229. So great is the power of angels in the spiritual world, however, that if I were to bring forward all that I have witnessed in regard to it, it would exceed belief. Any obstruction there that ought to be removed because it is contrary to Divine order the angels cast down or overthrow merely by an effort of the will and a look. Thus I have seen mountains that were occupied by the evil cast down and overthrown, and sometimes shaken from end to end as in earthquakes; also rocks cleft asunder down to the deep, and the evil who were upon them swallowed up. I have also seen some hundreds of thousands of evil spirits dispersed and cast down into hell. Numbers are of no avail against the angels; neither are devices, cunning, or combinations; for they see through them all, and shatter them in a moment. But more may be seen on this subject in the ACCOUNT OF BABYLON DESTROYED. Such power do angels have in the spiritual world. It is evident from the Word that they have like power in the natural world also when it is granted; for instance, that they have given to destruction entire armies; and that they brought on a pestilence from which seventy thousand men died. Of this angel it is said: