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VICTOR HUGO TALKED TO long but very thin body". They said they which kept them floating in mid-air. ALIENS IN THE 1850 ! S didn't take solid refreshment but only drank The information from the Mercurians O ne hundred and fifty years ago, liquids, and did not breathe but "shone like was allegedly channelled in the shade of Victor Hugo seems to have talked the Sun". They added that they were all the great French alchemist Nicolas Flamel, to aliens. Astonishingly, the married. sometimes in strange drawings vaguely renowned author of Les Misérables a n d The Mercurians called their planet peta - suggestive of ancient alchemical formulae. The Hunchback of Notre Dame may have sus insani, "the wildly insane messenger of Flamel—along with Victor Hugo—is communicated with ETs from Jupiter and the gods". Hugo thought this might be in thought by some to have been a Grand Mercury and, in the latter case, learned reference to the strange planetary motions Master of the secret order of the Priory of much about their planet. of the planet Mercury, which races around Sion. These meetings took place at seances the the Sun once every 88 Earth days but takes While on Jersey, Hugo attended more great French writer attended when he was a 59 Earth days to turn around once on its than 100 seances with his wife, daughter, political exile on the English Channel axis (in other words, one day on Mercury two sons and several political exile friends. island of Jersey from 1853 to 1855. lasts 59 Earth days). These motions were During these seances—which are described According to transcripts just recently trans- roughly known in Hugo's time. in a new book, Conversations with lated, the beings tapped out messages The Mercurians said that their planet was Eternity: The Forgotten Masterpiece of through a "talking table"—the forerunner not a prison world but a "reward world", Victor Hugo (New Paradigm Books)—the of the Ouija board. upon which souls from other planets were great French writer also talked to aliens An alien named Tyatafia, from the planet allowed to live a lifetime if they had from other star systems. Jupiter, told Hugo that the inhabitants of behaved extreme- his planet lived grim and difficult lives, ly well during lacking most of the advantages enjoyed by their previous Earth people. Tyatafia said his planet was existence. a "prison world"; souls from other worlds The strange but were sometimes sent there to live out a life- friendly aliens time as punishment for past sins. from Mercury The inhabitants of the planet Mercury described the lived considerably happier lives. They told "temples" on Hugo they were half-animal and half-spirit their world. They and spent a great deal of their time floating told Hugo that, in the planet's thin atmosphere, suspended though they grew by six appendages ending in tiny "suns" old and died like which they called their "torches". humans, they Channelling in Latin for some reason, became ill only the Mercurians described themselves as when they lost having "two eyes which remained open all one or another of the time, a huge but very light head, and a their "torches" APRIL – MAY 1999 NEXUS • 69