Show t MARS NARS THE SEERS STORY OF CATION THE PLANET I 1 wrote v more than a yearn abo A ll of ua ideal U A timely article 11 on all a vital fabj ass As a good deal of dl scission 1 on oil nowadays Bown daya in regard to the planet t and unions oilier other things whether it 1 i inhabited Inhabit cd or not and certain well kirn i astronomical authorities ashert their ix bt b in f tint that there is human life upon that lA plain alle and that some time men ot of this c arth will vib beable to assure themselves of tile fact it digh not be out of place to quote what w li it iva w over years ago u pou poll mir alar its ku and inhabitants fron from ill iho works of amanuel 1 these ex p tracts were taken published in london 1833 entitled the earths in the uni umbrae erse and their inhabitant inhabitants also their spirit tind and angel from what ilas 1 been heard und and seen the following extracts wil be read with more than a passing interest it was granted me to know that the tile speech of the inhabitants of mars was dif ferent from that of the tile inhabitants of our earth in that it was not sonorous but ill most tacit insinuating itself into the I 1 in it tenor hearing and sight right by a shorter way and consequently that it was more perfect fuller of idea ideas and thereby approaching nearer to the speech of spirits and angels angel 4 th the 0 essential affection also of the speech I 1 la represented among them in the face and the thought thereof in the eyes for the thought and the speech and likewise like ise tile lie affection and the faco face with the them in act in unity they account it wicked t to think one thing and speak another and to will or desire one thing while the features of the thorace face express the contrary they tiley are altogether unacquainted with hypocrisy y arild i nd Il likewise with fraudulent deceit on a time while the spirits of mars were with us and occupied the sphere of my mind there came some spirits from our earth and desired also to infuse themselves es into that hat sphere but instantly the spirits of our earth became as it were insane by reason of the utter disagreement between them acm and the tile spirits of mars they were ivere in ill idea turned to the world and to self whereas the spirits of mars were in idea turned from belt self to heaven and bor hence came the contrariety but ut itt that instant there approached rome angelic spirits of mars and at their approach tle co communication m muni cation was closed and thus the sp spirits brits of our earth retired the angelic spirits discoursed with ne me concerning the life of the inhabitants on wi their earth informing us that they arc are not under any forms of government but tint that they live arranged into greater and leaser lemer societies bocie ties and that they arc are associated w with iiii inch each other according to their agreement in mind which agreement they discover in scantly ly by the face and speech being sel dom deceived in their judgment herein and that then they are instantly united in friendship they informed me further that are delightful and that they discourse with each other about what passes in their societies and especially about what posses in heaven for several fee venti of them have manifest communication with t ho angeli of heaven such among them as begin to think perversely in their bocie ties and thereby to incline to evil are arc dis associated and left to themselves alone I 1 in a consequence whereof they lead a most wretched life out of all society in dens or ether other places being no longer regarded by ibn reft livery every ono one on that earth lives content with his own property and every one with bis its own pharo of honor accounting it enough to bo be reputed upright and a dovir over of ills neighbor this delightful and tran lull principle of mind would perish unless fruch as incline to evil ev 11 thoughts and dispositions were banished from the rest and unless a prudent but severe check was ava given to the first encroachments encroach ments of self pelf love lovonne and the love of tho the world tor for it was owing to thebo loves that empires and kingdoms were first established under which establishments there are few but what desire to hav have dominion and to possess the property of others there being few w ho do what is just and right out of real love thereto and still fewer w who lie do 10 good from a real principle of charity being rather influenced by other motives such as Is the fear of the law and a regard to gain honor bonor reputation and tho the like in regard to divine div ino worship as practiced b arthe inhabitants of that earth they informed formed me that they acknowledge and adore our jord lord saying sav ing that he be is the only god and that he lie go governs vertis both heaven and the universe and aud that every good tiling is from hernand him hir nand and that lie leads lead sand and directs them also that ho lie often appears among them on oil their earth it was then granted me to tell them that christians also on oil our earth know that the lord goverts gove riis heaven and earth a agreeably rec ably in hil his own words in matthew all power is given to mein heaven and in earth 18 there was presented before me an inhabitant of tho the earth his ilis faco face resembled the faces of of our earth but the lower region of the tile face was black not owing to liia it beard heart for he had bad none but to of a beard board tah blackness extended itself underneath the tars ears on both bides the upper part of the tile face waa was yellowish like the faces of the inhabitants of our earth who are not per factly fair they euld moreover that on 01 that earth they feed 0 le ic fruits of tree trees especially on a kind of round fruit which budt buds forth f from rom the ground and likewise like wire ise on oil pulse and that they are clothed with wrought from the tile fibrous balk bark of certain trees which has such a couii cou bist tet ence that it may be woven and also lao stiffened by a kind of gum which they y lave among them they related further furt lr that they are acquainted with the art of making fluid fluitt fires whereby they hiu have light during evenin und and night botia transcript Tran pt |