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THE STORY OF THE SEER OF PATMOS

Stephen N. Haskell

“Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at
hand” Revelation 22:10.

out her will. Thus Rome became a scarlet

beast.

That there might be no mistaking the scarlet

colored beast, the angel explained still further.

He spoke of it to John as “the beast that was,

and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the

seven.” Throughout the history of the first five

heads, paganism was the prevailing element;

in the sixth, the empire, it was still the ruling

principle; during the papacy, the seventh, it

disappeared to all outward appearances, but

was nevertheless the controlling power; for

the papacy is baptized paganism.

Following the Reformation, when the whore

was hated by the horns, the papacy was

crushed; but in the last days the principles of

paganism as shown in Spiritualism, the

supreme manifestation of which will be the