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	'''Nicolas Camille Flammarion ''' ([[February 26]], 1842 - [[June 3]], 1925) was a French astronomer, prolific author of more than fifty titles and member of the [[Theosophical Society]]. His writings include popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine ''L'Astronomie'', starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.		'''Nicolas Camille Flammarion ''' ([[February 26]], 1842 - [[June 3]], 1925) was a French astronomer, prolific author of more than fifty titles and member of the [[Theosophical Society]]. His writings include popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine ''L'Astronomie'', starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.

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	Flammarion became an honorary member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Paris on July 23, 1880.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 666 (website file: 1A/26).</ref><ref>''The Theosophist'' of May 1880 has an alternative date, stating that he became a member in May 1880. Page 214.</ref> He was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] from 1880 for several years.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref><ref>Supplement to ''The Theosophist'' Mayr 1882, page 8.</ref>		Flammarion became an honorary member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Paris on July 23, 1880.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 666 (website file: 1A/26).</ref><ref>''The Theosophist'' of May 1880 has an alternative date, stating that he became a member in May 1880. Page 214.</ref> He was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] from 1880 for several years.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref><ref>Supplement to ''The Theosophist'' Mayr 1882, page 8.</ref>
	[[File:Camille_Flammarion.001.jpg\|~~220px~~\|right\|thumb\|Nicolas Camille Flammarion]]		[[File:Camille_Flammarion.001.jpg\|200px\|right\|thumb\|Nicolas Camille Flammarion]]
	He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:		He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:

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	'''Nicolas Camille Flammarion ''' ([[February 26]], 1842 - [[June 3]], 1925) was a French astronomer, prolific author of more than fifty titles and member of the [[Theosophical Society]]. His writings include popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine ''L'Astronomie'', starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.		'''Nicolas Camille Flammarion ''' ([[February 26]], 1842 - [[June 3]], 1925) was a French astronomer, prolific author of more than fifty titles and member of the [[Theosophical Society]]. His writings include popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and works on psychical research and related topics. He also published the magazine ''L'Astronomie'', starting in 1882. He maintained a private observatory at Juvisy-sur-Orge, France.

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	Flammarion became an honorary member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Paris on July 23, 1880.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 666 (website file: 1A/26).</ref><ref>''The Theosophist'' of May 1880 has an alternative date, stating that he became a member in May 1880. Page 214.</ref> He was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] from 1880 for several years.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref><ref>Supplement to ''The Theosophist'' Mayr 1882, page 8.</ref>		Flammarion became an honorary member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Paris on July 23, 1880.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 666 (website file: 1A/26).</ref><ref>''The Theosophist'' of May 1880 has an alternative date, stating that he became a member in May 1880. Page 214.</ref> He was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] from 1880 for several years.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref><ref>Supplement to ''The Theosophist'' Mayr 1882, page 8.</ref>
			[[File:Camille_Flammarion.001.jpg\|220px\|right\|thumb\|Nicolas Camille Flammarion]]
	He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:		He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:

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	The "Flammarion engraving" first appeared in Flammarion’s 1888 edition of ''L’Atmosphère''. In 1907, he wrote that he believed that dwellers on Mars had tried to communicate with the Earth in the past.		The "Flammarion engraving" first appeared in Flammarion’s 1888 edition of ''L’Atmosphère''. In 1907, he wrote that he believed that dwellers on Mars had tried to communicate with the Earth in the past.

	==~~Online~~ resources==		== Additional resources ==

			=== Articles ===
	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
	*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.		*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.

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	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
	*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.		*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.
	*[https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/flammarion-nicolas Flammarion, Nicolas Camille] at Theosophy World.		*[https://www.theosophy.world/encyclopedia/flammarion-nicolas-camille Flammarion, Nicolas Camille] at Theosophy World.

	== References ==		== References ==

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	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
	*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.		*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.
	*[https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/flammarion-nicolas-Flammarion, Nicolas Camille] at Theosophy World.		*[https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/flammarion-nicolas Flammarion, Nicolas Camille] at Theosophy World.

	== References ==		== References ==

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	==Theosophical involvement ==		==Theosophical involvement ==

	Flammarion was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] in 1880.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref>		Flammarion became an honorary member of the [[Theosophical Society]] in Paris on July 23, 1880.<ref>Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at [http://tsmembers.org/ http://tsmembers.org/]. See book 1, entry 666 (website file: 1A/26).</ref><ref>''The Theosophist'' of May 1880 has an alternative date, stating that he became a member in May 1880. Page 214.</ref> He was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] from 1880 for several years.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref><ref>Supplement to ''The Theosophist'' Mayr 1882, page 8.</ref>

	He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:		He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:

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	==Online resources==		==Online resources==
	*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia		*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
	*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource		*[http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Camille_Flammarion# Camille Flammarion] at Wikisource.
	*[~~http~~://theosophy.ph/~~encyclo~~/~~index.php?title=~~Flammarion,~~_Nicolas_Camille#~~ Camille ~~Flammarion~~] at ~~Theosopedia~~		*[https://theosophy.world/encyclopedia/flammarion-nicolas-Flammarion, Nicolas Camille] at Theosophy World.

	== References ==		== References ==

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	Flammarion is mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:		Flammarion was a member of the [[General Council of the Theosophical Society]] in 1880.<ref>"The Theosophical Society," ''The Theosophist'' 1.8 (May, 1880), 214.</ref>

			He was mentioned by [[Koot Hoomi\|Master K.H.]] in [[Mahatma Letter No. 67]]:

	<blockquote>You have among the learned members of your society one [[Theosophist]] who without familiarity with our [[Esoteric Philosophy\|occult doctrine]], has yet intuitively grasped from scientific data the idea of a [[Pralaya\|solar pralaya]] and its [[Manvantara\|manwantara]] in their beginnings. I mean the celebrated French astronomer Flammarion — "La Resurrection et la Fin des Mondes" (Chapter 4 res.). He speaks like a true seer. The facts are as he surmises with slight modifications.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 67 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 188.</ref>		<blockquote>You have among the learned members of your society one [[Theosophist]] who without familiarity with our [[Esoteric Philosophy\|occult doctrine]], has yet intuitively grasped from scientific data the idea of a [[Pralaya\|solar pralaya]] and its [[Manvantara\|manwantara]] in their beginnings. I mean the celebrated French astronomer Flammarion — "La Resurrection et la Fin des Mondes" (Chapter 4 res.). He speaks like a true seer. The facts are as he surmises with slight modifications.<ref>Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., ''The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence'' No. 67 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 188.</ref>
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	<blockquote>The French astronomer Flammarion, in a book called ''La Résurrection et la Fin des Mondes'', has approached a conception of this ultimate materiality. The facts are, I am informed, with slight modifications, much as he surmises. In consequence of what he treats as secular refrigeration, but which more truly is old age and loss of vital power, the solidification and desiccation of the earth at last reaches a point when the whole globe becomes a relaxed conglomerate. Its period of child-bearing has gone by; its progeny are all nurtured; its term of life is finished. Hence its constituent masses cease to obey those laws of cohesion and aggregation which held them together. And becoming like a corpse, which, abandoned to the work of destruction, leaves each molecule composing it free to separate itself from the body, and obey in future the sway of new influences, "the attraction of the moon,” suggests M. Flammarion, "would itself undertake the task of demolition by producing a tidal wave of earth particles instead of an aqueous tide." This last idea must not be regarded as countenanced by occult science except so far as it may serve to illustrate the loss of molecular cohesion in the material of the earth.<ref>Sinnett, A.P. ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 153.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>The French astronomer Flammarion, in a book called ''La Résurrection et la Fin des Mondes'', has approached a conception of this ultimate materiality. The facts are, I am informed, with slight modifications, much as he surmises. In consequence of what he treats as secular refrigeration, but which more truly is old age and loss of vital power, the solidification and desiccation of the earth at last reaches a point when the whole globe becomes a relaxed conglomerate. Its period of child-bearing has gone by; its progeny are all nurtured; its term of life is finished. Hence its constituent masses cease to obey those laws of cohesion and aggregation which held them together. And becoming like a corpse, which, abandoned to the work of destruction, leaves each molecule composing it free to separate itself from the body, and obey in future the sway of new influences, "the attraction of the moon,” suggests M. Flammarion, "would itself undertake the task of demolition by producing a tidal wave of earth particles instead of an aqueous tide." This last idea must not be regarded as countenanced by occult science except so far as it may serve to illustrate the loss of molecular cohesion in the material of the earth.<ref>Sinnett, A.P. ''Esoteric Buddhism'' (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 153.</ref></blockquote>

	[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|H. P. Blavatsky]] also held Flammarion in esteem with respect to contemporary [[Science]]. In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] she ~~writes~~:		[[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky\|H. P. Blavatsky]] also held Flammarion in esteem with respect to contemporary [[Science]]. In [[The Secret Doctrine (book)\|''The Secret Doctrine'']] she wrote:

	<blockquote>Even the question of the plurality of worlds inhabited by sentient creatures is rejected or approached with the greatest caution! And yet see what the great astronomer, Camille Flammarion, says in his ''Pluralité des mondes''.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' Vol. I (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), footnote, 606.</ref></blockquote>		<blockquote>Even the question of the plurality of worlds inhabited by sentient creatures is rejected or approached with the greatest caution! And yet see what the great astronomer, Camille Flammarion, says in his ''Pluralité des mondes''.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''The Secret Doctrine'' Vol. I (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), footnote, 606.</ref></blockquote>
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	Mme Blavatsky also ~~comments~~ on Flammarion's scientific arguments that the conditions necessary for life are present on other planets:		Mme Blavatsky also commented on Flammarion's scientific arguments that the conditions necessary for life are present on other planets:

	<blockquote>Still the fact remains that most of the planets, as the stars beyond our system, are inhabited, a fact which has been admitted by the men of science themselves. Laplace and Herschell believed it, though they wisely abstained from imprudent speculation; and the same conclusion has been worked out and supported with an array of scientific considerations by C. Flammarion, the well-known French Astronomer. The arguments he brings forward are strictly scientific, and such as to appeal even to a materialistic mind, which would remain unmoved by such thoughts as those of Sir David Brewster.<ref>Sir David Brewster (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian of science and university principal.</ref><br>		<blockquote>Still the fact remains that most of the planets, as the stars beyond our system, are inhabited, a fact which has been admitted by the men of science themselves. Laplace and Herschell believed it, though they wisely abstained from imprudent speculation; and the same conclusion has been worked out and supported with an array of scientific considerations by C. Flammarion, the well-known French Astronomer. The arguments he brings forward are strictly scientific, and such as to appeal even to a materialistic mind, which would remain unmoved by such thoughts as those of Sir David Brewster.<ref>Sir David Brewster (11 December 1781 – 10 February 1868) was a Scottish physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor, writer, historian of science and university principal.</ref><br>
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	But this is the limit beyond which the ordinary faculties of man cannot carry him. Many are the romances and tales, some purely fanciful, others bristling with scientific knowledge, which have attempted to imagine and describe life on other globes. But one and all, they give but some distorted copy of the drama of life around us. It is either, with Voltaire, the men of our own race under a microscope, or, with de Bergerac, a graceful play of fancy and satire; but we always find that at bottom the new world is but the one we ourselves live in. So strong is this tendency that even great natural, though non-initiated seers, when untrained, fall a victim to it; witness [[Emanuel Swedenborg\|Swedenborg]], who goes so far as to dress the inhabitants of Mercury, whom he meets with in the spirit-world, in clothes such as are worn in Europe.		But this is the limit beyond which the ordinary faculties of man cannot carry him. Many are the romances and tales, some purely fanciful, others bristling with scientific knowledge, which have attempted to imagine and describe life on other globes. But one and all, they give but some distorted copy of the drama of life around us. It is either, with Voltaire, the men of our own race under a microscope, or, with de Bergerac, a graceful play of fancy and satire; but we always find that at bottom the new world is but the one we ourselves live in. So strong is this tendency that even great natural, though non-initiated seers, when untrained, fall a victim to it; witness [[Emanuel Swedenborg\|Swedenborg]], who goes so far as to dress the inhabitants of Mercury, whom he meets with in the spirit-world, in clothes such as are worn in Europe.
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	Commenting on this tendency Flammarion ~~says~~:		Commenting on this tendency Flammarion said:
	:“It seems as if in the eyes of those authors who have written on this subject, the Earth were the type of the Universe, and the Man of Earth, the type of the inhabitants of the heavens. It is, on the contrary, much more probable, that, since the nature of other planets is essentially varied, and the surroundings and conditions of existence essentially different, while the forces which preside over the creation of beings and the substances which enter into their mutual constitution are essentially distinct, it would follow that our mode of existence cannot be regarded as in any way applicable to other globes.Those who have written on this subject have allowed themselves to be dominated by terrestrial ideas, and fell therefore into error.” (''La pluralité des mondes habités'', p. 439-440.)<br>		:“It seems as if in the eyes of those authors who have written on this subject, the Earth were the type of the Universe, and the Man of Earth, the type of the inhabitants of the heavens. It is, on the contrary, much more probable, that, since the nature of other planets is essentially varied, and the surroundings and conditions of existence essentially different, while the forces which preside over the creation of beings and the substances which enter into their mutual constitution are essentially distinct, it would follow that our mode of existence cannot be regarded as in any way applicable to other globes.Those who have written on this subject have allowed themselves to be dominated by terrestrial ideas, and fell therefore into error.” (''La pluralité des mondes habités'', p. 439-440.)<br>
	But Flammarion himself falls into the very error which he here condemns, for he tacitly takes the conditions of life on earth as the standard by which to determine the degree to which other planets are adapted for habitation by “other Humanities.” <ref>Blavatsky, H.P. ''The Secret Doctrine'' Vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House. 1993) 701-703.</ref></blockquote>		But Flammarion himself falls into the very error which he here condemns, for he tacitly takes the conditions of life on earth as the standard by which to determine the degree to which other planets are adapted for habitation by “other Humanities.” <ref>Blavatsky, H.P. ''The Secret Doctrine'' Vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House. 1993) 701-703.</ref></blockquote>

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