another excerpt (part 3)

[Guest guest]

‘In the face of the people’s determination, the

police, the army and the Dictator were forced to

capitulate. The only deaths to occur during this incident

were the 23 fanatics who comprised the Tyrant’s

personal guard - the soldiers were obliged to shoot them

in order to reach him.’<br><br>‘Was he hanged?’ I

asked.<br><br>Arki smiled. ‘Why, no, Michel. The people were through

with violence. He was deported instead, to a place

where he could do no further harm, and, in fact their

example inspired his reform. He found, again, the path of

love and respect for individual liberty. He died,

eventually, repentant for all that he had done. Now, that

nation is the most successful on our planet, but, as on

yours, there are other nations under the domination of

violent totalitarian regimes and we are doing all in our

power to help them.<br><br>‘We know that all we do in

this life is an apprenticeship, offering us the

possibility of graduating to a superior existence and even

freeing us forever of our physical bodies. You must know,

too, that the planets are categorised and that it is

possible for entire populations to emigrate to another,

when their planet is in danger, but no-one can do so

if the new planet is not of the same

category.<br><br>‘Being, overpopulated ourselves and, having highly

advanced technology, we have visited your planet with a

view to establish a settlement there - an idea we

decided against since your degree of evolution would

bring us more harm than good.’<br><br>I was not very

flattered by this reflection and my Aura must have

indicated as much to Arki. He smiled and continued. ‘I’m

sorry, Michel, but I am saying my piece without

hypocrisy. We still visit Earth but only as observers,

interested in studying, and learning from you, your errors.

We never intervene because that is not our role, and

we would never invade your planet, as this would be

a backward step for us. You are not to be envied -

materially, technologically or spiritually.<br><br>‘Going

back to our Astral bodies, an Astral body absolutely

cannot change to a superior planet until sufficiently

evolved. We are speaking, of course, of spiritual

evolution and not technological. This evolution occurs

thanks to the physical body. You have already learned of

the nine categories of planets - ours are at the

bottom of the scale and the planets improve up the scale

- up as far as this planet. [9] We, in our present

physical bodies, can be permitted only nine days’ stay

here. According to Universal Law, on the tenth day, our

physical bodies would die and neither Thao nor the great

Thaora, within whose power it is to revive the dead,

would be able to prevent or reverse the process. Nature

has very inflexible rules with well-established

safeguards.’<br><br>‘But if I were to die here, perhaps my Astral body

could stay here and I could be reincarnated as a baby

on Thiaoouba...?’ I was full of hope, forgetting,

for the moment, the family I loved back on

Earth.<br><br>‘You don’t understand, Michel. Universal Law would

require that you be reincarnated on Earth, if you had not

yet finished your time there. But it is possible that

when you do die on Earth - when your moment has come -

your Astral body will reincarnate in a body on

another, more advanced planet... a second or perhaps third

category planet, or even this one, depending on your

present degree of development.’<br><br>‘It’s possible

then, to skip all categories and find ourselves

reincarnated on a ninth category planet?’ I asked, still full

of hope, for, most decidedly, I regarded Thiaoouba

as a veritable paradise.<br><br>- end of part 3 -