"OUR NAME IS LEGION"

Men have believed hitherto that there is some one devil who is over
the hells, and that he was created an angel of light; but that after
he turned rebel, he was cast down with his crew into hell. Men have
had this belief because the Devil is named in the Word, and Satan, and
also Lucifer, and in these passages the Word has been understood
according to the sense of the letter, when yet hell is meant in them
by the Devil and Satan.... That there is no single Devil to whom the
hells are subject, is also evident from this fact, that all who are in
the hells, like all who are in the heavens, are from the human race;
and that from the beginning of the creation to this time they amount
to myriads of myriads, every one of whom is a devil of a sort
according with his opposition to the Divine in the world.

--_Heaven and Hell, n._ 544




COMMUNICATION WITH THE SPIRITUAL WORLD


"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the
ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of
the Lord; and in His law doth he meditate day and night."