Whore of Babylon

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Lucas Cranach the Elder: "The Babylonian Whore", 1534. Coloured woodcut for the Luther Bible of 1534. The Babylonian whore is depicted in this picture wearing a papal tiara.
The Whore of Babylon rides the Seven-Headed Beast
The Whore of Babylon in the Ottheinrich-Bible (around 1530–1532)
William Blake: The Number of the Beast is 666

The Whore of Babylon, called Babylon the Great (Greek: Βαβυλὼν ἡ μεγάλη Babylōn hē megalē: Rev 14:8; 16:19; 17:5; 18:2; 18:10; 18:18; 18:21)) in the Apocalypse of John, is mentioned several times in the New Testament. She sits on a scarlet beast with seven heads and ten horns. The kings of the earth committed prostitution with her. What is meant here is the prostitution of the spirit with matter, black magic. On her forehead is written a name, a secret, a mystery, which marks her as the mother of all the harlots and abominations of the earth. She is drunk with the blood of all saints and strivers in the Christian sense:

„1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk.” 3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5 And on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.” 6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.“

Literature
References to the work of Rudolf Steiner follow Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works (CW or GA), Rudolf Steiner Verlag, Dornach/Switzerland, unless otherwise stated.
Email: verlag@steinerverlag.com URL: www.steinerverlag.com.
Index to the Complete Works of Rudolf Steiner - Aelzina Books
A complete list by Volume Number and a full list of known English translations you may also find at Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works
Rudolf Steiner Archive - The largest online collection of Rudolf Steiner's books, lectures and articles in English.
Rudolf Steiner Audio - Recorded and Read by Dale Brunsvold
steinerbooks.org - Anthroposophic Press Inc. (USA)
Rudolf Steiner Handbook - Christian Karl's proven standard work for orientation in Rudolf Steiner's Collected Works for free download as PDF.
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