Angels and Women (1924)

THE STORY OF JAVAN
After the Flood, 500 Years.
Aloma, our honored and loving mother,
has left us. She sleeps in the land of
Iapeti, in the land of forgetfulness, whither
all our fathers have journeyed, and whither
all the living must follow. Seven days ago
she called me to her side and said:
"My dear Javan, it seems scarcely possible
that it is now five hundred years since
the Deluge l How rapidly the years have
slipped by l I was just emerging from childhood
at that time. How gracious the Lord
has been in bestowing on me seven noble
sons. May the All-Beneficent One guard
your future.
"In times past I was permitted by the
Almighty God to have a vision of the future.
In that vision I beheld the attempt of the
mighty Satanas, who together with his cohorts
was restrained in darkness at the time
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