MARTIANS COMMUNICATE WITH SPIRITISTS

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.)