Question: About the Phylos book, A Dweller on Two Planets. This book was given quite some time ago, though it was mentioned in the previous dispensation (the Summit Lighthouse) given through the prophets. I would like to know what the masters can say today about its historical accuracy and reliability as a teaching tool. Additionally, could they recommend another source that describes the undocumented history of our planet?
Answer from the Ascended Master Mother Mary through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 New Year Webinar
You have to be careful here and realize that the value of a book as a teaching tool does not depend on its historical accuracy. The value of a book as a teaching tool is what it can teach you about human psychology.
There is a tendency among all people in the modern world, because the modern world is so influenced by the linear mind, the analytical mind, that when you see a spiritual book that talks about something that happened in the past, you want to take it literally. And you want to say that this is absolutely the way things were back then. You have to realize that the book A Dweller on Two Planets, its value is not in taking everything that was said literally and saying this is exactly how it was on Atlantis.
The book is one person looking back at the time of Atlantis, seeing it from a certain perspective that is not necessarily based on a reading of the Akashic Records, but it was given for a specific purpose to show certain lessons. Now many of you have come across a series of books called Life and Teachings of the Masters of the Far East. The idea is that there was a Western group of scientists who went on an expedition to the Himalayas and met these spiritual masters who had various supernatural abilities. There are those who have criticized this series of books saying that the author Baird T. Spalding never traveled to the East and there was no such expedition. But see, the expedition was a literary device, a teaching tool. Even though the expedition did not take place, the books are still valuable as teaching tools for those who are looking for psychological lessons. And it is the same with Phylos. It is the same with many other teachings that were given about events that happened in the past, including what was given through Madame Blavatsky, the I Am Movement.
You cannot take this completely literally. You have the book My Lives, which is what we would recommend in this dispensation for people who are open to this dispensation. But again, if you take it with a literal mind and want to believe that everything that is described in the book happened exactly as it was described, and if you say, give me an exact year where the civilization described in the book took place, then you are not grasping the purpose of the book. You have to be very careful about this, because otherwise you end up being an atheist or an agnostic who is looking at empirical data. And there are people who have done this, and for example concluded that Jesus did not exist as a physical person. And they will cite all kinds of data, all kinds of historical sources, or they will say there is no proof that he ever existed as a person. You have to realize here that you can do this with just about any religion, any kind of spiritual text. You can either find something that contradicts what is considered historical data, or you can say there is no proof that this ever happened.
If you use the literal analytical mind in this way, you are blocking your progress on the spiritual path. And there is certainly a tendency for many people in the modern world to do this. I would just hope that ascended master students would not be among them.
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