The Planet Venus
Around every planet is a corresponding aura, both of physical and spiritual life, the spiritual life being in exact proportion to the advancement of the planet itself, so that if you have from an outward furnace an emanation of smoke, so you have from an undeveloped world an emanation of cloud and vapour and of spiritually-darkening substances. If you have from an earth developed approximately to a sphere of science and learning an atmosphere that is proportionately clear, so you have around that planet an atmosphere that is spiritually clear, and all spirits who are related to, or according to their spiritual state, are allied to any planet, must for the time-being, exhibit the prevailing aura that exists upon it, indeed are the cause of it. If, from a densely populated city, like that which you inhabit, upon a little eminence at a distance you may discover a vast cloud of smoke, which you would be unwilling to enter if it did not seemingly disappear as you approached it, so from a world like your earth, that we shall presently show is in an incipient state of development, there is a visible and cloudy emanation which forms ten times the bulk of the earth’s surface itself, and presents an atmosphere many hundreds of miles from the earth of a cloudy or smoky appearance, arising from and caused by the outward condition of the earth.
Corresponding to these is the pervading spiritual atmosphere caused by the spirits that inhabit your earth and the spirits that inhabit the immediate spheres surrounding it, and if we tell you that this sphere is also cloudy, you will not wonder when you consider the average state of the human mind, and the average condition of the human spirit upon earth. The only redeeming feature is that at intervals there is born upon earth a guiding light which represents the prophecy of a race and the hope of humanity. But that you may not be without hope, and that there may be something to look forward to even in the history of the earth, we will state that those spirits that arrive at the degree of angelic states wherein they do not anymore especially belong to earth, but occupy an intermediate interstellar sphere, have been at liberty, and are at liberty, to visit other worlds. You will understand that in the cosmic theory of science avowed by such minds as Humboldt and Strauss, it is the belief that the entire stellar system was once a mass of vapour, that this gradually became cool, and that atoms formed themselves into centres of which the present worlds in the solar and stellar systems are the result. Whether or not this be true, we shall not here discuss, but it is a fact that the spiritual firmament, after the same manner with the material firmament, presents a successive line, a graduated scale of developed and undeveloped planets, and that if you go to the outermost world in the solar system you will find the highest degree of spiritual advancement, and if you go to the innermost world in the solar system, you will find the lowest degree of spiritual advancement.
We learn by this that the outermost planet must be the oldest and the innermost must be the newest world in the solar system. Hence that the state of Mercury spiritually, is infinitely lower than that of the earth (which may be some consolation), that the state of Venus is approximately lower, in some directions only of intellect being higher, as the earth has been at a previous epoch higher in some directions than it now is, but these fluctuations after a time yield the fruition of an even or an average scale of spiritual advancement, and upon the planet Mercury there are no human beings at present able to abide, because the planet is not as yet perfected to the degree of maintaining human life, and that it corresponds in its present condition to the geological epoch of the earth in its carboniferous period. The planet Venus possesses human inhabitants, but these are in their outermost or sensuous periods of existence, and correspond to the earth under the dominion perhaps, of the first Angel or Dispensation that came to earth. (Osiris) The earth itself is third in rank, and occupies that position between the material or external life of intellectualism which is the prevailing atmosphere of the earth today, the religious atmosphere being very inconsiderable. Although the earth has been visited with prophets, seers, saviours, these prophesies and those visions and that Saviour have not yet left their prevailing atmosphere upon the earth, nor even upon any appreciable portion of human beings.
It will be interesting for future generations to see if astronauts eventually obtain confirmation of the life this spirit says exists upon Venus. Current exploration of Venus consists of probes examining the outer atmosphere. They have discovered that Venus is far more earth-like than was at first believed but the high level of volcanic activity believed to exist on the surface, convinces scientists that human life is currently impossible. One day we shall see!!
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