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314 the Divine Spirit in man will come. Those who take the hand of another shall also perish. The forgotten and pursued shall rise and hold the attention of the whole world. There will be fogs and storms. Bare mountains shall suddenly be covered with forests. Earthquakes will come. &hellip; Millions will change the fetters of slavery and humiliation for hunger, disease and death. The ancient roads will be covered with crowds wandering from one place to another. The greatest and most beautiful cities shall perish in fire &hellip; one, two, three. &hellip; Father shall rise against son, brother against brother and mother against daughter. &hellip; Vice, crime and the destruction of body and soul shall follow. &hellip; Families shall be scattered. &hellip; Truth and love shall disappear. &hellip; From ten thousand men one shall remain; he shall be nude and mad and without force and the knowledge to build him a house and find his food. &hellip; He will howl as the raging wolf, devour dead bodies, bite his own flesh and challenge God to fight. &hellip; All the earth will be emptied. God will turn away from it and over it there will be only night and death. Then I shall send a people, now unknown, which shall tear out the weeds of madness and vice with a strong hand and will lead those who still remain faithful to the spirit of man in the fight against Evil. They will found a new life on the earth purified by the death of nations. In the fiftieth year only three great kingdoms will appear, which will exist happily seventy-one years. Afterwards there will be eighteen years of war and destruction. Then the peoples of Agharti will come up from their subterranean caverns to the surface of the earth.'"