Chapter 12 - Bro. Thomas' Translation (Eureka Vol. 4)

1. And a great sign appeared in the heaven; a woman who had been invested with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head and a wreath of twelve stars. 2. And being pregnant she cries being in pangs and straining to bring forth.

3. And there appeared another sign in the heaven, and behold, a great fiery-red Dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his heads seven diadems: and his tail draws the third of the stars of the heaven, and he casts them into the earth. And the dragon stood in the presence of the woman about to bring forth, that when she may have brought forth, he might devour her offspring.

5. And she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre: and her son was forcibly carried up to Deity and his throne. 6. And the woman fled into the wilderness where she has a place that had been prepared of the Deity, that they may sustain her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.

7. And there was war in the heaven. The Michael and his angels waged war against the Dragon; and the dragon waged war and his angels. 8. And they prevailed not; neither was their place found any longer in the heaven. 9. And the great dragon, the old Serpent, surnamed Diabolos, was cast forth; and the Satan which deceives the whole habitable was cast into the earth; and his angels were cast forth with him.

10. And I heard a great voice saying in the heaven, Now is the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our Deity, and the dominion of His Anointed; for the prosecutor of our brethren, who accused them in the presence of our Deity, day and night, has been cast down. 11. And they overcame him through the blood of the Lamb and through the word of their testimony; and they loved not their life unto death. 12. On account of this let the heavens rejoice and those who tent in them.

Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and the sea, because the Diabolos has fallen among you having great wrath, foreseeing that he hath a short time.

13. And when the Dragon saw that he was cast into the earth, he pursued the woman who brought forth the male. 14. And the two wings of the great eagle were given to the woman, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, in which she is sustained there a time and times and half of a time, out of the sight of the serpent.

15. And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a flood, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16. And the earth ran with help for the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth. 17. And the dragon was enraged against the woman, and went away to wage war with the remnants of her seed who keep the commandments of the Deity and have the testimony of the Anointed Jesus.

(Eureka, Volume 4, page 19)