But  upon  the  earth  they  shall  have  no  peace,  nor  forgiveness
of  sin."  "Te  were  formerly  spiritual,  living  an  eternal  life
without  death  to  all  the  generations  of  the  world.  Therefore  I
have  not  made  for  you  any  wives,  for  spiritual  beings  have  their
home  in  heaven.    And  now  the  giants,  who  have  been  begotten


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from  body  and  Resh,  will  be  called  evil  spirits  on  earth,  and
their  dwelling-places  will  be  upon  the  earth.  Evil  spirits  pro-
ceed from  their  bodies ;  because  they  are  created  from  above,
their  beginning  and  first  basis  being  from  the  holy  watchers,
they  will  be  evil  spirits  upon  the  earth,  and  will  be  called  evil
spirits.  But  the  spirits  of  heaven  have  their  dwelling-places  in
heaven,  and  the  spirits  on  the  earth,  who  were  bom  on  the
earth,  have  their  dwelling-places  on  earth.  And  the  spirits  of
(he  giants,  who  cast  themselves  upon  the  clouds,  will  be  de-
stroyed and  fall,  and  will  battle  and  cause  destruction  on  the
earth,  and  do  evil ;  they  will  take  no  kind  of  food,  nor  will  they
become  thirsty,  and  they  will  be  invisible."

These  quotations  appear  to  account  for  the  existence  of  dark
influences.  The  authenticity  of  the  book  matters  but  little,  for
the  fact  remains  that  such  influences  exist  and  these  quotations
express  the  methods  and  manner  of  the  works  of  these  evil
influences.  We  have  for  years  carefully  investigated  the  man-
ifestations of  these  influences  and  we  find  that  their  chief  plane
of  action  upon  men  and  woman  is  upon  the  sex  principle.  It  it
reasonable  that  it  should  be  so,  because,  according  to  Biblical
authority,  the  sin  and  fall  of  Adara  was  through  the  sex,  and
we  see  from  the  foregoing  quotations  that  the  sin  and  fall  of  the
angels  was  through  the  sex  function,  and  bo  long  as  men  and
women  live  a  purely  sex  life,  they  have  but  Httle  consciousness
of  difSculty,  but  as  soon  as  they  rise  up  against  the  abnormal-
ities so  active  in  the  world  in  regard  to  the  aex  function,  they
meet  an  adversary  that  is  subtle  and  invisible,  but  potent.
