Of course, as a sequel to my last contact, I have not neglected to reflect anew on the molding of the soul-characteristic personality, taking into account information received on the existence of conscious life in other planetary systems, some of which are less advanced than ours. Those which are more so posed no problem for me; the soul-characteristic personality, having attained the stage of evolution desired, would pursue its development there, and would not again return to Earth as long as the latter were not developed to the degree of the other system, itself evolving. If the soul personality gained everything possible in this particular environment, it would always be 'ahead' with regard to the earthly experience and would therefore not return here. It could even progress in the environment of a planetary system more advanced still, if its level of development justified it.

By contrast, the fact that some systems are less developed than ours suggested that personalities could also be formed and developed there. A rapid analysis of this question has led me to the conclusion that this was right, and that nothing previously learned needed to be changed. Since Universal Soul penetrates everything, the many planetary systems naturally had their own in this 'everything'. The 'formation' of the personality in the Universal Soul, infused ‘elsewhere’, into some ‘vehicle’, followed a process similar to that explained for Earth. Doubtless the 'kingdoms' could be different, but the progression, the development, would be identical, the result similar, and in every way, at any given moment, the desired degree of advancement having been attained, the soul-characteristic personality would pursue its progress on Earth or in a system of equal status and vice versa, no longer returning to the stage through which it had passed.

The 'journey' of the soul-characteristic personality is therefore not limited only to a single planetary environment, and one could say that the field of experiences - the laboratory - of the soul personality is not only Earth. It is the universe, a universe where everything is orderly, including the stages of spiritual evolution, with the ultimate goal being the total grasp of consciousness. Is isn’t astonishing to know that the whole is at the disposal of the soul-characteristic personality so that, sooner or later, it may attain this sublime end? We also understand that sometimes people state that they do not feel themselves to be of this world! They have known some other, but there is nothing left for them to learn on that one. And again, what order! What method! What unity!

The Law of Compensation or Karma, in this perspective, appears universal, and it is. The great mystic principles taught by tradition and the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC, in particular, are also apparently universal. They would never need to be changed or adjusted even if another 'living' planetary system were one day discovered and if one learned that one or more messiahs or divine teachers were venerated and followed there. This is the way of knowledge. It does not belong to any time or place. It belongs to the universe. Only the words with which one clothes it, the explanations with which one adorns it, and the manner in which one propagates it are different. It remains eternal and of itself forever...

I am ready, and the moment to receive more Light has come. From my physical Sanctum I have raised myself to the Cathedral of the Soul. The hour is late and all is quiet in this place of high spirituality. Those who are there at the same time as 1 am are 'in the silence'. My sanctuary is barely lit by the eternal candles, and I would not have known that 'the Master had appeared' if my consciousness had not vibrated for some minutes to the rhythm of the OM announcing the sacred visit. There he is, in fact, the Benevolent Master whose smile calms and prepares me for the lesson which he has promised to transmit, and my whole inner being listens to him avidly:

"Yes," says the Master, "the Law of Compensation or Karma is universal, and it applies to every degree of the universe, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large, taking the most diverse 'aspects'. As you have learned in a previous contact dedicated to healing, there is physical karma, and I shall not dwell on that again. Also there is mental karma, in the sense that the habit of good or bad thought has effects of a similar nature. Finally, there is spiritual karma, and this relates directly to the soul-characteristic personality. In reality, however, these multiple aspects of karma are only aspects of the same law applied to some particular conditions, and the soul-characteristic personality, near and far, is concerned with all aspects. Actually, it could have the experience of a body in bad health and gain a useful lesson. It could meet with the effect of negative thoughts and profit from the lesson thus received. The lower aspects of karma -the physical or mental aspects - may induce a flash of knowledge and illuminate it with wisdom. Everything in the experience of the different levels unites to encourage a greater grasp of consciousness. However, it is especially in the encounter of the soul personality with the environment (which is given to it through the incarnation) that there are found the most effective conditions for the development of the Self. The soul-characteristic personality should certainly gain from all the lessons which existence offers it. Bodily karma, due to excess or repression, is 'registered' by it, and, without suffering the consequences itself, it learns to distinguish truth from error, expanding its knowledge of the world. It perceives the grandeur and the limitations of the bodily sanctum which shelters it. It comes to know the inescapable limits of time and space in relation to the immensity of the infinite where it must evolve. From mental torment, from the ceaseless chain of association of ideas, it learns that only peace and silence are true. Fundamentally, the development of the soul-characteristic personality depends on the emotions engendered the circumstances through which man passes the course of his existence, and physical or mental grief is, itself, in the last analysis, an emotion, because for there to be suffering, there must be consciousness of grief.