The souls from each division bring with them to the earth the characteristics they possessed at home, and it is by these individualizing characteristics that they are known and seemingly controlled. In submitting and giving expression to these peculiarities they are but fulfilling the laws of the universe by carrying out the details of their own destiny. The influence which all souls acknowledge and are subjected to is not planetary, but is the thoughts of their friends on the earth and the planet from which they came and to which they will again return some day.

It is the undesirable characteristics expressed by the souls on the earth that caused them to be exiled, and it is only when they have conquered these tendencies that they will be permitted to return, for only the noble characteristics of each tribe are tolerated in the planet from which they came.

If parents will refer to the foregoing guide, they can tell from whence the souls of their children came, and as a result, what they may expect from them as their bodies develop. This fore-knowledge will create a sympathy and understanding between parents and children that will smooth out the rough places and aid each in the great process of progression.

The souls that inhabit each division of the universe watch over the souls that were exiled from their particular planet. They extend to them all the encouragement they can and send to them all the ideas, thoughts and suggestions for their unfoldment that they will accept.

Curious as it may seem to you, those on the earth have no original thoughts of their own. The thoughts they think are received by them from the inhabitants of other planets. Each soul absorbs most readily the thoughts and ideas from those of his own planet, because his previous development make those ideas most clear to him. Thus, by the thoughts and ideas a person entertains, can you tell to which division of the universe he belongs.

The soul that is truly repentant remains not long on the earth, but is soon drawn back to the planet from which it came, and the journey is as easily accomplished as the passage of a ray of light from the sun to the earth. When the soul is sufficiently purified to return home, it breaks out of the body much as a beautiful flower breaks out of a seed. Some souls remain upon the earth but a short time, a few weeks or months and they have expiated their transgression. I remember often hearing it said of children "He or she is not long for this life ; he looks so beautiful, peaceful and happy" and "The good die young." Those are the souls that are soon freed from their earthly prison.

The good they have done by developing in one or both of the parents a greater sympathy or spirit of kindness, and a better and more generous view of life, is often sufficient to make restitution for such past errors as they may have been guilty of in his planet, and they are quickly released. "Verily the children shall teach them."

Some souls do not repent and bring themselves back to the perfection required of them in the course of one physical life, and as a result are destined to remain in the land of torment for ages and be reborn to the earth time and time again. By the law of a wise creator, each time they are given a new body they are also given a new opportunity to correct their errors and be called back home. Some in their desperation or indifference destroy their body, thinking thus to break the chain that binds them to the earth, but to no avail, for their destiny must be fulfilled. There is one way and only one by which they can be freed, and that is to repent of their past errors and take up again the work of soul development in a new body and fit themselves to return to the planet from which they were exiled.

You will possibly ask what becomes of those souls that are prematurely released by the accidental destruction of the body. What would you do if the residence in which your body now lives should be destroyed? You would find another house. So does the released soul. For on earth it has no means of expression, except through the organism of a physical body. Some apparent accidents to human bodies, however, are in reality an act of destiny. It is often the quick release of a soul that it may go back home. In other cases it results from the combined exertion of one's soul friends to check a career that is leading to further degradation. The release of a soul from a body that was too strongly influenced by environments that were harmful, and its removal to a new body, surrounded by more elevating influences, gives it another chance, and shows to what extent the life of each person on the earth is watched and cared for by the friends beyond, whose work it is to reclaim fallen souls from evil and bring them back to the good.

What you call intuition is the whispering of your guardian friends from your planet attempting to guide and direct you into the right course. They, having the soul-sight, can see the outcome of all things of the earth, and know what its inhabitants should do in each instance. If you follow these silent soul whispers to the best of your ability you will acquire wisdom and greatly shorten your stay in the land of torment and hasten your return to the life beautiful. If you do not obey these kindly offers you must continue to suffer on for many years.

That you are today on the earth is the proof that you fell from grace and indicates one of two things. You are either unprepared to return and fill your previous place among your fellow-men, or you have a mission on the earth yet to perform for the good of its inhabitants, and not until this is performed will you be called back home.