PREFACE

Originally, the Third Volume of Eureka was a large book of over 700 pp. Subsequent editions divided it into two volumes called Volumes IIIA and IIIB. They comprised books of over 300 pp. each. However, with the additional matter that we have included in the form of illustra­tions and footnotes, a single Volume would make too unwieldy a book. As it is, the present volume, answering to Volume IIIA of previous edi­tions exceeds 400 pp.

Such was the symbolic scene beheld by Zechariah after his symbolic resurrection — two antagonistic powers; the one the Spirit, the other, the mountain-dominion of the world. But, had we no more light thrown upon the subject than granted to the prophet, the truth symbolized would be as inscrutable to us as it was to him. But, happily for them who are “the servants of the Deity sealed in their foreheads” with his seal, the hidden mystery hath been apostolically and apocalyptically reveal­ed.

In the fourth chapter of Zechariah there is a very remarkable sym­bolic prophecy concerning Zerubbabel and the “great mountain.” In this there is contained a hidden mystery—wisdom concealed, which the prophet confessed he did not understand. The exposition of the eleventh chapter of the apocalypse cannot be satisfactorily unfolded ir­respective of Zechariah’s prophecy; for this portion of John’s is a sym­bolical revelation of the mystery therein contained.

Apoc. 11

1. And there was given to me a reed like a rod: and the angel stood saying, Rise up, and measure the nave of the Deity, and the altar, and those worshipping in it. 2. And the court which is outside of the nave cast away out, and measure it not, for it has been given to the nations; and the Holy City they shall trample forty two months.

After John, as the representative of all the saints, had eaten up the little scroll of the judgments to be executed when the Angel of the Bow shall have been developed, he was told by the angel in vision, that he “must prophesy again against many peoples and nations and tongues and kings.” In the Acts of the Apostles we have several instances of their prophesying and its effects.

The prophecy of this tenth chapter is descriptive of a piece to be performed upon the arena of the fourth-beast dominion. The dramatis personae are the Voice in the heaven, the Angel, and John. “I am the Voice, ’’said John the Baptist, “of one crying in the wilderness.” It is cor­rect, therefore, to say that “the Voice in the heaven” is a person.

In my translation, I have rendered the words eueggelise, as he hath declared the glad tidings. The English Version reads as he hath declared.