Chapter 9 - Bro. Thomas' Translation (Eureka Vol. 3)

1. And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star which had fallen out of the heaven into the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of the abyss. 2. And he opened the pit of the abyss: and smoke ascended out of the pit as it were smoke of a great furnace; and the sun was darkened, and the air from the smoke of the pit.

3. And out of the smoke came forth locusts into the earth, and there was given to them power as the scorpions of the earth have power.

4. And it was commanded them that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, except the men only who have not the seal of the Deity upon their foreheads. 5. And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should torment them five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion when it striketh a man.

6. And in those days the men shall seek the death, and shall not find it: and they shall earnestly desire to die, and the death shall flee from them.

7. And the resemblances of the locusts were like to horses which had been prepared for war; and upon their heads as it were chaplets like to gold, and their faces as faces of men. 8. And they had hair as the tresses of women; and their teeth were as of lions. 9. And they had breasts as it were breasts of iron: and the sound of their wings as the sound of many chariots of horses rushing into battle.

10. And they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their power to injure the men was five months.

11. And they have over them a king, the Angel of the Abyss the name for him in Hebrew is Abaddon; and in the Greek, he hath the name Apollyon.

12. The first woe hath passed away; behold there come yet two woes after these things.


13. And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard one voice out of the four horns of the altar of gold which is in the sight of the Deity, saying to the sixth angel, whohad the trumpet, "Loose the four angels, which have been bound by the great river Euphrates."

15. And the Four Angels having been prepared were loosed for the hour and day and month and year, that they might kill the third of the men.

16. And the number of the hosts of the cavalry was two myriads of myriads: and I heard the number of them.

17. And thus I saw the horses in the vision; and those who sat upon them having breasts fiery and hyacinthine and sulphurous; and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions, and out of their mouths there burst forth fire and smoke and sulphur. 18. By these three were killed the third of the men, by the fire and by the smoke and by the sulphur, bursting forth out of their mouths. For their powers are in their mouth and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with these do they injure.

20. And the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues changed not from the works of their hands, that they might not worship the daemonials and idols of gold and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood, which can neither see nor hear, nor walk. 21. And changed not from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

(Eureka, Volume 3, pages 80-81 & 109-110).