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-I could almost have said it had happened, as part of the
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-front wheel was already hanging over the edge.
+I could almost have said it had happened, as part of the front wheel was already hanging over the edge.
-“With all the unexpectedness of a miracle a heavy grey mist descended on the scene, enveloping everything. Gradually it thinned,
+“With all the unexpectedness of a miracle a heavy grey mist descended on the scene, enveloping everything. Gradually it thinned, changing into beautiful, delicate pastel shades, ultimately to clear completely. Gone were the forces at the wheels, gone was the devil, and gone was the woman who, I now know, was the Spirit of the Old Age. In her place was a beautiful new-born, sturdy child, and the chariot was motionless and secure on firm ground.
-changing into beautiful, delicate pastel shades, ultimately to clear
-completely. Gone were the forces at the wheels, gone was the
-devil, and gone was the woman who, I now know, was the Spirit
-of the Old Age. In her place was a beautiful new-born, sturdy
-child, and the chariot was motionless and secure on firm ground.
-“Evidently it symbolised the selfish aims for material progress
+“Evidently it symbolised the selfish aims for material progress abroad in the world today. Obviously, too, that Power working for evil is thus disseminating its influence so that each victim is using others for what he believes to be his own ends, unconscious that he himself is being used in his turn. Even the stupid and unwilling are used and exploited, unaware of the source of their inspiration—unconscious tools of one Power and driven collectively to one end—destruction. This invisible but unbroken link—for they are more united than they know—is undermining all that is best of the old system of things.” —From an article by Ivy Dick, published in the January, 1928 Occult Review, London.
-abroad in the world today. Obviously, too, that Power working
-for evil is thus disseminating its influence so that each victim
-is using others for what he believes to be his own ends, unconscious that he himself is being used in his turn. Even the stupid
-and unwilling are used and exploited, unaware of the source of
-their inspiration—unconscious tools of one Power and driven
-collectively to one end—destruction. This invisible but unbroken
-link—for they are more united than they know—is undermining
-all that is best of the old system of things.”
-—From an article by Ivy Dick, published in the January, 1928
-Occult Review, London.
-WE KNOW that very few will at first admit that they are
+WE KNOW that very few will at first admit that they are being thus unconsciously exploited by any other intelligence than their own; but those who have studied the workings of their own minds, and have noted that, when they yield to purely selfish desires and passions, there is always a subtle invisible but nevertheless tangible power egging and pushing them on to base ends and often to their undoing, will recognize in the Vision a great and thought-provoking truth.
-being thus unconsciously exploited by any other intelligence
-than their own; but those who have studied the workings of
-their own minds, and have noted that, when they yield to purely
-selfish desires and passions, there is always a subtle invisible but
-nevertheless tangible power egging and pushing them on to base
-ends and often to their undoing, will recognize in the Vision a
-great and thought-provoking truth.
-If all who read will hereafter watch and study such impulses
+If all who read will hereafter watch and study such impulses that come, startling realizations may result.
-that come, startling realizations may result.
-We know there are many millions of earnest ones seeking for
+We know there are many millions of earnest ones seeking for release from the thraldom of this false system of living foisted and now fastened on the world. Practical, sensible, business and professional men and women, mechanics, and workers in trades, when they once realize how, from the beginning, they have been deliberately deceived for mercenary and selfish purposes by Masters of Evil who have now gained almost a complete strangle-hold upon the world, will rise up in the spiritual power that will be
-release from the thraldom of this false system of living foisted
+</WRAP>
-and now fastened on the world. Practical, sensible, business and
-professional men and women, mechanics, and workers in trades,
-when they once realize how, from the beginning, they have been
-deliberately deceived for mercenary and selfish purposes by Masters of Evil who have now gained almost a complete strangle-hold
-upon the world, will rise up in the spiritual power that will be