“Creatures of higher levels of development than humans”

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

The collection of works by Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, translated into English

1933

The development (phylogenetic) of the organic world on Earth has not stopped, especially the development of man. A thousand years ago he was not the same as now, 5000 years ago he was even simpler, 10000 years ago he was close to animals, and 100000 years ago he was a relative of monkeys. Going back even further, we reach mammals, lizards, reptiles, fish, worms and bacteria.

And all of these stages were experienced by man before he became the current “king” of the animals. It is clear that in 1000, 10000 years he will be a different creature, a higher type. Since we have seen only his progress in mass, complexity, intelligence, knowledge and power before, we cannot expect anything else in the future. So, we are waiting for higher beings on Earth. There must also be animals on a million billion other planets. What are they like? On the Earth their height depends on their ancestral (phylogenetic) age, on other planets also. But the age of the Earth is extremely small, especially the age of mankind. Infants, in general, are the less in number, the less they have lived. So there are not many infant planets like Earth in the universe. Most of the planets, especially their humanity, have reached manly age, as the Earth will reach it in time.

In this manly age animals must be perfect in body, senses, mind, knowledge and might.

This might must be very high. If even now man hopes not only to conquer nature, but also to travel among the planets and stars of the universe, how unimaginable will be his true power, and still more the power of mature planetary beings?

Here you have the first category of higher animals: almost all the creatures of the universe are like this.

But these beings are not the same, just as the animals and men of our planet are not the same. All men will be high, but the degree of this height is far from being uniform. Neither is the perfection of the inhabitants of any planet equal: the chosen ones are higher than the ordinary ones. But on each planet there are different degrees of election, as if different “chiefs”. All these people are of different degrees of dignity. Its highest degree will belong to the last, chosen of the chosen, the most worthy being of the planet. He, with his council and governs the whole planet. How high must he be?! It will be on Earth too, it has long ago been accomplished and on the great majority of planets.

Here you have the second major stage of the higher animals of the universe. But each planet is tiny compared to the space surrounding the sun. A planet uses a billionth of the energy of the sun’s rays. Why let good things go to waste! The power of the planetary inhabitants allows them to harness all the radiant energy of their sun. They take possession of the near-solar deserts, build dwellings there, adapt to the new conditions and reproduce according to the surrounding solar energy. Their population increases billions of times more than on Earth. At the same time the number of successive elections and the perfection of the last elected, i.e. the president of the solar system grows.

Here you have the third major stage of higher beings: these are the rulers of solar systems. Their number in the known universe (cosmos) must reach the number of suns, i.e. a million billion.

Will not the neighboring groups of suns also unite? They may have common affairs and an elected council with its own chairman.

Spiral nebulae (milky ways) may also unite and give their elected members. The whole universe may also unite under the rule of one being.

You will say: from one extreme spiral nebula to another diametrically opposite one, i.e. light goes 200 million years through the entire known universe. What kind of communication, what kind of decisions, what kind of instructions can there be? They are always delayed and it is better to solve matters by a local mind, a local council, for example, a planetary or solar council.

But, firstly, time is a conditional concept for all creatures – what is a lot for us is zero for others. Secondly, are there no agents more elastic than the well-known light-bearing ether? This new medium can propagate radiant energy millions and billions of times faster than the known aether. Time is infinite. Accordingly, the surprises of the universe are infinitely varied, wondrous and endless.

Of course, all these beings influence each other and are mutually dependent. On every mature planet, the greatest influence is, for the ordinary citizen, the self-elected village (conventionally) council and its president. Less influence is exerted by a president elected not by him, but by his elected commoner presidents, etc. The least interference is exerted by the supreme president of the planet. But the planetary presidents are not quite free: the solar council sometimes interferes in planetary affairs, etc. The least frequent interference is by the common president of the known universe. What the interference of an infinite unknown universe is we do not know, but it probably exists, although we can say that it is infinitely rare. In general, the more powerful and higher the president is, the less often his power is manifested. But still his power is unimaginably great.

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