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SPIRITISM AND CHRISTIANITY 229
And it was
given unto him to give breath to it, even the image
of the beast; that even the image of the beast
should speak" (Rev. xiii. 13-15). It must not be
the earth by reason of the signs ....
forgotten that these are "lying" wonders, in other
words "fraud," which I fear is almost a "hallmark"
of so many modern marvels.
The quiet study of all these Scriptures gives us,
in modern parlance, somewhat "furiously to think."
The Monstrous Union
Respecting the sentences of death on the Canaanitish
wizards, all given when Israel was about to
encounter these in the Promised Land, and practically
only in connection with Palestine, it is quite possible
that the esoteric reason may be similar to that which
elsewhere ordered the extermination of the Canaanites,
and long before, for what I believe were
similar reasons, that of the entire Adamic race
except eight souls. In a book like this, on another
subject, I can only allude to the great mystery of
the union of the denizens of the other world with
the "daughters of men," which apparently not only
occasioned the Noachian deluge, but the extermination
of the Canaanites, for the disaster was not
confined to the days of Noah.* The results of the
unnatural marriages were giants f of superhuman
powers; and thus the corruption of the whole of
*
The Nephilim (giants) were the result of the horrible union,
and also, on a later occasion, in Canaan: "There we saw
the Nephilim, the sons of Anak" (Numb. xiii. 33), for Genesis
vi. tells us "the Nephilim were in those days, and also after those
days."
f The demigods of Greek mythology were evidently distorted
reminiscences of this terrible time.