Angels and Women (1924)

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their brutal and wicked sons. The words
showed me all too plainly the corruption of
mind wrought in the speakers. Shame and
indignation filled my soul as I drew my veil
close and shrank back, realizing more fully
than ever the appalling condition of the
world under this perverted angelic sway.
Truly these beings made the earth tremble;
they shake the kingdoms, and destroy the
government thereof; they listen not to the
cry of the prisoner I Dazzled by the magnificence
of the Devas and their giant offspring,
overawed by their unscruplous tyranny, men
have abandoned the struggle, and drift with
the stream of ungodliness. They say: "The
Lord hath forgotten the earth, the Lord seeth
not."
Yet the Prophet has ceased not to warn
them that the day of wrath approaches; and
now the fatal decree has gone forth. Even
at this moment of exultation the footsteps
of the Avenger echo along the pathway of
time.