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of how some angels fell from their original perfection andharmony with God, and of why they seek to gain controlof humanity and commune with them through mediums,and why they personate the dead, we have not the spaceto present in this study; but as there are many todaymore or less under the influence of demonism--spiritism--we will send further information upon postcardrequest.Jesus gave the demons the privilege they requested, ofpassing from the man into the swine, of which there wereabout 2,000. The swine, like the man, were crazed bythe strange outside influence which took possession oftheir brains. They ran violently down a steep place intothe sea and were drowned. Meantime, the man, releasedfrom his obsession, was again in his right mind, andpraised God for his deliverance. He desired to go withJesus to become one of his disciples. He wanted to preachto others of the great deliverance which he had experiencedand to tell them of this further proof that Jesuswas the Messiah. But this was not in harmony with theLord's judgment of the Father's will, and He refused hiscompany, instructing him to go unto his own house andto tell his friends what great things the Lord had donefor him.He did so, and the people from all the region aroundwho had known him as a crazy and obsessed man, marveledat his recovery and took note of the fact that Jesushad healed him. Those familiar with such matters claimthat probably one-half of all the inmates of our insaneasylums are persons obsessed by evil spirits, demons,without any organic disease of the brain. And alas! wesee evidences on every hand that these evil spirits arepaving the way for a great onslaught upon humanity.Under the title of Psychic Phenomena spiritism is beingexamined by some of the prominent college professorsof our day. They, like other spiritists, are deceived inR5059 : page 217supposing that the manifestations which come to themare from their dead human friends. The Bible alonemakes the matter perfectly clear. It assures us that thedead have no power to thus communicate, and that allsuch communications come from the demons, who do notdare to tell who they are, for if they did, humanity wouldbe on guard against them; and they, desiring to comeclosely in contact with humanity, personate and representvariously the dead.Hypnotism, mesmerism, clairaudient power and clairvoyantpower are all part and parcel of the same greatdeception.====================R5059 : page 217