Seeing as this is a religious forum and the Baha'i Faith may be considered the newest independent religion, in a sense, here are a few quotes regarding this subject. Now these quotes are without context and there is of course context to flesh out the meaning, but it is still interesting. These quotes come from 1860s or 70s I believe.
“Verily I say, the creation of God embraceth worlds besides this world, and creatures apart from these creatures.”
“there are other worlds than ours which are inhabited by beings capable of knowing God.”
The learned men, that have fixed at several thousand years the life of this earth, have failed, throughout the long period of their observation, to consider either the number or the age of the other planets. Consider, moreover, the manifold divergencies that have resulted from the theories propounded by these men. Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
. . . . then how is it possible to conceive that these stupendous stellar bodies are not inhabited? Verily, they are peopled, but let it be known that the dwellers accord with the elements of their respective spheres. These living beings do not have states of consciousness like unto those who live on the surface of this globe: the power of adaptation and environment moulds their bodies and states of consciousness, just as our bodies and minds are suited to our planet. . . .
Beings who inhabit those distant luminous bodies are attuned to the elements that have gone into the composition of their respective spheres.
