Angels and Women (1924)

ALLIMADES’ STORY 21
tainly be brought to your knowledge. It is
a strange and mournful story in which there
is but one light to relieve the deep shadows
of sin and sorrow.
"Know, then, Aloma, that after our first
parents, Adam and Eve, admitted the Deceiver
to their counsels and had been driven
from their happy home, sin and death became
the unavoidable and dread attendants
of human life. But more fatal than all other
miseries of the Fall was the power of interference
in human affairs which the Tempter
had acquired. He constantly used and, from
his evil nature, abused this power, slowly
gaining possession of the hearts of men, till,
grown bold by success, he enticed other
Star-spirits 1 from their allegiance to the
Almighty, promising to establish
great princes in the world.
them as
"By some subtle process o£ which our
most learned sages are ignorant, these angels
changed themselves into the likeness of men,
1 See Appendix, Note 5.