8 This is the text of that which was revealed aforetime in the first
Gospel, according to Matthew, regarding the signs that must needs herald
the advent of the One Who shall come after Him. He saith: “And woe unto
them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days...”,(5)
until the mystic Dove, singing in the midmost heart of eternity, and the
celestial Bird, warbling upon the Divine Lote-Tree, saith: “Immediately
after the oppression of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon
shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the
powers of the heavens shall be shaken: and then shall appear the sign of
the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth
mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven
with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great
sound of a trumpet.”(6)

9 In the second Gospel, according to Mark, the Dove of holiness speaketh
in such terms: “For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not
from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time,
neither shall be.”(7) And it singeth later with the same melodies as
before, without change or alteration. God, verily, is a witness unto the
truth of My words.

10 And in the third Gospel, according to Luke, it is recorded: “There
shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars, and upon the
earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
and the powers of heaven shall be shaken. And then shall they see the Son
of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory. And when these things
begin to come to pass, know that the kingdom of God hath drawn nigh.”(8)

11 And in the fourth Gospel, according to John, it is recorded: “But when
the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the