The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-03
NOT FROM MARS.
President OF the Philosophical Society
Thinks Man Came from the Moon.

Thinks NAN Came from the NOON
William @. Judge. in New York Herald.
The various views given in the Herald on
the subject of Mars are important if true:
in any event they are interesting But 1
was sorry to see one OF your writers deny
cooled and forming on the outside a crust,
on the ground that the learned professors
might not be able to make a pot of molten
steel cool of in just the same way. We
have many examples In nature, and some
in physiology, showing how fluid masses,
moving in the equivalent of space for a
mass Of molten new matter. can accumu-
late to themselves an outer crust and move
as balls or spheroids in the general mass TO
which they were before homogeneous. This
happens in the digestive tract, as when
small masses of serum or mucous become
covered with a tough skin, under which the
inside is perfectly fluid. 1t similarly takes
place in those cases of disqualification in
which the hard stone holos in its center a
only partly changed. And if to this we add
the facts we'll known ABOUT volcanoes and
the melted material they throw out, as Wen
fires seen in the bowels of partly active
volcanoes, there is sufficient ground for be-
leving that the earth was once a mass of
fuid floating in space But how 1t came
there and how man got upon 1t are ques-
tons not so easily solved.
The theosophical history of the genesis of
the earth involves a denial that man came
from Mars. I do not think we. originated
there, nor that Mars is now inhabited. Ii
that planet has no human population. there
Is, of course, no signaling between it and us.
We have to believe one of three theories,
1T seems to me. That the earth and all
planets were created especially and as they
are by some deity, or that it is all a matter
OF chance, or, lastly. that evolution, which
is in one sense a process of condensation,
brought into visible existence planets, COM
cts and suns. The last is the theosophicaI
theory.
In respect to such remote globes as Mars
we have no means Of knowing much by OBJ
servation, and those theosophists who be-
heve In the adopts depend in that matter
upon what the latter have said SO far as
1t can be understood in view of what we
know here. These adopts have stated that
Mars Is not now inhabited, but is in a
period of observation so far as human life
and energies are concerned. These obscura-
lions occur at regular periods, separated by
enormous stretches of time, and they apply
to the earth as well as to Mars. While the
sky. but man is not there. He has gone on
to another body invisible to us, where he
continues the evolution of those parts of
his complex nature which relate especially
to that other globe. So there may well be
atmosphere on Mars and polar ice, with
equatorial heat, without any %sentient popu-
lation. The presence of atmosphere does not
prove the presence of population; the abb
sence of atmosphere only proves the alb
be a population or beings on such an ap-
parently airless body as the NOON; they
would be breathers of electricity only, and
not necessarily visible to us.
The explanation of the genesis of the
earth is a revelation Of what was called In
the East a mystery of the moon. The earth
moon, and not its parent. This theory is
no more wild nor fanciful than the modern
out into space a mass of matter which is
now our moon. There is the difficulty
about the latter that if It be the fact, Why
earth, with similar beings? 1t does not re-
semble a child of the earth, but it looks
very like what the adopts say it is-the dead
body formerly used by the energies now at
work on our globe. 1t is the dead corpse
of the entty-the collection of energies
now 1nDrtSOna6 n IN the newer laTfh inst as
If man should now find in some church
yard, or in Egypt. the corpse or mummy
used by him in a former life.
Let me restate 1t. There was once no
earth of ours. We, as souls in bodies adapt
ed to that life, were on the moon. and she
then rolled In the sky apparently unchange-
able, but all the time undergoing with us
her evolution; Long ages passed and the
globe reached her time of death, which
must throw her energies into space and
cause the souls (ourselves) to travel fur
Their, seeking another mansion in the heav-
ems" TIL throes of physical death then
drew out of the moon nearly all her forces,
which,. projected into space in the form of
spot in space where they could revoIve and
evolve a new earth.
This would be a neutral spot, of which
The forces there revolved, and by cosmic
chemistry and dynamics gradually condensed
the invisible matter which SO puzzles sci
ence of to-day, so that in time a visible
mass of molten matter revolved in space.
It grew denser on the surface, and at last
1921 Oil % tA- We AiCdl AiliC as SOQiS,
were involved in the whole process. This
left the moon as a corpse. AT first it was
large, but rapid absorption by it's child, the
earth. contracted it during the ages that
have followed, until now il is smaller than
We and compelled to circle with US about
the sun until complete absorption shall have
dissipated the whole mass.
The races of men have to go through their
evolution on the earth until they have cir
cled round a mighty planetary chain, of
which earth is a member, seven full times.
and when they are finished there will be no
moon In the sky, for she will be a thing of
the ancient past.
This family of planets, in which our globe
plays a part, are all invisible to US except
our earth. The other members are on planes
of perception SO different from our physical
organs that we cannot see them. Mars is
a globe like ours, and hence visible, but he
And the sun is the great father or center
for them all. In the case Of both earth and
to an adjoining member of the family to de-
velop one of the great human characteris-
tics, the globe, which is for a time deserted.
goes into a period of observation, or be-
comes an arabic field, so as to prepare for
the returning human life wave.
In the case of Mrs, it is said the planet
is in the arabic" or obscured state be-
cause It's souls have for a time gone else
m maese m por sn eept own good tSa j In nh TIME mysi at after ep
a similarly obscured condition, and then,
perhaps, the returned Martians will be spec
ulating on what Is the matter with us if
they shall not know more about. the Cos
mos than We permit ourselves to learn. It
is more than likely they will not be so ar
rogant and foolishly materialistic as our
present civilization is. They will have
learned of the ages, and will not waste
their time in disputes over SUMS heat and
moons air, such as our people indulge in
with differences in figures running into the
hundreds of thousands.
My conclusion, then, is that we came from
the moon before she had contracted to her
present size; that, as we are all spiritual
beings, We arrived here as souls do, along
the subtle unprecedented currents which are
not known to science, but are suspected by
those who know the reality of the soul life
and have had some experience with the
telepathic' communication which bridges dis
tances, no matter how great.
HER RIDING LESSON