I hold that the suns are not hot, nor burning gaseous spheres, but are the self-luminous perfected worlds of the universe and the future abode of man. I claim that man is the product of planetary forces, and the planets are the hatcheries of human souls, and the suns the places of their development and growth to perfection.

The Cities of the Sun, Chapter I (p. 11), G.W. Dillingham Co, Publishers. 1901