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COMMUNICATIONS FROM OTHER PLANES 78 KNOW WITH ACCURACY WHAT PROPHETS OF OLD NOW WALK AMONG YOU, WHAT REAL IDENTITIES ARE MANIFESTING IN THOSE OF SUPERNORMAL GIFTS WHO CAUSE YOU TO PONDER ON THE CHANGES AT HAND. Still, that is not the point. We mention it that you may feel what sense of security lies in the statement that even as of old the Fathers expected the reappearance of Elias to lead them out of error, so there have come among you many Eliases who are the souls of the prophets, speaking again with the same authority, but not accredited because the times will not permit it.
In the early days of life upon this planet, however, there were races of men who could not measure up to the teachings of mortality. They were not wilfully wrongdoers; there was no special reason why they should have failed in their spiritual achievements. They had something within their natures left over from those long, dark days when they functioned in pure beasthood. It would not permit them to free themselves from the mark of their transgressions and so they carried it with them into spiritual realms during inter-life sojours, to bring it back with them when they made each new descent into flesh.
In the order of creation there is a law that
