by Ernest L. Norman
Venus is what might be called a mother planet serving not only the earth, but a number of similar planets in a capacity which is something like mother, nurse and doctor. Many of those who are liberated from the flesh in these various planets have, shall I say, escaped from one prison into another. Oft times the bond of flesh and other karmic conditions are of such intensity as to prohibit a free and uninhibited ingress into another dimension. Under such conditions a person will, when becoming discarnate and detached from the body, be in an extremely atrophied condition. They are more like inert plasmic masses of some nebulous substance rather than the true cohesive thought-form body or psychic body which would normally be theirs had they practiced an open minded spiritual philosophy in their earth existence. We, and other workers from sister planets who are serving in a like capacity, form what you might call brigades or battalions and go forth and gather up these inert helpless discarnate entities.
They may be drowned sailors in some battle tossed sea or soldier boys who have been projected with severe suddenness into a strange world. Many of them often go right on fighting an imaginary enemy and unless great care is used in making them conscious of their position, they may go berserk on finding that the moment of the much dreaded death has arrived. I need not go into too much detail; it is sufficient to add that your imagination can serve you best in picturing the countless and innumerable places and conditions in which we salvage this human wreckage. Yes, my friends, with the spare time we have gained in freeing our minds from the obsessive flesh we have much more time available and are much more capable of serving mankind in a capacity in which he could not often serve himself.
Therefore, in your trip through our city you will not need to wonder at the lack of superficial adornments, or the lack of conveniences which you have associated with your daily lives. You will not find bathrooms as there is no need to purge and cleanse the body. The all-intelligent radiant energy from the Fountainhead strengthens us and purifies us and fulfills our every desire.
In a broad sense, our dwellings are not a necessity and are not used in the manner in which the earth-man is accustomed to using his. Our dwellings are conceived and constructed with one ultimate purpose and their function is to help serve and fill our needs in the service of Universal Brotherhood.
Later on you shall enter some of the wards and see how these atrophied spiritual wrecks are nursed back to a semblance of health and consciousness. Generally speaking, most cases will automatically gravitate into the spiritual plane which best suits their needs and more often than not it is the leaving off place of their last spiritual reincarnation.
In speaking of this most important subject, evolution or reincarnation, we might liken man’s progressive cycles to a winding stairway which spirals up into some far off unknown place; he will, in climbing this stair, find himself in one-half of the cycle where he will look about him and see and live only among things of the material domain; then as he progresses onward, he will go to the opposite side of the stairway and there he will see all things about him which pertain to his spiritual world or consciousness.
A moment’s thought will point out an obvious fact, that the more cycles or revolutions he makes he will, on the spiritual side, be closer to his ultimate goal; whereas on the material side these things will be increasingly further and further away. Should he however, at any time, lose the correct balance between these two worlds or dimensions, he will revert back and fall downward, creating what is commonly called karma. This merely means that he will again have to tread the same steps over which he formerly passed and under the same conditions until he corrects this unbalanced condition. It might be pointed out that he is very seldom, if ever, aware that he is retreading a karmic path. God in his Supreme Wisdom would naturally assume that man should learn his life lessons unassisted and solely from the inward consciousness.
To those who may believe that reincarnation has involved inversions into the lower orders of animal kingdoms, may I say that this is not only fallacious but extremely dangerous. You may form a thought pattern which has the power of hypnotic adhesion and you may find yourself evolving into some such state of evolution, even though it may be a fixed fancy and is entirely unrealistic.
So dear ones, as you read these lines, you must fix the thought firmly in all dimensions of your consciousness, that reincarnation is a wonderful and a beautiful sequence of spiritual evolutions; and in its proper order, it will take you through all of the realms of God’s innumerable celestial universes. The only price to pay, if you can call it a price, is the constant, conscious reality of God’s presence working in you and through you, and so for this time, brother and sister, rest with God’s Peace.
Excerpt from The Voice of Venus (Chapter 11)