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COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER PLANES 79 than at any other time in modern world history. They are willing to be led into a test of strength, to challenge the powers of the CHRIST and His followers, to prove that the God-force they pervert in their blundering is as potent to make them supreme on this planet as the God-force as expressed through the CHRIST and His followers is potent to render them supine and harmless.
These two great alignments of powers are coming to grips in this generation. Thousands of you have incarnated to be present on the side of Right, to be ministers and instructors for Christ in that time of upheaval. That time is upon you in its opening phases. Presently the times will grow worse, much as we invite criticism for preaching calamity. But it will mark the approaching of the crisis. Men shall say in that day: "The earth is Satan's, let him have it.” But CHRIST shall say: "The earth is Mine, and as Mine I take it !”
THAT TAKING, TOO, BELOVED BRETHREN, IS IN PROGRESS. The unlearned of the earth are handicapped in interpreting the times in which both dwell, the dark and the Light, the pure and the impure. They profess to see ordinary causes at work, to perceive only the comings and goings of statesmen employed in their affairs as they
