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ed II so before creation. This doc
trine of demons has enslaved many
honorable people who would them
selves scorn to make such plan of the
ages as they attribute to God.
Thank God the time Is not far dis.
tant when these seducing spirits will
be completely bound. restrained. and
deceive humanity thus no more. But
the deception has so long prevailed
that poor humanity Is thoroughly TN.
der its control. The falsehoOd leading
up to all this error Is Satan's first lie
to our parents in Eden. There. con-
tradi ting the words of God. he said.
'Ye shall not surely die" Ever since.
for six thousand years, he has worked
along this line. and all the fallen an.
gels with him. His message Is. "Ye
shall not surely die" You do not sure
| ly die. When men seem to die, they
become more alive than before they
died.
On account of these errors. that dead
men are alive. Satan and the fallen an.
| gels. contrary to the teachings of the
Bible. have insti!led into the whole
world. nonsensical. heather supersti-
tions respecting heaven. purgatory and
hell. The Catholics pray for those who
20 to PulPntOry, to help them out.
| Protestants do not so pray. believing
that the sanity few 20 direct to heaven
and all of the insanity go as directly
TO eternal torture.
If this great lie wberewith Satan
! first se1uced Mother Eve and murder
ed our race could be fully eliminated
| from our minds and our creeds, 1t
would mean religious revolution to
both Catholics and Protcstants-back
| TO the Bible and away from the dom.
| inatl0n and seduction Of the lying spir-
! its. the fallen angels. who personate
! humanity
The Fallen Angels Lustful.
So far as we can learn from those
who have once been spirit mediums,
the trend Of Spiritism is toward I'M
chastity. impurty And this agrees
well with the Scriptural declaration
relative 90 the sin through which these
fallen angels first became reprobate.
St Juhc &c, ana ST. Peter I'll Peter
II. ~. tell MS briefly Of the fall of the
| nnge!S-thai they left their own hab-
itntion and kept not their first estate"
| Both Apostles mention the circum-
stanoe in correction with human las.
! civiousness The story of the fall Of
the angels Is given uS briefly in Cen
esis vi. Il After mans fall into sin
God permitted the holy angels to have
communication with humanity. And
be"ausP human e"es cannot see spirit
beinps. God permitted the angels to
materiali2c. For instance, we note the
| case of the nn~els who visited Abra-
ham on the plains of Mnmre and for
whom lie prepared n veal dinner. We
read that. mnternlized. these angels
were like men, md taken by Abraham
| to he men, while they ate and talked
with him. II was subsequently that
/ Abraham learned that they were real
| ly heavenly vlsitants
| So II was with all the angels before
the food They were permitted to ma
| teriallze and to appear In every sense
| Of the word ns men. The record shows
| that the angels became lustful. We
read. "The sons Of God saw the daugh-
! tera OF men that they were fair and
| took unto themselves wives OF such
| as they chose" The angels. with SUI
perior powers and superior knowledge
! to mnns. acted as the masters of men.
who were practically obliged to do
| their bidding The result IL stated In
| few words. The children of this mesal-
| lance, we are told. were giants ns
| compared with the ordinary members
OF our race. And not only were they
! giants physically, but also intellectual-
! ly-"rhey were men OF renown." Poor
humanity could not compete with this
race. The result was that strife and
contention and lustful. sinful prac-
| tlses Gbounded In all the earth, until
God declared that every imagination
OF the thoughts of mans heart was
only evil continually.
God had forelSnown all this. and
canopy OF waters. which then sur
rounded the earth, similar to Saturn's
| rings now, was held In readiness to
cause u food, that sinful men and the
human offspring Of the angels might
bc destroyed. Only Noah ana HIS fam.
| lily were found worthy of preservation
60 bc the new start of humanity this
side of the food, The declaration OF
the Scriptures respecting Noah's fam.
| lily IL. NOW Noah was perfect In his
generation" lie was properly gener-
atCd or born-so were his children.
There was no strain or NdmlXture of
the angelic stock In that family. The
plain Information Ia that the remainder
OF humanity were 40 degrnded by the
scductions Of those fallen angels that
they were not ft to live, The entire
race had become corrupt.
Angels Restransd-chains of Dark
ness.
or course. the fallen angels were not
destroyed In the food, for they not
only had the power TO mnterall2e, but
also the power TO dematerlnli2e, 1t
was Nt that time, however, that all OF
the fallen angels We're put under re-
stralnts not permitted again TO ma
terlnl2e the limitation lasting until
the Judgment of the great day"
Their restraints or chains are not
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