By Victor Hugo and Miguel Jones (translator)Our Price: $13.95 Our Item Code: HugoEternity Postage Code: book1
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The name of Victor Hugo became a household word in the United
States in the 1990s with the successful adaptations of his Les
Miserables
as a Broadway musical and The Hunchback of Notre Dame as a
full-length Disney
animated film. Born in 1802, Hugo attained almost to the status of a
rock star in
his native France, producing ten plays, nine novels, poetry that
brought him acclaim
as the greatest poet of his day, and hundreds of essays. Two million
mourners joined
his funeral procession in 1885.
His popularity was in no way diminished by his political exile, for
almost 20 years,
to Belgium and the Channel Islands of Jersey and Guernsey. It is
well-known that
for most of his three years on Jersey he attended more than 100
seances, using a
'rapping' table, precursor of the Ouija board, to allegedly channel
messages from
the dead. It is less well-known that the spirits who spoke to Hugo,
including Shakespeare,
Christ, Galileo, and Moliere, addressed the same themes as do the
guides of modern,
'New Age' mediums (including those who say they channel
'extraterrestrials'), while
adding new concepts that are sensational and advanced even by today's
standards.
A passionate advocate all his life of the truth of these seances and
their contents,
Hugo insisted that they constituted "one of the Bibles of the
future."
Due to the spirits' urging, the transcripts of the sessions were not
published during
his lifetime. They did not appear - and then only one-quarter of them -
until the
late 1920s. Never translated into any language other than French, they
were out of
print by the mid-1930s.
The proliferation of channeled literature in our time has drawn fresh
attention to
Hugo's table-rapping experiences. The revelations of today's mediums
have flooded
with light much in the Jersey Island transcripts that seemed obscure
and whimsical.
Now it can be seen that that material is rich in urgent meaning.
CONVERSATIONS
WITH ETERNITY is the first appearance in English of what can
rightly be
called the forgotten masterpiece of Victor Hugo. Its publication
enables us to add
to the growing chorus of New Age 'spirit' voices in our time the
testimony of the
discarnate friends of one of the greatest geniuses of the nineteenth
century. The
message of his guides to Hugo 150 years ago was essentially the same as
the message
to all of us today, though delivered with unsurpassed eloquence and
conviction: that
powerful energies, both from beyond the grave and from other star
systems, are seeking
to raise humankind up out of its errors, and our participation in this
project is
essential. Should we ignore a message endorsed by no less than Victor
Hugo himself?
Miguel Jones holds an M.A. in English from the
University of Toronto
and was a student for three years at the University of Paris. His
previous translations
from the French include "Phase One: C.E.Q. Manifesto," from
Quebec -
Only the Beginning: The Manifestoes of the Common Front, edited by
Daniel Drache,
New Press. He has been a full-time lecturer in English at the junior
college level
and a full-time editor with both McGraw-Hill Publishing Company and
International
Thomson Publishing Company, in New York City. He has published numerous
articles
on 'New Age'-related topics in the United States and England, including
many on 'channeling.'
-- From the Publisher
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