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Eureka

AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)

 

 

Chapter 9

Section 4 Subsection 7

"With the Heads They Do Injure"


 
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But what he saw and smelt were not mere holiday salutes. He saw and smelt them in the battles which extinguished the political existence of "the third" -- to triton. There were not only color and smell, but death also, in "the fire, and the smoke, and the sulphur;" for "by these three," saith he: "were killed the third of the men by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the sulphur bursting forth out of their mouths. And the reason given for the deadliness of these three agents in combination, when bursting forth from the mouths of the lion-headed horses, or artillery, is "because their powers are in their mouths and in their tails." A cannon, in modern style, is divided into breech, barrel, and mouth. The Spirit only indicates the mouth and the breech, which he terms the tail, which is an appendage thereto. These "tails" were "like serpents," in the similitude of their destructive operation; for the tails were not headless. Had they been headless tails, they could have done no injury; no more than a serpent without a head. When a serpent injures, it coils, and making a fulcrum of its tail, shoots forth its head from amid the coils, which are straightened by the spring, and with its head strikes its victim with a deadly stroke. Hence, the death-dealing powers of the serpent are in its head, or mouth, and in its tail. So it is with flying artillery, and with artillery mounted on breastworks, compared herein to "serpents." Without the tail of the piece the mouth thereof could not injure; and without the mouth, or outlet, the tail could do no harm. As in the natural, "the powers" of these artillery serpents "are in their mouths and in their tails." The projecting power is in the tail of the piece; many pieces, therefore, in our time, being "breech-loading." But until of late, the projecting power and the projectile were always mouth, or muzzle-loaded -- they went through the mouth into the tail; and being well rammed, they spring or shoot forth with the voice of a lion, straightening themselves from tail to mouth, out of which they rush in "fire, smoke, and sulphur," dealing death and destruction upon what things soever may be encountered by their "head," their tail-heads, or cannon balls; "for their tails have heads, and with these do they injure." Thus, "by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the sulphur," as an exploding power projecting the tail-heads, were "the third of the men killed." The scorpions of the first woe were highly incendiary; but they did not make breaches in walls, and overturn lofty towers: the serpents of the second woe did all this; and in opening breaches by their tail-heads, gave admission to the fourth Euphratean angel-power into the capital of the Eastern Third, where he has been enthroned upwards of four hundred years, the observed of all observers; some of whom long for his decease, that they may be enriched by the division of his estate.
 
 

 

 


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