Angels and Women (1924)

22 ANGELS AND WOMEN
grand, strong and beautiful. These majestic
beings became enamored with the beauty
of women and took to themselves many
wives. A race of magnificent but frightfully
depraved creatures, giants in intellect and
stature, were the products of these unnatural
marriages, and they, with despotic cruelty,
aided their sires in the subversion of the
world. The story of the crimes and abominations
which prevailed would be too shocking
for your ears. The worshipers of God
struggled in vain to stem the tide of diabolical
iniquity. Those who resisted the imperious
1 will of these Devas or the Darvands
their children, were disabled or put to death.
"Satanas, the most powerful of the incarnate
angels, established his court at Balonia,
City of the Sun, where the learning and
wealth of the world were concentrated.
Upon this city he lavished his immense resources.
Its glory was past description; its
towers, palaces, and battlements glittered
1 See Appendix. Note 6.