During Alfred Sinnett's time, there was a mistaken belief that the other planets in the solar system were also physically inhabited, just as Earth is.
This, combined with Sinnett's erroneous concept that Mars and Mercury are part of the Earth's planetary chain, led him to conclude that the humanity currently evolving on Earth had previously done so on Mars and would do so in the future on Mercury—all in a physical sense.
In other words: terrestrial humans used to reincarnate on Mars, but those who had evolved sufficiently were now reincarnating on Earth, and in the future, the most advanced among them would begin to reincarnate on Mercury.
That is why Sinnett wrote in his book "Esoteric Buddhism" (1883):
« Mercury is preparing for its next human period*. »
(Chapter 7)
And to silence those who believed that physical life could not exist on Mercury because this planet orbits too close to the Sun, Sinnett replied:
« * It may be worth while here to remark for the benefit of people who may be disposed, from physical science reading, to object that Mercury is too near the Sun, and consequently too hot to be a suitable place of habitation for man, that in the oficial report of the Astronomical Department of the United States on the recent "Mount Whitney observations" statements will be found that may check too confident criticisms of occult science along that line.
The results of the Mount Whitney observations on selective absorption of solar rays showed, according to the official reporter, that it would no longer be impossible to suggest the conditions of an atmosphere which should render Mercury habitable at the one extreme of the scale, and Saturn at the other.
We have no concern with Saturn at present, nor, if it were necessary to explain on occult principles the habitability of Mercury, should the task be at- tempted with calculations about selective absorption.
The fact is that ordinary science makes at once too much and too little of the Sun, as the storehouse of force for the solar system, —too much in so far as the heat of planets has a great deal to do with another influence quite distinct from the Sun, an influence Avhich will not be thoroughly understood till more is known than at present about the correlations of heat and magnetism, and of the magnetic, meteoric dust, with which interplanetary space is pervaded.
However, it is enough — to rebut any objection that might be raised against the explanations now in progress, from the point of view of loyal devotees of last year's science — to point out that such objections would be already out of date.
Modern science is very progressive, — this is one of its greatest merits, — but it is not a meritorious habit with modern scientists to think, at each stage of its progress, that all conceptions incompatible with that stage must necessarily be absurd. »
(Chapter 7)
Charles Leadbeater was a friend of Sinnett and claimed that through his clairvoyance he had traveled to Mercury, and what he discovered he recorded in his book "The Inner Life II" (1912):
« Of our future home, Mercury, I know much less than of the planet Mars, because visits to this other planet have been hurried and infrequent.
Many people would think it incredible that life like ours could exist on Mercury, with a sun that appears at least seven times larger than here. But in reality, the heat is not as intense as one would suppose it to be, and I was informed that this is due to a layer of gas located at the outer edges of Mercury's atmosphere, which prevents most of the heat from penetrating.
. . .
The inhabitants of Mercury whom I have seen there are very similar to ourselves, although, as with Mars, they are somewhat smaller.
And the influence of gravity on both Mars and Mercury is less than half of what it is on Earth. But while on Mars I didn't notice any particular way in which this lower gravity had been exploited, I did observe that on Mercury the doors of houses are quite high off the ground.
So if those doors were located on Earth, we would need to perform a great feat of gymnastics to reach them, but on Mercury, only a small jump is required.
And another thing that greatly surprised me is that all the inhabitants of this planet are born with their etheric sight already awakened. I remember that this peculiarity caught my attention when I observed a child watching the movements of a crawling creature. I saw that when this creature entered his dwelling, the Mercurian child could still see its movements, even when the creature was already deep underground. »
(Sixth Section)
Sinnett believed what Leadbeater said, and that is why he changed his explanation. Instead of continuing to claim that Mercury "was preparing for its next human period," Sinnett declared that there were already some humans (the most advanced) physically living on Mercury.
And that is why in his book "Collected Fruits of Occult Teaching" (1919) he wrote:
« Humanity is now scattered: one part is already established on Mercury, while another part lags behind on Mars. »
(p.167)
NOTE
We now know that what Sinnett and Leadbeater said is false and that there is no physical life on Mercury, and in fact, there is no subtle life either, since Master Kuthumi revealed that "Mercury is only just beginning to emerge from its state of obscuration" (SD I, p. 165)
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