITION Of the Phials, according to the Rule of these Hypotheses.

Phial the First. On the Earth, the Universe connected with the Beast.

Phial the Second, On the Sea of the Bestial World.

Phial the Third, On the Rivers and Fountains of Waters of the Bestial World.

Phial the Fourth, On the Sun of the Bestial Heaven.

Phial the Fifth, On the Throne of the Beast.

Phial the Sixth, On Euphrates.

Phial the Seventh, in the Air.

OF THE THOUSAND YEARS

A REMARKABLE PASSAGE

THE OPINIONS