PUT ON the whole armor of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. —Ephesians 6:11-12.

IN THE January and October issues of this magazine were published two articles on the Invisible Government that is ruling the world, and in an editorial note preceding the October article it was promised “to show that there are actual invisible subversive intelligences working to drag and hold men back from their rightful spiritual inheritance, and to point how these intelligences work through their agents in the flesh.”

In the present article will be shown the part that these intelligences play in the mental and spiritual evolution of humanity.

As far back as we have any recorded history will be found clear evidences of the existence of subversive intelligences working seemingly to hinder and halt man’s spiritual growth. In fact the first evidence is seen in the Garden of Eden, when the serpent seduced Eve into eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, which the Lord God had expressly commanded she should not eat.

In the result of that first act of disobedience, perhaps, can be seen the purpose and explanation of all that man has had to endure ever since. For at that time did the Lord God say to the serpent, “Because thou hast done