Nigel Carrington

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Through the Looking Glass · Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds - Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

That some worlds are like it, though none in precisely the same condition, that others are as yet in a primitive state.

Just as the earth was in the period of, say, the secondary formations, the

That others, however, are more highly developed than this world, and finally that in others life is extinct.

This ideal is much the same as that of Oerstead, who says on some planets the creatures may be possibly on a far larger scale, on others far smaller than on our own.

On some perhaps they are formed of less solid matter, or may indeed approach the transparency of ether.

or on others again be formed of much denser matter.

The rational creatures on some of the planets may be capable of receiving far quicker, more acute and more distinct impressions than on the Earth.

We may imagine that there are reasonable beings with weaker faculties than our own

As I have in these pages supposed to be the case, and

But if we properly appreciate our present distance from the aspirations of our reason, we feel compelled to acknowledge that an endless number of degrees of development may exist above the point we have reached.

I have further supposed that no two worlds are alike in their developments of vitality, just as no two are alike as seen in the telescope, nor in their apparent physical characteristics.

Yet, as in all the solar system there is an underlying unity of design, so I have supposed that unity in diversity is the law of vitality as well as of matter, and thus that the life in each of our sister worlds is like some form or other of life to be found on earth, and

Just as the fact has been revealed to us by the spectroscope that the same metallic and gaseous elements as we find about us on Earth exist even in distant stars.

Thus I have supposed that life in other worlds is like what we find on earth.

but that in each world there is a distinct development.

In the apportionment of each such development to diverse worlds, I have supposed that the physical constitution of each world as far as we know it affects the form of life upon it.

As to the theological question of gods dealings with the inhabitants of other worlds,

I have hardly presumed to touch the subject.

These things we can only know when we see no more as in a glass darkly, but face to face.

And it seems to me that those who have ventured to speculate on it as Kircher or Swedenborg or

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