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Dweller on Two Planets

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I have studied this book since 1975, and have gained much understanding about esoteric Christian precepts as a result.

There are numerous technological descriptions which only hint at the extreme level of achievement during the Atlantean period. It took me some time to fall for the book, but it has held up to disputation on just about every level.

If the book were not true, it is an entertaining read, but I strongly suspect that the moral lessons the author is attempting to impart have considerable substance and import.

There is considerable weight of evidence, from sources outside the occult communities, which lends credibility to this book. It is not for everyone (yet).

This book is a "must read" for anyone with an interest in Atlantis, reincarnation, or the relationship of soul to mind , to eternity. Written as an autobiography of an enlightened person who is recalling his past lives, it is not only entertaining, but for those who can accept the unconventional wisdom, it is astounding. It is an affirmation that, " what a man soweth... he shall surely reap".

At the very least, this is one of the more thought provoking books I've read in a while. In many ways, a "new age" classic written a hundred years before "new age" was in vogue. The first part of the book deals with the other dimensional author dictating the details of a past life experience he had in the time of Atlantis. Describes advanced society values and technology in many ways superior to what we have today without providing much more detail on the technology than a run of the mill sci-fi novel. The second part of the book deals with a later life experience in the American west involving a secret society with hidden knowledge of which the ascended author was a member. Again, enough information to make the story very plausible without quite enough detail to make it verifiable. This book is either an excellent work of fiction or a fascinating outline of the big picture of reality including reincarnation, karma, and other primarily eastern viewpoints. This book is an easy read with implications that are likely to be pondered by most readers long after they finish reading it.

...Well.... Firstly, this book is NOT fiction! I had in the past thirty years read this book nearly 100 times, more or less; and I have had PERSONAL verifications of its veracity. (I have a college education [and more} and I am not "nuts.") This book is NOT for everyone! The exoteric (know what that word means?) Christian will debunk this book; the esoteric (know what that word means?) ( -- the MINORITY) will, in truth, veritfy its accuracy. One has to be "ON THE PATH" or at least aspiring to It; for one to appreciate the message -- if not experiences -- given in this book. This reader (I), have had personal VERIFICATION of the book's message. Who would believe it, if I told you? The exoteric and the esoteric are almost analogous to the average person's conception of "spirit" and "soul." The two are NOT the same! A seeker will know it. The Christian "forgiveness" and ATONEMENT are NOT the same things! Where is your step on the 'ladder" of life? This may seem more like a sermon than a review; but, the message of this unselfish master Phylos is the same as what is described in ALL world views. They ALL believe in atonement; they ALL believe in reincarnation as (DID) Christianity before the Gnostics got "hold" of it. I ask you, my, intelligent friend, "If God created all men equally, would He have made one beautiful, and the made another a slobbering idiot who could not control his/her bodily functions -- for HIS personal GLORY? Would you have? As the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ puts it, in short: You are what you are because of what you've BEEN! If such a God did this: he is a tyrant. Such is NOT the case! I must end: If you are an aspirant, read and BELIEVE the book; then BELIVE the book! If you are a mere dilettante, forget it and continue for a few more million of years.... I write not to convert you (it would be karma for me); you have a free will -- as Edgar Cayce said, ...(C)hoose...."

This book is worth a read. It lends validity to the concept of channeled literature as it is a rather complex, in-depth book. The voice of Phylos is clearly distinct from that of the young author who was his scribe. You will find a wisdom seldom seen in books these days.

Are you wondering about what life was like on Atlantis, what is it like to live on Venus? How can you travel among planets? Then "Dweller on Two Planets" is for you. It makes for fascinating and educational reading!

This is a fascinating book which is a message that was delivered by a higher being to a young man, the amanuensis Frederick S. Oliver, by means of "mental talks". An amanuensis is one who takes dictations and is aware of the conversations. (This message was not received by channelling in which a spirit takes over a person's body while the person's consciousness is absent.) The book gives a vivid description of the ancient continent of Atlantis and highly spiritual people known as "Sons of Solitude". The higher being described his life as Phylos, a young man who searched for gold and found more adventures than he could handle. In this highly interesting story of the continuation of his life, the theme depicts the effects of choices made, whether right or wrong, on others as well as on himself.

Right before the days before rock'n'roll, the avant-garde in America took the form of persons claiming personal insights of God from "spiritual forces". It was mostly garbage. That's not to say Karl Jung, William James or Edgar Cayce were garbage, but most of their followers had little in common with any such luminaries, much less with the truths those men sought to educe/expound upon. This "avant-garde" was mostly older white spinsters/widows with money who lived in a self-flattering fantasy world, and as a result there appeared an almost endless number of "new age gurus" ready to separate these cows from their largess (Stephen King parodied them excellently in "The Sun Dog"). Point is, if you were really serious about investigating what Jung, James and Cayce were talking about you would have to go elsewhere--perhaps a cave in Malaysia or Nepal, but the cows offered nothing useful (and their gurus offered less).

Yet Dweller on Two Planets is authentic. It's "writer", Frederick S. Oliver, really was a 17-year-old kid who channeled this entire mature polymath teleological doctrine into the form of a "novel". He was then told by the spirit who dictated the work (Phylos) not to have anyone publish the manuscript until after his (Oliver's) death; at age 33, Oliver died and his mother published the book--he wrote absolutely no other novels or stories (he died as a Salvation Army bell-ringer). All this has been verified. So the book is legit as one of our culture's very own "sacred texts", regardless of unhallowed cults that grew out of it (I AM activity, Summit Lighthouse, a half-dozen lesser ones).

And so I'd insist Americans should read and cogitate it, just as they should read and cogitate their Bibles and exegetic commentary of writers like Swedenborg, Hegel and Berkeley--not to be part of any "avant-garde", but because it challenges and provokes a nobler perspective on the prevalent "monophysite" and plunder-based Christianity (or our post Empress Theodora Christianity, which seeks to conflate Christ's atonement with self's expiation and growth--basically, an excuse for imperialism, conquest and Zionism).

The genius of the book lies in the fact there is utterly no way for self-serving Elmer Gantrys to silence let alone censor it; by making it taboo they dare that much more the young Christian to work his way from cover to cover. And does it deceive? Anytime a writer proclaims the perfected-ness of Christ and the froward-ness of His earthly churches--then insists the self-conceit and materialism of the latter shall in no way prohibit the former from returning, nor the latter from being perfected through tribulations (as well as The tribulation)--that writer speaks truth, speaks the Word of God. In contrast, the "Son of Morning"--Lucifer--already has nearly 1,500 years of plunder, racism, inquisitions, indulgences, colonialism, hatred of science and love of hypocrisy working throughout both Protestantism and Catholicism--his millennium-and-a-half's worth of deeds speak louder than any words ever could.

Again, I highly recommend Dweller even as I highly deplore the garbage doctrines Guy Ballard, Elizabeth Clare Prophet and other cultists machinated out of this novel. "Verbum sat sapienti" indeed--and how.

This book is for those who in some way are called "Initiates". As for the prophane this information will be just for mere curiosity, whose aroma will vanish like perfume on the wind.
This is not an essay, but a Diary!

The knowledge of the Astral world, Scientific perspective and Mysticism are exposed in a unique and sublime way; this is truly a remarkable experience that will touch the deepest emotions of any soul searching for enlightment and a way out.

Inverential Peace!

I have had this book many times and have loaned it and lost it. I thought i would never get it again.
I AM SO HAPPY TO HAVE IT AGAIN.
WHY?
Well this book was written by a young boy in 1800s it was channeled, in it he describes things about Atlantis that, well lets say, when he wrote the book it was considered sci fi ... now many of the things he mentioned in the book has become reality.

It is easy to read although written over a hundred years ago.

For those curious, who love channeled material, or sci fi... it is a great book and has been around for over a hundred years.... Enjoy!!!!