A Dweller on Two Planets or The Dividing of the Way is a book written by Frederick S. Oliver, who was born in 1866. It was not published until 1905, by his mother Mary Elizabeth Manley-Oliver, six years after Oliver's death in 1899. In the amanuensis preface, Oliver presents the book as a true account of the actual past of the true author, called 'Phylos The Thibetan', otherwise identified as: 'Yol Gorro'. 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