such an incarnation of evil has come to exist. The Tartarus into which he
and his angels were cast, according to Peter, is defined by leading
lexicographers, as meaning the dark, void, interplanetary spaces,
surrounding the world. Using the serpent as a medium, this apostate angel,
thus cast out, plied our first parents with his temptation by preaching to
them the immortality of the soul, "Thou shalt not surely die," and alas!
seduced them also into rebellion. The dominion which was given to Adam
(Gen. 1:28), Adam thus alienated to Satan, by becoming his servant; for
Paul says, "Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to
obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey?" Rom. 6:16. Now, consequently,
such titles as "prince of this world," "prince of the power of the air,"
"god of this world," etc., are applied to him, because he has by fraud
usurped that place. John 14:30; Eph. 2:2; 2 Cor. 4:4. He, of course,
employs "his angels" to co-operate with him in his nefarious work.

Thus clearly do we have set before us just the agencies,--the Devil and his
angels,--which are adapted, both by nature and inclination, to carry on
just such a work as is seen in Spiritualism. But how do we know, some one
may ask, but that Spiritualism is the work of the good angels?--We know
that it is not, because good angels do not lie. They never would come to
men, professing to be the spirits of their dead friends, and imitate and
personate them to deceive, knowing that the mediums did not know, and
could not ascertain that they were altogether another and different order
of beings. But the evil angels, led by the father of lies, and cradled,
and drilled, and skilled, and polished, in the school of lying, would be
delighted to deceive men in this very way, by pretending to be their dead
friends, and then by working upon their affections and love for the ones
they could skilfully personate, bring them under their influence and lead
them captive at their will.

These evil angels are experts in deception. They have had six thousand
years' experience. They are well acquainted with the human family. They
can read character. They study temperament. They acquaint themselves
minutely with personal history. They know a thousand things which only
they and the individual they are trying to ensnare, are aware of. They
know many things beyond the knowledge of men. They can easily carry the
news of the decease of a friend, and the description of a