Tail
In Exodus 4:4, when Moses seizes the rod-turned-serpent by its tail, this signifies that law of God can raise up the lowest, most sensory parts of our nature. (Arcana Coelestia 6952)
Tail here also signifies persuasive sensuous knowledges. (Apocalypse Explained 559, Doctrine Regarding Sacred Scripture 13)
'Tail' signifies the opposite extreme of the head, because the brain is continued to the tail through the spine, This is why the head and tail make one, as the first and last. Where 'head' signifies faith alone justifying and saving, 'tail' signifies everything that confirms that belief, taken from the Word, and so the truths of the Word are falsified.... Because a 'tail' signifies the extreme, and so it is the sum or aggregate, Jehovah told Moses to 'take the serpent by the tail, and he took it, and it became a rod,' in Exodus 4:3-4. This is also why they were commanded to 'take off the whole tail near the backbone, and sacrifice it together with the fat of the entrails, kidneys, intestines, and liver,' as in Leviticus 3:9-11, 8:25, 9:16, and Exodus 29:22. 'Tails' signify sensory knowledge, because the tails of animals are continuations of the spine, or spinal cord, which contains the base of the cerebrum, which signifies intelligence and wisdom. The low extremes of intelligence and wisdom are sensory knowledge.
(Odkazy: Apocalypse Revealed 438; Exodus 3, 4:3; Revelation 9)
Revelation 9
1
The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star from the sky which had fallen to the earth. The key to the pit of the abyss was given to him.
2
He opened the pit of the abyss, and smoke went up out of the pit, like the smoke from a burning furnace. The sun and the air were darkened because of the smoke from the pit.
3
Then out of the smoke came forth locusts on the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
4
They were told that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only those people who don't have God's seal on their foreheads.
5
They were given power not to kill them, but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion, when it strikes a person.
6
In those days people will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7
The shapes of the locusts were like horses prepared for war. On their heads were something like golden crowns, and their faces were like people's faces.
8
They had hair like women's hair, and their teeth were like those of lions.
9
They had breastplates, like breastplates of iron. The sound of their wings was like the sound of chariots, or of many horses rushing to war.
10
They have tails like those of scorpions, and stings. In their tails they have power to harm men for five months.
11
They have over them as king the angel of the abyss. His name in Hebrew is "Abaddon," but in Greek, he has the name "Apollyon."
12
The first woe is past. Behold, there are still two woes coming after this.
13
The sixth angel sounded. I heard a voice from the horns of the golden altar which is before God,
14
saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"
15
The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
16
The number of the armies of the horsemen was two hundred million. I heard the number of them.
17
Thus I saw the horses in the vision, and those who sat on them, having breastplates of fiery red, hyacinth blue, and sulfur yellow; and the heads of lions. Out of their mouths proceed fire, smoke, and sulfur.
18
By these three plagues were one third of mankind killed: by the fire, the smoke, and the sulfur, which proceeded out of their mouths.
19
For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
20
The rest of mankind, who were not killed with these plagues, didn't repent of the works of their hands, that they wouldn't worship demons, and the idols of gold, and of silver, and of brass, and of stone, and of wood; which can neither see, nor hear, nor walk.
21
They didn't repent of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their sexual immorality, nor of their thefts.
