Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 edition. Excerpt: ... VI ALL PURPORTED COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE DEAD ARE MADE BY FALLEN ANGELS THESE angels are divided into two classes. Those angels who in the antediluvian age left their own habitation in one of the upper worlds, came down to earth and entered in unto the daughters of men whose beauty had tempted them and begot a hybrid race called giants, or the nephilim, beings half angel, half man, the persons who are spoken of in classic literature as the demi-gods, the mighty ones who figure more or less in the lore of all nations; figure there with all the added fancies and imaginations of men, because the primal revelation given of God fell from their hands; and, as when a vase c. i hich a portrait has been painted falls, is broken, and different hands pick up the fragments, so that each has a part, but an incomplete part of the whole, even so among the nations scattered after the flood, each had a fragment of the truth, polished and embellished to suit the desire. The Lord caused the sinning angels to be arrested. They were taken down as prisoners to a place of imprisonment below hades, or the very lowest part of hades called tartarus and, according to the Apostle Peter writing under the inspiration of God, shut up in dark cells, chained and held there until the final judgment day when the Lord shall settle all things. The other fallen angels are those who took part in the rebellion of Satan. Satan was the first being created. He is called, " Son of the morning," "the morning star," and " Lucifer, the Light-bearer." Speaking by the mouth of Ezekiel, the Lord says he was created perfect in all his ways. He was full of wisdom. He was perfect in beauty. He was, next to God, supreme in power. Because of this exalted endowment and equipment the Lord God...