The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1911-02-17
because of Divine incompetence to

ed it 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 I'M
der its control The falsehood leading
up to all this error is Satan's first lie
to our parents In Eden. There, con-
tradicting the words of God, he said,
aye 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, Eye
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 instilled into the whole
world, nonscnsical, heath: supersti-
tons respecting heaven, purgatory and
hell The Catholics pray for those who
go to Purgatory, TO help, them out.
Protestants do not 30 pray, believing
that the sanity few go direct to heaven
and all of the insanity go as directly
to eternal torture.
If this great lie wherewfth Satan
first seduced Mother Eve and murder
ed our race could be fully eliminated
from our minds and our creeds, 1t
would mean a religious revolution to
both Catholics and Protestants-back
to the Bible and away from the dom
nation and seduction of the lying spir-
its, the fallen angels, who personate
humanity.
Tho 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, impurity. And this agrees
we'll with the Scriptural declaration
relative to the sin through which these
fallen angels first became reprobate.
st. Jude 90 and st. Peter Oh Peter
ii, A., tell us briefly of the fall of the
angels-that "they left their own hab-
itation and kept not their first estate"
Both Apostles mention the circum-
stance in connection with human las
civiousness. The story of the fall of
the angels is given us briefly in Gen
esis vi, IA. After mans fall into sin
God permitted the holy angels to have
communication with humanity. And
because human eyes cannot see spirit
beings, God permitted the angels to
materialize. For instance, we note the
case Of the angels who visited Abra
ham on the plains of Mamre and for
whom he prepared veal dinner We
read that, materialized, these angels
were like men, and taken by Abraham
to be men, while they ate and talked
with him. 1t was subsequently that
Abraham learned that they were real
ly heavenly visitants.
So It was with all the angels before
the food They were permitted to ma
terialize and to appear in every sense
Of the word as men. The record shows
that the angels became lustful. We
read, 1.-THE sons of God saw the daugh-
tiers 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 mans, acted as the masters of men, |
who were practically obliged to do |
their bidding. The result is stated in |
few words. The children of this mesal- |
lance, we are told, were giants as |
compared with the ordinary members |
Of our race. And not only were they |
giants physically, but also Intellectual
ly-"They were men of renown." Poor
humanity could not compete with this |
race. The result was that strife and |
contention and lustful, sinful prac-
tises abounded in all the earth, until |
God declared that every imagination |
of the thoughts of mans heart was
only evil continually.
God had foreknown all this, and a
canopy of waters, which then sur
rounded the earth, similar to Saturn's |
rings now, was held in readiness to
cause a flood, that sinful men and the
human offspring of the angels might
be destroyed. Only Noah and his fam
fly were found worthy of preservation
to be the new start of humanity this
side of the flood. The declaration Of
the Scriptures respecting Noah's fam
fly is, Now Noah was perfect in his
He was properly gener-
ated or born-so were his children.
There was no strain or admixture Of
the angelic stock in that family. The
plain information is that the remainder
Of humanity were so degraded by the
seductions of those fallen angels that
they were not fit to live. The entire
race had become corrupt
Angels observation-disclosures Of Dark
ness.
OF course, the fallen angels were not
destroyed in the food, for they not
only had the power to materialize, but
also the power to dematerialize. II
was at that time. however, that all of
the fallen angels were put under re-
straints-not permitted again to ma
the Limitation lasting until
the Judgment of the great day"
Their restraints or chains are not
physical, to conhne them to a place in
rarfdrEs-the earth's atmosphere. They
may roam at viii; but are chained. or