Lumen

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.

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.


LUMEN
Quærens. You promised, dear Lumen, to describe to me that supremest of moments which immediately succeeds death, and to relate to me how, by a natural law, singular though it may seem, you lived again your past life, and penetrated a hitherto-unrevealed mystery.