consciousness, they will turn about, and because of the very destructiveness of their nature, will begin to destroy each other, until none are left, and their souls will vanish into the chaos and darkness from which they came.

But think not this is not all in the Great Plan, and that the Anti-Christ and all his cohorts are not now wholly under My perfect control. For it is through him and his opposing forces that I provide the discipline and the punishment by which man learns to know unerringly Good and Evil. No man can truly know Good and Evil until he has tasted and eaten to satiation of the fruits of evil—has been so taught and led to the limit of selfish indulgence by the creator of evil—SELF, that he learns the foolishness and emptiness of it all, and finally awakens as a “Prodigal Son,” and longs for his Father’s home and the place at His table of goodness and abundance which he discarded for the husks of the outer world, and he starts on his homeward journey back to his Father’s Kingdom.

Those who have not awakened in this life to a knowledge of their spiritual nature must wait a long, long period for another opportunity; for they cannot return to earth during the wondrous New Age I have prepared for My children who have listened to My Voice and whom I intend to lead into the Kingdom of Light and Love I am bringing down from Heaven to the midst of men.

—From “Brotherhood,” one of the Impersonal books, first published in 1927.