Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to EntoWeiss, Sara
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Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento
Weiss, Sara
Mars (Planet) -- Miscellanea; Spirit writings
The incidents I have been relating may appear to you somewhat trivial;
they are intended to serve the purpose of acquainting you with
certain life forms and conditions of Ento, thus enabling you to draw
comparisons between what may come under your notice on this planet and
such forms and conditions as you may have knowledge of on your own.
After a glance at the creatures occupying compartments on the further
side I shall regretfully leave you. Here are shell covered reptiles
which Agassiz says are very like some of your salt water reptiles.
This unhandsome creature, sluggishly lying in the shallow water of its
capacious tank, is nearly one-third as broad as it is long, and its
length is quite twenty feet. The large brown and white scales covering
its body are erectile, as are the smaller ones on its long, slender
neck to which its long, narrow head and vicious looking eyes give a
serpentlike appearance. Now, as it moves into deeper water, one sees
the dull orange color of its belly. Its tail, with which it partly
propels itself through the water, opens and closes like a folding fan;
see how it curves under, then is projected outward with much force,
impelling the creature onward. You perceive that in swimming it also
uses its short, sinewy legs and webbed feet. It is strictly a water
reptile, never venturing into shallower water than that of the tank. It
is known as Pylo-akēdon (scaly armored), and is a species of reptile
nearly extinct.
Here are other water creatures which, in structure and form, are said
to closely resemble life forms of Earth. On other planets I have seen
very similar forms.
Of course only a limited number of Ento's various aquatic creatures
find homes in the different compartments of this Rinvoh, but they
represent both the rarest and the commonest species. The collections of
the Acclinum and Syffondû? (museum) are very comprehensive, the latter
containing a representation of life forms of the remote past and of
more modern times. In the Acclinum the collection of fossils is very
curious, but as you will be shown all that may be considered necessary
for the purpose in view, I need not particularize.
Gentol[a:], the moment has arrived when, for the present, I must leave
you and these friends. It would delight me could I remain with you and
them until the consummation of this mission, but it cannot be. May the
Divine Spirit of all that is unfold in us a fuller consciousness that
only through earnest endeavor can we attain to higher Spiritual planes
of being. Emanos, Info oovistû.
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