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Life on Other Worlds Q: Are all the planets inhabited? A: Some are and some are not. In our system the following are inhabited: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. Jupiter and Saturn are not inhabited, as they have no atmosphere. Jupiter has one, but we cannot consider it as such, as it has virtually no depth, and Saturn has none at all. It is a sphere of low density, almost entirely composed of heavy gases, with a small solid centre. It is a world in formation. As it solidifies it will contract, liberating the elements that will eventually form its atmosphere. It could he that the entry of another Sun into our system will bring about a "cracking" process, by which the denser elements will be precipitated. Jupiter, also, is a new body which recently developed a rarefied atmosphere. However, it is still unsuitable for life. As these bodies become more dense they will move closer to the gravitational centre of our system, in view of the fact that their diameters decrease and their density increases. They will thus be increasingly subject to attraction, and decreasingly subject to repulsion. However, many of Jupiter's and Saturn's satellites are inhabited. Q: But can Mercury support life, when it is so near the Sun? A: Certainly. Its great etheric mass filters the rays of the Sun. Bear in mind that whereas Earth's etheric covering extends a mere 250,000 miles, Mercury's extends 390,000 miles. God-or Nature, whichever you like to say-covers bodies to keep out cold, but in our case the opposite takes place, the greater the heat, the greater the covering. If you calculate the speed of solar rays in space as I showed you by checking the difference between the luminosity of the rising Sun and the Sun at zenith, with the equatorial radius of the Earth as a base, you will see that Mercury, subject to intenser radiation, has been given an etheric covering exactly large enough to filter these rays to a point where they fill into the visible spectrum on reaching the surface of the planet. From the calculation we made together you saw that the farther bodies are from the Sun, the less covering they have, until we come to Saturn, which has none at all. Up to that point the ether and atmosphere are there to filter the rays of the Sun. From Saturn outwards, however, the planets again acquire an etheric cover on an increasing scale, no longer with the object of filtering the Sun's rays, but to produce a positive reaction to them, so as to provide sufficient heat to maintain life. So the atmospheric and etheric compositions of these planets are not the same as those of planets on this side of Saturn. The amount of diffused light is much greater than on Earth. Their atmosphere, though rarefied, is a good conductor of heat, which may seem absurd to you. Q: I find it hard to see how a distant planet can have an atmosphere sensitive to the rays of the Sun, in view of the tiny fraction of light they receive. A: There are many kinds of light. Its origin can also be chemical. Certain species of vegetation emit light under bacteriological action. Insects produce quite a strong light by utilising their own internal enzyme reactions. You can make cold light by electrical discharges through gas. Why then deny that Nature has other methods of giving life to a planet? Put an electric charge through a tube of hydrogen and it will produce a bluish light; mix other gases with the hydrogen and you will obtain other kinds of light. What more spectacular demonstration could one wish for than that which takes places when one mixes a small quantity of chlorine with water, and then subjects the mixture to a ray of light. This will give rise to a violent explosion and emission of light and heat. If similar reactions were produced within the atmosphere of the planets, avery small ray of light could produce a tremendous reaction with vast magnetic storms. Q: Have the beings on these planets a material form? A: What do you expect them to be made of? They cannot be made of energy because only spirit is energy. Q: But is our constitution very different from that of the people of other planets? A: There are differences, but the human form is Nature's chosen form. The metablism of a man from Pluto is not precisely the same as that of an inhabitant of Mercury. Nevertheless one can visit the other and remain alive for a long period. A fish lives in a dense medium, but can keep itself alive for a certain time by breathing air. But the difference between Pluto's and Mercury's atmospheres is not nearly as great as that between air and water, so one could stay alive a long time. Q: But has gravity no effect? A: None. Gravity is an illusion, like others you entertain. We discussed how gravity is a combination of phenomena, wherein an important part is played by the atmospheric covering which is responsible for differences in density. But we also came to the conclusion that all inhabited planets have an atmosphere, so the difference is a small one. All have warmth, too, either by solar radiation or by chemical reaction. The principal factor in gravity is the vertical component of magnetism, but the difference between one planet and another is insufficient to prevent interchange between people of different planets. Q: As regards appearance, what are the chief differences between the people of the various planets? A: We cannot say, for example, that the people of Mercury are tall or short. There are all sorts, as you have pigmies. However, their maximum stature is 5 ft. 10 in. They are strong, dark, intelligent, energetic and active, with small eyes, no beards, low foreheads, well made noses. On Venus they reach 6 ft. They belong to various races, predominantly a fair type. Their bodies are well made, but they are the most like Earth people, both in appearance and in spirit. They are energetic, talkative, kindly, and above all, spiritually minded. On Mars there are two root races; one fair and one dark. The fair race is the most tractable and gentle. The dark race is composed of people who are short of stature and of a lively disposition. They are the gayest in the planetary system. There is no life on Jupiter, only on its satellites. But there is a great variety of life on these heavenly bodies. There are all sizes, from men of 7 ft.4in. down to Lilliputian beings. But we all live in the same family. The little people are in the majority. There is no life on Saturn either. Due to its lack of atmosphere, its surface will be riddled with meteorites. Two of its satellites are inhabited. There the men are intelligent and kind. They have their space crafts, but they do not use them much. For you these beings would be quite inexplicable because they never die. They possess what one might call the body of resurrection. They never commit any sin, yet they are material beings. They are tall, with large magnetic eyes. Not even we can fathom all their wisdom, they are enigmatic. On Uranus and Neptune the inhabitants are very similar. They are tall and muscular, well built, with large eyes and very well developed heads. Organically they function in a different way from the inhabitants of other planets. They do not feed on heavy substances as we do, but on liquids or gases, and their blood is different. On Pluto life is very similar to that on Earth. The people are identical in nearly everything. But not withstanding their advanced intelligence, they incline to evil and neglect God. They allow their baser instincts to rule them. They learned to travel though space a long time ago. They do not war among themselves-war, alas, only exists on Earth. But they are dangerous beings, and any instances of saucers doing harm to people on Earth can be attributed to them. The only reason they do not harm any other inhabitants of the system is because they know that these other beings are more evolved, and any attempt at conquest would be fatal. But their fate is sealed. The people of Earth have committed many misdeeds, and this planet is regarded as the centre of evil, but its inhabitants are yet in their infancy, and in the dawn of their intelligent life, with the exception of a small elite who have settled down here as teachers. For this reason, God will punish humanity, but with moderation, without expelling this planet from the solar system. Those who cannot adjust themselves to the higher order of things will be evacuated from the planet, leaving it in the possession of others who will be like the inhabitants of the satellites of Saturn. As for Pluto, justice will take its full course. Evil will not be allowed to continue indefinitely. The transgression of law is not a natural phenomenon, because if it were a basic condition for the evolution of individuals of various worlds, then it would itself become a law. It is absurd to think that evil should itself be a law. There are only two tenets that can claim immortality on any inhabited world, these are love of God and love of one's neighbour. Anything that departs from these tenets is a transgression. The in-habitants of Pluto were fully aware of divine laws, but chose to ignore them. They became prey to sexual pleasure and as a direct result of this laid themselves open to other sins such as idolatry, sodomy, rebellion and disrespect for the physical integrity of others, and so fell under the whole sway of evil. It is like an avalanche, which can start off with the fall of a small stone, and finish up as a complete landslide. For this reason, Pluto will be torn away from this system, and 'will wander towards the nearest constellation. Its inhabitants will suffer untold horror and will not be able to escape. They will be degraded to the state of cave men under atrocious conditions. The splendour of their cities, their rapid transport systems, brilliant lighting and communications and, in fact, all that a highly intelligent humanity can attain to through millennia of constant progress, beyond your imagination, will be written off and crumble into ruin like historical Babylon, with its hanging gardens. Then our system 'will return to normal and we shall become as one large family, all under the banner of love. Q: As far as I can gather from your statements, Earth will be left with a humanity similar to the inhabitants of Saturn's satellites. Does this mean human beings will be changed? A: This is exactly what I wanted to convey. Human beings have gone as far as they can go. Their intelligence cannot go beyond the normal senses. You talk in terms of biological evolution, but let us see if this is true or not. There should be a pari-passu development between intelligence and the physical body if this theory were true. Whereas intelligence has reached a high stage of development, the body has been attacked by strange diseases which are on the increase. We thus get a picture of mental development accompanied by physical atrophy. The human race has reached a point in its development where it should disappear. Races are like men with their infancy and adolescence, maturity, old age and death. The physical body as it is would not give intelligence very much more room for development. Earthly science and techniques will reach such an advanced stage that the brain will no longer be able to cope with the problems involved, which may have to be done by machines. Does this imply that inanimate machinery is superior to spirit? Not at all. But this requires the appearance of a new race on Earth, composed of beings with sufficient brain power to grasp all the increasingly complex problems associated with progress. These bodies would have the capacity to take a further step along the path to wisdom. How can you talk of indefinite progress when you are bound to a body of limited capacity and of a low order. It is wrong to say that Nature does not progress by sudden leaps. Its progress is based almost entirely on this, as, for example, in the chemical combinations of carbon and hydrogen. Knowledge is garnered until, at a given instant, there is an integral transformation of brain and body. If one adds an atom of hydrogen to an atom of oxygen, the result is still a gas, but if a further atom of hydrogen is added, there is a sudden transformation and they cease to be gases and turn into liquid. The same thing happens in the case of carbon and hydrogen. CH2 is a gas, and we can go on adding to either element without anything happening until we get to C2H4 when there is a sudden transformation and the gas changes its characteristics radically. There was no gradual change in the gas, but it preserved its characteristics until sufficient elements were added to bring about the sudden transformation. In life the process is the same. Many races are buried in the life cycle of a planer. Earthly science, believing in natural selection, sought for the links in the chain of evolution. It did not find them, and never will find them, because they do not exist. It finds many things which are not links, which proves their non-existence. It is strange that all races have left their traces on Earth, except those that constituted the links in the evolutionary chain. Why should Nature have played such a trick to hide them if everything that exists is for man's enlightenment? This, therefore, is not what happens. When a race is no longer capable of keeping up the struggle against constantly changing climate and circumstance, then the race disappears like any other living thing. If a sun has its old age and disintegration, then why should this not also apply to a race? What is impossible for man is easy for God. He can cause a planet to be inhabited in a moment.28 Q: But how can a planet come to be inhabited if all its people have perished? A: God performs an act of resurrection.29 - Q: How? A: Spirit acts on matter and fashions it to its will where such super-physical phenomena are commonplace, the spirit manipulates the ectoplasm of a passive agent and moulds from it a body which is visible ~o the living. Its organism is real and its activity can be controlled. It has all the organs that a normal individual has. After manifestation the ectoplasm is generally reabsorbed by the passive agent, and disappears. However, it would only need an act of will on its part to continue living a lifr of its own. In many of these cases of manifestation hairs and pieces of clothing have been left and preserved intact. If such fragments can remain in existence, there is no reason why a whole body should not remain. It would only have to sever its connection with the passive agent. If God were to ordain that a new race should populate the Earth, the spirits could manipulate the ectoplasm of the Earth itself and create bodies from it, far superior to those of the present race. These new beings would have fantastic bodies and brains. This is the act of resurrection I spoke of. If ordinary spirits of a lower order can mould a body in accordance with their will, how much greater then would be the power of God, should He decide to repopulate the Earth? Q: Does this mean to say that the present race came into being in this way? A: There is no doubt about it. Adam was in fact moulded from the dust of the Earth, that is to say, from its ectoplasm. The ancient race had used up the whole of its evolutionary energy, and there had to be an intervention of the heavenly powers which created the new race. This event is very clearly depicted in the case of Eve. God caused Adam to fall into a deep sleep, using him as the passive supplier of ectoplasm, and the body of Eve was moulded from this. She was, indeed, flesh of Adam's flesh, and the Biblical narrator is correct when he stated that woman was moulded from Adam's rib. Q: But is not ectoplasm a by-product of the nervous system? How could it be drawn from the Earth? A: Everything is drawn from the Earth. Vegetables also have their ectoplasm and their roots draw it up from the soil. If any power were capable of forming a new body, surely it would draw the necessary elements for it from the ground. It would be a slight on the powers of the Supreme Spirit to think that He who made matter should not also have the power to make ectoplasm. Q: If there were an atomic disaster, and the planet became uninhabitable, how could the spirit mould new bodies that could keep alive? A: Lift could well be impossible for the body as it is now, but on the other hand it could be ideal for other bodies. God creates types of beings to suit the medium in which they are placed. Earthworms live in the same world as man, but the soil is their ideal medium; fish live in water; the amphibian can live in air or water; the eagle prefers heights where the atmosphere is rarefied. If life now manifests itself in various forms, do you think Nature has run through her repertoire and exhausted her possibilities on Earth? A lion would die in the Arctic, whereas a bear is quite happy there. Whether the Earth is covered with ice, whether it becomes too hot, whether it is radioactive or not, Nature will in every case devise an appropriate life form. And if Nature, with this wonderful power of creation, were supplemented by a spiritual power, what marvels could it not perform? Man will have to disappear from the face of the Earth, and homo sapiens will be replaced by spiritual man, so long as he allows Nature to effect this transformation quietly on her own. When the first man of the present race, who was the resurrection of a dying race, made his appearance on the planet, there were still some men of the old race left who were dying off. There was no total disappearance of living beings from the planet. However, home sapiens appears to be in a hurry to get to the end of his career and to deprive Nature of its right to put an end to him by exhaustion. Perhaps it is just because he is bent on self-destruction." "There are various Biblical references to the complete destruction of living beings. In Isaiah we read the following: "Until the cities be wasted without inhabitation ~ and the houses without man, and the land be utterly desolate. And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great for salting in the midst of the land" (Isaiah 6: xi-xii); "Through the wrath of the Lord of Hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother" (Isaiah 9: xix); "The consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness, for the Lord God of Hosts shall make a consumption" (Isaiah to: xxii-xxiii); "Behold the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it . For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine. And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible. I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir. Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place..." (Isaiah 13: ix-xiii); .... for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land" (Isaiah 16: iv); "Behold the Lord snaketh the land empty and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.... The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled for the Lord hath spoken this word.... Therefore the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate, therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, and the earth is moved exceedinly. Thee earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage and the transgressions there of shall be heavy upon it;and it shall fall,and not rise again"(Isaiah24) While talking about destruction, they also assert that earth will be inhabited by other men: "Then shalt thou say in shine heart, Who hast begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold I was left alone; these where had they been?" (Isaiah 49: xxi); "They shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified" (Isaiah 6o: xxi); "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered nor come into mind" (Isaiah 6~: xvii). In seances 28" They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them" (Isaiah 48: vii). 29St. Clement of Alexandria, a disciple of Panthaenus, who was in turn a disciple of St. John, when talking about resurrection, indicated that this was a phenomenon which occurred at regular intervals in the world, q.v. Letters to the Corinthians, Ch. 24. He maintains that the human race is created and lives until it is in time succeeded by another. In Chapter as of the same letter, he gives the divine phoenix as an example, which is born from the body of its predecessor when it is ageing and near death. According to other Fathers of the Church, the human race rarely survives more than 7,000 years, having in this time exhausted its capacity to adapt itself to a constantly changing medium.