755. [verse 2] 'And he shouted vigorously with a great voice, saying, It has fallen, Babylon the great has fallen' signifies that he made it known that by the Lord's Divine power all who have been in that form of religion and at the same time in a love of dominating thereby have been destroyed in the spiritual world and cast into many hells. That these things are signified by these words can be established out of the little work CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGMENT AND CONCERNING BABYLON DESTROYED, published at London in the year 1758, where its destruction is described from n. 53 to 64. As a result of this it can be seen that those of that form of religion who, out of the fever of the love of self, have exercised dominion over the Lord's Holy Divine things that are of heaven and the Church, and were purely and simply idolators, have been destroyed and cast into hell. But that those of the same form of religion who have lived in accordance with the precepts of the Decalogue, fleeing from evils as sins, and have at the same time looked to the Lord, have been saved, may be seen in A CONTINUATION CONCERNING THE LAST JUDGMENT AND THE SPIRITUAL WORLD (n. 58), to which things there is no need to add more. A similar thing is said of Babel in Isaiah:-