EM CADA CASA DAS GENTES FINAS DE LISBOA E DA LINHA DE CASCAES ENCONTRAM-SE MILHARES DE VOLUMES DE LITERATURA DE CORDEL IMPORTADAS DE FRANÇA NAS PRIMEIRAS DÉCADAS DO SÉCULO XX....ATÉ AO MOMENTO NAS CENTENAS DE MILHARES DE VOLUMES QUE COMPREI NESTAS DÉCADAS QUE VÃO DE 1974 A 1994 OU SEJA 20 ANOS A COMPRAR LIXO EM FRANCÊS DAS CLASSES ABASTADAS DE LISBOA E PORTO E ARREDORES COMO ÉVORA COIMBRA ELVAS E AZEITÃO E SEM ESQUECER AS GRANDES BIBLIOTECAS DOS SOLARES DA FRIA BRAGA À MAIS FRIA BRAGANÇA CHEGO À CONCLUSÃO QUE ESTES LIVROS COMPRADOS DE 1890 A 1950 SE RESUMEM EM QUATRO CATEGORIAS - LIVROS PARA SENHORAS E PARA MENINAS AO ESTILO DA CONDESSA DE SÉGUR E DO MAX O CHOFER RUSSO OU SEJA O EQUIVALENTE À BARBARA CARTLAND DOS SÉCULOS XIX E XX - LIVROS DE PSEUDO-HISTÓRIA E DE HISTÓRIA SOBRE AS MUITAS GUERRAS COMMERCIAIS DA EUROPA - LIVROS DE AVENTURAS ESTILO LA MAIN ROUGE ET JULES EL VERNE D'EL VERME E A QUARTA SÃO OS LIVROS E REVISTAS DE DIVULGAÇÃO CIENTÍFICAS OU NÃO LE MOIS SCIENCE ET VIE QUE SAIS JE? ET FLAMMARION N'OUBLIONS PAS PÁ O LÚMEN

LUMEN - FLAMMARION
Death— The soul— The hour of death— Separation of the soul
— Sight of the soul in Heaven —
The Solar System in the heavens— The Earth
as seen from the heavens— The star Capella—
Velocity of light— The terrestrial planet seen
from afar — The worlds seen from afar — Lumen
— Lumen sees again his own life.

into the organism by means of respiration and
alimentation ; they renew the tissues inces-
santly^ and are continually replaced by others,
and when cast out from the body go to form
other bodies. In a few months the human
Renewal of body is entirely renewed, and neither in the

the body.

blood, nor in the flesh, nor in the brain, nor in

the bones, does an atom remain of those which

constituted the body a few months before.

Atoms and The atoms travel without ceasing from body to

moleculeB.

body, chiefly by the grand medium of the

atmosphere. The molecule of iron is the same

whether it be incorporated in the blood which

throbs in the temples of an illustrious man, or

form part of a fragment of rusty iron ; the

molecule of oxygen is the same in the blush

raised by a loving glance, or when in union

with hydrogen it forms the flame of one of the

thousand jets of gas that illuminate Paris by

night, or when it falls from the clouds in the

shape of a di-op of water. The bodies of the

living are formed of the ashes of the dead, and

if all the dead were to be resuscitated, the last

comers might find the material for their bodies

wanting, owing to their predecessors having

appropriated all that was available. Moreover,

during life many exchanges are made between

enemies and friends, between men, animals,

SECOND CONVERSATION

REFLUUM TEMPORIS 64-105

Journey on a ray of light— Events retraced —
Re-ascending the Ages— Psychical optics— Light
and sound — Man organised from the planet —
The soul and destiny.

star with rays of gold, which, on maps of the

zodiac, is marked " Capella." You see how

clearly I remember it all. When you had opened

the window the perfume of the roses, sleeping

under the wings of night, ascended upwards to

me and mingled with the silent rays of the stars. Lastim-

I cannot express to you how sweet were these the parting

last impressions that I received from the Earth ; ^'^"^'

language fails me to describe what I felt. In

the hours of my sweetest happiness, of my

tenderest love, I never felt such an intensity of

joy, so glorious a serenity, such real bliss, as I

experienced then in the ecstatic enjoyment of

the perfumed breath of the flowers and the

tender gleam of the distant stars. . . . When Separation

of the soul.
you bent over me I seemed to return to the

outer world, and with my hands clasped over

my breast, my sight and my thoughts, united

in prayer, together took flight into space.

THIRD CONVERSATION

HOMO HOMUNCULUS 106-128

The sphere of human observation — Time and
space — Events in space — Time, space, and
eternity.
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FOURTH CONVERSATION

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AnTErIORES vITae 129-196

Space and light — The star Gamma in Virgo —
The system of Gamma in Virgo — Former existence —
 The plurality of existences — The unknown
— The constellations — The elements — Life on the
earth — The process of alimentation — Nutritive
atmospheres — Poetry on the Earth — A humanity
— The organisation of beings — The development
of life — The genealogical tree of life — The men-
plants — Souls and atoms — Other senses — ^Atoms
and monads.


around them. These neighbour - worlds, or
stars, are twelve or fifteen in number. Out-
side that limit the perceptions become con-
fused. They have therefore a vague but dis-
tinct knowledge of the state of humanity in
the planets of our Sun, and of the relative ele-
vation in the intellectual and moral order of
their inhabitants. Moreover, when a great dis-
turbance takes place, either in the physical or
the moral realm, they feel a sort of inner agita-
tion, like that of a musical chord which vibrates
in unison with another chord at a distance.

For a year (a year of this world is equal to
ten of our years) they had felt themselves
drawn by special attraction towards the terres-
trial planet, and had observed with unusual
interest and anxiety the march of events in
that world. They had beheld the end of a
reign and the dawn of glorious liberty, the
conquest of the rights of man and the asser-
tion of the great principles of human dignity.
Then they had seen the cause sacred to liberty
placed in peril by those who should have been
the first to defend it, and brute force substi-
tuted for reason and justice.