The esotericist Franz Hartmann published
in 1912 an article making a curious reference on this subject.
He wrote:
« Are human souls re-born on Mars?
The astronomer Camille Flammarion
in his well-known book “Uranie”
(1889) answers this question in the affirmative, because the hero of his story,
Spero and Telia, after having met their death by a fall from a balloon, leave
their bodies on this earth and become reincarnated on the planet Mars.
Spero returns and communicates
with his friend, giving a description of life on Mars, such as may be taken for
a product of the great astronomer's imagination, although some highly developed
occultists and mystics, for instance, H. P. Blavatsky, have attributed to
Flammarion the possession of clairvoyant powers, or at least a great deal of intuition.
Moreover, there are appearing
from time to time supposed spirit communications, believed to come from
inhabitants of Mars, which go to corroborate Flammarion’s statements, and they
come through mediums who never read his books or even antedate the antedate the
writing of his “Uranie.”
One such case is the following:
The Baroness R., when very young,
had a friend by the name of Ch., a gentleman of high standing. At the time of
which I am writing, he lived in a distant part of the country and the Baroness
had not corresponded with him for a considerable time.
On a certain day she had a vision
of a funeral procession, which was accompanied by the solemn music of a funeral
march.
On the next day disturbances
began in her house, which consisted of rapping and moving of furniture, steps
as if a man were walking in the room were heard, and it was as if a voice was
bidding her to write to Mr. Ch.
This continued for several days
and nights, until she at last wrote the letter to her friend, although she had
no other reason for doing so, as she believed him alive and in good health.
After the letter was sent off,
the manifestations ceased, and a few days afterwards an answer came from that
gentleman’s sister, saying that her brother had died. The funeral had taken place on the very day
when the Baroness saw it in her vision.
All this took place at a time
when spiritualism first became known in this country, and owing to her
experience the attention of the Baroness was attracted to it.
She held sittings with some of
her friends, and an intelligence purporting to be the spirit of her friend Ch.
manifested and gave proofs of his identity by speaking and acting in the same
manner as when he was alive, speaking of events that were known only to him and
the Baroness; but the most remarkable thing was that he claimed to have become
an inhabitant of Mars and that his description of his condition, of the planet
Mars, its life and inhabitants were about the same as were afterwards found in
Flammarion’s book.
He, for instance, said that he
could not show himself in his Martian shape, as it had no resemblance to that
of human beings on this earth, and that the inhabitants of Mars were far more advanced
and spiritual than we.
The visits of that spiritual
entity continued for several months, after which they ceased, as the spirit was
said to be entering a higher sphere, from which a communication with earth was not
possible.
It may be added, that neither the
Baroness nor any one present at these sittings knew of Flammarion or his
writings. »
(This article was published in
the “Occult Review”, Jun 1912,
p.346-347)
OBSERVATIONS
It is true
that the astronomer Camille Flammarion had a lot of intuition since Master
Kuthumi said about him:
« You have among the learned
members of your society one astronomer who without familiarity with our occult
doctrine has yet intuitively grasped from scientific data the idea of a solar pralaya and its manvantara in their beginnings. I mean the celebrated French
astronomer Flammarion — "La
Resurrection et la Fin des Mondes" (Chapter 4 res.). He speaks like a
true seer. »
(Mahatma
Letter 15, p.98)
But although
Flammarion had a great intuition, that does not prevent he also had a lot of
imagination and several of his claims were wrong, such as supposing that Mars
was inhabited.
However, it
is also understandable that he made this mistake because in his time, the
scientific community sincerely believed that the red planet was physically
inhabited like Earth.
And it is
noteworthy to note that the Theosophical instructors stated long before that
space exploration could confirm that Mars is not inhabited since they declared
that:
« Mars has ended its third round and is preparing now for the beginning of
its fourth round. »
(Encyclopedic
theosophical glossary)
This implies
that Mars has been not inhabited during millions of years either subtly or
physically.
And this
story by Franz Hartmann shows us how much these entities that communicate
through mediums can be very deceptive, but at the same time very convincing
because they can read people's thoughts.
And this is
how the entity that communicated with the Baroness could see how her childhood friend
behaved and spoke, and also this entity knew things that only the Baroness and
her friend knew.
But we also
see that these astral entities cannot know beyond what people know, and that is
why many of the statements they make are false.
As for the
similarity of the story that this entity told with what Flammarion wrote, I
attribute it to the fact that people generally had a very similar idea in their
imagination of how life was on Mars, because if you read the books that were
written about that subject (as for example the book "The Internal Life" by Leadbeater published in 1911, or the
book "I have been on Mars"
by Narciso Genovese published in 1958), you will see that they more or less say
the same things : that the Martians are a much more evolved civilization than
ours and that certain things they resemble us but in others they differ, etc.
And it is funny
to see how the spirits adapt to human
beliefs, because at present, there are no more disembodied souls that pretend
to come from Mars...
(No, because
then the audience of the Spiritist session will immediately catalog this entity
as a lying spirit and they will reject it. And that is why those entities need
to look for more credible pretexts today to continue to attract people's
attention so that they can continue to vampirise their energy.)
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