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LUMEN

    _The One Hundred and Forty-first of the Minor Planets,
    situated between Mars and Jupiter, which was discovered
    at the Paris Observatory by M. Paul Henry, on the 13th
    of January 1875, received the name of LUMEN in honour
    of the Author of this Work._




LUMEN

    BY
    CAMILLE FLAMMARION

    AUTHORISED TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH

    BY
    A. A. M. AND R. M.

    _With portions of the last chapter written specially
    for the English Edition_


    NEW YORK
    DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
    1897




    _Copyright, 1897,_
    BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY.

    _Fifty-two thousand copies of the French original
    of this volume have been sold_

    University Press:
    JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.




CONTENTS


    FIRST CONVERSATION

                                             PAGE
    RESURRECTIO PRAETERITI                    1-63

    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.


    SECOND CONVERSATION

    REFLUUM TEMPORIS                       64-105

    Journey on a ray of light--Events
