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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ======
+====== The Inner Life ======
-The Shadow 4
+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | SEPTEMBER 1933 ==
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+an extent unknown before. Class hatreds became more embittered, and Science multiplied the engines of death and destruction.
+These things, however, were but the more immediate and visible effects of the Great Rejection. On inner planes the results were even more serious, if less apparent. The rejection of a true and lofty spirituality in favor of psychic and spiritualistic phenomena resulted in an immediate and rapid spread of the latter.
+The present article does not in any way concern itself with the morality or otherwise of Spiritualism. Its intention is to show what are the consequences of an organized and determined attempt to establish communication between human beings and entities who inhabit the sub-planes of the astral world.
+The rejection of the spirit of Brotherhood had, as its results, the capitalistic war in South Africa, the atrocities in the Belgian Congo, and finally, the culminating horrors of the Great War of 1914. In the period between 1914 and 1919, millions of human beings died a sudden and a violent death. They were precipitated without warning into the seething whirlpools of the lower astral planes.
+This fact, combined with the determined efforts of bereaved relatives to establish “communication,” has had its inevitable effect. There has been an unexampled pressure from both sides, and the result is that the veil which normally and mercifully separates two unlike and unsympathetic modes of existence has worn perilously thin.
+At the same time thousands of evil and malicious astral entities are concentrating their efforts upon breaking down and demolishing such protecting barriers as still remain. When this happens—and it will happen before
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