CHAPTER XV.

LIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.

THE PLANET JUPITER

LIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a moonless

night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of

scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making:

the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a

seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the

one reality, OMNISCIENCE.

Only presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the creation of

the Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous worldwide systems, and

place his particular world-unit at the center of the Cosmos.

Man contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more

ornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, conceitedly

thinking that the Father's only consideration is centered about himself.

As these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits

extending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with the

habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not yet

possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive state: not

long since condensed from fire mist: others where life has just begun:

others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of God's creatures, just

as you live and others have lived before you. And there are other

worlds whose life-cycle has been run; where intelligent life has

ceased: where world-disintegration has set in. For this is in

accordance with the universal law of Growth and Decay--a law that

exempts neither the one-celled amoeba, nor the complex Solar system

whirling yonder in Infinite space.

For all that comes from the Father into material expression must some

day revert to its primordial state.

You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic conditions on

Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the zenith of its Cosmic

cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to a degree of Divine

unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds.

It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to one

of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our sun, in

order you may be able to learn by contrast something of the wonders of

God's work.

JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times larger

than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately less, might well

be styled the Master Planet of our system.

Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of

which is not necessary at this time. This planet is in what might be

styled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun. This

life has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it

will be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in

Geological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of

these periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have

attained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences

capable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth.

Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will

undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise

new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land

surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water,

to rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and

solicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial

Creations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal

and petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will

inhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come.

Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this

planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still very

dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the

extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only

dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun

penetrates to the surface of the globe. By reason of the constant

thick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped

in deep gloom and darkness. As radiation is arrested to a marked

degree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as

well as hot. In this steam environment grow forests of fern and

fungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of

time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this

planet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed,

but is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type,

but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and

adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races

yet to come on the planet.

Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms

are, and future ones will be evolved along specially modified lines, in

order that they may encompass the least possible volume, just as the

denizens of the extreme depths of your oceans have evolved. The

modification is necessary that organisms mat be able to function on a

planet where the difference in gravity is as one to three compared with

your Earth. In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce

maximum lightness.

As there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature is

God Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is as

perfect within itself as is the most gigantic sun. Size is but

relative. The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and complex as is

that of the mammoth, and so there exist in the universe inhabited

worlds that are relatively very small.

Circulating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are

numerous small planets or asteroids. One in particular, which is known

to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an atmosphere and is

inhabited by diminutive people and a correspondingly diminutive fauna

and flora. The diameter of Vesta is about 500 miles, although your

astronomers give its size, erroneously, as much smaller.

While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are

getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them you

are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos.

The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a perfect

watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit in a given

time mathematically proportional to the movements of all the other

celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the watch conform to

their prescribed movements. The celestial bodies are seemingly

actuated by invisible gears and are held rigidly in their proper places

by a mighty force whose power is incalculable. This is evidenced by

the fact that all celestial bodies conform to that inexorable law,

Divine Harmony.

That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their

ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their periods

is as the cube of their distance from their common centers, is an

exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious laws.

You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted view of

Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross: their apparent

reality an illusion. Material life is but a projection from the Cause

world into the Effect world. Man is but a reflection of a reality that

transcends his material vision.

You are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, which is

yet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is nigh. Christ is

coming into His Kingdom, which must be in the hearts of the people.

His Second Coming means that He will come into your lives with the

Power of the Spirit. This can only become possible through an awakened

understanding of Spiritual laws. Although man on your Earth is in

great darkness it is not the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must

undergo many changes before it reaches your evolutionary stage.

COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will be

realized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM MARS.

This event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your Earth, for it

will be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF THE MEDIEVAL

DOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY built upon a perverted

corruption of God's limitless universe: a universe narrowed down to

your Earth and the inhabitants thereof.

Man's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his

ignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway among a

majority of your so-called learned scientists and the people generally.

But the materialism of the masses is not so degenerating and

destructive as the impossible dogmas entertained by your numerous sects

WHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER.

These dogmas are priestly inventions created to frighten God's

children; to make of man, created after the image of God a crawling,

servile creature, instead of what he really should be, the highest

manifestation of the Divine, the culmination of God's handiwork.

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