Cosmic Agents, Book 1, Into a Universe Filled With Life, (1st black & white illustrated edition, 12-23-2015): This book starts off on an incredible journey into the spirit world. To trek through time, history, rituals, symbols, historical settings, near death experiences, pre-birth-experiences, plus much more. Though set to a fictional futuristic science-time traveling adventure, the story contains end notes to actual studies in history & in Near Death Experiences, & Pre-Birth Experiences, called NDEs & PBEs. Max Pointer, Cosmic Agent & team leader, is martyred by a intergalactic bounty hunter. While his body is taken away, his spirit lives on & he is taken into paradise by his angelic guardian angel guide. There, he learns who he was, as a spirit, before he was born. Thus, themes & sources about the studies of the pre-existence, with sources, is weaved into the story to make learning this aspect of historic Christianity a lot of fun. Max also learns about what is going on behind the scenes in the invisible world that normal humans can't see with their physical eyes, but might discern by feelings, & suspect that something is wrong, or something, or someone, or many unseen spirits are around them. Max, being from our fictional future, has a lot of futuristic inventions that helps him & his fellow agents to see & record spirits, through spirit cameras. The whole point of Cosmic Agents is for their teams to track down & combat Global Killers that have some how obtained global killer weapons. Thus, in addition to going after the bad guys that get of hold of nukes, Cosmic Agents go after those throughout the universe that have global killer weapons. Thus, they are the elite fighting forces, along with the good angels, in the universe. They they war world savers, & have to continue to combat the evil spirits, evil human & alien races, and fallen angel-demons on different inhabited worlds, including earth. Able to travel through time, through different realms, they are equipped with all kinds of gifts, skills, abilities & inventions gathered at Universal Mission Command centers, from around the universe. As each world progresses in sciences, knowledge & inventions to the point where they become a threat to themselves & other inhabited worlds, they often become targets for the evil dark forces & Lords of Darkness that seek to sap such worlds of their resources, weapons, & inhabitants that fall for their temptations to use their inventions & other things for evil purposes, rather than for good, as such things were intended for. When this happens, Cosmic Agents are sent in on secret missions to try to help such worlds from retrogressing down towards demonization, or demonification. The opposite of deification, theosis & perfection. The Divine Parents, create & seed all kinds of life on different inhabited worlds in the hopes that such worlds will advance & progress, rather than retrogress down. Thus, Cosmic Agents, working with the good angels, seek to help such worlds to choose to advance, rather than retrogress, but they always don't succeed, and when they don't, all hell breaks loose. This is a series that takes the reader into all kinds of mysteries, & constant combats between the forces of light against the forces of darkness. A lot of end notes are offered in the text to make the whole journey a learning experience too. Start trekking now through different realms, as you read this illustrated version of the 1st book, & look for the 2nd & third book, & more in this on going series: Cosmic Agents.