death-bed scene,
to other friends thousands of miles away, and months before the truth
through ordinary channels can reach them, so that when it is verified,
their influence over them may be increased. (See page 23.)

There is nothing that has yet taken place, of however inexplicable a
nature, and nothing which even the imagination may anticipate, which is
not, and will not be, easily attributable to these unseen angels. They are
lying spirits; for the fundamental principle on which they are acting is a
lie; but they tell enough truth to sway and captivate the minds of men. It
matters not how sacred the field in which they tread, nor how hallowed the
associations which they invade, they press into every spot where it is
possible, by spinning another thread, to strengthen their web of
deception.

And in what dulcet and siren tones they woo their victims to lay aside all
resistance to their influence, to become receptive and passive, and yield
themselves to their control; and when they have them thus helpless in
their arms, they deliberately and cruelly instil into their minds the
virus of ungovernable lust, the leprosy of unconquerable rebellion against
the government of Heaven. That this language does not misrepresent nor
slander them, will be shown from their own testimony, before the close of
this book.

The thought is not overlooked that many even of those who do not profess
to be Spiritualists, deny the existence of any such being as a personal
Devil, or of personal evil angels, his agents. He is no doubt well pleased
with this, as such people can the more easily be made the victims of his
wiles. But these same persons would no doubt acknowledge the existence, as
real beings, of God, Christ, and the good angels. This fact being
established, by parity of reasoning the Devil and his angels become real
beings also. The same arguments which show that God and Christ exist as
personal beings may be used to show that the Devil and his angels are
personal beings also. He who denies that there is a personal Devil, must
be prepared also to deny that there is a personal Christ. So far as the
argument for personal existence is concerned, Christ and good angels stand
on one side of the equation, and the Devil and his angels on the other;
and whoever would rub out the one, must rub out the other also.

Christ said that he "beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." Luke
10:18. John in the Revelation (12:7) beheld a war in he