This "vastation," I maintain contra Swedenborg, is the Sublime spoor of Azathoth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hite's Journal] Reference

In his early 30s, sitting by the fire after dinner, he suffered from a "vastation" that came upon him suddenly, without preparation; it presented itself to him visually, viscerally, as "some damned shape squatting invisible to me within the precincts of the room.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Serendip's Exchange] Reference

The scholars are busy with punctuation, chronology, and the lives of the little great, so that their visit is a vastation, and I must turn them out of doors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

This, Paul Fisher points out, could easily have been caused by drink, but its shivering victim later came to the view that he had undergone what Swedenborg called "a vastation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Admirable Mrs. James] Reference

Conservatives have long taken it as self-evident that the press unfavorably distorts the war, which may be the case; but today that country is a vastation, and the unified field theory of media bias has not been altered one jot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here we go again] Reference

Once back in New York and then in Albany, where he moved for two years, the victim of the vastation began to correspond with other Swedenborgians, calling his next son, born in 1845, Garth Wilkinson after one of the most enthusiastic of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Admirable Mrs. James] Reference

What a vastation of pride and self-esteem that was?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The flush times of Alabama and Mississippi : a series of sketches,] Reference

Finally, the black vastation itself came untacked and draped over the entire heap, covering George's confused obliteration.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News]

But those of them who are such that they can be saved, are in places of vastation, and are there reduced to the last degree of despair; for evils and falsities of this kind cannot otherwise be subdued and removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There] Reference

"That corresponds to vastation.".    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference