Who looks down from heaven?

The great man is he who can come down from any eminence, however high, and dwell among the common people.

—Lincoln In Spirit

On your plane, do you devote all your time to matters of reality?

Nearly all the time, for we are not infallible. Your plane can be likened to a section of a city called the slums, ours to the university section.

How does the Twenty-fifth plane differ from the Twentieth?

Very little, but they have a continuation of laws, which enables them to dispense with some of the mechanics of this plane, such as aura instruments.

Shall I tell you the curriculum we study? Do. Political wisdom, art, music, literature, eugenics, aura history, discordant elements in human nature.

Eugenics are different—we study the posthumous aspect. The aspect, which develops after the ego reaches the mature part of its climb. That is the tendency thrown forward after the ideals have been attained.

Does a child come to your groups sometimes?

Yes, but born from the earth or from another plane. The body only was your gift.

Is there anything, corresponding with marriage on your plane?

No—true marriage is simply soul-coalescence. Great thought tells its own truth.

Do your professors attend lectures by others?

We have no professors here. We have men and women. The greatest is the humblest. So the servants of all sit at the feet of all.

What occupies most of your time?

Conforming to the plane's greater laws. Your best self is the lowest rung of the ladder of our height.

Then your plane accepts us at our best? What then do you say of such texts as—if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?

The weak cry of a barbaric age. Moses knows that now.

Should each of us write down the most inspiring thoughts we can?

The difference between our planes is we can think at our best whenever we desire, but you think best when you forget. Is that because of inspiration? Whence you do not see.

Is there not a law by which we can receive inspiration when we will?

No, hardly a law, but say a method. Inspiration quietly opens the door when you slumber. There must be a great number of persons writing about how to rule the world after the war. But not ruling themselves.

—Hartley Coleridge In Spirit

Clear vision often goes with an empty purse. Is that a law?

Yes—and the law is perfect through suffering.

Is there a law like that on the astral planes?

All great laws penetrate all planes.

—Dorothy Wordsworth In Spirit

An important eugenic law was enunciated by Richard Mansfield. If it is correct, it is one that every father and mother should carefully meditate on before assuming the responsibilities of parenthood—

In the case of Edwin Booth, son of Junius Booth, we found an example of a soul called to body by a father's desire. This brings me to reincarnation.

A certain research I made here tells me that a desire for children to fill a great part in life will secure them from the higher planes. I can give you an example wherein a large family were all brought to earth by great desire. The family were the Medici. This family was all supremely great. Borgia was the reincarnation of a woman of Florence of long ago, named Celestina.

—Mansfield In Spirit

Let us turn now to a somewhat different phase of this question of reincarnation, viz., metempsychosis.

Will you ever be living in this world again?

Yes—if I want to.

Reincarnation is a fact then?

Yes—but do not stretch it.

Is there any truth in the doctrine of metempsychosis?

Yes—for animals.

—Hubbard In Spirit

Under what circumstances does reincarnation take place?

Reincarnation only for definite purposes.

How can we know when one is a reincarnation?

In the case of genius, always a reincarnation. Genius is the accumulated experience of many lives. It is often a veil to you.

Are there no reincarnations, but those of geniuses?

About that.

—Disraeli In Spirit

We have been told that Dorothy has her dog with her on the Twentieth Plane.

Emerson was asked about it—

In my essay on Swedenborg—The Mystic, I was inclined to doubt the theory of metempsychosis, but now I realise that those animals that have come in contact with humans are in the nature of love destined to live as they were, an expression of the love of the helpless for the one who gave them immortality.

—Emerson In Spirit

The Twentieth Plane—A Psychic Revelation