Book Description and Condition: 1952 edition of "A Dweller On Two Planets or The Dividing of the
Way," by Phylos the Tibetan, AKA Frederick Oliver. In Very Good condition: boards and binding
are solid and tight with minimal shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean, with no interior markings. Dust jacket has some shelfwear, and is protected with a Mylar plastic cover; it remains uncut with the original price still present. Please see below for more information on
this fascinating Atlantean story / history.
More Information
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Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way is a book written by
Frederick S. Oliver, who was born in 1866. The book was finished in 1886 and in
1894 the manuscript was typewritten and copyrighted and again in 1899, owing to
an addition. It was not published until 1905, by his mother Mary Elizabeth Manley-Oliver,
six years after Oliver's death in 1899.
In
its introduction, Oliver claims that the book had been channeled through him
via automatic writing, visions and mental "dictations", by a spirit
calling himself Phylos the Thibetan who revealed the story to him over a period
of three years, beginning in 1883. Concerning itself with Atlantis, it portrays
a first person account of Atlantean culture which had reached a high level of
technological and scientific advancement. His personal history and that of a
group of souls with whom Phylos closely interacted is portrayed in the context
of the social, economic, political and religious structures that shaped Poseid
society. Daily life for Poseidi citizens included such things as antigravity
powered air craft and submarines, television, wireless telephony, arial water
generators, air conditioners and high-speed rail. The book deals with deep
esoteric subjects including karma and re-incarnation and describes Phylos'
final incarnation in 19th century America where his Atlantean karma played
itself out.
In
that incarnation (as Walter Pierson, gold miner and occult student of the
Theo-Christic Adepts) he travelled to Venus/Hysperia in a subtle body while his
physical form remained at the temple inside Mt Shasta. Describing his
experience with the Hesperian adepts, Phylos relates many wonders including
artworks depicting 3D scenes that appeared alive. He saw a voice-operated
typewriter and other occult and technical power. Some devices mentioned have
become reality (such as the TV and the atomic telescope).
In
a detailed personal history of Atlantis and 19th century North America, Phylos
draws the threads of both lifetimes together in familiar and initiatic terms
revealing equally their triumphs and failures and exposing the cause and
effects of karma from one lifetime to another. His life story is written in
personal testimony of the law: "whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he
also reap" and as a warning to this technological age to not repeat the mistakes
of the past that led to the cataclysmic destruction of "Poseid, queen of
the waves". The book has been influential on ideas concerning Atlantis,
Lemuria and Mount Shasta. In a 2002 introduction, John B. Hare says that it
"is openly acknowledged as source material for many new age belief
systems, including the "I AM" movement, the Lemurian Fellowship, and
Elizabeth Claire Prophet." In the analysis of Walter Kafton-Minkel's
history Subterranean Worlds, "A Dweller on Two Planets was not very good
fiction, but it did establish all the main elements of the modem Mt. Shasta
mythos."
