Wondrous as seems the attainment of the completed life of the earth, perfect as it would seem the angelic state must be, when the earth has been vanquished and the Soul-light has shone through matter, wonderful as is the perception of that Angel who is prepared to lead other Souls to the knowledge that material life is not lift, still this is but one of the stepping atones, one of the first steps in that great aeries that in every solar system must be twelve.

The angelic state of each planet is the perfect life of that planet, representing the Soul in its essence, or unit; but there are, as said before, many degrees of angelic states belonging to each planet The perfected Soul, having become reunited, does not at once pass on to another planet and have expresion there, but in the heavens that belong to each planet the Soul exercises its beneficent parental power. By parental power we mean having charge of other Souls who are passing through the experiences of time. These Angels are secondary Angels and represent the Primal Angels, those who accompanied them and their groups of Souls to earth.

The whole of the angelic life belonging to the earth would occupy as much time as all the embodiments upon the earth. Just as the periods in spirit life correspond, in some degree, to the expressions in mortal form in point of time, so in the angelic state there is fruition of all expressions, and a period of ministration corresponding to all the time of experience; so if Souls have been one million, or ten millions of years passing through the embodiments in one planet, the angelic state belonging to that planet will occupy a corresponding length of time, and they will assist other Souls and spirits in the states beneath. In the angelic state, as a unit, the Soul performs the labor for which the experience and expression has been perfected on the earth, in piloting other Souls through the quicksands .and shoals of human life, as each has been piloted by the Primal Angels; thus there is a succession of angelic expressions belonging to the earth in the ripened states of angelic life, the harvest of all attainments.

The Angela of different degrees belonging to the angelic states of earth, whether as primary Angels or secondary Angels, from the beginning, in all degrees, have especial names, functions, and powers; hut their states are so far beyond the earth and its present comprehension that we can only refer to them. For instance: the earth is one of the least of the planets of the solar system. When Souls approach a system of planets they approach for embodiments in all the planets of that system successively. The intervening angelic states are, therefore, what might be termed periods of respite, from expression to ministration. The ministering power being in the Angel, expression being that which includes all of the mortal career; so all ministering power in the solar system and the palpable aids to human spirits are in the angel states. Angels employ the ministering spirits to do their bidding, which is the will of God. Ministering spirits are often confounded with guardian Angels; you now perceive the difference. The ministering spirit has not finished earthly expression, is in sympathy with earthly conditions, is affected by the turmoil of earthly existence.

The state of the Angel is the moat perfect state of labor as it is the most perfect state of rest; is that which is near the state of causation, that which it the force impelling to every activity, and that must be a state of calmness and rest. While all is agitation in the spirit state, and in the conditions of mortals on the earth, in the angelic states there is no agitation, because there is possession. That being the state of calmness, the state of perfection, so far as fulfillment of expression is concerned, on the planet of which it is the angel state. You thus perceive the object of the expression on earth and other planets, in its fruition, just as you have in the fruitage of the vine the object of its planting.

It may, therefore, be said that the angelic states of each planet are, in reality, the fruition of the planet, and hold as possession all that Souls have expressed of love and knowledge, from within, through the victory over matter, this victory being attested in the presence of the Archangels. In the angelic states of the earth, if earth were the highest planet in the system, all would have been attained that is possible in this solar system. But as there are planets beneath your earth, some of which have not reached the state of possible expression to any human life, (those within the radius of the earth's orbit are beneath the earth in generic expression) bo there are planets outside of the earth's orbit that express unfoldment in the exact order of their positions in the solar system; those planets are beyond the earth in expression.

If the Angels of earth seem to be exalted beyond human comprehension, what will yon say of those planets whose Angels would be as Archangels compared to those of earth?

When the knowledge of the solar system is complete there will be twelve planets included in your astronomical tables. Those not yet discovered by the science of earth will be known when that science is further advanced. The planetary steps from earth outward are all steps of advancement, and after the Angel of earth has remained in the different degrees of the angelic states of the earth as long as is required for the entire perfection of that expression, ministering to others, having charge of others who are following in the paths of time and sense, expression on the next planet begins.

In approaching a solar system Souls approach the lowermost state of expression possible in that solar system, passing successively through the different states of each planet The earth was the lowest state when Souls commenced expression here. Venus is now lower than the earth, the next in degree is Mercury; the next planet nearest the sun is not even discovered, and the outer planets are not dreamed of. When Souls were first embodied upon the earth, the earth afforded the stages of expression that the planet nearest the sun, capable of any human expression, now affords, and that will be afforded by the last planet nearest the sun when the solar system is completed. When all the planets are discovered, it will be found that Souls can be embodied in the lowermost and outermost states at the same time.