the habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not
yet possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive
state: not long since condensed from fire mist: others where life
has just begun: others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of
God's creatures, just as you live and others have lived before
you. And there are other worlds whose life-cycle has been run;
where intelligent life has ceased: where world-disintegration has
set in. For this is in accordance with the universal law of
Growth and Decay--a law that exempts neither the one-celled
amoeba, nor the complex Solar system whirling yonder in Infinite
space.

For all that comes from the Father into material expression must
some day revert to its primordial state.

You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic
conditions on Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the
zenith of its Cosmic cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to
a degree of Divine unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds.

It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to
one of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our
sun, in order you may be able to learn by contrast something of
the wonders of God's work.

JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times
larger than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately
less, might well be styled the Master Planet of our system.

Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a