The Invisible Encounter

The world's foremost plane designer makes a plea for spiritual rather than material power as the great need of our day. Mankind, he says, is now passing through a crisis of unprecedented depth and magnitude. The main cause can he traced to a deep inner dislocation in the moral and spiritual sphere of existence. This work discusses the nature of the great disturbance and its inner cause, and shows the way out.

Mr. Sikorsky opens with an original and interesting study of Christ in the wilderness when three times he was tempted by the Devil. There a decision was made for good against evil, for the spiritual rather than the material. The author draws a very apt parallel in history and shows how again and again mankind has
chosen the material when confronted with a decision. If, he says, the world is to be controlled by spiritually dead men, it is as if an unconscious crew were placed at the controls of an airliner.

1947