The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars

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L. P. Gratacap. The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars

The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars

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PREFACE BY EDITOR

L.P. GRATACAP. POSTHUMOUS PAPERS

OF. BRADFORD TORREY DODD. THE CERTAINTY

OF. A FUTURE LIFE IN MARS. CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

THE PLANET MARS

BY GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI. THE PLANET MARS

BY GIOVANNI SCHIAPARELLI

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L. P. Gratacap

Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd

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"And now our world follows, with its scientific life which probably represents its normal limit. Beyond this it will not go. As we have developed through a brawn and sense period to our present stage, so in Mercury and Venus, ages have prevailed of development which eventuated in their final fixed stages at brawn and sense. In Venus, too, the brawn stage preceded the sense period. In us both have preceded the scientific stage. There has been, may we not think, constant interchanges between these planets of such lives as survive material dissolution, and they have found the nidus that fits them in each. Souls leaving us in a brawn epoch have fled to Mercury, souls leaving us in a sense epoch have fled to Venus, and all souls in Mercury or Venus, ready for reincarnation in a scientific epoch, have come to us.

"But there is an important postulate underlying this theory. It is, that upon each planet the possibilities of development just attain to the margin of the next higher step in mental evolution. That is, that on Mercury the period of brawn develops to the possibility of the period of sense without fully exemplifying it, so in Venus the period of sense develops to the possibility of the period of science without attaining it, and in our world the period of science develops to the period of spirit, without, in any universal way, exhibiting it.

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