Those who have been following the articles in this Magazine and studying those especially relating to the soul, realize that the soul is a garment of consciousness clothing the intelligence while it is centered in the soul realm—at night or after death; even as the human mind and its body is a garment clothing the soul in the physical world.

In other words, the real man is a Spiritual Being, is this innermost Intelligence, the I Am or Ego, Who existed before the earth was and Who is gradually bringing—lifting the consciousness of what is called the outer man from the physical back into oneness with Its Consciousness, which long eons ago had attained to oneness with the Father’s Consciousness. Keeping this always in mind will make what follows much easier of comprehension.

We have quoted before from A Dweller on Two Planets.* Phylos, the Intelligence who dictated this remarkable tale, was a former inhabitant of Atlantis, the sunken continent in the Atlantic Ocean. There he died about twelve thousand years ago by having been enticed into and locked in a cave prison in a mountain. After his death he retained a full remembrance of all that occurred before and after his passing; and from the knowledge and understanding gained in the many years following, both in the heaven world, called devachan, and in his later life on earth during and succeeding the Civil War in America, much of which is given in the book, he tells of and explains in the experience that follows, which took place after his awakening in the soul realm.

Realizing that he was “dead,” and after becoming accustomed to it and learning that what he strongly desired