Volume 4

Nothing, perhaps, can more strikingly illustrate the difference bet­ween the Christians we read of in the New Testament, and those who professed to be “orthodox Christians” of the flock of the one Shepherd, styled the Universal Bishop, than the fierce disputes of the eighth and ninth centuries, concerning the worship of images. For these symbols of dead men and women, whose factitious immortalities are supposed to be in a heaven “beyond the realms of time and space,” Apostolic Christ­ians had no respect.

The originating and establishing, which constitute the ascending, rising, or coming up of a dominion, are a work of power, conflict, con­quest, and of time. The commencement of such a work is preceded by what is now commonly styled a situation; or concurrence of cir­cumstances and agents, which, when a certain impetus is imparted to them impels them in a certain course to results, neither contemplated nor capable of being controlled.

“And I saw another beast ascending out of the earth_, and he had Two Horns like to a Lamb, and he spake as being a Dragon” (Apoc. 13:11).

21. Names Written from the Foundation of the World

In the English Version, the eighth verse reads, “and all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the Beast) whose names are not writ­ten in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.” This is generally taken to mean that

“Here is the patience and the faith of the Saints” — Verse 10

“And it was given to him to make war with the Saints, and to vanquish them” — Verse 7

After what I have written concerning The Name in Vol. 1 pp. 98­114; 275-383; 368-372 and 395-400,1 need say very little about it in this section.

“And a mouth was given to him speaking great things and blas­phemies” — verse 5.

“And authority was given unto him to practise forty and two months” — Verse 5.

The Name of Blasphemy is the Eye and Mouth, or ecclesiastical element of the Eighth Head. As we have seen, this ecclesiastical con­stituent of the Beast was working upwards towards enthronization over all, anterior to the establishment of the Ten Gothic Horns upon the Roman Habitable. When the citizens and clergy of Rome were seized with a spirit of patriotism and superstitious zeal, A.D.