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...[predica]tion original: "tionem" of Michael the Spirit, and this will happen after the birth of Christ in the year 1880, in the 8th month—that is, in the year of the world 7170, in the 8th month. Trithemius predicts that the next great Age of Michael (the Sun) would begin in late 1880 or 1881. This was a significant date for later occultists like Rudolf Steiner. In those times, many Jews and gentiles took up the Christian religion through the preaching of very simple and rustic men, whom no human Christian instruction, but the spirit of God enlightened. Toward the growth of religion. The world then began to be recalled to the first innocence of simplicity, with the spirit of Saturn, Orifiel himself, governing it. Heavenly things were joined with earthly things; many Christians were also cruelly killed by the rulers of the world for the faith they preached. Near the end of the reign of Orifiel, Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, and the Jews were dispersed into every land, Judea destroyed with 1,100,000 original: "undecies centum millibus" killed and 80,000 sold; the rest fled, and thus the Romans utterly destroyed Judea.
In the 16th order, after Orifiel, Anael, the spirit of Venus, resumed the governance of the whole world for the third time, on the last day of January. This was in the year 5315 from the creation of heaven and earth original: "conditionis Caeli & terrae", and from the birth of Christ 109 in the year 109. He governed the world for 354 years and 4 months, until the year of the world 5669, month 4, and the year 463 from the Nativity of the Lord in the flesh. And it should be noted that for almost the entire time of this reign of the Angel of Venus, the Church of the Christians flourished and prevailed amidst persecutions, though many thousands of men were killed for the faith of Christ. Many persecutions against the Church of Christ. Finally, many heresies began to sprout in the Church during these times, which were not suppressed without the labor and blood of good men...