The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-07-19
SWEDENBORG'S MARS.
The SeeT's Story Of Communication
With The Planet,
Emanuel SHedPnbog Wrote His PpphsgMue Than
Hundred Years Ago-Pctup Of an Ideal Existence.

Hundred Years AgDD-Phtup Of an Ideal Existence.
AS a good deal of discussion is going Oh
nowadays In regard to the planet Mars
and among other things whether it i,
inhabited or not, and certain we'll known
astronomical authorities assert their belief
that there is human life upon that planet,
and that some time men of this earth will
be able to assure themselves of the fact,
it might not be out of place to quote what
was written over 100 years ago upon MARS:
Its Spirits and Inhabitants" From the
works of Emanuel Swedenborg these ex
tracts were taken, published in London.
! 1855, entitled THE Earths in the Universe
and Their Inhabitants, Also Their Spirits
and Angels, from What Has Been Heard
and Seen" The following extracts will
be read with more than passing interest:
1T was granted me to know that the
speech of the inhabitants of Mars was diff
ferent from that of the inhabitants of our
earth, IN that 1t was not sonorous, but al
most taclt, lnslnuating itself into the in.
terror hearing and sight by a shorter way,
and consequently that it was more perfect
fuller of ideas and thereby approaching
nearer to the speech of spirits and angels,
The essential affection also of the speecb
Is represented among them in the face and
the thought thereof in the eyes, for the
thought and the speech and likewise the
affection and the face with them act in
unity. They account it wicked to think
one thing and speak another, and to will
or desire one thing while the features of
the face express the contrary. They are
altOppt her unnpuunintad with
and likewise with fraudulent pretense and
deceit.
On 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
into that sphere but instantly the spirits
of our earth became as it were, insane by
reason of the utter disagreement between
them and the spirits of Mars. They were
in idea turned to the world and to self,
whereas the spirits of Mars were in idea
turned from self to heaven and their neigh
Dor; hence came the contrariety. But at
that instant there approached some angelic
spirits OF Mars, and at their approach the
communication was closed, and thus the
spirits of our earth retired.
The angelic spirits discoursed with me
concerning the life of the inhabitants on
their earth, informing us that they are not
under any forms of government, but that
they live arranged into greater and lesser
societies, and that they are associated with
each other according to their agreement in
mind, which agreement they discover in.
stantly by the face and speech, being sci.
dom deceived in their judgment herein,
and that then they are instantly united in
friendship. They informed me further
that their conscientious are delightful, and
that they discourse with each other about
what passes in their societies, and especially
about what passes in heaven, for several of
them have manifest communication with
the angels of heaven. Such among them
as begin to think perversely in their socie
ties and thereby to incline to evil, are dis
associated and left to themselves alone in
consequence whereof they lead most
wretched life, out of all society, in dens or
other places, being no longer regarded by
the rest.
Every one on that earth lives content
with his own property and every one with
his own share of honor, accounting it
enough to be reputed upright and a lover
of his neighbor This delightful and tran
qull principle of mind would perish unless
such as incline to evil thoughts and dispo-
sitions were banished from the rest. and
unless prudent but severe check was
given to the first encroachments of self
love and the love of the world, for it was
owing to these loves that empires and
Kingdoms We're first established. under
which establishments there are few but
what desire to have dominion and to DOS
sess the property of others, there being
few who do what is just and right out of
real love thereto, and still fewer who do
good from real principle of charity, being
rather influenced by other motives, such as
the fear of the law and a regard to gain
honor, reputation and the like.
In regard to divine worship as practiced
by the inhabitants of that earth, they in
formed me that they acknowledge and |
adore our Lord, saying that he is the only |
Tod, and that he governs both heaven and |
the universe, and that every good thing is
from him, and that he leads and directs |
them; also that he often appears among |
them on their earth 1t was then granted |
me to tell them that Christians also on
our earth know that the Lord governs |
heaven and earth, agreeably in his own
words in Matthew, "All power is given to
me In heaven and in EARTH" xvii, IS.
There was presented before me an in
habitant of the earth. His face resembled
he faces of the inhabitants of our earth.
but the lower region of the face was black
not owing to his beard, for he had none
out to blackness instead of beard, this
Dlackness extended itself underneath the
ears on both sides; the upper part of the
ACE was yellowish, like the faces of the in
labitants of our earth who are not per
ectly fair. They said, moreover, that on
hat earth they feed on the fruits of trees.
specially on kind of round fruit which
buds forth from the ground, and likewise
IN pulse and that they are clothed with
wrought from the tibrous bark
If certain trees, which has such consist
nee that it may be woven, and also
titfened by kind of gum which they
AVE among them. They related further
hat they are acquainted with the art of
making fluid fires, whereby they have
light during evening and night Boston
Advantage of Going Bareheadcd.
A correspondent complains that he can.
lot take his walks abroad with his head
without being exposed to gibes
nd tiouts and sneers and being treated as
lunatic. And yet" he asks, "who but
he halter would suffer by the almost COM
ete disuse of the hatS The advantages
you'd be many; we should entirely avoid
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