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AN GAOḊAL
stands for locusts implies multiplication, or
those that are multiplied, and in Irish the generi¬c
figurative term which would represent the same i¬
dea is Anglais, from an, which is an intensive
particle meaning excessive, and glas green, which
allegorically signifies that which is prolific; and
therefore the Locusts or Anghlais are the English
people since their secession from the Catholic
faith, and the Protestants taken in a general sense.
The duration of the regime of the British locusts
shall be 360 years, dating from the beginning of
the apostacy of their first king, Henry VIII., who
was the Apocalyptic Abaddon, and Apollyon. In
Hebrew Abaddon is composed of abad, a slave
serf or villain, and means an evil person, and don
a lord or king; and hence Abaddon signifies an
evil, or villanous, king. Apollyon in Greek has
the same signification, but is more mystical. The
Latin term Exterminans does not, in a philologi¬
cal sense, agree with either of the former, and is
not to be found in the Greek text. The ap¬
pellation, Abaddon, is, in Irish, truly represented
by that of Anrigh, an evil king, which is the name
of Henry in the Gaelic vernacular. This excessive
tyrant, Henry VIII., was the first king of the En¬
glish locusts. These and the infidel Mahomedans
can never be overthrown until the four angels are
loosed who are bound in the great River Euphra¬
tes; this can only be accomplished by the method
in my last letter demonstrated for recovering the
national autonomy of Ireland. It is these angels
who will inspire, and call into activity, the great
arm of horsemen whose destiny it is to kill the
third part of men.
This will prove to be a great universal or¬
ganization of Christian crusaders. Pastorini sup¬
poses this to be the army of Antichrist, and takes
pains to swell its numbers by legions of demons
from hell; but a little discernment might have
shown him that all the Israelites, young and old,
male and female, in their departure from Egypt
are, in the Book of Exodus, called an army:
whence it may be inferred that the great army in
question consisting consisting of two hundred millions —
shall not be composed of fighting men, but will
comprehend the whole number of Catholics to be
found on the earth at the time of breaking out of
the great war of the day of judgment. In Hebrew
the horse and the swallow have the same name
from their swiftness, and were anciently looked up¬
on as emblems of fidelity; and as such the figure of
the horse is said to be conspicuously represented
upon the walls of the Roman catacombs. and hence
I do not hesitate to conclude that the horses of the
9th chap aforesaid are allegorically the Catholics.
It appears somewhat plainly to me that before the
crucifixion of Christ no prophet ever existed in the
world who received any clear conception of the
day of judgment, except, perhaps, Daniel: Nei¬
ther the Savior, nor the angels of heaven under¬
stood the time of its coming; whence it may be
reasonably inferred that they were not allowed to
understand the manner or circumstances thereof.
for it is extremely remarkable that it was the slain,
and not the unslain, Lamb who was empowered
to open the seven sealed book of the future myste¬
ries of the Omniscient Father. Therefore before
the giving of the Apocalypse it was impossible
that any seer could possess a clear idea of the de¬
nouements of the so-called end of time: Nor has
any Christian prophet arisen who has been allow¬
ed to attain to its comprehension ; for this know¬
ledge has been reserved for the last day, and the
coming of Elias, in order to facilitate and prepare
the way for the conversion of the human race, af¬
ter the overthrow of God's enemies.
The coming of Elias is at hand, and he will ma¬
nifest himself in some capacity before
the expiration of two years. I think he is the Car¬
lovingian monarch who is to be elevated by the
great pope or Papa Angelica, of whom I have
spoken in my second letter. The advent of Elias
will be foreshadowed by the appearance of a com¬
et, which will announce a sanguinary crisis, and
a renascence or second birth of the Christian reli¬
gion. Of Elias a highly mystic and allegorical
description is given in the 10th chap. of the Apoc¬
alypse; he is to come in the obscurity of a cloud
of worldly affliction, and poverty, and will have
upon his head the iris of the "Isle of Mists", or
of Muich Inis, which, according to Dr. Keating,
was an ancient name of Ireland: I therefore infer
that he is to be by birth an Irishman; but, never¬
theless, he may prove to be a powerful French mon¬
arch. It is he who will, after the overthrow of the
Turkish Empire formulate for the Catholic Church
a reformed dispensation or creed composed of sweet
and bitter principles which she will accept from
his hand, swallow and preach to the conquered na¬
tions, and to all men. All that is foretold in the
Scriptures concerning the day of judgment is
extremely figurative, and those who attach a lite¬
ral meaning thereto will surely err. The Goats
mentioned in 25th chapter of St. Matthew are not
Infidels: the goat was considered by the Jews a
clean animal, and was offered by them in sacrifice.
The Goats are therefore a Christian people, of
whom Esan who sold his birthright, left Bethel,
which signifies the house of God, and went to
dwell at Mount Seir, which implies the mountain
of the goat, or "Hairy one", was the prototype
The "Hairy Ones" as to the location of their gov¬
ernments, will be found at the day of judgment on
the left of the globe : the sheep as to the situa¬
tion of their nations will be all located to the
south of the former; these are they who are fed by
Peter, they are the Faithful. Those on the left
of the globe are the Heretics. Claude Duret, in
a French work written by him about two centuries
ago, asserts that the ancient Jews believed the
North to be the left of the globe, and the South, the
