If spirits do, as they say, visit other planets, I would ask if they are inhabited? and if so, do you learn anything of them, of their history, character and condition, as compared with the inhabitants of the earth?
Very many of the planets are inhabited by animal and intellectual life, while very many of them are uninhabited—they not having arrived at the stage where they can sustain animal and intellectual life combined.
It is impossible to visit any such locality and not learn something in consequence of the visit.
We find that all the planets that we have visited possess essentially the same life as the earth.
The atoms are aggregated differently to be sure, but the essence of the atoms is precisely the same, and the same general law seems to govern them.
There is a difference, but it is in the external more than the internal. The great power that governs this earth governs all other planets, and they all are subservient to this law, therefore, the method of unfoldment must be similar.
—Thomas Paine in Spirit
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