The vastness, the simplicity and the perfectness of the great creative scheme of the universe is beyond most souls to comprehend. The people inhabiting the planets in each of of the twelve divisions acquire additional light and knowledge as they progress from one division to another, until they leave the twelfth and pass into the purely spiritual life of the celestial heaven. There they attain to such glory and happiness as none on the earth can understand until they have experienced it. It is "the peace that passeth all understanding." It is what we are all living, working and striving for. It is the one thing worth while.

In the whole scheme of creation, man is the highest product of a master mind. Those seen on the earth are but the imperfect specimens; those that have failed of the Master's desire. On the earth no human is a perfect example of God's handiwork. But as man progresses through the spheres in the course of his destiny he takes on greater and still greater perfections of body and mind, each change bringing to him greater marks of beauty and youth. For it is known that the soul is born old and grows younger as it follows in the path of its destiny. I have been told by those who have spent much time on this planet that the physical body becomes less material in each of the spheres, as it advances, until the perfect refinement of soul and body are reached in the twelfth division, and, on leaving there for the celestial heaven, the soul and body become one perfect whole, possessing powers of life eternal.

In the entire progress through the twelve divisions the soul leaves behind it the body used on each planet, and takes a new, more perfect and more suitable one on the next. Sometimes several bodies are occupied on one planet before the soul advances to a higher division. It all depends upon the person. He may advance rapidly or slowly, accordingly as he obeys the laws of the Creator, or at any time he may disobey and be punished by an exile to the planet of darkness - the earth.

In all men at all times lies the germ of greater possibilities, just as the great oak lies resting in the little acorn awaiting to be called forth. It is this divine, never-ending source of power and life that attracts him ever forward and onward to greater development. On the earth man is largely a creature of destiny, tied down and made to suffer for his own misdeeds. Man on the other planets is a creator of knowledge, a power which increases as he advances. He is thus enabled to make his life more ideal.

On the planet which I inhabit we are able, by the exercise of our mental forces, to attract at will the vibrations from the air necessary to produce visible pictures of persons, places or subjects on any part of our planet. We can produce the most beautiful music by the harmonizing of these vibrations. Music here can be seen in beautiful colors as well as heard. We can also communicate with each other by a concentration and projection of our thought. We can build up pictures and designs in the brain and reproduce them in detail and coloring on a sensitized plate. This is a great advantage to architects, landscape gardeners and designers of fabrics, machinery, etc., for they can see in advance what the completed article will be like.

What you of the earth know of these things is just the faint impressions that some wayward soul down there gets from some friend up here. The inventions made on the earth were first created on some other planet and transmitted by a friendly soul anxious to improve the conditions of those on the earth.

We are also able to see to the earth, if we have any friends in exile there, and if we have we try to keep up communication with them and render them all possible advice and suggestions until they are reclaimed.

We do not visit the earth in search of lost souls, as you of the earth suppose, but during the sleep of your body, while you are free, we establish such communication with you, for your good, as you will permit, but we do not leave our planet. The only souls that actually appear to each other on the earth plane are those who own bodies there or those who are just leaving the earth to return home and wish before leaving to bid farewell to one to whom they have become attached. Once a soul is fully released from the body, it cannot linger long on the earth, for there is that irresistible influence of its destiny that draws it away.

We live on this planet much as you do on the earth, except under more favorable conditions. We eat, drink and sleep, work, study and spend much time in perfecting the mind and body. This in turn acts upon the development of the real being of the soul. We have not the wickedness to contend with that you have, but still we have temptations to try us and test us. We marry and give birth to physical bodies, which are taken and occupied by the souls that have earned the right to progress from their planet to ours, here to again become little children and be taught our ways and receive our guidance and instruction. We realize the responsibility of this trust and the children receive the greatest consideration in the land. For we know that what we teach them by word or example that they will become in the future. Therefore if through our neglect or wrong teaching they should go wrong, we would be exiled and would have our work to do over again. By the law of the universe none can shirk his duty, and in this respect our duty is clear and we try to obey it.

Here we have no conflicting religious views such as serve to torment the people of the earth. Our eyes are open to the truth. We know the law of life and progression and our efforts will ultimately make of each of us a perfect glorified spiritual being. We have our work to do and it becomes a pleasure to do it. We take instruction from those above us in knowledge and teach those below us, and thus the work of progression goes on.

We have a physical voice for speaking, but we use it very little, as thought projection take its place almost entirely. We use very little in the way of books or illustrations in teaching, except the records of science and history. The eye of the soul is used to search out the thing that is needed, and by these object lessons one learns quickly.

We know that each soul is a son of the Great Soul of the Universe and is therefore sacred. We know also that each life fills a place in the great plan and is necessary to its completion, just as each grain of sand is necessary in the making of an earth and each drop of water in the making of an ocean. The great could not exist without the small. Singly we may not seem to be very important, but to gether, fulfilling our destiny, we are the divine expression of the force that shapes the universe.

The children born on each planet are created for the express purpose of furnishing dwellings for the souls that are sent from other planets. During the month of judgment in each division, some are promoted and advanced another degree, or fraction of a degree, in keeping with their development and obeyance of the laws, while others are moved down the scale because they have not shown the ability and strength to live up to the requirements of their surroundings, while others, who have willfully or carelessly disobeyed the law or injured any of their beings are exiled to the earth, there to remain until they have fully atoned for the wrong done and are again fitted to associate with the people of their planet.

By the system of the judgment seat progressing each month to the next division, it equalizes the supply of births and deaths on every planet and keeps a well regulated birth rate on the earth. Whether new souls are created at any time or in any number, or whether it is just the interchange of souls from planet to planet in the progression of humanity, I do not know, and that question is probably only solved by those who pass into the celestial heaven.

It is a grand, glorious and just system, based wholly upon merit, by which those who try receive their reward in promotion to more glorious realms of knowledge, beauty and more ideal conditions of life, and those who neglect their duty to their Creator and their fellow-men, bring punishment and suffering upon themselves. Each has himself to thank or to blame, each is the maker of his own destiny. And above all we have our Creator to thank for giving us the opportunity to try, and, when we fail, another chance to try again. There is an inspiration in it all. There are so many possi bilities to work for and such great pleasure, as our reward for success.

The person who tries to deceive himself into the belief that the death of the body ends all, is doing himself a great injury by bringing more earthly suffering to his share and by delaying his chances of leaving the earth for realms of power and glory where pleasure and happiness await his arrival. As ye give so shall ye receive and as ye try so shall ye be rewarded. The balance of justice is so fine that rewards and punishments are automatic, self-acting and prompt.

The things I have told you of the earth and of the planet I am now living on I know to be a fact from personal experience. What I have told you of the system of progress beyond this I have learned from those who have received the information much as you are receiving this by a connecting link between a soul here and one gone forward to the next division. I learned that it is only in rare cases that such harmony is established between souls of a different sphere, but that it has occurred a sufficient number of times on record to leave us a reliable knowledge of the law of progression, therefore we do not work in the dark as you do of the earth. It is recorded that many attempts have been made to convey to some soul on the earth the knowledge I am giving to you, but without a definite result. The information has always been misconstrued and misapplied. May you use it wisely and make it known to all who are ready to learn the truth.

This has been written as it was revealed to me. I submit it for your consideration.

A. Victor Segno