Chapter 12

“And her son was forcibly carried up to the Deity, and his throne”

The Man-Child of Sin, or “the King,” was born, or made manifest, after this wise. We have seen how Constantine escaped the designs of the Dragon-Emperor Galerius. Having arrived at Boulogne, he accom­panied his father to Britain, who died soon after in the imperial palace at York, A.D. 306.

“And she brought forth a male child, who is about to rule all the nations with an iron sceptre” — verse 5

“And the Dragon stood before the Woman about to bring forth, that when she may have brought forth, he might devour her offspring” — verse 4.

This crocodile, or dragon, is said to be at once ho kaloumenos Diabolos, kai ho Satanas ho planon ten oikoumenen olen; — “surnamed the Diabolos, and the Satan who deceives the whole habitable.”

“The Great Dragon, the old Serpent, surnamed the Diabolos and the Satan, who misleads the whole habitable. ”

“And his Tail draws the third of the stars of the heaven. ”

Constantine becomes Sole Ruler replacing Galerius, Maxentius, Maximin, and finally Licinius.

CONSTANTINE REIGNS SUPREME

The difference between the ten horns of the Dragon and the ten horns of the Beast of the Sea, consists in the ten upon the Beast being diademed, while the ten upon the Dragon are not. This indicates that the Beast symbol represents things concurrent with the Horns in their exercise of sovereignty; while the Dragon, as far as old Rome is con­cerned, had to do with the sovereignty of the heads before the horns had received their kingdoms.

I have said that behind the head seen by Daniel there were seven other heads which he did not perceive. This is equivalent to saying, that the head seen by him was an Eighth Head. This is the truth. The beast he saw was headed with this eighth head contemporary with its destruc­tion by the saints.

A dragon is a kind of beast, and therefore partakes in the charac­teristics of beasts. These in prophetic writing are the well-known sym­bols of destroying monarchies or powers; and, where the people of the Deity are found sojourning under their authority, the persecutors of the saints. But, though the dragon is a beast, he is apocalyptically distin­