7682. The east wind brought the locust. That this signifies dense falsity with the infesters through the means of destruction, is evident from the signification of “the east wind,” as being a means of destruction (of which above, n. 7679); and from the signification of “the locust,” as being falsity in the extremes (see n. 7643), here dense falsity, because the whole natural was taken possession of by it (n. 7645).