Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of
which is not necessary at this time. This planet is in what might be
styled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun. This
life has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it
will be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in
Geological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of
these periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have
attained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences
capable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth.

Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will
undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise
new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land
surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water,
to rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and
solicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial
Creations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal
and petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will
inhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come.

Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this
planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still very
dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the
extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only
dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun
penetrates to the surface of the globe. By reason of the constant
thick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped
in deep gloom and darkness. As radiation is arrested to a marked
degree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as
well as hot. In this steam environment grow forests of fern and
fungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of
time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this
planet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed,
but is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type,
but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and
adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races
yet to come on the planet.

Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms
are, and future ones will be evolved