Arcana Coelestia (Elliott) n. 7776

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7776. 'About midnight' means when vastation is completed. This is clear from the meaning of 'midnight' as the time of thickest darkness, that is, utter falsity. For 'night' means a state of falsity, 2353, 6000, and 'the middle' of it is the peak, so that 'midnight' is when vastation is completed.


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