Angels and Women (1924)

ALLIMADES’ STORY 21tainly be brough to your knowledge. It isa strange and mournful story in which thereis but one light to relieve the deep shadowsof sin and sorrow."Know, then, Aloma, that after our firstparents, Adam and Eve, admitted the Deceiverto their counsels and had been drivenfrom their happy home, sin and death becamethe unavoidable and dread attendantsof human life. But more fatal than all othermiseries of the Fall was the power of interferencein human affairs which the Tempterhad acquired. He constantly used and, fromhis evil nature, abused this power, slowlygaining possession of the hearts of men, till,grown bold by success, he enticed otherStar-spirits 1 from their allegiance to theAlmighty, promising to establish them asgreat princes in the world."By some subtle process o£ which ourmost learned sages are ignorant, these angelschanged themselves into the likeness of men,1 See Appendix, Note 5.