You originally migrated to earth from a superior planet.

Spirit Louis Agassiz gives the following—rather startling—account of our origin—

I come from my island home at the call of science, hoping to add something to the information already obtained.

This lady [the medium], blindfolded and mesmerised, is rendered sensitive to invisible forces, and, in this condition, her soul is capable of travelling through space and taking cognisance of strange unaccredited facts that are transpiring outside this terrestrial plane of existence.

It is only recently that science has been able to trace the record of your globe and its inhabitants. 

Geologists will tell you that mammoth animals lived on earth centuries ago, and they gather the mighty fragments and fossilised bones of the fauna of a bygone geological period from dried-up river beds, and articulate those immense carcases, so that they stand before the spectator—

Strange, inconceivable forms, repulsive and demonlike to the eye unfamiliar with such creations—while they were familiar enough to the beings who lived coeval with their existence. 

As on your world, there have been beings who would appear grotesque and almost impossible creations to the eye of today—so, on every earth, there has been a series of similar evolutions.

Since I have become an inhabitant of this superior world, my investigations have satisfied me that man originally migrated to earth from a superior planet.

Of his migratory character, and the tendency of a higher race to assimilate and fraternise with a lower one, you have a corroborative truth in the rise and fall of nations on earth with their attendant results.

In a remote period, this globe was surrounded by an atmosphere very different from today—

And the present race of men could not have existed. 

During this period, the earth was visited by beings from a spirit world—drawn there by a force of magnetic attraction.

Influenced by this force, the spirit of adventure and the migratory habit, which is co-existent with nature, this colony of spirits visited your earth. 

They were men and women of giantlike structure, and they settled on a portion of land, which was submerged through the subsequent convulsions of nature.

The offspring of these beings deteriorated in size and became more material through a process of acclimatisation. 

As I have stated, it was owing to a peculiar condition of earth and atmosphere that these spiritual beings were able to take up a physical abode on earth. 

To understand this statement of fact, the reader must bear in mind that what is called spiritual and immaterial is merely a refined attribute of matter. 

That electricity, magnetism and the Od force are spiritual components, and are, in reality, refined material forces, and that spirit and matter are identical—yet differing—as heat differs from cold and light differs from opacity.

These beings were of different grades of perfection. 

The most highly developed among them brought a taste for music, sculpture and painting, and a love for beautiful and graceful forms of which their descendants in ancient Egypt and Greece have left mementoes.

As I have said, these beings drew around them a material covering, and, as man now throws off his outer form every seven years, supplying its place with new material, they gathered corporeal forms from surrounding elements, which they later relinquished.

The existence of the first race of men was of longer duration than earth's present inhabitants. 

The physical forms, in each succeeding generation, while deteriorating, became less adapted to the necessities of the spirit and it is only by the aid of science and the constant application of inventions to the body's needs that man's spirit is able to preserve its existence within its present frail tenement.

It is impossible to go back to the origin of life because it is of eternity, and I believe that there has been no beginning.

I know that there are worlds in existence more numerous than the sands on the seashore. 

These worlds are peopled with beings possessing moral and spiritual powers. 

They have various degrees of skill and natural ability—

Some superior to those of earth's inhabitants—

And others, inferior. 

These beings live on forever in different degrees of sublimation, and—like the winged seed, which is borne along with the air, bears its fructifying life to a distant soil—so, in the superior world, spiritual inhabitants are carried by magnetic and electric forces to people distant worlds.

The comet, that strange visitant, carries in its brilliant flying chariot, spirits on the same mission through space.