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OCR: Lumen by Camille Flammarion: In 1872 Flammarion pub lished Lumen (in English Lumen History ofa Comet Infinity, 1873), novel that combines science fiction and heterodox religious or occult ideas. The story, which un- folds in an essay format with fictional (dialogue) elements added recaunts the interaction between Lumen (light) and the Seeker (Quaerens) Lumen portrays the popular science and summarizes bizarre "philosophy of life The reader leams that Lumen is actually the ghost of deceased nineteenth-century Frenchman that has trans- migrated faster than the speed of light to another planet in distant solar systerm. There in the company af other sauls watches images af the French Revolution unfold in the present tense (the light having taken century reach this world) Lumen investigates the ...