Bewilderment and fear are just now gripping the world. Part of this is due to man's latest achievement, the radio; for no sooner, do mighty events fall than their echo encircles the globe. Gradually, as a consequence, the sinister pattern of a swiftly-spreading world-conflagration is being etched into man's consciousness, and with it comes the bated query, How far will the circle of death spread? Whose turn will come next?

We call it the second world war. In reality it is the first resumed with increased fury; for the Versailles peace seems merely to have sown dragon's teeth in every land, and provided the lull necessary for their incubation. To-day the terrible ranks of war are springing out of the dust, full panoplied, and implemented with new horrors of death and destruction.

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Our concern is not as to whether this indictment is true of Hitler's evil sponsor behind the veil, but as to whether it carries over to his—Lucifer's—most active regime on earth today. My indictment divides naturally into (a) the murderer aspect, and (b) the liar aspect. We shall proceed to consider the latter aspect first.

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I now set down my indictment: These are not human beings who are now threatening the order and life of the world. They seem to be outwardly, but beneath the skin they are sub-human; beings that have gone the whole way over to that ancient "liar and father of lies"; a transition not possible save as they first became opaque to the moral and spiritual pulsations of the universe.

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It is in this light that any proposition for world amelioration coming from the opaque Hitler regime must be interpreted. Hidden in it somewhere will be the old hate drive of compulsion and submission the negation not to say utter castration of individual liberty.

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The thesis of this book is that the war now, spreading over the entire earth-plane is in reality a Second war in heaven. Most other wars known to history have had motifs purely mundane; but the cleavage of this one reaches down to the very roots of eternal life and eternal progress The totalitarian ideology is identical with that which precipitated the First war in heaven; viz., rebellion against God, suppression of individual liberty, dominance by compulsion. Hitler's regime embodies all these objectives. We have seen also that one particular mark of Lucifer, viz., as "liar and the father of lies,'' is vividly repeated in Hitler. We now take up a second characteristic, that of a murderer from the-beginning, who abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him."

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Ever since Hitler got his country under the spell of terror, nothing has hindered the gratification of his murder complex. Whenever his hate needs an escape valve, there are always the Jews; but this kind of butchery grew stale. Every little while therefore a prominent citizen who dares, to be himself, was and the next morning is not. Sometimes he deems it necessary to gratify his killer complex through so-called courts of justice. Nor does he ever fail, for terror resides also in their bones. A great general, whom the army loved, but whom Hitler hated and feared, was given a place in the brief siege of Warsaw. No one doubted that a bullet would find him. It did.

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We are now ready to weigh the utter stupidity—even from the Hitler point of view—of this attempt to suppress and smother the religious consciousness of a nation. Did Lucifer really believe for I am ignoring the Hitler conduction wire—that spiritual convictions are so trivial that they can be brushed aside like cob-webs? Had he left the churches poised where his first lie raised them which would have required only silence on his part they would have gone on boosting the "Deutchland-uber-alles" onslaught; but no: such was the smart of his defeat in pre-existence over the Christ-ideal that he couldn't wait—he must even imperil the larger campaign—the while he stopped to extirpate Christianity. It was a gnawing fire within him that couldn't be muffled till a later time when he might hope to become master of the world. This fact alone excludes the wooden medium Hitler from leadership in this world onslaught.

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With these general thoughts before him let the reader judge as to the justice of the following conclusions:

1. The spirits now dominating the Hitler-Stalin-Mussolini regime belong in the same category as the rebels in the First war in heaven; a fact attested by the identity of their ideology with that of Lucifer's; viz., the destruction of man's free agency, and making salvation-or their idea of it-possible only under terms of eternal compulsion.

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4. The present world struggle may consequently be called the Second War in Heaven. The Power that makes for righteousness is undoubtedly behind the freedom forces of today as it was in that first war; and by inference the master strategy, which will again determine the results, is exerted by the same generalship. On the spirit-side the present conflict is probably recognized as the Second War in Heaven, and it may well be accepted as such on this side.