Angels and Women (1924)

GREATER CHANGE 169their brutal and wicked sons. The wordsshowed me all too plainly the corruption ofmind wrought in the speakers. Shame andindignation filled my soul as I drew my veilclose and shrank back, realizing more fullythan ever the appalling condition of theworld under this perverted angelic sway.Truly these beings made the earth tremble;they shake the kingdoms, and destroy thegovernment thereof; they listen not to thecry of the prisoner I Dazzled by the magnificenceof the Devas and their giant offspring,overawed by their unscruplous tyranny, menhave abandoned the struggle, and drift withthe stream of ungodliness. They say: "TheLord hath forgotten the earth, the Lord seethnot."Yet the Prophet has ceased not to warnthem that the day of wrath approaches; andnow the fatal decree has gone forth. Evenat this moment of exultation the footstepsof the Avenger echo along the pathway oftime.