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26 AEOTJND THE WOELD.
earthly blindness, may or may not say. There is an atmosphere
pertaining to your earth, to the moon, to the planets,
to every orb, every object, and entity in nature. The most
refined atmosphere relating to any star in the range of your
telescopic system is one of the Pleiades, third of the series.
There are other planets in interstellar realms far in advance
of this, however. Earthly astronomers know nothing of
them ; nor very little, as yet, of their neighbor the moon,
with its atmospheric strata, and swarming inhabitants. The
science of astronomy among mortals is yet in its swaddlingclothes.
They should talk with becoming modesty. . . .
" Most certainly. There are old Oriental cities, precious
stones, treasures and statuary, buried in deltas, and imbedded
under mountains of sands. These, by the aid of clairvoyance,
and the citizens of the heavens Avho lived in remote antiquity,
might and ivill be unearthed when mortals become
unselfish enough to wisely appropriate such immense treasures."
Aaron Knight, influencing, said, "Spirits have infinitely
better facilities for moral progress than mortals ; but as to
how they use them is a matter of choice. I am no fatalist.
Neither men nor spirits are mere things, but moral actors.
. . . Certainly, there are planets whose surfaces are so refined,
fruits so sublimated, and atmospheres so ethereal,
that the inhabitants peopling them, though having an outer
envelope comparable to
the physical body, do not die as the
term ' death ' is understood by you. They gradually throw off
the external vesture in particled emanations, but
do not for
a moment cease to be conscious. . . . Spirits are, of course,
fallible. Many of them do not understand either the laws
or the effects of psychological control as they should.
Mediums are both benefited and injured by magnetic influences.
This depends upon the wisdom and motives of
the intelligences. . . . The guardian, other things being
equal, can the most effectually impress a medium. All
mediums should have in attendance organized circles of