These Asteroids are places of experiences, experiments, fragmentary states. Perhaps yon know people who consider that they could have made a better world, some who think that they could regulate things better, that they could govern the world better than it is governed, those who think that God has made a mistake in the order of the universe, that something is out of place, unfortunate or wrong; these have an opportunity of experimenting upon the Asteroids. As you often send naughty boys to play in a place that is limited, giving them something to do that they may test their boasted strength and power, so these Asteroids are places of experiment for vain spirits; those who think they can do something better than, in the usual order of things, earth affords; there is an opportunity for experiment, which is generally a failure. Perhaps the typical Lucifer might have been banished to one of the Asteroids had he not found a larger kingdom on the earth where he could illustrate the darkness of his light.

As said before, it was supposed by some of the ancients that this break was caused by war between the reigning divinities. Not so, however: Jove is acknowledged to be Jupiter, and takes secondary charge of the planets next to the sun, while the Angel of Saturn has charge over all planets within its orbit

It will be useless to expect, either on the wings of philosophy or poetry and imagery, to traverse the entire solar system or endeavor to take you through all the planets and their states. The lesson can be stated but the magnitude of conception must be left to the domain of the Soul.

The lowest expressions of Souls on the planet Jupiter are higher than the highest on the planet Mars. Forms, although having generic life, still have almost instantaneous perfection, such is the subtle power of spirit over the very refined substance that constitutes that wonderful orb. Even in the planet Mara it is, unquestionably, true that the inhabitants are now wondering why they cannot make the inhabitants of the earth perceive them; are endeavoring by signals, which will one day be perceived, to attract the attention of those who live upon the earth. Could it be possible for yon to perceive the inhabitants of Jupiter, as they will be revealed to you by interplanetary life, you would Bee beings whom you would fall down and worship, but they are not to be worshiped, they are only higher expressions of Souls like yourselves.

Those who are the highest Angels of the planet Jupiter enter into cycles or periods that make them lesser Archangels, representing the period of the one-half cycle of all planets. These Archangels are those that hare communion with, or send messages to the Souls on earth; are those that announce the approach of a dispensation; are those that in the Middle Ages have been named; and, after all tradition is taken away from demonology, enough was known to show that there was an order of Angels regarded as belonging to your planet; but the ancients did not know, however, that these were the Souls of those who bad once had expression on this planet; they become, by higher expression, higher Angels, Archangels, i, e., beyond the Angels; these Archangels are those who hare greater power and scope of knowledge than the Angels. The higher Archangels understand the creative processes of life.

Between the inhabitants of the planets Jupiter and Saturn intercommunion is carried on to such an extent that you could only conceive of it by your rarest angelic communion.

If the expressions on the planet Jupiter are such that the grossest forms there would transcend your highest ideal, your visions of fairyland, your conceptions of paradise; if matter is so subjugated by spirit, and by the law of the planetary life of Jupiter that all labor is performed by the rarest mechanism and thought; if even the perfection of all mechanical impulses, inventions, and delicate intricacies of life governing Mars are superseded, set aside, by the still more subtle and wonderful processes known in Jupiter, when its spirit prevails, then there could be no conception in the mind of man on earth of what the expression of life on Saturn is, or what the Angela or the Archangels of that planet might be.

After planetary experience on Saturn and its angelic states, the Archangels pass into the interstellar heavens, ministering there to all lower Angels. They may even pass beyond the solar system, into the solar systems of your central sun, exchanging labors and ministrations with the Archangels of those systems.

The outer planets of your solar system reveal a life that is far beyond statement. Life upon each planet reveals as its culmination the Angels and Archangels, of as much higher degree as the planet itself is higher. Those higher planets and their expressions are so far beyond the imagination of the children of earth that it cannot be possible to state them, only to say that the embodiment on each planet begins where the expression of the preceding planet culminates, until we reach the outermost planet of the solar system, where all are Archangels. These are the Souls who are ready to have charge over worlds, and it is unquestionably true that, in certain states, not only beings of a still higher order, but Archangels, most know the process of making worlds, as well as of assisting those who are passing through the experiences of planets.

In those remote and wonderful systems that shine upon you in the starry pathway or " Milky Way," some Demigod holds sway, or in clouds of nebula;, where unborn worlds seem to move, some highest Archangel, some Demigod who has passed through all planetary existence of the twelve solar systems, is arranging new solar systems, and even knows the Souls that will be in his charge; as that most ancient Archangel who saw this solar system in its nebulous state, knew what Souls were to pass through the various expressions on the different planets. No more, to an Archangel, is this creation of worlds than the building of ships by the master builder, or the erection of a temple by one who understands it.

Such, then, are the steps of this wonderful planetary existence that they can only be hinted at in these lessons. The degrees that intervene between you and the outermost planet are degrees of gradual spiral ascent toward that which we have denominated the Archangel. The Archangels belonging to the solar system freely mingle with the Archangels of other solar systems; yet there are beings of a still higher order. There are Archangels who dwell in an atmosphere that would correspond to the white light of the son; such as these would be denominated