2555. All this also shows what is meant by those words of the Revelation (perhaps also elsewhere) saying that the angel of light was cast down to the earth, together with his gang [cf. Is. 14:12, Rev. 12:9], namely, that when they are absorbed in the falsity, and the falsity expels them from the society of angels, those interacting with them in the world of spirits seem to themselves to be thus cast down forcefully and as if in danger of their lives.