758 CATHAR LITERATURE
razor to let trickery sneak in. You have more evil than good, and you have
preferred a language of iniquity to that of justice."^29 And Saint John says
in Revelation:
The great dragon, the ancient snake, who is called
devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole,
lived in the world and was flung down to earth.^30
And Christ in the Gospel of Luke has said:
The seed is the word of god.
The ones on the side of the road are those who heard.
Then comes the devil, who takes away the word from their heart
so they will not believe and be saved.^31
The prophet Daniel says, "As I looked, this horn from the fourth beast
made war with the holy ones and was prevailing over them, until the ancient
one came; then judgment was given for the holy ones of the most high."^32 And
he says further, "As for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings will arise,
and another will arise after them."^33 And then, "But from one of those four
horns a small one emerged, which began to grow toward the south and then
toward the east, and then toward the glorious land. He raised his great horn
toward the armies of the sky, and it cast down some of the armies and some of
the stars to the ground and trampled them down."^34
We read in the Apocalypse of Saint John:
And another portent was seen in the sky,
look, a great fire-red dragon with seven heads
and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems.
His tail dragged a third of the stars of heaven
and hurled them to the earth.^35
- Based on Psalm 52:1-3.
- Revelation 12:9.
- Luke 8:11-12.
- Daniel 7:21-22.
- Daniel 7:24.
- Daniel 8:9-11.
- Revelation 12:3-4.
