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