In the original edition of Eureka, the present volume formed the second part of Volume Two, making it all a large book of some 736 pages. Subsequently this was found to be somewhat unwieldy, and the volume was divided into two, numbered Volume 2A and Volume 2B. But the volumes were divided in the middle of a sentence which added to their awkwardness.
As we have reset the contents in larger type, we would have added to the original problerrrifwe had presented Volume Two as it first appeared; at the sanre time we certainly wantedTo avoid the problem of dividing it in the middle of a sentence!
Hence we have created a new Third Volume of Eureka.
The previous volume, having introduced the opening of the Seventh Seal (Apocalypse 8:1-5), which opening followed the prayers of the saints (v. 4), this present volume expounds upon the first and second sections of it.
The opening of the seal revealed seven angelic trumpeters. The sdunding of the first four called forth judgments upon Catholic Europe. The Fifth Trumpet, also styled the First Woe, directed attention to the east, and predicted the uprise of the Saracenic Moslem power. The Sixth Trumpet, or the Second Woe, symbolised the uprise of the political Euphratean power, and the consequent demise of the Eastern Catholic Empire with its headquarters in Constantinople. Then follows the prophecy of the Rainbowed Angel destined to conquer the world (Apocalypse 10); after which, in accordance with the plan of The Apocalypse, the second section of the Seventh Seal relating to the death and resurrection of the Witnesses (Apocalypse 11:1-14) is expounded. This introduces the Third Woe as outlined in the rest of the chapter (Apocalypse 11:15-19), culminating with the triumph of the saints and the Nave of Deity opened in the political heavens of the future age. At that point, this section of The Apocalypse, and this Second Volume of Eureka closes.
It is with great personal satisfaction that we have been enabled to present this Volume to the Reader. We trust he will derive as much pleasure out of studying it as we are sure the Author had in writing it, and we certainly have done in re-producing it. Nfcy the Reader enjoy the blessing pronounced upon those who study The Apocalypse with understanding.
— Publishers.