2555. All this also shows what is meant by those words of the Revelation (perhaps also elsewhere) saying that the angel of light was cast down to the earth, together with his gang [cf. Is. 14:12, Rev. 12:9], namely, that when they are absorbed in the falsity, and the falsity expels them from the society of angels, those interacting with them in the world of spirits seem to themselves to be thus cast down forcefully and as if in danger of their lives.
2555. Hence also it may be manifest what is understood by those words of the Apocalypse (perhaps also elsewhere to be treated of) that an [the] angel of light was cast to the earth with his crew, to wit, that when they are in falsity, and falsity expels them from the society of angels, that those who then correspond to them in the world of spirits seem to themselves to be thus cast down with violence, and, as it were, with danger to their lives.
2555. Exinde quoque constare potest, quid intelligatur per ea verba Apocalypseos (forte etiam alibi) quod lucis angelus dejectus sit in terram, cum turba sua [cf. Esaj. XIV: 12, Apoc. XII: 9]; nempe quod cum in falsitate sunt, et falsitas eos ex societate angelorum exterminat, quod ii qui iis tunc correspondent in mundo spirituum ita cum vi, et periculo quasi vitae suae, dejici sibi videantur.