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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants + A Psychic Revelation + +Author: Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon + +Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #563] +Posting Date: June, 1996 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS *** + + + + +Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + +</pre> + + +<BR><BR> + +<H1 ALIGN="center"> +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS +</H1> + +<BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +BY +</H3> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +EROS URIDES +</H2> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +(A MARTIAN) +</H3> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> + DEDICATION<BR> +</H3> + +<P CLASS="dedication"> + To the millions of God's children on<BR> + this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom<BR> + the solicitude of the Father is now in<BR> + evidence, this book is dedicated.<BR> +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="dedication"> + May it be a beacon to light the way of<BR> + weary searchers after TRUTH.<BR> +</P> + +<BR><BR> + +<P> +One hemisphere of Mars showing the North Polar Cap and the main Canal +System covering the planet. The many thousands of small lateral +canals, radiating from the larger waterways, and which form an +important part of the general plan, have been purposely omitted from +the above to avoid confusion. The circular spots and dots are the +principal reservoirs used for impounding water for use during the long +Martian summer. The dark areas shown in the drawing are Mars ancient +sea bottoms now covered with vegetation. It will be observed that most +of the canals are double, paralleling each other at a distance of about +seventy-five miles. Centers of population are not shown for the reason +that space is not available on so small a drawing. The City of Urid is +situated adjacent to the reservoir in the center of drawing, just north +of the equator. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H2 ALIGN="center"> +CONTENTS +</H2> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap01">Chapter I.</A>-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, +introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap02">Chapter II.</A>-He describes the Population Centers, Temperatures and +Climate. The whole Planet is gridironed with Canals. (See Diagram.) +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap03">Chapter III.</A>-He gives a full description of the marvelous Martian Canal +System. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap04">Chapter IV.</A>-Planetary Economy. No Worries, and the Wants of all are +supplied by the Commonwealth. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap05">Chapter V.</A>-Property and Property Rights. God, the Creator of it, is +considered the Owner of all Property. Material things to the Martians +are but Expedients. The Millions of Martians live as one great family, +though divided into families. And it is this solidarity and filial +consideration towards each other that made the stupendous Canal and +other Works possible. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap06">Chapter VI.</A>-Trade and Barter are unknown. Transportation is by Flying +Ships, and Gravitational Pull has been overcome. Also, they use Cosmic +or Universal Energy. All Distribution is from immense Warehouses. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap07">Chapter VII.</A>-A great many Clairvoyant Visions were seen by the +Shorthand Recorder, which make most interesting reading. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap08">Chapter VIII.</A>-Knowledge of God comes from within. Selfishness has been +eliminated; and the Martians require no Policemen, Watchmen or other +Guardians of the Peace. Christ is known to the Martians as one of the +great Powers in the Universe. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap09">Chapter IX.</A>-Mars has no Political System; yet it is controlled by the +very Acme of System. Each Individual of their vast population is +guided by "The Light Within" and by "LOVE." +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap10">Chapter X.</A>-Mars is ruled by LOVE, their only law. There is no Evil, +for all are Good; all are Equal. Truth is simple. The people of Mars +are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. +(This is a wonderful and most Inspiring chapter.) +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap11">Chapter XI.</A>-Education and Training of the Individual. They have a +Spoken and a Written Language; but Telepathy is often used. Set Rules +of Discipline are not required. There are References to Jupiter, +Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and the two Moons of Mars. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap12">Chapter XII.</A>-Education and Training of the Individual (contd). +Vocational Determination. School Age. Marriage. Science and Domestic +Science. Relativity of Time, Space, Motion and Matter. All in the +whole Universe is ETERNAL MOTION. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap13">Chapter XIII.</A>-Music is an Expression of the Father. "All around us is +a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE". About Music of the Spheres, and that +Singing is highly developed. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap14">Chapter XIV.</A>-Aeronautics. Inhabited Planets. Sectarianism. No Sound, +no Discordant Vibrations disturb the Atmosphere of Mars. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap15">Chapter XV.</A>-Life is an Attribute of the entire Universe. The Planet +Jupiter is enveloped in deep gloom and Darkness. Gives much +information. Vesta, an Asteroid, is about 500 miles in diameter. Says +that communications between Planets of our Solar System and our Earth +will soon be realized, and that the initial Message will be from Mars. +It will herald a New Era for the people of Earth, and will break down +our narrow-minded Theology. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap16">Chapter XVI.</A>-The Risen Christ. All the Mars people have lived on other +Planets before, except your Earth. On Mars they live the Christ-Life +every day. 10,000 years ago the Mars people accepted Christ as their +Savior WITHOUT MURDER. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap17">Chapter XVII.</A>-Physical Environment is the result of Spiritual Causes, +and is the Result of our Mental Attitude. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap18">Chapter XVIII.</A>-Material Life is a Lesson, and is necessary for the +unfolding of Character. The Martians have mastered their Natural +Passions. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap19">Chapter XIX.</A>-Eros gives a graphic Description of a Martian Home and +Surroundings, then shows how the Food is manipulated. It is brought +from a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is run +underground, thence up into the Dining room. The Soiled Dishes are run +down and off the same way. No Drudgery for the Housewife! +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap20">Chapter XX.</A>-"ART." The Martians have beautiful productions in Painting, +Sculpture and Tapestries, some of which depict the Scenes and Episodes +incident on Christ's Visit to Mars ten thousand years ago. +</P> + +<P CLASS="noindent"> +<A HREF="#chap21">Chapter XXI.</A>-Eros Urides has a good deal to write on the subject of +"Scientific Sophistry," which has mostly to do with our Earth. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +FOREWORD +</H3> + +<P> +It was Eros Urides, the real Martian behind the scenes, who dictated +the contents of this book through the medium to Mr. Kennon. It was +further stated that "The medium was held in trance for short periods +only, as the medium must necessarily experience the atmosphere of Mars +which is more rarified than that of your Earth." Writes also that the +medium seemed to have some difficulty, and at first pain in breathing +while in the trance condition. +</P> + +<P> +Mr. Kennon also wrote in his foreword of the original book that it was +not until January 4, 1920, it was decided to write the book in which +the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, +Industries, Philosophy of life, etc. would for the first time in the +history of this world be given. +</P> + +<P> +It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of +our Solar system, the planet Mars being one of those visited and +investigated. And, as a proof of this it was Jesus Christ who +functioned as chairman or presidentat the great Peace Conference held +in the vast coliseum on the first sphere of the Heavens of our Earth. +That was in the year 1912, as fully reported in "World of Tomorrow," +page 98. It was at that conference He stated that Universal Peace must +be speeded up, as there were other planets to be investigated: and that +the Earth stood in the way and was becoming a menace to neighboring +planets. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap01"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER I. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS +</H3> + +<P> +Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your +sister planet. My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying "of +Urid"). But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life. +</P> + +<P> +In the Spirit world we are given a name in accordance with our +spiritual qualities and gifts and the kind of work we do. +</P> + +<P> +I came into material being as the fruit of the sacred union of my +parents. It is not necessary to say aught concerning their social +status, for on Mars all who unfold into a material expression of the +Father are equal. Equal in rank, station, and in possession of the +material fruits of earth. +</P> + +<P> +After my education had been completed I was, in accordance with the +Martian system of scientifically determining one's rightful vocation, +assigned as overseer to a section of one of the main canals supplying +water from the North Polar cap to an impounding reservoir near the city +of Urid, the place of my birth. +</P> + +<P> +I was in the 36th year (Martian reckoning) of my physical life on the +planet when my transition occurred, which event was the result of my +inability to observe, one night, warning signals sent out from a +central station advising the eve of a tremendous drop in temperature. +This occurred in the Martian autumn, and I succumbed to the intense +cold. I was not married, so I left no immediate family except my +parents, brothers and sisters. +</P> + +<P> +I have come to your Earth to give your inhabitants some idea of the +idealistic life lived by your more advanced brothers. I use the term +idealistic in a relative way only, for in God's universe the degrees of +material progress of His children are infinite in number. +</P> + +<P> +In giving this information to the inhabitants of your world I have been +assisted by the spirits of many former wise children of your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +The purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your +people is mainly to stimulate and hasten into material expression the +reign of God's kingdom on your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +Many will reject this information, but it is God's truth nevertheless. +But on the other hand, many of God's children now functioning on your +planet will accept the statements as true, and they will be helped and +encouraged in their hard struggle for material existence. This +struggle, unequal as it is, is the result of darkness engendered by the +loss of faith in God. +</P> + +<P> +Man's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present era of +darkness, was sublime. Man's attitude towards, and his confidence in +the promises of God was as the faith of a child to its parents, whom it +has always trusted. But selfishness has gained the upper hand, and is +now man's master on your Earth. To break the chains now binding man to +self is the purpose of God's holy emissaries, who have descended from +high spiritual spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out +of bondage. They will succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. It is +under their direction that I am now contributing my little part in this +movement. +</P> + +<P> +I am only too glad to have been able to give the information contained +in this book, and I also appreciate the assistance of all those on your +Earth plane who so willingly assisted; but of course we are all obeying +the Father's command. +</P> + +<P> +As life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material aspect of +all God's creations are the same. That is, life on another planet must +be thought of as being no different from what experience teaches you. +</P> + +<P> +All inspiration comes from the Father. Hence, the degree of a race's +advancement in point of civilization is in proportion to its spiritual +enfoldment. Therefore the material aspect of life, which includes +God's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, is the same on every +habitable globe in limitless space. +</P> + +<P> +In telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe that, from +a physical point of view, the Martians are just human beings, differing +little from the people of your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +The same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by all +of God's creatures. Martians work and have their recreations. They +enjoy the fruits of their earth just as you do the fruits of yours. +They have invented labor-saving machinery, and indulge in a multitude +of industrial pursuits, but with this difference: their economic system +is such that the life of the Martian is not the struggle for existence +you have created on your Earth. On the contrary it is a pleasurable +life in which work is as much enjoyed as is recreation. This condition +is due to two causes. First, Mars is much farther advanced as a world +in its evolutionary career. Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its +inhabitants is proportionately advanced. +</P> + +<P> +As the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical +characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, +the same, with the exceptions shown later in this book. +</P> + +<P> +The inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks and +dells, clouds, beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the physical +phenomena witnessed by the dwellers of your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +The Martians live and have their being just as your people do, but they +are surrounded by a different spiritual and a modified physical +environment. They take pleasure in music, art and the study of +physical science, but with this difference: the spiritual growth and +enfoldment of the individual is considered as most important, and all +material advancement as only an aid to ultimate ends. +</P> + +<P> +With main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend the real +Martian character, although it may be a disappointment to some who have +imagined the inhabitants of Mars as physically different from +themselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual entities, who have possibly +been transplanted from other worlds to undergo a sort of probationary +life amid a Paradise of beautiful surroundings and things. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap02"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER II. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +POPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE +</H3> + +<P> +Although Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, its +diameter being 4,200 miles, it contains a larger area of habitable land +than the latter, its surface area being approximately 212,000,000 +square miles as against 51,000,000 miles for your Earth. Hence our +globe supports a larger population about 13,160,000,000 people. Your +population is in the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000. Your land area is +161,000,000 square miles less than the land area of Mars. This is for +the reason that your oceans occupy a vast surface of your Earth, and +Mars has no oceans, as these dried up ages ago. Consequently almost the +entire surface of our planet (with exception of some small areas +covered with swamps, remnants of ancient seas and oceans, and portions +of the extreme Northerly and Southerly Polar caps) is utilized by the +Martian inhabitants. +</P> + +<P> +Our planet is gridironed with canals, many hundreds of the main ones +being observable through your telescopes, and the art of intensive +farming is practised by us to a degree of perfection never dreamed of +by the dwellers of your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +Our winters, even in the Equatorial regions are severe, the +temperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below zero. +However, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and nearly twice as +long as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 days long. We grow +and mature many crops of necessary cereals, fruits and vegetables +during the spring and summer months, so that want is never felt by our +happy people. +</P> + +<P> +Our method of irrigation is somewhat different from that practised in +the arid portions of your Earth. We do not, except in a few instances, +flood our lands as you do. Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is +much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8 +pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth, +evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much +moisture being in the air, is very great. +</P> + +<P> +This heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and the +temperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although frost is +not uncommon even in summer. As our vegetation is acclimated and +adapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason +of these frosts. +</P> + +<P> +The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified +atmosphere. Neither have they abnormally developed lungs. God has +made ample provision for the comfort of His creatures throughout all of +His infinite creations, and we of Mars are not excepted from this +Fatherly care and love. +</P> + +<P> +Should an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to Mars he +could live but a few minutes, for the reason that his lungs could not +assimilate enough oxygen from our light atmosphere. +</P> + +<P> +Economy is a science with us. Nothing is wasted. Every possible +square inch of ground produces food for man or beast. Even the north +and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with +vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed. These +regions produce their quota of food by being utilized as pasturage for +our cattle. Immense amounts of forage are also gathered for the long +Martian winters, when a greater portion of either the north or south +hemisphere is covered with a mantle of snow. +</P> + +<P> +The equatorial regions are always pleasant. No severe wind storms are +experienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or other magnetic +disturbances such as you experience. +</P> + +<P> +As a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in peace, +Love and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our everyday +living, the climate is equable, the atmosphere clear and beautiful, the +sky serene and sapphire-blue: the severest winds but gentle zephyrs +wafted towards the equator from the more remote portions of our globe. +Cloudy skies are rare and rainstorms few. +</P> + +<P> +There is no lack of God's gifts on Mars. As intensive farming is a +necessity on our planet, plant food or fertilizing elements are +plentiful. One of the large white circular spots observed by your +astronomers, located in a region on Mars named by them Elysium, and +which has been a puzzle to all observers, is an immense deposit of +fertilizing chemicals. An immense well is located in this particular +spot which gushes forth a never-ending saline solution, highly +impregnated with sodium nitrate, potash and other salts. The country +for many miles around is covered with a white precipitate which has +been carried by the moist air and deposited on the Martian earth. +These chemical compounds are refined and used to replenish the soil +with plant food. +</P> + +<P> +There are 153,000 centers of population on Mars, but these centers are +not congested cities similar to those on your Earth. Every individual +has plenty of room to thrive and develop the best within him. +</P> + +<P> +Our cities are not crowded and our buildings are beautiful in their +simplicity: large and roomy, with an abundance of sunlight and ample +ventilation. White marble and metals are employed for building +purposes. +</P> + +<P> +The inhabitants congregate in centers and, owing to our more perfect +methods of transportation, go forth daily to their tasks in field or +factory, to return at the end of their allotted period to home and +fireside. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap03"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER III. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE MARTIAN CANAL SYSTEM +</H3> + +<P> +The Canal system on Mars is comparatively new. The idea of +constructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the time of +Christ's visit to our planet. The Master warned the people that they +must make provision for their future water supply. At that time +(10,000 years ago) the water supply was becoming noticeably scarcer as +time went on. It was nearly 3,000 years after the Master's mission to +Mars had been concluded that actual construction of the Planetary Canal +system was undertaken; and during the intervening 7,000 years and up to +the present time, construction on the public waterways has continued. +</P> + +<P> +At the present day the system is most complete, but constant work is +required to keep the canals in working order. In addition to the +gigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable reservoirs +to impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the poles. To this +end immense reservoirs were constructed at most canal intersections. +In some instances the reservoirs are established between parallel +canals; but in every case smaller canals, or laterals, always intersect +at these points. +</P> + +<P> +Many of the canals on Mars are double, as they appear to your +astronomers. These double waterways parallel each other at a distance +of about 75 miles. The reason for this is that as the Martian +population is absolutely dependent upon the Polar waters to irrigate +their crops, any accident to a canal, such as a landslide stopping the +regular flow of water or the breaking of a lock or gate, would mean a +very serious calamity to a great number of people. And for that +reason, soon after the main canals were constructed, second and +parallel waterways were made for the purpose of guaranteeing an +uninterrupted flow of water from the Poles to the Equatorial regions. +The result of this was that on many occasions the foresight of the +Martian engineers who had the water supply of the planet in charge, +saved immense areas from drought. +</P> + +<P> +The rainfall on Mars is almost nil and the immense population (eight +times larger than that of your Earth) is entirely dependent on the +water supply from the melting Polar caps. Water on Mars is a most +precious fluid and there is none to waste. Our oceans evaporated ages +ago, and outside of the precipitation of moisture at the poles in the +form of snow, none is to be had anywhere else on the planet except in +very meager quantities. +</P> + +<P> +The astronomer Lowell of your Earth, who made a life study of our +planet, called these reservoirs "Oases," but he was mistaken in his +theory. He concluded that these points, which appear as round disks in +the telescope, were centers of population. This conclusion is +erroneous. The centers of population on Mars are scattered over the +entire planet regardless of the position of the so-called "Oases." It +is quite true that owing to the rapid evaporation of water in the +comparatively thin atmosphere of Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius +from the center of the reservoirs is considerable, with the result that +vegetation springs up, giving the "Oases" the appearance of a diameter +of about 75 miles. The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and hold +millions of gallons of water. +</P> + +<P> +The same explanation may be given of the Canals. The dewfall on each +side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length +of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most +prolific. +</P> + +<P> +The water in the canals, in most instances, is distributed by gravity; +but recourse is had to a lock system and to immense pumps for raising +the water to proper levels. +</P> + +<P> +The gates of the lock system and the pumps are operated by electricity, +the control of which energy is well understood by us. In fact, we are +centuries ahead of your Earth people in the knowledge of the use of +Electro-magnetic energy. (More will be given on the subject of +Electricity in a later chapter.) +</P> + +<P> +Another source of mystery to your astronomers has been the appearance +of triangular dark spots at the origin of some of the Martian canals. +These have been referred to by your astronomer Lowell as "Carets," +named so by reason of their peculiar shape. These so-called "Carets" +are the thoughtful provision for the impounding of a season's supply of +water. In other words they are in part a lock system for raising water +to the level of some of the main canals, and embrace also a prodigious +pumping system. +</P> + +<P> +These so-called "Carets," as the telescope will show, are located at +the edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on our +planet. These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in many +instances have been utilized by our engineers as natural reservoirs for +water. Their convenient location near the Poles has provided ideal +facilities for the preservation of an adequate supply of water. +</P> + +<P> +The construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in its +extent, might seem to your Earth people an impossible task. And it +might prove so to your Earth dwellers should you undertake a similar +project in the ages to come when your seas dry up, though it must be +remembered that gravity on Mars, compared with your Earth, is as 38 to +100. Excavations of large waterways then becomes a comparatively easy +task. We have no high mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000 +feet in altitude. +</P> + +<P> +Owing to the difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars is +nearly acute as against 45 degrees on your Earth, which permits of +almost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens the danger of +landslides and cave-ins. But above all, the biggest advantage enjoyed +by us in the construction of large public enterprises, such as are +embraced by our Canal system, is the solidarity and unity of purpose on +the part of the Martian people. As Love rules our planet no internal +dissension or public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard +any undertaking that is necessary for the good of all. +</P> + +<P> +It is lamentable that the dwellers on your Earth are divided against +one another. Not only are your false ideals of racial, sociological +and religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual and material +progress, but your political and economic falsities are as millstones +around your necks, which will ultimately lead you to destruction unless +you, as a people, retrace your steps and go back to the pathway pointed +out by Christ the Master 2,000 years ago, when He came to your Earth +with a message from the Most High. The pathway is LOVE which leads to +a true understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ. +</P> + +<P> +The Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in almost all +cases, follow straight lines. When necessary, mountains have been cut +through down to a proper level. Where the canals cross depressions or +old sea-bottoms, immense aqueducts have been constructed of solid stone +and concrete in such a manner that the water, in most cases, flows to +its destination by gravity. +</P> + +<P> +That this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined when +it is known that the width of the main canals averages from one to +twenty miles. This announcement might seem to many unreasonable, but +it must be remembered that the volume of water distributed over +212,000,000 square miles of territory is immense. You might ask where +this large volume of water comes from. +</P> + +<P> +The POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down nearly to +the equator, and cover about five-sevenths of the planet's surface when +at maximum; and as the snowfall averages from six inches at the edge of +the caps to 50 feet at and near the actual Poles, some idea may be +gained of the amount of moisture taken care of by these artificial +waterways. Ten feet of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there +exists on Mars an ample supply for all purposes. +</P> + +<P> +(NOTE—The question as to why many of the canals germinate has been a +perplexing one to our astronomers. Lowell observed that many of the +main canals germinated a short time after the commencement of the +Martian summer, and for a time it was thought that the phenomena might +be an optical illusion, and the latter theory was considered seriously +by some observers until the double canals were actually photographed at +the Flagstaff observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never +solved until the receipt of these revelations.) +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap04"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IV. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +PLANETARY ECONOMY +</H3> + +<P> +Economy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars. On your Earth +you waste more than you use, not only in food but in the fruits of the +Earth. You are using up your resources at a tremendous rate, and some +day you must pay the penalty. Witness the wanton destruction of your +beautiful forests, the depletion of your coal beds and crude oil +deposits. All this waste is the result of lack of Spiritual guidance; +a gross materialism: an inordinate selfish greed. Instead of laying up +Spiritual treasures you are worshiping at the altar of Mamon. +Ultimately you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass—an +illusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction. +</P> + +<P> +With the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be in +harmony with the Creator, to develop spiritually and build for +Eternity. On Mars each one strives to live for his brother to the end +that all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a physical being. +Commercialism with us is unknown, for no one works for profit. The +products of the toil of all the inhabitants are for the public larder +and other necessities and even luxuries. +</P> + +<P> +As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism, +sweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and the +long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on your Earth +are unknown on our planet. +</P> + +<P> +No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no place in +the Martian mind. The wants of all are supplied by the Commonwealth, +and each one contributes his best efforts to the common good, and in +return each individual is supplied his every want. This is in +accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and +His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap05"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER V. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS +</H3> + +<P> +On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its Creator, +who provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His creatures. No +individual lays claim to property in the sense that you Earth dwellers +do. +</P> + +<P> +Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, +but only for a season. Man comes into material being to express life +and acquire an individuality, after which he passes out of material +bondage, when his place is taken by another. +</P> + +<P> +At man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing else. If +the things he has striven for during his material life have been but +chimeras: the material things of life: the fruits of the Earth, then in +that case he will find himself poor indeed. The only real wealth, the +only thing worth striving for, is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom. +And with us Martians a knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought +for. Hence all material things to the Martian are but expedients, soon +to be forgotten. +</P> + +<P> +Material wealth is an abstraction. Its usual evidence is the +possession of property, which may be money, land, goods or chattels, as +the case may be. In final analysis this concrete evidence of wealth is +not real. +</P> + +<P> +Money is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the +possessor to so much human effort, for the real value behind money, +after all, is but so much human energy or force, varying according to +its quality and its worth. +</P> + +<P> +Other forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the result of +human endeavor and may be secured by the exchange of money, or it may +be produced by the owner. +</P> + +<P> +Wealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the benefit +of all humankind, and not for the individual, is the so-called +right-secured by barter, exchange or inheritance, to use or withhold +from use, at the caprice of the owner—of a certain piece or portion of +the planet. Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the +center of the Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction! +</P> + +<P> +The text: "Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" has a +deep significance to one who has come into a knowledge of Truth. +Drones have no place in the Divine Plan. It is not only essential but +mandatory, that each one do his part for the common good. The +non-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the vagabond who +neither toils nor spins. The Biblical test concerning the difficulty +of the rich man getting into Heaven means that it is impossible for a +drone or parasite to get into harmony with God. +</P> + +<P> +The possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the possession of +wealth is a corollary to selfishness. He who is unselfish will spurn +wealth. The individual who accumulates beyond his needs sins against +Heaven when he locks up his goods in strong boxes. The act of hoarding +deprives some creature of his just portion, for God has planned there +should be sufficient for all who make the effort, and a system that +permits an unequal distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the +Divine Plan, and doubly pernicious is a church organization that +permits it. +</P> + +<P> +Only after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the people of +your Earth will surcease come to the suffering millions on your planet. +</P> + +<P> +Happiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the former +is impossible unless the latter is eliminated from your world, for only +real happiness comes after complete surrender to God. Surrender to God +means subordination to His will. His will on Earth must be done as it +is in Heaven. All must be self-conscious of this. If God's will was +adhered to on your Earth what a different place it would be! Instead of +a shambles it would be a paradise, the brotherhood of man and the +Fatherhood of God a fact instead of the dream of a few. +</P> + +<P> +God loves all His creatures, both evolutionary and non-evolutionary. +His love is infinite in extent. We are all His children. Everything +has been provided for us. It is only man's selfishness that deprives +any creature of his just dues. Man suffers want on account of his lack +of faith in God! Before man lost his faith in God he walked and +communed with angels. He could do it now if he would but listen to the +Voice Within—if he would only open his heart to Christ, for help is +ready whenever one asks for it in sincerity and faith. +</P> + +<P> +One of the sources of great injustice to the majority of the +inhabitants of your Earth is the belief in the dogma of Divine Right. +This dogma includes not only the absurdity of the Divine Right of +kings, but the Divine Right to the ownership of goods and land through +the Creator's favoritism for a few. +</P> + +<P> +This dogma is the mother of untold misery and suffering. Out of this +ungodly theory has evolved your shameful caste system; your shameful +economic ideas. +</P> + +<P> +Your ancient feudal system of government has been but little improved +upon today over its primitive status, for you still draw well-defined +lines of class distinction between God's children—lines of demarcation +based on wealth and natal origin. With your inhabitants, communal +standing and social distinction is proportionate to the wealth of the +possessor or to the wealth or social standing of ancestors. +</P> + +<P> +The monstrous heresy of Divine Right is an invention of the powers of +darkness and must be eliminated from your world root and branch before +your progress forward is assured. God plays no favorites. His love is +showered upon all alike. His gifts are for all His children. It was +never the Divine intent that a favored few should bask in the sunshine +of His grace while the majority suffered want and deprivation. These +false ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom +now overshadowing your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +Spiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth. In primitive +times—ages ago—eras whose history has been lost to you, man on your +Earth was in harmony with his Creator. This was in the Golden Age when +man and the angels of God walked hand in hand; when man communed with +God, and when the Christ spirit was abiding in the hearts of the +people. In this age man was spiritually developed to a degree almost +unbelievable by you. +</P> + +<P> +Then the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser self), +and through the workings of the law of Atavism man degenerated almost +to the level of his animal prototype. +</P> + +<P> +This incident in your world's history is the source of the legend of +the "Fall of Man" in the "Garden of Eden." Man disobeyed God by +listening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish desires. He +slew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he abandoned himself to +selfish ends and took advantage of his fellowman. He has been guilty +of that sin ever since. IT IS NOW INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS +SELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE +FATHER'S KINGDOM. +</P> + +<P> +No fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the +millions of homes on Mars. No lines of demarcation divide one plot of +land from another. The millions of beautiful homes—beautiful in their +simplicity, for over-ornamentation such as the dwellers of your Earth +practise, is not tolerated on our planet—belong to the Commonwealth. +The same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only. +</P> + +<P> +The same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. Should a +Martian have use for a flying machine, also used by another, or other +kind of property for personal use, he does not ask the use of same in +the spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow from one another. Use of +the needed article is requested with the idea that it belongs to the +community: that all material possessions are the common property of the +entire race. +</P> + +<P> +THE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY. IT IS THIS SOLIDARITY, +THIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS FOR THE OTHER THAT HAS MADE +THE STUPENDOUS AND GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS ON MARS POSSIBLE. +</P> + +<P> +In the absence of a universal unity of purpose intelligent life on Mars +would have become extinct centuries ago, when the last remnants of its +oceans and seas dried up and a planetary irrigation system became +necessary in order to utilize the frozen Polar moisture. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap06"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VI. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES +</H3> + +<P> +Barter and trade are unknown on Mars. The entire race of Martians is +cooperative, and the production of all necessities is based on the +needs of the Commonwealth. +</P> + +<P> +Specialization in different branches of industrial activity is +centralized, as is the case of your Earth. That is, some particular +parts of the planet, owing to climatic and other conditions, are better +adapted for the production of some special kind of raw material used in +the manufacture of clothes or other necessities of life, or the +production of some particular foodstuff. But in every case the +incentive for industrial activity is not material profit. On the +contrary the real incentive is compliance with the Father's will. +</P> + +<P> +Transportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by the +control of gravitational attraction. These vehicles of the air, beside +your crude affairs[1] are most perfect, and the amount of freight +carried is unlimited, for the reason that the gravitational attraction +of the cargo is nullified as well as that of the ship. (A more +extended explanation concerning this matter is given in another section +of this book.) Another motive power used is Cosmic, or Universal +Energy. (We shall refer to this later.) +</P> + +<P> +Immense warehouses and depots are scattered throughout the entire +planet. These are centers of distribution. These warehouses are +filled with what all the people of the entire planet need in the way of +food, clothing and other necessities of life. These depots are in +charge of trained and competent workers who attend to the issuance and +distribution of all commodities. +</P> + +<P> +When a Martian is in need of any particular commodity he makes +application to have his want supplied to the depot nearest to his +habitation. He immediately receives the needed article. If the +quantity and nature of his requisition is too large for him to carry +personally, the same is delivered at his domicile by the Commonwealth's +Transportation Department. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +[1] NOTE—Yes, 35 years ago, but not today, 1955. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap07"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CLAIRVOYANT VISIONS OF MARS +</H3> + +<P> +In connection with the revelation contained in this book concerning the +physical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of this volume, as well +also as the medium, was given much information concerning this advanced +planet by means of clairvoyant visions. These pictures were given the +writer at different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing +until the book was finished. +</P> + +<P> +As has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental in +giving the information about Mars, the purpose of these clairvoyant +pictures was to give the compiler of this book real visual evidence as +to life on Mars; and in particular, real pictures setting forth its +topography, which could be elucidated in no other way. +</P> + +<P> +Written descriptions of scenery and of human activities necessarily +fall short of the reality, especially when an attempt is made to record +a series of events or a point of view outside the realm of our +experience. +</P> + +<P> +The first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the most +important one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, one of the +most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. +</P> + +<P> +It was while lying in bed one morning the writer was contemplating the +many messages being received from the Martian, who is the dictator of +the subject matter of this book, that he found himself at a strange +place, suspended as it were in the air over a beautiful lake of blue +water, whose surface was broken by gentle ripples, due to the soft, +balmy breeze blowing over the surface of the water. The writer was +facing what seemed to be a westerly direction; and at a distance of +about five miles there arose a series of small mountains about 2,500 +feet in altitude. These mountains skirted the shores of the lake. The +sky was a beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our +own desert lands. The mountains were tinted red from base to top, +except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a +vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red +of the soil. Two white clouds floated majestically near the peaks of +the highest mountains. +</P> + +<P> +The atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to stand +out in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by dwellers on our +Earth except in extremely dry and arid regions. +</P> + +<P> +On top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill at the +base of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 feet from the +shore line, I was startled to see a large city. The thousands of +closely nestling buildings seemed to be built of white stone. The +writer was lost in admiration, for there in front of him the pure white +of the city, contrasting so vividly with the red soil of this faraway +planet, stood the habitations of an advanced race many millions of +miles removed from my own world. +</P> + +<P> +The writer was impressed with the fact that, with but few exceptions, +the buildings of gleaming white were all one story in height, and it +became instantly evident that crowding is not tolerated by the +inhabitants of this progressive planet. A few structures towered above +the rest. These, as the writer was informed later, were the public +buildings dedicated to the use of the people as lecture halls, centers +for music and art, etc. +</P> + +<P> +On a subsequent occasion the writer was shown a close-up view of Urid. +Flowers, grass and green foliage abounded everywhere. The long streets +were broad and well paved, and flanked on two sides with long rows of +one-storied buildings of white stone, beautiful in their simplicity. +No extreme ornamentation is carried out in the erection of buildings on +Mars. On the contrary, the simple square outlines characteristic of +our own Old Mission architecture seems to prevail on the planet Mars. +The same simple style prevails with the public buildings, except that +massive stone columns marked the portals of same, reminding one of our +own early Grecian architecture. +</P> + +<P> +Many palm-like trees grew all over the city, especially in the +neighborhood of the public buildings. +</P> + +<P> +A week after the occurrence of the above incident the writer was shown, +in the same manner as before, one of the many canals that gridiron the +Martian globe. This particular canal is one of the main waterways on +Mars, and appeared to be about a mile wide at the point of observation. +The water was of a deep blue color, denoting great depth. Along the +banks of this waterway could be seen many houseboats or floating +dwellings. Some of these houseboats were very large and evidently +housed large families. The writer was informed that many Martians who +have charge of the waterways dwell in these habitations. +</P> + +<P> +The banks above the canal were covered with green grass and many +flowers. +</P> + +<P> +On subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, and +the manner in which some of the canals were cut through the mountains. +In some instances the walls of the canals were almost perpendicular. +Steep cuts, even in soft ground, seemed to be characteristic of all the +waterways observed by the writer. +</P> + +<P> +On another occasion the writer was given a view of the North Polar +regions. At that time the deep snows that covered the ground +everywhere were melting. The country seemed to be very hilly. As far +as the eye could reach I observed low-lying hills covered with a white +mantle of snow. Patches of reddish earth here and there indicated that +the thaw was general and that the snow had thinned out in spots. +Between the hills I observed a large body of water, and was informed +that this was an artificial reservoir which had been created by the +damming of a large valley. The sky on this occasion was hidden by a +mist, a very natural phenomenon in view of the fact that many thousands +of square miles of the country, covered with snow on this part of Mars, +was undergoing a rapid thaw. +</P> + +<P> +That the large dark-colored areas on Mars, supposed by early observers +to be seas, are nothing more or less than low, swampy land covered with +rank vegetation, was evidenced to me on one occasion when I was +permitted to see the true character of these portions of the planet. +</P> + +<P> +The rank vegetation was about three feet high and of a greenish red +color. Interspersed throughout the mass of coarse-leafed plants were +high, dry stalks the remnants of an earlier crop of Martian flora. The +season seemed to be advanced and all plant life was taking on autumnal +tints. +</P> + +<P> +It was in December 1919 that I saw the first close-up picture of a +Martian—a woman. Her head was covered with a thin veil which came +down to her well-formed mouth. She seemed to be a most beautiful woman +with most expressive eyes. Her hair was black. Her skin was unusually +white, which contrasted with the dark hair. She wore no jewelry, or +other ornaments that I could see. +</P> + +<P> +On a subsequent occasion I was permitted to see a Martian male. He was +playing a flutelike instrument, and as he was quite close to me I could +observe the wax-like texture of his skin. This semi-transparency of +the skin is characteristic of the Martians, and evidences a life that +is free from the many bodily ailments that afflict humanity on our +Earth. The Martian was dressed in graceful but loose-fitting clothes +of a reddish-brown color. His eyes were a deep blue and his lips +seemed to be unusually red. In respect to stature he was, I would say, +about five feet nine inches in height. In fact, on subsequent +occasions I have observed crowds of Martians gathered together and they +appeared no different from the inhabitants of our own world except as +to clothing, which is much simpler, but more graceful than our styles. +</P> + +<P> +I was informed by the spiritual control that the fauna of Mars is +varied, but that all animal life is domesticated, there being now no +wild animals on the planet. +</P> + +<P> +It was shortly after I had seen the Martians, described in the +foregoing paragraph, that I was shown two cat-like animals, which at +the time of my vision were engaged in playing about the feet of a +Martian. They did not exactly resemble cats, but were more feline than +canine. They were about the size of a large Airedale, and of a dark, +reddish-brown color with deep black stripes, similar to the markings of +our tigers. They were very playful and cavorted about just as our own +dogs and cats do when endeavoring to attract the attention of their +masters. +</P> + +<P> +On the morning of January 20, 1920, I was shown another Martian canal. +On this occasion I observed a large building on the banks of the +waterway near my point of vision. This building was more of a +grandstand with a roof than anything else I can compare it to. It +consisted of a large framework painted white, and was as high as our +two-storied structures. A multitude of the people were inside the +building, some sitting, some standing. They all seemed to be intently +gazing in a Northerly direction, up-stream. +</P> + +<P> +Much green foliage and varied-colored flowers lined the banks of the +canal, especially in the neighborhood of the building. The people all +seemed to be attired in holiday garb, and it was evident to me that a +celebration was going on. +</P> + +<P> +Later I was informed that what I had witnessed was an annual +celebration observed by the people of Mars on the occasion of arrival +of the first water from the North Pole after commencement of the +Martian Spring. It appears that this occasion is a very important +event with the Martians, as the arrival of the life-giving moisture +from the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the planet insures a season of +plenty for the inhabitants. The water arrives at the equatorial +regions in a little less than a Martian month (60 days) after the +commencement of the Polar thaws and after a season of thanksgiving to +the Father has been held by all in appreciation of His bountiful gifts. +The Spiritual leaders of the different communities preside at these +gatherings. +</P> + +<P> +The foregoing is in remarkable agreement with a statement on page 375 +of the late Professor Lowell's book titled "MARS," as follows. +</P> + +<P> +"The Canal quickening on Mars occupied 52 days, as evidenced by the +successive vegetal darkenings which descend from latitude 72 degrees +North and latitude 0, a journey of 2,650 miles. The rate of +progression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is carried +from near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale of extrinsic +aid, and the uniformity of the action increases its significance." +</P> + +<P> +On the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting Martian +scene, which was almost identical with the previous vision of the +Arctic regions of this planet, except that the warm season was more +advanced, and I was permitted to see the country from another angle. I +was facing East. Most of the Polar snow had disappeared, and the +low-lying hills were now covered with a growth of dark green +vegetation, except at a few isolated points which showed small patches +of snow. The sky was less misty than on the previous occasion. +</P> + +<P> +On the evening of January 21 I was shown a flock of Martian sheep. The +herd was small and I observed five of the animals at close range. I +call them sheep for the reason that the animals resembled our sheep in +every particular. The wool was very long and of a dark reddish-brown +color, except underneath their bellies which was yellowish. +</P> + +<P> +On the evening of January 29 I had a vision of a beautiful woman with a +child kneeling at her feet. She was seated on a chair and held a book +on her lap. The symbolism of the vision was later explained to me by +the controls, who said: "Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not +receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter +therein." God's truths are perceived only by those who can acquire the +simple faith of a child. +</P> + +<P> +It was about the same time I had a vision in which I saw Sergius for +the first time distinctly. He is the principal control dominating the +writing of this book. He appeared very patriarchal with a long beard. +His features were decidedly semitic. His countenance was most +spiritual and beautiful. +</P> + +<P> +On February 10 I had my first vision of Mars' two moons, known to our +astronomers as Diemos and Phobos. The latter appeared as a satellite +about half as large as our full moon, and the former like a star +brighter than the first magnitude, and could be compared with Jupiter +as seen from our Earth during a favorable opposition of that planet. +The latter satellite sheds considerable light on her primary. An +interesting explanation of these two moons will be found in a later +chapter of this book. +</P> + +<P> +On February 17 I was shown the actual appearance of our sun from the +planet Mars. What I saw disproves the theory that owing to the +distance of Mars from the sun the latter would be viewed by the +Martians as a disk about half the size as seen from our Earth. The +Solar Orb appeared as to size and brightness, about the same as viewed +from our Earth, and seemed to give forth its heat with the same +intensity. I was facing the sun and its brilliance blinded my eyes for +an instant. +</P> + +<P> +On the evening of February 29 I had a vision of a strange looking +creature ape-like in appearance. The form was about five feet tall, +very hairy, his body being covered with a thick coat of woolly hair of +a grayish color. He was smoking what appeared to be a cigar-like roll +of something, probably some sort of leaves rolled up into a convenient +form for smoking. On the tips of his pointed ears were little tufts of +long hair, which gave his head a lynx-like appearance. There were +quite a number of large yellow spots on his hairy chest. His nose was +very stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike. +</P> + +<P> +I was later informed that I had seen an inhabitant of the planet +Mercury, where life has not yet evolved to a very high degree, and +where man has not yet wholly emerged from his primary beast-like state. +</P> + +<P> +Concerning the flora of Mars I have on various occasions viewed +orchards of growing fruit trees. The trees were set out in rows +similar to the methods adopted in our own orchards. The trees were +dwarf-like, being not over five or six feet high. I was informed that +this particular species of tree was cultivated for its fruit and for +the fiber obtained from its large leaves, which is made into cloth, +thread and cordage. +</P> + +<P> +On one occasion a short time after the chapter dealing with the +transmission of Electro-magnetic energy by wireless was received, I was +shown two immense towers on the planet Mars which are used for the +purpose of distributing power throughout the planet. The two towers +were very close together, probably 100 yards apart and 100 feet high. +They resembled two immense round smoke-stacks, such as are common in +our factory districts. The tops of the towers were surmounted by oval +caps, transparent as if made from glass, and protected by a system of +grill work. While I was intently observing the towers there occurred a +blinding flash of light simultaneously from the two oval caps. +</P> + +<P> +The surrounding country was covered with high trees, and it was +impossible for me to observe the base of the two structures. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap08"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER VIII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +KNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES FROM WITHIN +</H3> + +<P> +Mars, with its teeming millions of inhabitants, whose dwellings, +factories, storehouses, etc. cover most of the entire area, has no +watchmen, policemen or other guardians of the peace to prevent unlawful +acts on the part of its people. +</P> + +<P> +As all property is considered as belonging to the Father, and is held +in common by the people of the planet, there exists no incentive for +anyone to steal. Each individual has all he requires for his comfort. +Hence, why should anyone covet what is in the possession of his brother? +</P> + +<P> +There is no temptation on Mars for anyone to take more than he needs, +for selfishness has been entirely eliminated from our planet. +Selfishness has no place among really civilized beings. It is a relic +of the jungle where it is necessary to perpetuate the lower animal life. +</P> + +<P> +You of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial +condition or state through the law of Atavism. This is a part of your +fall from Divine Grace. And to induce man on your globe to realize his +pitiful condition and redeem himself is the work of the Spirits from +the higher Spheres who are now with you. +</P> + +<P> +Mars has no Church system and no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. All +Martians recognize and worship one God, the Eternal Father. Each +individual is taught from infancy to seek God through the doors of his +own soul, which is an institutional faculty possessed by everyone. +</P> + +<P> +Jesus Christ, who came to your Earth 2,000 years ago with a message, is +known to us. The Christ is one of the greatest powers in the +Universe—next to the Creator. +</P> + +<P> +Your sectarian church systems are a hindrance to the proper spiritual +development of the individual. These systems engender an element of +dependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual +enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and +unfold before real progress upwards begins. +</P> + +<P> +All knowledge of God should come from within and not through the +instrumentality of imperfect individuals, such as your religious +teachers are. +</P> + +<P> +The present lack of interest (in 1920) in sectarian matters on the part +of the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow but sure +disintegration of a system that has held your people in mental and +spiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn of a better day +for humanity on your Earth. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap09"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER IX. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM +</H3> + +<P> +When Love rules a community of people there is no need of +administrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the +inhabitants who make up the population of a planet. For the same +reason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative center. +</P> + +<P> +This announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many +readers who have imagined that no considerable number of human beings +could live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a complex +administrative system such as you have on your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped +civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has +been eliminated. +</P> + +<P> +When each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, is +actuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a horde of +political parasites to direct the destinies of the race. +</P> + +<P> +This lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to its +industrial and economic side. The law of supply and demand determines +just how many factories there should be, and just what output is +necessary for a given period. But it must be remembered that the law +of supply and demand on our planet has no relation to a competitive +system such as yours, for we have no competitor, a fact that will be +impressed elsewhere in this book. +</P> + +<P> +It is true that certain of our people who have been specially singled +out by the dominating influence of the Invisible World are occasionally +appealed to by those in doubt as to what is best for their individual +welfare, or the welfare of the community at large, to act in advisory +capacities. These are the Spiritual Advisers of the planet, and are +really God's prophets. There was a time when your race was guided by +similar individuals, as is evidenced from mention of them in your +sacred Scriptures. But their usefulness was lost when man on your +Earth forgot God. +</P> + +<P> +It was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded the +unwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator. He clamored for a +Code of Laws and received them (through Moses). His next downward step +was taken when he admitted it was necessary to have interpreters of the +Law: for if the spirit of the Law had been kept there would have been +no misunderstanding or juggling of the letter. +</P> + +<P> +Soon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's +growing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority over +all the interpreters, whose word should be final. So your people cried +aloud for Kings. And you have them, and your law has grown to immense +proportions, as have also the clever sins of your selfishness. WHERE +THERE IS NO SIN THERE IS NO NEED OF LAWS; FOR THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A +LAW UNTO HIMSELF. +</P> + +<P> +It must not be imagined that because of the lack of a political system +on Mars, such as you deem necessary on your Earth, that all is chaos +and life a sort of happy-go-lucky existence. On the contrary, the +Martian existence is controlled by the acme of system, which is in +accordance with the law of Divine Harmony. A system from which has +been eliminated all the useless wheels which so clog up your lives and +make your progress slow indeed. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap10"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER X. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE +</H3> + +<P> +"And now abideth Faith, Hope and Love: these three; but the greatest of +these is LOVE." Paul to the Corinthians. +</P> + +<P> +THERE IS BUT ONE LAW ON MARS. THAT LAW IS LOVE. +</P> + +<P> +This law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people. +</P> + +<P> +It is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected in the +countenance of every individual. +</P> + +<P> +This law is the incentive before the entire population and urges each +individual onward to the completion of the task before him. +</P> + +<P> +There are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than his +brother. There is no evil, for all are good: all are equal. God endows +every individual expression of life with the Divine Heritage of a pure +soul. It is the individual's concern to keep this heavenly gift +unstained in its descent into matter. The love force of the Spirit is +the potent agent that does this for the individual when allowed to +permeate and radiate the entire being. When individuals have learned +to bathe their innermost beings in the Father's love, then it must +follow that a nation made up of such individuals will be governed only +by such precepts as are evolved from this dominating Love-force. +</P> + +<P> +It is of no import to the individual on this planet what his particular +task may be, for all work is for the Father; and the humblest vocation +(humbler from the point of view of the dwellers on your Earth) is as +important and as honorable as the highest. +</P> + +<P> +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE, which is in accordance with the Divine Intent. +It is the desire of the Father that every world in limitless space +inhabited by His children be ruled by that Divine Principle. For when +Love is the supreme law of a world, as it is of the Universe, there is +no need of a system of complex laws and a horde of judicial officers to +interpret and enforce them. +</P> + +<P> +When Love enters into the life of a community selfishness makes its +exit: misery becomes a stranger and pain and sickness vanish. +</P> + +<P> +From the cradle to transition the Martian is dominated by Love and +guided by the Father's will. The result of this Love-rule is +individual and communal happiness. But above all, a Spiritual progress +that unfolds the individual in accordance with the Cosmic Intent. +</P> + +<P> +To die, in the sense of passing out of one's physical environment, is +the destiny of every created being. Hence, in that sense, death exists +on Mars as it does on your Earth. But the real death referred to by +Christ: a Spiritual death imposed on man by his fall from Grace, a +penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. We +are in harmony with the Father. Those who are spiritually dead are cut +off from the Father as a result of their indifference and ignorance of +Spiritual Truth. +</P> + +<P> +The religion of the Martian may be expressed in two thoughts: "LOVE" +and "THY WILL BE DONE, NOT MINE." The true definition of Religion is a +"RULE OF LIFE," and as our lives are guided entirely by Love and the +Father's Will. WE HAVE A RELIGION. +</P> + +<P> +You, on your Earth, have created a Religion to satisfy your +conventionalities. Truth is simple, but you have made it intricate. +It is free, yet you buy it from the would-be disciples. Both you and +we must approach Him in simple faith: "Unless ye become as little +children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." +</P> + +<P> +Speaking of children, I desire to give expression to a thought that may +appear to be outside the subject: it is this: The beauty and simplicity +of youth is wonderful, and to be admired by all: but in the sight of +the Heavenly Father, and those who have progressed to higher realms, it +is not so wonderful as those older characters who have waded the +marshes of life, as it were, and who have trod the dirty steps without +losing faith. +</P> + +<P> +This is to encourage those who sometimes think when they look back on +their lives that all is dark. Their strength is being tried in the +darkness. Therefore their courage and faith is so much more. +</P> + +<P> +We who are giving you these messages have passed beyond the stage you +are in, and do not have to be tried on every hand. We look upon you +who are struggling through the pitfalls created by your false systems +with pity, knowing how great your trials are. Do not think that +because we have gone on to higher planes of life that we are out of +sympathy with you. The more we bask in the sunshine of Love the more +tender we become to those in the shadow. And if you would only realize +how strong you are, with the Father's love and His real consideration +for you, you would try so much harder to better your condition by +meeting His Love with Love. +</P> + +<P> +We of Mars have learnt to keep the right pictures before the minds of +our youth that they may not be so sorely tried, but on your planet you +have not even the beginning of a system whereby there could be kept +continually before the minds of your children the real goal to be +striven for. I make exception of the few homes on your planet where +the parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not +ideal—just a beginning of Idealism. But they are better far than the +masses in their home conditions on your planet. +</P> + +<P> +Now, we are ready to do all we can towards stimulating the living of +the Christ-life among all souls in the Universe when it can be so +arranged: but it will take aeons of time on some planets, and many +decades on yours before we can scientifically teach you. To be sure, +we are giving you all we can for this book, but it will not be +universally accepted, although it will bring great joy to those who +have faith. +</P> + +<P> +If you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the wonderful +happiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness of your own +life. Picture beautiful things and your heart must be beautiful. +Strive with all your mind to hold beautiful thoughts, for it is well +worth your every effort towards faith. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap11"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XI. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL +</H3> + +<P> +The people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so +filled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to the +high development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost as audible +as words. Hence, converse between individuals on our planet is not +altogether a series of vocal ejaculations. On the contrary, among the +older members of the race, communication between individuals is in some +cases audibly imperceptible. +</P> + +<P> +Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information +is usually transmitted impressionally. +</P> + +<P> +Education on Mars begins at the mother's knee. The first knowledge +imparted to the young is Spiritual. The first lessons given to the +child are: One's absolute dependence on God, and that the few years +before the individual are but an unfoldment, or an individualizing of +the entity into a separate and distinct unit. +</P> + +<P> +The Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps these +truths. This procedure continues until the pupil is ready to enter an +institution of learning. +</P> + +<P> +THE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A +PLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE. THE PARENTS ARE THE +FIRST TEACHERS. +</P> + +<P> +The primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on the +necessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and righteousness in +order that the mind of the individual be so moulded and fashioned that +absolute faith is placed in God's promises through the Master, Christ. +</P> + +<P> +The keynote to the education of the individual is that one must first +seek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, which is the +Divine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and that coming into a +knowledge of God means health, happiness and wisdom. +</P> + +<P> +After the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which result in +an unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to a school; but a +school system different from anything you have on your Earth. The task +of the teacher is, not to teach knowledge but to assist in bringing out +what is already latent in the soul, rather than a set routine, for +every individual is considered a master in some line of thought and +activity. The pupil is led into knowledge instead of being taught +directly. +</P> + +<P> +The individual is left to his own tastes and volition. The harmony of +music of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics and of Life, +together with a knowledge of the laws of Electricity, is especially +brought to the attention of the individual. You of the Earth know as +yet very little concerning the true nature of Electricity. Your +methods of handling and generating this wonderful force are crude +indeed, by comparison with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the +subject. +</P> + +<P> +And so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we of +Mars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to hear and +see many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not exist at all for +you. Of course there are some exceptions among the few of your Earth +who, after having striven hard for light have been favored by God's +angels in the development of a higher Spirituality. +</P> + +<P> +Our teachers are guides who look after their charges in an atmosphere +of Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth are acquired by +the pupil. +</P> + +<P> +Thought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian children +are never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth. As a consequence +of this they are easily led into true knowledge, and having a broad +vision are able to see all things in their true relations. They begin +at the cause and work towards the effect, which is the opposite of your +system. +</P> + +<P> +No set rules of discipline are used in the schools. Indeed they are +not necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one goal impressed +on the mind of the pupil is the complete expression of the Father +Within, for to express the Father is to have perfect life, life in +abundance. +</P> + +<P> +Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and +learned by the child in the early part of his career. +</P> + +<P> +Astronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an +understanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite +Universe of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of Mars, +unusual opportunity is presented to students in visual observations of +the Heavens. +</P> + +<P> +Entire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher +guides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's Heavens is +ablaze with scintillating points of light. The different +constellations as viewed from our planet present the same general +appearance as to configuration as they do to the dwellers on your +Earth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by reason of a more +advantageous viewpoint. +</P> + +<P> +The so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of the +larger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars than to +Earth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from this vantage +point. Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily seen with the +naked eye. +</P> + +<P> +Your Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with our +observing instruments we are able to see your continent and oceans when +not covered by a cloud canopy. +</P> + +<P> +As to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the former +presents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, but being so +near the sun it is only visible an hour before or after sunset, +depending upon its position. But Mercury, being so near the Solar Orb, +it is rarely its position is favorable for observation from our planet, +and then only with our more perfect telescopes. +</P> + +<P> +Our students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our planet +with the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do. +</P> + +<P> +Mars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking +phenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West, +passing each other at times within view of observers. The most distant +satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the +name of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth. Approximately 132 +hours elapse between its rising and setting at any particular point on +our planet, as a consequence of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours +18 minutes at a distance of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary; +and as Mars rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion +is almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite. +</P> + +<P> +During the time of its rotation it changes four times from full to new +and new to full. The appearance of this satellite to the Martians is +equal, if not a little brighter than the view of Jupiter from your +Earth. +</P> + +<P> +The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as +Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by +means of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700 +miles from the surface of Mars. This satellite is shut out from view +beyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary. +Its period is 7 hours and 30 minutes—less than one-third the time of +the rotation of Mars. It rises in the West and courses across the +Heavens in 11 hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of +its phases and gets through half another. Its disc appears to us as a +little more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full appears +to you. +</P> + +<P> +The realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the Martian +student. We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws to a point +which would appear to your understanding most incomprehensible. Long +ago we mastered the knowledge of the method of releasing Interatomic +Energy,[2] a knowledge which in the brain of an unscrupulous person +would be most disastrous, not only to himself but to those about him. +The energy locked up in an atom of matter is tremendous, and the +release of this power is only a matter of knowing the law. The +inhabitants of your world will have to bide a long time before the key +that will release this giant is placed within their reach. +</P> + +<P> +Not until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not before you +have learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be permitted to +harness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, a force equally as +great for evil as it is for good. This knowledge we have, and we have +utilized it in the construction and building of our mighty planetary +projects. +</P> + +<P> +This Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous heat. If +it were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt itself out ages ago. +All your theories to account for the continuity of solar radiation are +in error. The release of Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite +rate is the reason why its heat never increases or diminishes though +millions of years come and go in endless procession. +</P> + +<P> +And this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, some +of your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: Omnipotent, +Omniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the Directing Intelligence, +who sees to it that all is provided for His children. +</P> + +<P> +On your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements. In order +to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table, +there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists. On Mars +the most elementary school pupil is well informed on the subject, and +has knowledge of the complete list among the new elements yet to be +discovered by your chemists, and which exist in appreciable quantities +on your Earth, is one which has the peculiar property of neutralizing +Gravity. +</P> + +<P> +This neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the gravitational +pull when interposed between the Earth and the matter sought to be made +immune from the attraction, just as you would insulate against the flow +of electricity by interposing a non-conductor between two conducting +metals. +</P> + +<P> +The knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized in the +solution of our transportation problem. Instead of cumbersome +railroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an almost perfect +flying or floating ship. It is made buoyant by being screened from the +gravitational pull of the planet.[3] +</P> + +<P> +Another subject of importance, that takes no little time to understand +by the Martian student is the part played by the planet's satellites in +the generation of Electro-Magnetic energy. The sun together with its +circulating family of planets is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and +its satellites are minor generators of Electric energy. Satellites +have a higher importance and necessity than the mere creation of +moonshine. +</P> + +<P> +All the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers have +not yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. The latter +planet has a satellite whose distance is so close to its primary that +its presence is lost in the intense reflection of light caused by +Venus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser than that of your Earth. +In the case of Mercury, owing to its extremely close proximity to the +sun, its satellite probably never will be seen by observers on your +Earth, as it is lost in the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on +this planet. +</P> + +<BR> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following—"Sir +Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the +energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time will come when atomic +energy will take the place of coal as a source of power." The man who +spoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver +Lodge—one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has +devoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of +the atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may +utilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so appalling that +Sir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how to release it. I +hope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy, he +says, until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly, +because if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would +be unsafe. A force utterly disproportionate to the present source of +Power would be placed at the disposal Or the world. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +NOTE (By the Editor in 1920)—This article was published more than two +months after the revelation above was received, but is another striking +confirmation of the truth of these revelations. +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +[3] In the February issue of the "Electrical Experimenter," (1920) +which was published about a month after this information was received +by revelation, the following article appeared—another startling +confirmation of the truth contained herein, and points to the +possibility that whatever is possible on one planet, is also possible +on another, depending upon that planet's type of civilization and real +knowledge, not superficial theory: +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement that +Prof. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a pool of mercury +lost a certain amount of weight. It was explained that the weight was +lost due to a screening effect which the mercury produced on the lead +balls. In other words, mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the +earth's gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated +the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T. J. +See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an address +before the California Academy of Sciences, announced recently that his +researches on gravitation in 1917 and his latest researches on +molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim that the screening of +gravitation has been shown to exist. In 1917, says Professor See, 'I +explained the fluctuation of the Moon's main motion by the circular +refraction of the sun's gravitation waves, as they are propagated +through the solid body of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.' +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +"'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that quicksilver is +indeed very resistant to the waves which produce molecular action, and +this developed a new theory of the depression of the mercury in +capillary tubes. This would tend to confirm Maiorana's claim that a +basin of mercury beneath a suspended mass of lead may decrease the +gravitation of the lead by a small amount. My researches on ether show +conclusively that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain +very resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a slight +screening effect.' +</P> + +<P CLASS="footnote"> +"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be +accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against +gravitation." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap12"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION, +SCHOOL AGE, MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued) +</H3> + +<P> +Everyone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length of +time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. The Martian +year is nearly twice as long as on your globe. +</P> + +<P> +There are many universities on Mars where students enter direct from +their homes, where the primary and preparatory education is first +inculcated in their minds. Wonderful teachers have charge of the +students, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are taught. +Special and particular attention is given to the subject of the +development of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may come into man's +Divine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of the KINGDOM OF GOD. +</P> + +<P> +Each student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this +vocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what benefits +the individual also benefits the entire community. +</P> + +<P> +Each individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that will +ensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system of the +planet, and each unit understands the dignity and importance of his +position, no matter what that position may be, for on Mars no activity +of human endeavor is considered menial; no one position in life is less +important than the rest: all is God's work. +</P> + +<P> +And so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of physical +activity, for God has created each individual for some particular work. +Six hours is a day's work, the remainder of the time is devoted to +recreation, music, lectures, and those general activities that best +develop the highest spiritualities with the individual. For the +Martians realize that life on the material plane is but temporary the +isolation of the individual Divine Spark from the Infinite whole to the +end that the personality may become for all Eternity self-conscious and +in harmony with God, which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for +all time. +</P> + +<P> +Failure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the +individuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is +indestructible: it always was and always will be. +</P> + +<P> +Education on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of developing +the individual spiritually in order to prepare one for the spiritual +progress after the completion of the material probationary period as +well as having life in greatest abundance during that period, and with +this main end in view the subject of marriage, the rearing of children, +receives special consideration and attention. +</P> + +<P> +The pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the selection +of a wife by the prospective husband must be in accordance with true +conjugal harmony, and this is not possible in the absence of Spiritual +development. Hence, divorces are unknown with us, and to that end is +special care taken in the matter of teaching the truth concerning the +marital relation, the rearing of children and their Spiritual growth. +</P> + +<P> +The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your +time measurements. The result of this early training is that the young +couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," are true mates and go +through life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so +characteristic of your Earth's people. +</P> + +<P> +Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from +God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the +gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an +accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such marriages are unholy +and destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual +awakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your +Earth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished +and the extinction of the race will be inevitable. +</P> + +<P> +The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic +Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your +system that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those +having supervision over the studies of the young. +</P> + +<P> +One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular +attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an atmospheric +pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175 +degrees on our planet. This temperature is inadequate for cooking +foods properly, especially the coarser varieties. But recourse is had +to the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies +of the occasion demand. +</P> + +<P> +Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the +variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your +planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours. +</P> + +<P> +Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the +gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two reasons for +this. In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on +Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates +the necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your +physical make-up demands. In the second place the Martians partake of +food to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded +by the consumption of victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your +Earth tenants live to eat. +</P> + +<P> +Although each individual has his particular place in the universe where +he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in +all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is given an opportunity +to obtain a broad and comprehensive knowledge relating to all subjects, +both material and spiritual. +</P> + +<P> +The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, offers +an interesting field for study and research work, as does also its +concomitant Cosmic Energy. +</P> + +<P> +Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of labor-saving +devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of energy is +considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic Chemistry. But +it must be understood that the individual is taught that dependence +must be placed rather on one's own dexterity, born of that God-given +faculty of Intuition, than on the perfectness of a man-made machine, +the creation of finite mind. +</P> + +<P> +For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete +degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire +dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on +machinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator, +such dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the +worker's intuitional faculties. +</P> + +<P> +This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is +not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most +every line of industrial activity. You are now getting to the stage +where the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved +by merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator +understanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the +solution of the problems in hand. This means, in the near future, +brain atrophy through disuse. +</P> + +<P> +And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a +thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel +or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the +completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be impossible to +find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the +extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article. +</P> + +<P> +In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a +mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our +factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes +in winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our +knowledge of matter and energy. +</P> + +<P> +We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an +Effect world. The Cause world is the Reality which is invisible to all +while hampered with a physical body; that all forms of matter are but +the manifestation of the same ultimate Essence; that this Essence is +but a Divine Impulse—a thrust, as it were, in the Ether. That +although we observe with our sensory organs many different kinds of +matter, consisting of elements and compounds of elements: if we were +able to resolve any of the different forms of matter before us into +their ultimate units, these ultimate particles would all turn out to be +the same thing, the "Divine Impulses" just mentioned. +</P> + +<P> +Now you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed in an +Infinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is immersed in an +ocean of water. Everywhere, all about us, is a teeming maelstrom of +motion. There is not a cubic centimeter of space that you can call at +rest. All is eternal motion. All is Energy. +</P> + +<P> +And out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians draw our +energy. And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate essence of all +matter and all energy, therefore you might imagine matter in its +different aspects as Electrical in origin. As Electricity is a +manifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the only Reality in the +Universe is GOD. +</P> + +<P> +We have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into harmony +with its origin—GOD—for only through God can true knowledge be +obtained. +</P> + +<P> +On your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing +Electrical Energy. You expend more energy by burning coal or using +water power than you derive from your electrical pump: for a dynamo is +nothing more than a pump. Your machines do not generate electrical +power for, as stated before you are immersed in an Infinite sea of +energy. +</P> + +<P> +On Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite reservoir of +energy. We have learned the law as you some day must. +</P> + +<P> +Located at convenient points on our planet are high towers, capped with +suitable receiving apparatus. In turn this energy is transmitted to +different parts of our globe where it is used. We do not require wires +to transmit energy. Our landscape is neither disfigured with unsightly +wires, nor is it covered with a pall of black smoke. We devised a more +perfect method of power production and transmission. +</P> + +<P> +The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality +brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars. An +understanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the world of +gross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge concerning +Spiritual truths; for the latter are the only real tangible treasures +worthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. Already a knowledge of +these truths is beginning to be sought for by some of the more +spiritually enlightened inhabitants of your Earth; but so immersed in +the unreal things of life is the vast majority of your Earth people +that it will take a long time before the present seed-sowing toward +this end will bear fruit. +</P> + +<P> +The seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now going on +by a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the present day, +have in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on your Earth. Only +Truth can stand in the end. All that is unreal or false must +ultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has willed that the day +when error shall be no more shall be hastened. +</P> + +<P> +There are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them. +</P> + +<P> +But they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as long +as you function in a world of unreality and error your Spiritual vision +is incapable of discerning what lies beyond your present horizon, and +must remain dormant. Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul, +and your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but +little of the real things beyond. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap13"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XIII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MUSIC AN EXPRESSION OF THE FATHER +</H3> + +<P> +All material expressions of the Father, from the simplest chemical +element to the most complex compound; from the one-celled protoplasmic +life germ to the most complex organism, are Vibratory in their ultimate +nature. +</P> + +<P> +As has been stated elsewhere in this book, material life is the +vibratory reflection from the Cause world into an Effect world. The +universe is a vibratory expression of an absolute Reality—GOD: a +material expression of Divine Harmony. And as Harmony is an expression +of the Father, its antithesis, Discord, is the creation of man. +</P> + +<P> +Of all the vibrations that more fully express the Father and arouse the +Emotional within the soul, Music must of necessity head the list. +</P> + +<P> +Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all +receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic +scale. +</P> + +<P> +And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate +vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his +visional faculties. The long waves of the Infra-red and the short +waves of the Ultra-violet ends of the spectrum are invisible to your +Earth people except in rare cases of developed mediumship, though your +photograph plates are somewhat sensitive to these vibrations. +</P> + +<P> +You are immersed in commercialism and other selfish pursuits while all +around you is a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE, vibrating with music too +heavenly for your dulled perceptions to enjoy. +</P> + +<P> +On Mars the development of the Musical talent is held to be of primary +importance. The laws of Harmony are part of the curriculum of all +schools, and all necessary paraphernalia for its proper exposition are +provided. We have instruments for measuring tone vibrations of so +delicate a pitch that the existence of these tones would be a blank to +the gross material ears of the inhabitants of your world. +</P> + +<P> +Music arouses the innermost emotions of the soul and its effect on the +individual is proportionate to his degree of spiritual development. +Music is harmony, but it also creates an atmosphere of harmony. +</P> + +<P> +The music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the very +essence of the Cosmos. By Music of the Spheres is meant the harmonious +interrelation of all spiritual planes. Every unit in the universe is +in perfect accord one with the other, and all are functioning in +perfect unison. Every Solar Orb and every Planet responds to +Harmonious law. The Cosmos as a whole is the expression of a Divine +Symphony. +</P> + +<P> +When man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment +entitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then will +the sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him. +</P> + +<P> +On Mars divers instruments are used for producing musical harmony, and +much of this harmony is of such a subtle nature that your crude +instruments could not give expression to it. +</P> + +<P> +We have a means of producing harmony of the highest order by utilizing +Ethereal Electric Vibration which produces light vibrations +corresponding to tone production, for true Electric Vibration is real +music. This device resembles a series of globes, all transparent, +colorless when not in action. But immediately they are allowed to +produce music they become units of color and tone work that would give +you the impression of SEEING AND HEARING A RAINBOW SIMULTANEOUSLY. You +are not ready to receive the scientific explanation of this phenomenon, +but we are ready to give it to you at any time. +</P> + +<P> +Singing is also highly developed on our planet, for it is the first +expression of harmony that the child is taught. This is true for the +reason that vocal music is the most natural expression of harmonious +vibrations. Much time is devoted to ensemble work among our people of +all ages. This chorus work is of great benefit to all partaking, for +individually and collectively much inspiration is received; and the +tremendous Love-force loosened by this united expression of harmony +becomes a phenomenal power and stimulus—a purifying agent for soul and +body. This will help you to realize why disease is unknown to us. +</P> + +<P> +In the development of the musical talents of the individual on Mars the +pupil is impressed with the necessity of expressing the true self, and +the original improvisation or composition is the method by which the +pupil expresses his understanding of the subject. No one attempts to +ape the technique or genius of another, for on Mars all are geniuses. +This is true in every form of activity. All must be creators to +express individuality. +</P> + +<P> +When an individual on Mars has surpassed all others in some special +expression of Divine Harmony the product of his genius is for the +benefit of all, hence copyrights and patents are unknown on our planet. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap14"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XIV +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +AERONAUTICS, INHABITED PLANETS, SECTARIANISM +</H3> + +<P> +A great deal of interest is being manifested in your city this morning +(April 25, 1920), over the Aeronautical Show. You imagine the Flying +machines wonderful mechanisms; but in their present state they will not +lift you out of your atmosphere. You have yet to perfect a real +airship. +</P> + +<P> +Your Flying machines are cumbersome and awkward, and they consume lots +of fuel and make a deal of noise. It can hardly be said they are +harmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is only a sample +of your Earth's development. +</P> + +<P> +You have seen the seagulls soar over the water seemingly without +motion; and yet they go up and down, turning this way and that without +effort. This is the best idea I can give you of our airships, which +really soar. No sound, no discordant vibrations disturb the quiet of +the Martian atmosphere, and the tranquility of the Mars people. +</P> + +<P> +When you have learned the secret of how to tap the Universal Reservoir +of Cosmic Power, then will you evolve a perfect Flying machine such as +we have. A great deal of interest is also being centered on an attempt +to signal Mars, and your apparatus is not fine enough to receive our +waves. But success will come to you in another decade, and we will be +able to get something through for your scientific world. +</P> + +<P> +It is gratifying to know that a large portion of your population +entertain the belief that Mars is inhabited: and also that the +possibilities point to the fact that other planets are inhabited. +</P> + +<P> +You have advanced a long way to come to that belief, but you are yet a +long way from the truth. You are on the eve of an awakening and much +will come through the discoveries of scientists who are devoting their +lives to the study of Truth. It is true that only a few of that number +are bold enough to proclaim all they discover, and they must bear the +brunt of much harsh criticism. In the end, however, ignorance must +give way to Light. +</P> + +<P> +We look upon your inventions with much amusement, and yet with great +interest, just as you would look upon your children's finest toys. We +are much older than you and are doing all we can to help your +scientists by impressing them with thoughts that will lead them to +discover new truths, and our interest never flags. How could it if we +are doing the Father's work? For it is the Father's great pleasure to +give His children all they can receive. +</P> + +<P> +If you could cut loose from your world conventions and could perceive +new ideas; if you would but disregard man-made theories and open your +minds and souls to the Father's Revelations, it would not be long +before your sin-cursed and forsaken Earth would be changed into a +Paradise. +</P> + +<P> +But the tendency among you if to think as your forefathers thought +rather than cut new paths. However, your children of this generation +are of a different sort, and they must be taught the importance of +DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL INTELLECT. There is MORE INDIVIDUALISM being +born into the world today than ever before. THERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN, +BUT THEY ARE STRONGER (the year 1920). +</P> + +<P> +THESE CHILDREN, WITH THEIR ORIGINALITY AND ESOTERIC TENDENCIES WILL +BRING ON A REVOLUTION ON YOUR PLANET THAT WILL END BY DESTROYING YOUR +THREADBARE DOGMATISM. This tendency is evidenced by the recent failure +of the Interchurch movement. It has been the habit on your planet that +you cannot accomplish anything without raising immense sums of money. +</P> + +<P> +It is not money that does the real work but rather PERSONAL SERVICE. +People are inclined to give almost everything than personal service. +If each person lived the Christ Life there would be no need of money. +A close study of the Mars Economic system will demonstrate that truth. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap15"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XV. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +LIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. +</H3> + +<P> +THE PLANET JUPITER +</P> + +<P> +LIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a moonless +night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of +scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making: +the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a +seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the +one reality, OMNISCIENCE. +</P> + +<P> +Only presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the creation of +the Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous worldwide systems, and +place his particular world-unit at the center of the Cosmos. +</P> + +<P> +Man contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more +ornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, conceitedly +thinking that the Father's only consideration is centered about himself. +</P> + +<P> +As these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits +extending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with the +habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not yet +possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive state: not +long since condensed from fire mist: others where life has just begun: +others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of God's creatures, just +as you live and others have lived before you. And there are other +worlds whose life-cycle has been run; where intelligent life has +ceased: where world-disintegration has set in. For this is in +accordance with the universal law of Growth and Decay—a law that +exempts neither the one-celled amoeba, nor the complex Solar system +whirling yonder in Infinite space. +</P> + +<P> +For all that comes from the Father into material expression must some +day revert to its primordial state. +</P> + +<P> +You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic conditions on +Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the zenith of its Cosmic +cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to a degree of Divine +unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds. +</P> + +<P> +It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to one +of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our sun, in +order you may be able to learn by contrast something of the wonders of +God's work. +</P> + +<P> +JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times larger +than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately less, might well +be styled the Master Planet of our system. +</P> + +<P> +Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of +which is not necessary at this time. This planet is in what might be +styled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun. This +life has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it +will be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in +Geological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of +these periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have +attained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences +capable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth. +</P> + +<P> +Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will +undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise +new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land +surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water, +to rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and +solicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial +Creations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal +and petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will +inhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come. +</P> + +<P> +Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this +planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still very +dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the +extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only +dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun +penetrates to the surface of the globe. By reason of the constant +thick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped +in deep gloom and darkness. As radiation is arrested to a marked +degree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as +well as hot. In this steam environment grow forests of fern and +fungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of +time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this +planet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed, +but is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type, +but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and +adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races +yet to come on the planet. +</P> + +<P> +Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms +are, and future ones will be evolved along specially modified lines, in +order that they may encompass the least possible volume, just as the +denizens of the extreme depths of your oceans have evolved. The +modification is necessary that organisms mat be able to function on a +planet where the difference in gravity is as one to three compared with +your Earth. In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce +maximum lightness. +</P> + +<P> +As there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature is +God Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is as +perfect within itself as is the most gigantic sun. Size is but +relative. The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and complex as is +that of the mammoth, and so there exist in the universe inhabited +worlds that are relatively very small. +</P> + +<P> +Circulating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are +numerous small planets or asteroids. One in particular, which is known +to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an atmosphere and is +inhabited by diminutive people and a correspondingly diminutive fauna +and flora. The diameter of Vesta is about 500 miles, although your +astronomers give its size, erroneously, as much smaller. +</P> + +<P> +While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are +getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them you +are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos. +</P> + +<P> +The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a perfect +watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit in a given +time mathematically proportional to the movements of all the other +celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the watch conform to +their prescribed movements. The celestial bodies are seemingly +actuated by invisible gears and are held rigidly in their proper places +by a mighty force whose power is incalculable. This is evidenced by +the fact that all celestial bodies conform to that inexorable law, +Divine Harmony. +</P> + +<P> +That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their +ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their periods +is as the cube of their distance from their common centers, is an +exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious laws. +</P> + +<P> +You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted view of +Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross: their apparent +reality an illusion. Material life is but a projection from the Cause +world into the Effect world. Man is but a reflection of a reality that +transcends his material vision. +</P> + +<P> +You are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, which is +yet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is nigh. Christ is +coming into His Kingdom, which must be in the hearts of the people. +His Second Coming means that He will come into your lives with the +Power of the Spirit. This can only become possible through an awakened +understanding of Spiritual laws. Although man on your Earth is in +great darkness it is not the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must +undergo many changes before it reaches your evolutionary stage. +</P> + +<P> +COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will be +realized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM MARS. +This event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your Earth, for it +will be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF THE MEDIEVAL +DOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY built upon a perverted +corruption of God's limitless universe: a universe narrowed down to +your Earth and the inhabitants thereof. +</P> + +<P> +Man's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his +ignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway among a +majority of your so-called learned scientists and the people generally. +But the materialism of the masses is not so degenerating and +destructive as the impossible dogmas entertained by your numerous sects +WHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER. +These dogmas are priestly inventions created to frighten God's +children; to make of man, created after the image of God a crawling, +servile creature, instead of what he really should be, the highest +manifestation of the Divine, the culmination of God's handiwork. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap16"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XVI +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +THE RISEN CHRIST +</H3> + +<P> +Easter Sunday, April 4, 1920 +</P> + +<P> +Your Earth's inhabitants are celebrating today the Resurrection of your +Savior—by gratifying the desires of Self. +</P> + +<P> +We of Mars do not have such events to commemorate for we never +crucified Him. We opened the door to His wonderful Truth. +</P> + +<P> +Not one of your Earth's inhabitants can perform the miracles Christ +did, but we can. Our leaders, who are our advisers, guides and +Spiritual teachers are Christlike men who can do all the works that +Christ and His disciples did. He said. "These signs do follow them +that believe," and we have never stopped believing. +</P> + +<P> +Your condition is pitiful. There is nothing but darkness between you +and the Truth Christ tried to give you. Christ is only an idea on your +planet and not a reality in the hearts of your people. Their whole +thought, for weeks past, has been devoted to their personal adornment, +and in preparing festivals for this occasion. +</P> + +<P> +In your churches, where they seem to observe the period of Christ's +suffering, it is only a form. They go through their vain repetition of +prayers, that have no soul in them, and your six weeks of so-called +Lent is only a mockery of its real significance. +</P> + +<P> +If you would live the Christ life you would not crucify Him daily in +the flesh, but would come to that consciousness that He is risen in +your soul. You are continually crucifying Christ all over your planet +in the same way that you crucified Jesus Christ, for you either deny +Him or pervert His Truth to suit your selfishness. +</P> + +<P> +All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except +your Earth. The Earth has not advanced enough to be placed in the line +of progression yet. However, the time is near when you will experience +that progression. It will be after you are high enough spiritually to +receive word from the Martians through mediums. This work evidences +the fact that you are beginning that experience now. Take hope, for +after the obscure darkness must come the dawn. Your whole Earth is now +in terrible travail, but the result will be the birth of the new Christ +Spirit. +</P> + +<P> +You get glimpses now and then of the real Christ Life, but do you, or +can you realize what life on a planet is like when all the inhabitants +live the Christ Life every day? That is why we have the wonderful +manifestations of the Father's Love in our intricate and delicate +mechanisms, and in our utilization of Cosmic Energy. It is thus that +we receive the Father's wondrous gifts. But Mars never became what it +is until God purified it by His Son's example, and we accepted Him as +our Savior WITHOUT MURDER. Your planet damned itself to many bloody +aeons by the rejection of Him, and your Religion has been blood, blood, +blood! In your last five years you have been given enough blood to +drown all the martyrs you have given to your bloody god. +</P> + +<P> +Your planet is in slavery. You are slaves to your conventionalities. +They are like shackles on your souls: like bands of iron. And yet you +cling to them until it seems you do not want freedom. +</P> + +<P> +It is only Truth that will free you; and as long as you cling to false +ideals and sham systems you must expect to be slaves. +</P> + +<P> +Pin your faith not in material money, but in Spiritual Wealth. "Take no +heed of the morrow." Be of good cheer. MAKE WIDE THE OPENING TO THE +SPIRIT! HE WILL ENTER! +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap17"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XVII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THE RESULT OF SPIRITUAL CAUSES +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> + "For they have sown the wind<BR> + and they shall reap the whirlwind." (Hosea, 8:7)<BR> +</P> + +<P> +The Creator and Dominator of the entire Universe is DIVINE MENTALITY. +</P> + +<P> +The only real actuality that confronts sentient beings is MIND. We are +born, live and have our being amidst physical surroundings that in +final analysis are mere illusions. This idea is not new. +</P> + +<P> +It forms the base of most systems of philosophy from the dawn of +civilization to the present day. +</P> + +<P> +Our physical environment is the result of our mental attitude. Mars is +blessed with a climatic tranquility that would surpass the +understanding of an Earth dweller. But this was not always so. +</P> + +<P> +In proportion to the spiritual unfoldment of the inhabitants of a +planet so is the degree of climatic tranquility enjoyed by them. This +may, at first reading, appear far-fetched, but it is true nevertheless. +</P> + +<P> +Those who live on a material plane are immersed in the Effect world. +The dominating and primary influence that gives rise to all material +phenomena have their inception in the Cause world—the world of Spirit. +Hence the turbulence of the elements originate, through the law of +Vibration, deep down in the mentalities of those who make up the +population of a planet. Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other +disturbances of Nature are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine. +</P> + +<P> +When a race has discarded the pursuit of false ideals and comes into +harmony with the Father then there occurs a corresponding change in its +physical environment by reason of the vibratory influences at work. +These influences have their inception in the mentalities of sentient +beings who are doing the Father's work in the advancement of the races +of men throughout the entire physical universe. +</P> + +<P> +This same vibratory law is at work throughout all physical planes, and +a knowledge of this law was referred to by Christ when He said: "THE +KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU." +</P> + +<P> +On Mars, owing to the high spiritual state of its inhabitants, who are +in harmony with their Creator, climatic conditions are, compared with +your world, most perfect. However, there was a time, measured in terms +of your millions of years, when the elements on Mars were as agitated +and capricious as they are today on your blood-stained globe. That was +before man on Mars had enfolded spiritually. +</P> + +<P> +As the Martians progressed and unfolded spiritually there occurred a +subsidence in the roughness of the elements: and today our planet is +blessed with a tranquility proportionate to the high Mental state of +its inhabitants. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap18"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XVIII. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +MATERIAL LIFE A LESSON +</H3> + +<P> +At the expense of what may appear as painful reiteration it is my +desire to impress upon the readers of this book this Truth: Material +life is necessary to unfold character, to develop the real self, the +Divine part in man: the only principle that endures forever. +</P> + +<P> +There is a lesson in every phase of work, in every joy, in every +sorrow. That lesson is LOVE. Until you have fully realized this truth +you will not become full heirs in the Kingdom of God. "He that loveth +is born of God." +</P> + +<P> +Christ taught that the Kingdom was not of your Earth, and that all +material things are transitory and would ultimately vanish like mist. +</P> + +<P> +The story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be accomplished +towards a more harmonious relation with the Father: towards a truer +realization of God's real Kingdom. But in any event you should not +idolize the Mars people, for the Father's Kingdom is more perfect. +Mars' idealism is only a degree in the progress in the Cosmic Family of +worlds. The soul must really strive for a higher goal. +</P> + +<P> +The Martians, after ages of time, have mastered their natural passions +in suppressing self, but they have other heights to scale. But he who +conquers a sordid environment; he who rises from a black pool of +iniquity; he who finds the Father's Kingdom amidst an uncompromising +warfare with sin deserves more credit than he who is favored by +circumstances of birth with more congenial surroundings and a higher +Spiritual environment. +</P> + +<P> +You must remember that the individual on Mars, although living amidst +an idealism, is beset with problems of life also. Our problems are +more subtle and of a very different character than you are accustomed +to deal with. Every plane of life has its complexities. If this were +not so, the stimulus for growth would be weak indeed. Your most +apparent problems are material only to your understanding, since you +are living under a most pernicious social and economic system, a system +which puts a premium on selfishness. +</P> + +<P> +All sentient entities are functioning in a universe of Relativity, and +the perfectness of the Martian character and the ideal material and +spiritual aspects of the planet are so by comparison only. +</P> + +<P> +Martians are self-conscious of their shortcomings and aspire to higher +things in God's Kingdom, for progress is eternal and the ultimate goal +is never reached on the material plane of action, for the pinnacle of +all progress is God. "BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS +ALSO PERFECT." +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap19"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XIX. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +A MARTIAN HOME +</H3> + +<P> +The HOME is the moulder of Character in the individual, and in most +cases the Home influences determine the future of the man. +</P> + +<P> +Home influences are the most lasting and abide by the individual unto +the end of his material career. +</P> + +<P> +All the habitations of the people of Mars are beautiful, and a brief +description of one will give our reader an understanding of the other +millions of homes on the planet. +</P> + +<P> +I will take you into a Martian home in the city of Urid the Beautiful. +The rooms are large and commodious. Sunlight, which has been filtered +through translucent glass to temper and rob it of its glare, floods +every room. +</P> + +<P> +There are no stairs to climb, for the five or six rooms—depending on +the size of the family—form a rectangle with a court in the center. +There is a fountain in the center of the court, and beautiful flowers +grow in profusion. Birds of vivid plumage fill the air with their song. +</P> + +<P> +In one of the large rooms a mother sits at a sewing machine making a +garment. For the Martians use these machines too, although they are a +great improvement on yours. Not all the clothing is made in the homes, +but much of it is, and this is easily understood when you recall that +the Martians are true artists and possessed of great originality. +</P> + +<P> +The mother's attention is now and then centered on a very small child +who sits on a velvety carpet. This carpet would be a most wonderful +acquisition in the home of a man of wealth on your Earth. It has a +soft, fluffy pile two inches thick, and makes a most comfortable floor +for the baby to play upon. This baby is about 18 months old, and plays +with toys just as your Earth babies do. +</P> + +<P> +A beautiful young girl enters the room. She is dressed in a simple +becoming gown of white, and she carries her school books with her. +After removing her hat and putting her books away she begins to tell +her mother of the wonderful things learned at school that day. She is +studying the Harmony of Music, particularly the relationship between +Electro-Magnetic Vibrations and Music. +</P> + +<P> +The mother shows much interest, and from her store of knowledge clears +up many doubtful points in the mind of her daughter. And so the hours +pass quickly until the father comes home and joins the family circle. +</P> + +<P> +The walls of the room are white, and are relieved here and there by the +most beautiful tapestries. The few furnishings of the room express +beauty through the artistry that is born of Love. +</P> + +<P> +There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. +</P> + +<P> +A table, a few chairs and a receptacle for books, also a couch, +complete the furnishings. But this simplicity in the matter of +furniture adds a spirit of freedom to the home. +</P> + +<P> +There is no kitchen drudgery in store for the Housewife. The family +repair to a dining-room where food is served by the mother. The food +has just arrived from a central depot in a mechanical contrivance which +runs underground. After the meal has been partaken of, the soiled +dishes are returned in the same manner by which they were conveyed to +the home. +</P> + +<P> +Later in the evening the family prepares to attend a lecture or musical +concert nearby. Or perhaps a visit to some distant part is considered, +in which case an airship is ordered from a public aerodrome. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap20"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XX. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +ART +</H3> + +<P> +As Harmony is an expression of the Father, its coexistent, Art, is an +expression of the laws of Rhythm through the individual when +permanently registered in a material way. +</P> + +<P> +The more a created object conforms to the laws of Harmony the more +pleasing it is to the eye. +</P> + +<P> +The artist gives expression to his soul within with paint brush, chisel +or loom, and the quality of his production is proportionate to the +development of his spiritual nature. +</P> + +<P> +All of God's creatures are artists, although only a small percentage of +His evolutionary creatures are able to express materially what lies +hidden in the soul. Hence, a beautifully executed painting, statue or +tapestry appeals to and interests almost everyone, even though few are +able to execute their own artistic impressions. +</P> + +<P> +The reason for this is that the average physical makeup is defective +and therefore affords a poor vehicle for the expression of the real +entity. Then again, artistic ability is a question of individual +development. +</P> + +<P> +Primordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul were +crude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's foremost +artists today. But in a relative sense only, for the state of your art +is as far behind the art of the Martians as are the carvings of your +prehistoric cavemen behind the productions of your Michael Angelos. As +man unfolds spiritually there is a corresponding advance in his +artistic point of view. +</P> + +<P> +This is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on your +Earth among those races and individuals who are spiritually inclined. +The products of the monastery and cloister in the Middle Ages are +witness to this fact. +</P> + +<P> +Amongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have +stultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the acquisition +of material things; a people whose only ambition is to satisfy self: a +people whose ideas of real happiness are the pursuit of material +pleasures, art has little place except as a fad. +</P> + +<P> +This is the condition today in many parts of your world, and especially +so on your Western continent. Prize fights and the sensualities of the +stage interest many more people than do Art galleries and the beauties +of Nature. +</P> + +<P> +The fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be +established not only with the microscope, but with one's natural eyes. +Divine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the universe; and poor +indeed is he in Spiritual gifts who fails to feast his eyes on God's +handiwork. +</P> + +<P> +As Art is an expression of God's law of Harmony it can be said that its +development on Mars has been a stimulus to the development of every +line of planetary activity and enters into every phase of Martian +social and industrial system. +</P> + +<P> +As every one of God's creatures is an artist in the making, every +Martian is a developed artist. Hence, every product of the loom or +forge on our planet is an artistic production, and reflects in a +material way the soul of the creator. +</P> + +<P> +The incentive before the Martian is to work for the pleasure of +working, which in ultimate analysis is God's work. Of course such a +system of industrial activity would be impossible among a partially +developed people. +</P> + +<P> +Art on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on this +planet. This planet's past history and present achievements are woven +into the products of the looms. The warp and woof of our beautiful +tapestries, so much in evidence in every home, express the Spirituality +of the Martian people; as do also the creations of the Martian +sculptors, and the works of those who use brush and paint. +</P> + +<P> +Some of the most beautiful productions of Mars art in painting, +sculpture or tapestry depict the scenes and various episodes incident +to Christ's visit to Mars 10,000 years ago. They show many wonderful +works of the Master, but we do not call them Miracles for, as later art +shows, the leaders of Martian spiritual attainment were and are true +disciples and do also the works of the Master. +</P> + +<P> +Mars' past has been one of achievement spiritually, and naturally in a +material way also, so when the Martian artist weaves the story of the +past in his loom there are no misgivings, for the Martian past is not +fraught with hate, sin and suffering. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR> + +<A NAME="chap21"></A> +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +CHAPTER XXI. +</H3> + +<H3 ALIGN="center"> +SCIENTIFIC SOPHISTRY +</H3> + +<P CLASS="poem"> + "For we are of yesterday, and know nothing,<BR> + because our days upon Earth are a shadow."<BR> + Job 8:9.<BR> +</P> + +<P> +The term "Scientific Sophistry" well fits your multitude of theories +concerning Truth. +</P> + +<P> +Science which connotes a higher wisdom of hidden things has degenerated +on your Earth from its original purpose (the overthrow of ignorance and +superstition and the development among intelligent beings of a near +approximation of Ultimate Truth) to an orthodox dogmatism, which today +is on a par with the unreality which this selfsame science has sought +to eliminate from the shallowness of the human mind. +</P> + +<P> +It is quite true that the modern scientific method of investigation: +that is, along the lines of Observation, followed by the formation of a +theory, and finally by demonstration, has resulted in the release of +millions of souls from a darker thraldom than that which now besets +them, but nevertheless, the human race on your planet now undergoing +its probationary experience, is to be pitied for its blindness in +matters of real import, namely SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. +</P> + +<P> +Your scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the +Central Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your vision +that your race today—that is, the so-called enlightened and learned +portions of your population—have been deflected from the main path, +and they will soon find themselves pursuing an illusionary +will-o'-the-wisp. +</P> + +<P> +Another result of the adoption of the modern scientific method has been +the tendency of those endeavoring to bring light into the dark nooks +and crannies of human existence, to immerse themselves in an abysmal +materialism from which rescue is almost hopeless. +</P> + +<P> +This condition is the result of a loss of Spiritual vision, and is the +final effort on the part of scientists to explain the riddle of human +existence in accordance with a cleverly thought out, but most amazingly +deficient, mechanistic conception of life. +</P> + +<P> +Since the inception of modern Science on your Earth, based on the +scientific method of investigation, its devotees adopted a spirit of +skepticism concerning all problems of human activity not susceptible to +measurement with the foot-rule, or analysis with the test tube, with +the result that the newer Science of Psychology was invented to supply +a reasonable and material explanation for the subtle and mystifying +phenomena of the human mind. +</P> + +<P> +That the conceivers of this science of Psychology have been successful +is attested by the many remarkable explanations given to account for +everyday manifestations of human and animal mentality. +</P> + +<P> +I will venture to say that this idea applies to all branches of modern +science as there seems to be no class of phenomena in the entire +universe, whether in the realm of chemistry, physics or psychology but +what can be clearly elucidated to the satisfaction of all scientists +with the aid of an adequate terminology. So, today your Science in +final analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling. +</P> + +<P> +It is true there are today in the ranks of your foremost investigators +and God-inspired men who are seeking Truth. Their names and their +achievements will be treasured by a grateful posterity, and it is to be +regretted that their declarations, based upon tireless investigation +and honest opinion, are derided by their fellow-workers in the Realm of +Truth. +</P> + +<P> +All your scientific theories are based upon certain postulates that in +time are out of agreement with observed facts, and you are compelled to +cast those postulates aside, adopt others and theorize anew. This +fruitless search for Truth must go on until a divergence is made from +the blind trail and the right path is found that will lead you to the +ultimate goal. +</P> + +<P> +Be not surprised, then, that the revelations in this book will meet +with the usual criticisms launched at every new idea of Truth that has +been given to your world from the time man first walked erect and +beheld the stars in the firmament of God. Error must and will dissolve +presently in the presence of Truth, which will abide with you for all +time. HELP HASTEN THE DAY OF THE LORD. +</P> + +<BR><BR><BR><BR> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants, by +Eros Urides and J. L. 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Kennon + +Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #563] +Posting Date: June, 1996 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS *** + + + + +Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + + + + + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + + +BY + +EROS URIDES + +(A MARTIAN) + + + + + DEDICATION + + To the millions of God's children on + this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom + the solicitude of the Father is now in + evidence, this book is dedicated. + + + May it be a beacon to light the way of + weary searchers after TRUTH. + + + +One hemisphere of Mars showing the North Polar Cap and the main Canal +System covering the planet. The many thousands of small lateral +canals, radiating from the larger waterways, and which form an +important part of the general plan, have been purposely omitted from +the above to avoid confusion. The circular spots and dots are the +principal reservoirs used for impounding water for use during the long +Martian summer. The dark areas shown in the drawing are Mars ancient +sea bottoms now covered with vegetation. It will be observed that most +of the canals are double, paralleling each other at a distance of about +seventy-five miles. Centers of population are not shown for the reason +that space is not available on so small a drawing. The City of Urid is +situated adjacent to the reservoir in the center of drawing, just north +of the equator. + + + + +CONTENTS + +Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, +introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. + +Chapter II.-He describes the Population Centers, Temperatures and +Climate. The whole Planet is gridironed with Canals. (See Diagram.) + +Chapter III.-He gives a full description of the marvelous Martian Canal +System. + +Chapter IV.-Planetary Economy. No Worries, and the Wants of all are +supplied by the Commonwealth. + +Chapter V.-Property and Property Rights. God, the Creator of it, is +considered the Owner of all Property. Material things to the Martians +are but Expedients. The Millions of Martians live as one great family, +though divided into families. And it is this solidarity and filial +consideration towards each other that made the stupendous Canal and +other Works possible. + +Chapter VI.-Trade and Barter are unknown. Transportation is by Flying +Ships, and Gravitational Pull has been overcome. Also, they use Cosmic +or Universal Energy. All Distribution is from immense Warehouses. + +Chapter VII.-A great many Clairvoyant Visions were seen by the +Shorthand Recorder, which make most interesting reading. + +Chapter VIII.-Knowledge of God comes from within. Selfishness has been +eliminated; and the Martians require no Policemen, Watchmen or other +Guardians of the Peace. Christ is known to the Martians as one of the +great Powers in the Universe. + +Chapter IX.-Mars has no Political System; yet it is controlled by the +very Acme of System. Each Individual of their vast population is +guided by "The Light Within" and by "LOVE." + +Chapter X.-Mars is ruled by LOVE, their only law. There is no Evil, +for all are Good; all are Equal. Truth is simple. The people of Mars +are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. +(This is a wonderful and most Inspiring chapter.) + +Chapter XI.-Education and Training of the Individual. They have a +Spoken and a Written Language; but Telepathy is often used. Set Rules +of Discipline are not required. There are References to Jupiter, +Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and the two Moons of Mars. + +Chapter XII.-Education and Training of the Individual (contd). +Vocational Determination. School Age. Marriage. Science and Domestic +Science. Relativity of Time, Space, Motion and Matter. All in the +whole Universe is ETERNAL MOTION. + +Chapter XIII.-Music is an Expression of the Father. "All around us is +a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE". About Music of the Spheres, and that +Singing is highly developed. + +Chapter XIV.-Aeronautics. Inhabited Planets. Sectarianism. No Sound, +no Discordant Vibrations disturb the Atmosphere of Mars. + +Chapter XV.-Life is an Attribute of the entire Universe. The Planet +Jupiter is enveloped in deep gloom and Darkness. Gives much +information. Vesta, an Asteroid, is about 500 miles in diameter. Says +that communications between Planets of our Solar System and our Earth +will soon be realized, and that the initial Message will be from Mars. +It will herald a New Era for the people of Earth, and will break down +our narrow-minded Theology. + +Chapter XVI.-The Risen Christ. All the Mars people have lived on other +Planets before, except your Earth. On Mars they live the Christ-Life +every day. 10,000 years ago the Mars people accepted Christ as their +Savior WITHOUT MURDER. + +Chapter XVII.-Physical Environment is the result of Spiritual Causes, +and is the Result of our Mental Attitude. + +Chapter XVIII.-Material Life is a Lesson, and is necessary for the +unfolding of Character. The Martians have mastered their Natural +Passions. + +Chapter XIX.-Eros gives a graphic Description of a Martian Home and +Surroundings, then shows how the Food is manipulated. It is brought +from a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is run +underground, thence up into the Dining room. The Soiled Dishes are run +down and off the same way. No Drudgery for the Housewife! + +Chapter XX.-"ART." The Martians have beautiful productions in Painting, +Sculpture and Tapestries, some of which depict the Scenes and Episodes +incident on Christ's Visit to Mars ten thousand years ago. + +Chapter XXI.-Eros Urides has a good deal to write on the subject of +"Scientific Sophistry," which has mostly to do with our Earth. + + + +FOREWORD + +It was Eros Urides, the real Martian behind the scenes, who dictated +the contents of this book through the medium to Mr. Kennon. It was +further stated that "The medium was held in trance for short periods +only, as the medium must necessarily experience the atmosphere of Mars +which is more rarified than that of your Earth." Writes also that the +medium seemed to have some difficulty, and at first pain in breathing +while in the trance condition. + +Mr. Kennon also wrote in his foreword of the original book that it was +not until January 4, 1920, it was decided to write the book in which +the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, +Industries, Philosophy of life, etc. would for the first time in the +history of this world be given. + +It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of +our Solar system, the planet Mars being one of those visited and +investigated. And, as a proof of this it was Jesus Christ who +functioned as chairman or presidentat the great Peace Conference held +in the vast coliseum on the first sphere of the Heavens of our Earth. +That was in the year 1912, as fully reported in "World of Tomorrow," +page 98. It was at that conference He stated that Universal Peace must +be speeded up, as there were other planets to be investigated: and that +the Earth stood in the way and was becoming a menace to neighboring +planets. + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + +Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your +sister planet. My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying "of +Urid"). But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life. + +In the Spirit world we are given a name in accordance with our +spiritual qualities and gifts and the kind of work we do. + +I came into material being as the fruit of the sacred union of my +parents. It is not necessary to say aught concerning their social +status, for on Mars all who unfold into a material expression of the +Father are equal. Equal in rank, station, and in possession of the +material fruits of earth. + +After my education had been completed I was, in accordance with the +Martian system of scientifically determining one's rightful vocation, +assigned as overseer to a section of one of the main canals supplying +water from the North Polar cap to an impounding reservoir near the city +of Urid, the place of my birth. + +I was in the 36th year (Martian reckoning) of my physical life on the +planet when my transition occurred, which event was the result of my +inability to observe, one night, warning signals sent out from a +central station advising the eve of a tremendous drop in temperature. +This occurred in the Martian autumn, and I succumbed to the intense +cold. I was not married, so I left no immediate family except my +parents, brothers and sisters. + +I have come to your Earth to give your inhabitants some idea of the +idealistic life lived by your more advanced brothers. I use the term +idealistic in a relative way only, for in God's universe the degrees of +material progress of His children are infinite in number. + +In giving this information to the inhabitants of your world I have been +assisted by the spirits of many former wise children of your Earth. + +The purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your +people is mainly to stimulate and hasten into material expression the +reign of God's kingdom on your Earth. + +Many will reject this information, but it is God's truth nevertheless. +But on the other hand, many of God's children now functioning on your +planet will accept the statements as true, and they will be helped and +encouraged in their hard struggle for material existence. This +struggle, unequal as it is, is the result of darkness engendered by the +loss of faith in God. + +Man's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present era of +darkness, was sublime. Man's attitude towards, and his confidence in +the promises of God was as the faith of a child to its parents, whom it +has always trusted. But selfishness has gained the upper hand, and is +now man's master on your Earth. To break the chains now binding man to +self is the purpose of God's holy emissaries, who have descended from +high spiritual spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out +of bondage. They will succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. It is +under their direction that I am now contributing my little part in this +movement. + +I am only too glad to have been able to give the information contained +in this book, and I also appreciate the assistance of all those on your +Earth plane who so willingly assisted; but of course we are all obeying +the Father's command. + +As life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material aspect of +all God's creations are the same. That is, life on another planet must +be thought of as being no different from what experience teaches you. + +All inspiration comes from the Father. Hence, the degree of a race's +advancement in point of civilization is in proportion to its spiritual +enfoldment. Therefore the material aspect of life, which includes +God's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, is the same on every +habitable globe in limitless space. + +In telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe that, from +a physical point of view, the Martians are just human beings, differing +little from the people of your Earth. + +The same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by all +of God's creatures. Martians work and have their recreations. They +enjoy the fruits of their earth just as you do the fruits of yours. +They have invented labor-saving machinery, and indulge in a multitude +of industrial pursuits, but with this difference: their economic system +is such that the life of the Martian is not the struggle for existence +you have created on your Earth. On the contrary it is a pleasurable +life in which work is as much enjoyed as is recreation. This condition +is due to two causes. First, Mars is much farther advanced as a world +in its evolutionary career. Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its +inhabitants is proportionately advanced. + +As the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical +characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, +the same, with the exceptions shown later in this book. + +The inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks and +dells, clouds, beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the physical +phenomena witnessed by the dwellers of your Earth. + +The Martians live and have their being just as your people do, but they +are surrounded by a different spiritual and a modified physical +environment. They take pleasure in music, art and the study of +physical science, but with this difference: the spiritual growth and +enfoldment of the individual is considered as most important, and all +material advancement as only an aid to ultimate ends. + +With main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend the real +Martian character, although it may be a disappointment to some who have +imagined the inhabitants of Mars as physically different from +themselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual entities, who have possibly +been transplanted from other worlds to undergo a sort of probationary +life amid a Paradise of beautiful surroundings and things. + + + +CHAPTER II. + +POPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE + +Although Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, its +diameter being 4,200 miles, it contains a larger area of habitable land +than the latter, its surface area being approximately 212,000,000 +square miles as against 51,000,000 miles for your Earth. Hence our +globe supports a larger population about 13,160,000,000 people. Your +population is in the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000. Your land area is +161,000,000 square miles less than the land area of Mars. This is for +the reason that your oceans occupy a vast surface of your Earth, and +Mars has no oceans, as these dried up ages ago. Consequently almost the +entire surface of our planet (with exception of some small areas +covered with swamps, remnants of ancient seas and oceans, and portions +of the extreme Northerly and Southerly Polar caps) is utilized by the +Martian inhabitants. + +Our planet is gridironed with canals, many hundreds of the main ones +being observable through your telescopes, and the art of intensive +farming is practised by us to a degree of perfection never dreamed of +by the dwellers of your Earth. + +Our winters, even in the Equatorial regions are severe, the +temperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below zero. +However, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and nearly twice as +long as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 days long. We grow +and mature many crops of necessary cereals, fruits and vegetables +during the spring and summer months, so that want is never felt by our +happy people. + +Our method of irrigation is somewhat different from that practised in +the arid portions of your Earth. We do not, except in a few instances, +flood our lands as you do. Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is +much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8 +pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth, +evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much +moisture being in the air, is very great. + +This heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and the +temperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although frost is +not uncommon even in summer. As our vegetation is acclimated and +adapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason +of these frosts. + +The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified +atmosphere. Neither have they abnormally developed lungs. God has +made ample provision for the comfort of His creatures throughout all of +His infinite creations, and we of Mars are not excepted from this +Fatherly care and love. + +Should an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to Mars he +could live but a few minutes, for the reason that his lungs could not +assimilate enough oxygen from our light atmosphere. + +Economy is a science with us. Nothing is wasted. Every possible +square inch of ground produces food for man or beast. Even the north +and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with +vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed. These +regions produce their quota of food by being utilized as pasturage for +our cattle. Immense amounts of forage are also gathered for the long +Martian winters, when a greater portion of either the north or south +hemisphere is covered with a mantle of snow. + +The equatorial regions are always pleasant. No severe wind storms are +experienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or other magnetic +disturbances such as you experience. + +As a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in peace, +Love and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our everyday +living, the climate is equable, the atmosphere clear and beautiful, the +sky serene and sapphire-blue: the severest winds but gentle zephyrs +wafted towards the equator from the more remote portions of our globe. +Cloudy skies are rare and rainstorms few. + +There is no lack of God's gifts on Mars. As intensive farming is a +necessity on our planet, plant food or fertilizing elements are +plentiful. One of the large white circular spots observed by your +astronomers, located in a region on Mars named by them Elysium, and +which has been a puzzle to all observers, is an immense deposit of +fertilizing chemicals. An immense well is located in this particular +spot which gushes forth a never-ending saline solution, highly +impregnated with sodium nitrate, potash and other salts. The country +for many miles around is covered with a white precipitate which has +been carried by the moist air and deposited on the Martian earth. +These chemical compounds are refined and used to replenish the soil +with plant food. + +There are 153,000 centers of population on Mars, but these centers are +not congested cities similar to those on your Earth. Every individual +has plenty of room to thrive and develop the best within him. + +Our cities are not crowded and our buildings are beautiful in their +simplicity: large and roomy, with an abundance of sunlight and ample +ventilation. White marble and metals are employed for building +purposes. + +The inhabitants congregate in centers and, owing to our more perfect +methods of transportation, go forth daily to their tasks in field or +factory, to return at the end of their allotted period to home and +fireside. + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE MARTIAN CANAL SYSTEM + +The Canal system on Mars is comparatively new. The idea of +constructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the time of +Christ's visit to our planet. The Master warned the people that they +must make provision for their future water supply. At that time +(10,000 years ago) the water supply was becoming noticeably scarcer as +time went on. It was nearly 3,000 years after the Master's mission to +Mars had been concluded that actual construction of the Planetary Canal +system was undertaken; and during the intervening 7,000 years and up to +the present time, construction on the public waterways has continued. + +At the present day the system is most complete, but constant work is +required to keep the canals in working order. In addition to the +gigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable reservoirs +to impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the poles. To this +end immense reservoirs were constructed at most canal intersections. +In some instances the reservoirs are established between parallel +canals; but in every case smaller canals, or laterals, always intersect +at these points. + +Many of the canals on Mars are double, as they appear to your +astronomers. These double waterways parallel each other at a distance +of about 75 miles. The reason for this is that as the Martian +population is absolutely dependent upon the Polar waters to irrigate +their crops, any accident to a canal, such as a landslide stopping the +regular flow of water or the breaking of a lock or gate, would mean a +very serious calamity to a great number of people. And for that +reason, soon after the main canals were constructed, second and +parallel waterways were made for the purpose of guaranteeing an +uninterrupted flow of water from the Poles to the Equatorial regions. +The result of this was that on many occasions the foresight of the +Martian engineers who had the water supply of the planet in charge, +saved immense areas from drought. + +The rainfall on Mars is almost nil and the immense population (eight +times larger than that of your Earth) is entirely dependent on the +water supply from the melting Polar caps. Water on Mars is a most +precious fluid and there is none to waste. Our oceans evaporated ages +ago, and outside of the precipitation of moisture at the poles in the +form of snow, none is to be had anywhere else on the planet except in +very meager quantities. + +The astronomer Lowell of your Earth, who made a life study of our +planet, called these reservoirs "Oases," but he was mistaken in his +theory. He concluded that these points, which appear as round disks in +the telescope, were centers of population. This conclusion is +erroneous. The centers of population on Mars are scattered over the +entire planet regardless of the position of the so-called "Oases." It +is quite true that owing to the rapid evaporation of water in the +comparatively thin atmosphere of Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius +from the center of the reservoirs is considerable, with the result that +vegetation springs up, giving the "Oases" the appearance of a diameter +of about 75 miles. The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and hold +millions of gallons of water. + +The same explanation may be given of the Canals. The dewfall on each +side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length +of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most +prolific. + +The water in the canals, in most instances, is distributed by gravity; +but recourse is had to a lock system and to immense pumps for raising +the water to proper levels. + +The gates of the lock system and the pumps are operated by electricity, +the control of which energy is well understood by us. In fact, we are +centuries ahead of your Earth people in the knowledge of the use of +Electro-magnetic energy. (More will be given on the subject of +Electricity in a later chapter.) + +Another source of mystery to your astronomers has been the appearance +of triangular dark spots at the origin of some of the Martian canals. +These have been referred to by your astronomer Lowell as "Carets," +named so by reason of their peculiar shape. These so-called "Carets" +are the thoughtful provision for the impounding of a season's supply of +water. In other words they are in part a lock system for raising water +to the level of some of the main canals, and embrace also a prodigious +pumping system. + +These so-called "Carets," as the telescope will show, are located at +the edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on our +planet. These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in many +instances have been utilized by our engineers as natural reservoirs for +water. Their convenient location near the Poles has provided ideal +facilities for the preservation of an adequate supply of water. + +The construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in its +extent, might seem to your Earth people an impossible task. And it +might prove so to your Earth dwellers should you undertake a similar +project in the ages to come when your seas dry up, though it must be +remembered that gravity on Mars, compared with your Earth, is as 38 to +100. Excavations of large waterways then becomes a comparatively easy +task. We have no high mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000 +feet in altitude. + +Owing to the difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars is +nearly acute as against 45 degrees on your Earth, which permits of +almost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens the danger of +landslides and cave-ins. But above all, the biggest advantage enjoyed +by us in the construction of large public enterprises, such as are +embraced by our Canal system, is the solidarity and unity of purpose on +the part of the Martian people. As Love rules our planet no internal +dissension or public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard +any undertaking that is necessary for the good of all. + +It is lamentable that the dwellers on your Earth are divided against +one another. Not only are your false ideals of racial, sociological +and religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual and material +progress, but your political and economic falsities are as millstones +around your necks, which will ultimately lead you to destruction unless +you, as a people, retrace your steps and go back to the pathway pointed +out by Christ the Master 2,000 years ago, when He came to your Earth +with a message from the Most High. The pathway is LOVE which leads to +a true understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ. + +The Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in almost all +cases, follow straight lines. When necessary, mountains have been cut +through down to a proper level. Where the canals cross depressions or +old sea-bottoms, immense aqueducts have been constructed of solid stone +and concrete in such a manner that the water, in most cases, flows to +its destination by gravity. + +That this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined when +it is known that the width of the main canals averages from one to +twenty miles. This announcement might seem to many unreasonable, but +it must be remembered that the volume of water distributed over +212,000,000 square miles of territory is immense. You might ask where +this large volume of water comes from. + +The POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down nearly to +the equator, and cover about five-sevenths of the planet's surface when +at maximum; and as the snowfall averages from six inches at the edge of +the caps to 50 feet at and near the actual Poles, some idea may be +gained of the amount of moisture taken care of by these artificial +waterways. Ten feet of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there +exists on Mars an ample supply for all purposes. + +(NOTE--The question as to why many of the canals germinate has been a +perplexing one to our astronomers. Lowell observed that many of the +main canals germinated a short time after the commencement of the +Martian summer, and for a time it was thought that the phenomena might +be an optical illusion, and the latter theory was considered seriously +by some observers until the double canals were actually photographed at +the Flagstaff observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never +solved until the receipt of these revelations.) + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +PLANETARY ECONOMY + +Economy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars. On your Earth +you waste more than you use, not only in food but in the fruits of the +Earth. You are using up your resources at a tremendous rate, and some +day you must pay the penalty. Witness the wanton destruction of your +beautiful forests, the depletion of your coal beds and crude oil +deposits. All this waste is the result of lack of Spiritual guidance; +a gross materialism: an inordinate selfish greed. Instead of laying up +Spiritual treasures you are worshiping at the altar of Mamon. +Ultimately you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass--an +illusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction. + +With the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be in +harmony with the Creator, to develop spiritually and build for +Eternity. On Mars each one strives to live for his brother to the end +that all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a physical being. +Commercialism with us is unknown, for no one works for profit. The +products of the toil of all the inhabitants are for the public larder +and other necessities and even luxuries. + +As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism, +sweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and the +long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on your Earth +are unknown on our planet. + +No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no place in +the Martian mind. The wants of all are supplied by the Commonwealth, +and each one contributes his best efforts to the common good, and in +return each individual is supplied his every want. This is in +accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and +His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." + + + +CHAPTER V. + +PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS + +On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its Creator, +who provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His creatures. No +individual lays claim to property in the sense that you Earth dwellers +do. + +Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, +but only for a season. Man comes into material being to express life +and acquire an individuality, after which he passes out of material +bondage, when his place is taken by another. + +At man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing else. If +the things he has striven for during his material life have been but +chimeras: the material things of life: the fruits of the Earth, then in +that case he will find himself poor indeed. The only real wealth, the +only thing worth striving for, is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom. +And with us Martians a knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought +for. Hence all material things to the Martian are but expedients, soon +to be forgotten. + +Material wealth is an abstraction. Its usual evidence is the +possession of property, which may be money, land, goods or chattels, as +the case may be. In final analysis this concrete evidence of wealth is +not real. + +Money is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the +possessor to so much human effort, for the real value behind money, +after all, is but so much human energy or force, varying according to +its quality and its worth. + +Other forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the result of +human endeavor and may be secured by the exchange of money, or it may +be produced by the owner. + +Wealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the benefit +of all humankind, and not for the individual, is the so-called +right-secured by barter, exchange or inheritance, to use or withhold +from use, at the caprice of the owner--of a certain piece or portion of +the planet. Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the +center of the Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction! + +The text: "Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" has a +deep significance to one who has come into a knowledge of Truth. +Drones have no place in the Divine Plan. It is not only essential but +mandatory, that each one do his part for the common good. The +non-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the vagabond who +neither toils nor spins. The Biblical test concerning the difficulty +of the rich man getting into Heaven means that it is impossible for a +drone or parasite to get into harmony with God. + +The possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the possession of +wealth is a corollary to selfishness. He who is unselfish will spurn +wealth. The individual who accumulates beyond his needs sins against +Heaven when he locks up his goods in strong boxes. The act of hoarding +deprives some creature of his just portion, for God has planned there +should be sufficient for all who make the effort, and a system that +permits an unequal distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the +Divine Plan, and doubly pernicious is a church organization that +permits it. + +Only after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the people of +your Earth will surcease come to the suffering millions on your planet. + +Happiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the former +is impossible unless the latter is eliminated from your world, for only +real happiness comes after complete surrender to God. Surrender to God +means subordination to His will. His will on Earth must be done as it +is in Heaven. All must be self-conscious of this. If God's will was +adhered to on your Earth what a different place it would be! Instead of +a shambles it would be a paradise, the brotherhood of man and the +Fatherhood of God a fact instead of the dream of a few. + +God loves all His creatures, both evolutionary and non-evolutionary. +His love is infinite in extent. We are all His children. Everything +has been provided for us. It is only man's selfishness that deprives +any creature of his just dues. Man suffers want on account of his lack +of faith in God! Before man lost his faith in God he walked and +communed with angels. He could do it now if he would but listen to the +Voice Within--if he would only open his heart to Christ, for help is +ready whenever one asks for it in sincerity and faith. + +One of the sources of great injustice to the majority of the +inhabitants of your Earth is the belief in the dogma of Divine Right. +This dogma includes not only the absurdity of the Divine Right of +kings, but the Divine Right to the ownership of goods and land through +the Creator's favoritism for a few. + +This dogma is the mother of untold misery and suffering. Out of this +ungodly theory has evolved your shameful caste system; your shameful +economic ideas. + +Your ancient feudal system of government has been but little improved +upon today over its primitive status, for you still draw well-defined +lines of class distinction between God's children--lines of demarcation +based on wealth and natal origin. With your inhabitants, communal +standing and social distinction is proportionate to the wealth of the +possessor or to the wealth or social standing of ancestors. + +The monstrous heresy of Divine Right is an invention of the powers of +darkness and must be eliminated from your world root and branch before +your progress forward is assured. God plays no favorites. His love is +showered upon all alike. His gifts are for all His children. It was +never the Divine intent that a favored few should bask in the sunshine +of His grace while the majority suffered want and deprivation. These +false ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom +now overshadowing your Earth. + +Spiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth. In primitive +times--ages ago--eras whose history has been lost to you, man on your +Earth was in harmony with his Creator. This was in the Golden Age when +man and the angels of God walked hand in hand; when man communed with +God, and when the Christ spirit was abiding in the hearts of the +people. In this age man was spiritually developed to a degree almost +unbelievable by you. + +Then the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser self), +and through the workings of the law of Atavism man degenerated almost +to the level of his animal prototype. + +This incident in your world's history is the source of the legend of +the "Fall of Man" in the "Garden of Eden." Man disobeyed God by +listening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish desires. He +slew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he abandoned himself to +selfish ends and took advantage of his fellowman. He has been guilty +of that sin ever since. IT IS NOW INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS +SELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE +FATHER'S KINGDOM. + +No fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the +millions of homes on Mars. No lines of demarcation divide one plot of +land from another. The millions of beautiful homes--beautiful in their +simplicity, for over-ornamentation such as the dwellers of your Earth +practise, is not tolerated on our planet--belong to the Commonwealth. +The same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only. + +The same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. Should a +Martian have use for a flying machine, also used by another, or other +kind of property for personal use, he does not ask the use of same in +the spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow from one another. Use of +the needed article is requested with the idea that it belongs to the +community: that all material possessions are the common property of the +entire race. + +THE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY. IT IS THIS SOLIDARITY, +THIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS FOR THE OTHER THAT HAS MADE +THE STUPENDOUS AND GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS ON MARS POSSIBLE. + +In the absence of a universal unity of purpose intelligent life on Mars +would have become extinct centuries ago, when the last remnants of its +oceans and seas dried up and a planetary irrigation system became +necessary in order to utilize the frozen Polar moisture. + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES + +Barter and trade are unknown on Mars. The entire race of Martians is +cooperative, and the production of all necessities is based on the +needs of the Commonwealth. + +Specialization in different branches of industrial activity is +centralized, as is the case of your Earth. That is, some particular +parts of the planet, owing to climatic and other conditions, are better +adapted for the production of some special kind of raw material used in +the manufacture of clothes or other necessities of life, or the +production of some particular foodstuff. But in every case the +incentive for industrial activity is not material profit. On the +contrary the real incentive is compliance with the Father's will. + +Transportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by the +control of gravitational attraction. These vehicles of the air, beside +your crude affairs[1] are most perfect, and the amount of freight +carried is unlimited, for the reason that the gravitational attraction +of the cargo is nullified as well as that of the ship. (A more +extended explanation concerning this matter is given in another section +of this book.) Another motive power used is Cosmic, or Universal +Energy. (We shall refer to this later.) + +Immense warehouses and depots are scattered throughout the entire +planet. These are centers of distribution. These warehouses are +filled with what all the people of the entire planet need in the way of +food, clothing and other necessities of life. These depots are in +charge of trained and competent workers who attend to the issuance and +distribution of all commodities. + +When a Martian is in need of any particular commodity he makes +application to have his want supplied to the depot nearest to his +habitation. He immediately receives the needed article. If the +quantity and nature of his requisition is too large for him to carry +personally, the same is delivered at his domicile by the Commonwealth's +Transportation Department. + + +[1] NOTE--Yes, 35 years ago, but not today, 1955. + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +CLAIRVOYANT VISIONS OF MARS + +In connection with the revelation contained in this book concerning the +physical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of this volume, as well +also as the medium, was given much information concerning this advanced +planet by means of clairvoyant visions. These pictures were given the +writer at different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing +until the book was finished. + +As has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental in +giving the information about Mars, the purpose of these clairvoyant +pictures was to give the compiler of this book real visual evidence as +to life on Mars; and in particular, real pictures setting forth its +topography, which could be elucidated in no other way. + +Written descriptions of scenery and of human activities necessarily +fall short of the reality, especially when an attempt is made to record +a series of events or a point of view outside the realm of our +experience. + +The first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the most +important one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, one of the +most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. + +It was while lying in bed one morning the writer was contemplating the +many messages being received from the Martian, who is the dictator of +the subject matter of this book, that he found himself at a strange +place, suspended as it were in the air over a beautiful lake of blue +water, whose surface was broken by gentle ripples, due to the soft, +balmy breeze blowing over the surface of the water. The writer was +facing what seemed to be a westerly direction; and at a distance of +about five miles there arose a series of small mountains about 2,500 +feet in altitude. These mountains skirted the shores of the lake. The +sky was a beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our +own desert lands. The mountains were tinted red from base to top, +except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a +vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red +of the soil. Two white clouds floated majestically near the peaks of +the highest mountains. + +The atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to stand +out in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by dwellers on our +Earth except in extremely dry and arid regions. + +On top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill at the +base of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 feet from the +shore line, I was startled to see a large city. The thousands of +closely nestling buildings seemed to be built of white stone. The +writer was lost in admiration, for there in front of him the pure white +of the city, contrasting so vividly with the red soil of this faraway +planet, stood the habitations of an advanced race many millions of +miles removed from my own world. + +The writer was impressed with the fact that, with but few exceptions, +the buildings of gleaming white were all one story in height, and it +became instantly evident that crowding is not tolerated by the +inhabitants of this progressive planet. A few structures towered above +the rest. These, as the writer was informed later, were the public +buildings dedicated to the use of the people as lecture halls, centers +for music and art, etc. + +On a subsequent occasion the writer was shown a close-up view of Urid. +Flowers, grass and green foliage abounded everywhere. The long streets +were broad and well paved, and flanked on two sides with long rows of +one-storied buildings of white stone, beautiful in their simplicity. +No extreme ornamentation is carried out in the erection of buildings on +Mars. On the contrary, the simple square outlines characteristic of +our own Old Mission architecture seems to prevail on the planet Mars. +The same simple style prevails with the public buildings, except that +massive stone columns marked the portals of same, reminding one of our +own early Grecian architecture. + +Many palm-like trees grew all over the city, especially in the +neighborhood of the public buildings. + +A week after the occurrence of the above incident the writer was shown, +in the same manner as before, one of the many canals that gridiron the +Martian globe. This particular canal is one of the main waterways on +Mars, and appeared to be about a mile wide at the point of observation. +The water was of a deep blue color, denoting great depth. Along the +banks of this waterway could be seen many houseboats or floating +dwellings. Some of these houseboats were very large and evidently +housed large families. The writer was informed that many Martians who +have charge of the waterways dwell in these habitations. + +The banks above the canal were covered with green grass and many +flowers. + +On subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, and +the manner in which some of the canals were cut through the mountains. +In some instances the walls of the canals were almost perpendicular. +Steep cuts, even in soft ground, seemed to be characteristic of all the +waterways observed by the writer. + +On another occasion the writer was given a view of the North Polar +regions. At that time the deep snows that covered the ground +everywhere were melting. The country seemed to be very hilly. As far +as the eye could reach I observed low-lying hills covered with a white +mantle of snow. Patches of reddish earth here and there indicated that +the thaw was general and that the snow had thinned out in spots. +Between the hills I observed a large body of water, and was informed +that this was an artificial reservoir which had been created by the +damming of a large valley. The sky on this occasion was hidden by a +mist, a very natural phenomenon in view of the fact that many thousands +of square miles of the country, covered with snow on this part of Mars, +was undergoing a rapid thaw. + +That the large dark-colored areas on Mars, supposed by early observers +to be seas, are nothing more or less than low, swampy land covered with +rank vegetation, was evidenced to me on one occasion when I was +permitted to see the true character of these portions of the planet. + +The rank vegetation was about three feet high and of a greenish red +color. Interspersed throughout the mass of coarse-leafed plants were +high, dry stalks the remnants of an earlier crop of Martian flora. The +season seemed to be advanced and all plant life was taking on autumnal +tints. + +It was in December 1919 that I saw the first close-up picture of a +Martian--a woman. Her head was covered with a thin veil which came +down to her well-formed mouth. She seemed to be a most beautiful woman +with most expressive eyes. Her hair was black. Her skin was unusually +white, which contrasted with the dark hair. She wore no jewelry, or +other ornaments that I could see. + +On a subsequent occasion I was permitted to see a Martian male. He was +playing a flutelike instrument, and as he was quite close to me I could +observe the wax-like texture of his skin. This semi-transparency of +the skin is characteristic of the Martians, and evidences a life that +is free from the many bodily ailments that afflict humanity on our +Earth. The Martian was dressed in graceful but loose-fitting clothes +of a reddish-brown color. His eyes were a deep blue and his lips +seemed to be unusually red. In respect to stature he was, I would say, +about five feet nine inches in height. In fact, on subsequent +occasions I have observed crowds of Martians gathered together and they +appeared no different from the inhabitants of our own world except as +to clothing, which is much simpler, but more graceful than our styles. + +I was informed by the spiritual control that the fauna of Mars is +varied, but that all animal life is domesticated, there being now no +wild animals on the planet. + +It was shortly after I had seen the Martians, described in the +foregoing paragraph, that I was shown two cat-like animals, which at +the time of my vision were engaged in playing about the feet of a +Martian. They did not exactly resemble cats, but were more feline than +canine. They were about the size of a large Airedale, and of a dark, +reddish-brown color with deep black stripes, similar to the markings of +our tigers. They were very playful and cavorted about just as our own +dogs and cats do when endeavoring to attract the attention of their +masters. + +On the morning of January 20, 1920, I was shown another Martian canal. +On this occasion I observed a large building on the banks of the +waterway near my point of vision. This building was more of a +grandstand with a roof than anything else I can compare it to. It +consisted of a large framework painted white, and was as high as our +two-storied structures. A multitude of the people were inside the +building, some sitting, some standing. They all seemed to be intently +gazing in a Northerly direction, up-stream. + +Much green foliage and varied-colored flowers lined the banks of the +canal, especially in the neighborhood of the building. The people all +seemed to be attired in holiday garb, and it was evident to me that a +celebration was going on. + +Later I was informed that what I had witnessed was an annual +celebration observed by the people of Mars on the occasion of arrival +of the first water from the North Pole after commencement of the +Martian Spring. It appears that this occasion is a very important +event with the Martians, as the arrival of the life-giving moisture +from the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the planet insures a season of +plenty for the inhabitants. The water arrives at the equatorial +regions in a little less than a Martian month (60 days) after the +commencement of the Polar thaws and after a season of thanksgiving to +the Father has been held by all in appreciation of His bountiful gifts. +The Spiritual leaders of the different communities preside at these +gatherings. + +The foregoing is in remarkable agreement with a statement on page 375 +of the late Professor Lowell's book titled "MARS," as follows. + +"The Canal quickening on Mars occupied 52 days, as evidenced by the +successive vegetal darkenings which descend from latitude 72 degrees +North and latitude 0, a journey of 2,650 miles. The rate of +progression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is carried +from near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale of extrinsic +aid, and the uniformity of the action increases its significance." + +On the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting Martian +scene, which was almost identical with the previous vision of the +Arctic regions of this planet, except that the warm season was more +advanced, and I was permitted to see the country from another angle. I +was facing East. Most of the Polar snow had disappeared, and the +low-lying hills were now covered with a growth of dark green +vegetation, except at a few isolated points which showed small patches +of snow. The sky was less misty than on the previous occasion. + +On the evening of January 21 I was shown a flock of Martian sheep. The +herd was small and I observed five of the animals at close range. I +call them sheep for the reason that the animals resembled our sheep in +every particular. The wool was very long and of a dark reddish-brown +color, except underneath their bellies which was yellowish. + +On the evening of January 29 I had a vision of a beautiful woman with a +child kneeling at her feet. She was seated on a chair and held a book +on her lap. The symbolism of the vision was later explained to me by +the controls, who said: "Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not +receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter +therein." God's truths are perceived only by those who can acquire the +simple faith of a child. + +It was about the same time I had a vision in which I saw Sergius for +the first time distinctly. He is the principal control dominating the +writing of this book. He appeared very patriarchal with a long beard. +His features were decidedly semitic. His countenance was most +spiritual and beautiful. + +On February 10 I had my first vision of Mars' two moons, known to our +astronomers as Diemos and Phobos. The latter appeared as a satellite +about half as large as our full moon, and the former like a star +brighter than the first magnitude, and could be compared with Jupiter +as seen from our Earth during a favorable opposition of that planet. +The latter satellite sheds considerable light on her primary. An +interesting explanation of these two moons will be found in a later +chapter of this book. + +On February 17 I was shown the actual appearance of our sun from the +planet Mars. What I saw disproves the theory that owing to the +distance of Mars from the sun the latter would be viewed by the +Martians as a disk about half the size as seen from our Earth. The +Solar Orb appeared as to size and brightness, about the same as viewed +from our Earth, and seemed to give forth its heat with the same +intensity. I was facing the sun and its brilliance blinded my eyes for +an instant. + +On the evening of February 29 I had a vision of a strange looking +creature ape-like in appearance. The form was about five feet tall, +very hairy, his body being covered with a thick coat of woolly hair of +a grayish color. He was smoking what appeared to be a cigar-like roll +of something, probably some sort of leaves rolled up into a convenient +form for smoking. On the tips of his pointed ears were little tufts of +long hair, which gave his head a lynx-like appearance. There were +quite a number of large yellow spots on his hairy chest. His nose was +very stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike. + +I was later informed that I had seen an inhabitant of the planet +Mercury, where life has not yet evolved to a very high degree, and +where man has not yet wholly emerged from his primary beast-like state. + +Concerning the flora of Mars I have on various occasions viewed +orchards of growing fruit trees. The trees were set out in rows +similar to the methods adopted in our own orchards. The trees were +dwarf-like, being not over five or six feet high. I was informed that +this particular species of tree was cultivated for its fruit and for +the fiber obtained from its large leaves, which is made into cloth, +thread and cordage. + +On one occasion a short time after the chapter dealing with the +transmission of Electro-magnetic energy by wireless was received, I was +shown two immense towers on the planet Mars which are used for the +purpose of distributing power throughout the planet. The two towers +were very close together, probably 100 yards apart and 100 feet high. +They resembled two immense round smoke-stacks, such as are common in +our factory districts. The tops of the towers were surmounted by oval +caps, transparent as if made from glass, and protected by a system of +grill work. While I was intently observing the towers there occurred a +blinding flash of light simultaneously from the two oval caps. + +The surrounding country was covered with high trees, and it was +impossible for me to observe the base of the two structures. + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +KNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES FROM WITHIN + +Mars, with its teeming millions of inhabitants, whose dwellings, +factories, storehouses, etc. cover most of the entire area, has no +watchmen, policemen or other guardians of the peace to prevent unlawful +acts on the part of its people. + +As all property is considered as belonging to the Father, and is held +in common by the people of the planet, there exists no incentive for +anyone to steal. Each individual has all he requires for his comfort. +Hence, why should anyone covet what is in the possession of his brother? + +There is no temptation on Mars for anyone to take more than he needs, +for selfishness has been entirely eliminated from our planet. +Selfishness has no place among really civilized beings. It is a relic +of the jungle where it is necessary to perpetuate the lower animal life. + +You of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial +condition or state through the law of Atavism. This is a part of your +fall from Divine Grace. And to induce man on your globe to realize his +pitiful condition and redeem himself is the work of the Spirits from +the higher Spheres who are now with you. + +Mars has no Church system and no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. All +Martians recognize and worship one God, the Eternal Father. Each +individual is taught from infancy to seek God through the doors of his +own soul, which is an institutional faculty possessed by everyone. + +Jesus Christ, who came to your Earth 2,000 years ago with a message, is +known to us. The Christ is one of the greatest powers in the +Universe--next to the Creator. + +Your sectarian church systems are a hindrance to the proper spiritual +development of the individual. These systems engender an element of +dependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual +enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and +unfold before real progress upwards begins. + +All knowledge of God should come from within and not through the +instrumentality of imperfect individuals, such as your religious +teachers are. + +The present lack of interest (in 1920) in sectarian matters on the part +of the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow but sure +disintegration of a system that has held your people in mental and +spiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn of a better day +for humanity on your Earth. + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +MARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM + +When Love rules a community of people there is no need of +administrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the +inhabitants who make up the population of a planet. For the same +reason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative center. + +This announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many +readers who have imagined that no considerable number of human beings +could live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a complex +administrative system such as you have on your Earth. + +Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped +civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has +been eliminated. + +When each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, is +actuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a horde of +political parasites to direct the destinies of the race. + +This lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to its +industrial and economic side. The law of supply and demand determines +just how many factories there should be, and just what output is +necessary for a given period. But it must be remembered that the law +of supply and demand on our planet has no relation to a competitive +system such as yours, for we have no competitor, a fact that will be +impressed elsewhere in this book. + +It is true that certain of our people who have been specially singled +out by the dominating influence of the Invisible World are occasionally +appealed to by those in doubt as to what is best for their individual +welfare, or the welfare of the community at large, to act in advisory +capacities. These are the Spiritual Advisers of the planet, and are +really God's prophets. There was a time when your race was guided by +similar individuals, as is evidenced from mention of them in your +sacred Scriptures. But their usefulness was lost when man on your +Earth forgot God. + +It was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded the +unwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator. He clamored for a +Code of Laws and received them (through Moses). His next downward step +was taken when he admitted it was necessary to have interpreters of the +Law: for if the spirit of the Law had been kept there would have been +no misunderstanding or juggling of the letter. + +Soon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's +growing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority over +all the interpreters, whose word should be final. So your people cried +aloud for Kings. And you have them, and your law has grown to immense +proportions, as have also the clever sins of your selfishness. WHERE +THERE IS NO SIN THERE IS NO NEED OF LAWS; FOR THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A +LAW UNTO HIMSELF. + +It must not be imagined that because of the lack of a political system +on Mars, such as you deem necessary on your Earth, that all is chaos +and life a sort of happy-go-lucky existence. On the contrary, the +Martian existence is controlled by the acme of system, which is in +accordance with the law of Divine Harmony. A system from which has +been eliminated all the useless wheels which so clog up your lives and +make your progress slow indeed. + + + +CHAPTER X. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE + +"And now abideth Faith, Hope and Love: these three; but the greatest of +these is LOVE." Paul to the Corinthians. + +THERE IS BUT ONE LAW ON MARS. THAT LAW IS LOVE. + +This law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people. + +It is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected in the +countenance of every individual. + +This law is the incentive before the entire population and urges each +individual onward to the completion of the task before him. + +There are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than his +brother. There is no evil, for all are good: all are equal. God endows +every individual expression of life with the Divine Heritage of a pure +soul. It is the individual's concern to keep this heavenly gift +unstained in its descent into matter. The love force of the Spirit is +the potent agent that does this for the individual when allowed to +permeate and radiate the entire being. When individuals have learned +to bathe their innermost beings in the Father's love, then it must +follow that a nation made up of such individuals will be governed only +by such precepts as are evolved from this dominating Love-force. + +It is of no import to the individual on this planet what his particular +task may be, for all work is for the Father; and the humblest vocation +(humbler from the point of view of the dwellers on your Earth) is as +important and as honorable as the highest. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE, which is in accordance with the Divine Intent. +It is the desire of the Father that every world in limitless space +inhabited by His children be ruled by that Divine Principle. For when +Love is the supreme law of a world, as it is of the Universe, there is +no need of a system of complex laws and a horde of judicial officers to +interpret and enforce them. + +When Love enters into the life of a community selfishness makes its +exit: misery becomes a stranger and pain and sickness vanish. + +From the cradle to transition the Martian is dominated by Love and +guided by the Father's will. The result of this Love-rule is +individual and communal happiness. But above all, a Spiritual progress +that unfolds the individual in accordance with the Cosmic Intent. + +To die, in the sense of passing out of one's physical environment, is +the destiny of every created being. Hence, in that sense, death exists +on Mars as it does on your Earth. But the real death referred to by +Christ: a Spiritual death imposed on man by his fall from Grace, a +penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. We +are in harmony with the Father. Those who are spiritually dead are cut +off from the Father as a result of their indifference and ignorance of +Spiritual Truth. + +The religion of the Martian may be expressed in two thoughts: "LOVE" +and "THY WILL BE DONE, NOT MINE." The true definition of Religion is a +"RULE OF LIFE," and as our lives are guided entirely by Love and the +Father's Will. WE HAVE A RELIGION. + +You, on your Earth, have created a Religion to satisfy your +conventionalities. Truth is simple, but you have made it intricate. +It is free, yet you buy it from the would-be disciples. Both you and +we must approach Him in simple faith: "Unless ye become as little +children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." + +Speaking of children, I desire to give expression to a thought that may +appear to be outside the subject: it is this: The beauty and simplicity +of youth is wonderful, and to be admired by all: but in the sight of +the Heavenly Father, and those who have progressed to higher realms, it +is not so wonderful as those older characters who have waded the +marshes of life, as it were, and who have trod the dirty steps without +losing faith. + +This is to encourage those who sometimes think when they look back on +their lives that all is dark. Their strength is being tried in the +darkness. Therefore their courage and faith is so much more. + +We who are giving you these messages have passed beyond the stage you +are in, and do not have to be tried on every hand. We look upon you +who are struggling through the pitfalls created by your false systems +with pity, knowing how great your trials are. Do not think that +because we have gone on to higher planes of life that we are out of +sympathy with you. The more we bask in the sunshine of Love the more +tender we become to those in the shadow. And if you would only realize +how strong you are, with the Father's love and His real consideration +for you, you would try so much harder to better your condition by +meeting His Love with Love. + +We of Mars have learnt to keep the right pictures before the minds of +our youth that they may not be so sorely tried, but on your planet you +have not even the beginning of a system whereby there could be kept +continually before the minds of your children the real goal to be +striven for. I make exception of the few homes on your planet where +the parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not +ideal--just a beginning of Idealism. But they are better far than the +masses in their home conditions on your planet. + +Now, we are ready to do all we can towards stimulating the living of +the Christ-life among all souls in the Universe when it can be so +arranged: but it will take aeons of time on some planets, and many +decades on yours before we can scientifically teach you. To be sure, +we are giving you all we can for this book, but it will not be +universally accepted, although it will bring great joy to those who +have faith. + +If you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the wonderful +happiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness of your own +life. Picture beautiful things and your heart must be beautiful. +Strive with all your mind to hold beautiful thoughts, for it is well +worth your every effort towards faith. + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL + +The people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so +filled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to the +high development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost as audible +as words. Hence, converse between individuals on our planet is not +altogether a series of vocal ejaculations. On the contrary, among the +older members of the race, communication between individuals is in some +cases audibly imperceptible. + +Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information +is usually transmitted impressionally. + +Education on Mars begins at the mother's knee. The first knowledge +imparted to the young is Spiritual. The first lessons given to the +child are: One's absolute dependence on God, and that the few years +before the individual are but an unfoldment, or an individualizing of +the entity into a separate and distinct unit. + +The Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps these +truths. This procedure continues until the pupil is ready to enter an +institution of learning. + +THE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A +PLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE. THE PARENTS ARE THE +FIRST TEACHERS. + +The primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on the +necessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and righteousness in +order that the mind of the individual be so moulded and fashioned that +absolute faith is placed in God's promises through the Master, Christ. + +The keynote to the education of the individual is that one must first +seek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, which is the +Divine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and that coming into a +knowledge of God means health, happiness and wisdom. + +After the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which result in +an unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to a school; but a +school system different from anything you have on your Earth. The task +of the teacher is, not to teach knowledge but to assist in bringing out +what is already latent in the soul, rather than a set routine, for +every individual is considered a master in some line of thought and +activity. The pupil is led into knowledge instead of being taught +directly. + +The individual is left to his own tastes and volition. The harmony of +music of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics and of Life, +together with a knowledge of the laws of Electricity, is especially +brought to the attention of the individual. You of the Earth know as +yet very little concerning the true nature of Electricity. Your +methods of handling and generating this wonderful force are crude +indeed, by comparison with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the +subject. + +And so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we of +Mars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to hear and +see many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not exist at all for +you. Of course there are some exceptions among the few of your Earth +who, after having striven hard for light have been favored by God's +angels in the development of a higher Spirituality. + +Our teachers are guides who look after their charges in an atmosphere +of Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth are acquired by +the pupil. + +Thought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian children +are never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth. As a consequence +of this they are easily led into true knowledge, and having a broad +vision are able to see all things in their true relations. They begin +at the cause and work towards the effect, which is the opposite of your +system. + +No set rules of discipline are used in the schools. Indeed they are +not necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one goal impressed +on the mind of the pupil is the complete expression of the Father +Within, for to express the Father is to have perfect life, life in +abundance. + +Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and +learned by the child in the early part of his career. + +Astronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an +understanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite +Universe of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of Mars, +unusual opportunity is presented to students in visual observations of +the Heavens. + +Entire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher +guides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's Heavens is +ablaze with scintillating points of light. The different +constellations as viewed from our planet present the same general +appearance as to configuration as they do to the dwellers on your +Earth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by reason of a more +advantageous viewpoint. + +The so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of the +larger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars than to +Earth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from this vantage +point. Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily seen with the +naked eye. + +Your Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with our +observing instruments we are able to see your continent and oceans when +not covered by a cloud canopy. + +As to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the former +presents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, but being so +near the sun it is only visible an hour before or after sunset, +depending upon its position. But Mercury, being so near the Solar Orb, +it is rarely its position is favorable for observation from our planet, +and then only with our more perfect telescopes. + +Our students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our planet +with the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do. + +Mars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking +phenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West, +passing each other at times within view of observers. The most distant +satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the +name of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth. Approximately 132 +hours elapse between its rising and setting at any particular point on +our planet, as a consequence of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours +18 minutes at a distance of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary; +and as Mars rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion +is almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite. + +During the time of its rotation it changes four times from full to new +and new to full. The appearance of this satellite to the Martians is +equal, if not a little brighter than the view of Jupiter from your +Earth. + +The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as +Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by +means of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700 +miles from the surface of Mars. This satellite is shut out from view +beyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary. +Its period is 7 hours and 30 minutes--less than one-third the time of +the rotation of Mars. It rises in the West and courses across the +Heavens in 11 hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of +its phases and gets through half another. Its disc appears to us as a +little more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full appears +to you. + +The realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the Martian +student. We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws to a point +which would appear to your understanding most incomprehensible. Long +ago we mastered the knowledge of the method of releasing Interatomic +Energy,[2] a knowledge which in the brain of an unscrupulous person +would be most disastrous, not only to himself but to those about him. +The energy locked up in an atom of matter is tremendous, and the +release of this power is only a matter of knowing the law. The +inhabitants of your world will have to bide a long time before the key +that will release this giant is placed within their reach. + +Not until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not before you +have learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be permitted to +harness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, a force equally as +great for evil as it is for good. This knowledge we have, and we have +utilized it in the construction and building of our mighty planetary +projects. + +This Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous heat. If +it were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt itself out ages ago. +All your theories to account for the continuity of solar radiation are +in error. The release of Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite +rate is the reason why its heat never increases or diminishes though +millions of years come and go in endless procession. + +And this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, some +of your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: Omnipotent, +Omniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the Directing Intelligence, +who sees to it that all is provided for His children. + +On your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements. In order +to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table, +there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists. On Mars +the most elementary school pupil is well informed on the subject, and +has knowledge of the complete list among the new elements yet to be +discovered by your chemists, and which exist in appreciable quantities +on your Earth, is one which has the peculiar property of neutralizing +Gravity. + +This neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the gravitational +pull when interposed between the Earth and the matter sought to be made +immune from the attraction, just as you would insulate against the flow +of electricity by interposing a non-conductor between two conducting +metals. + +The knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized in the +solution of our transportation problem. Instead of cumbersome +railroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an almost perfect +flying or floating ship. It is made buoyant by being screened from the +gravitational pull of the planet.[3] + +Another subject of importance, that takes no little time to understand +by the Martian student is the part played by the planet's satellites in +the generation of Electro-Magnetic energy. The sun together with its +circulating family of planets is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and +its satellites are minor generators of Electric energy. Satellites +have a higher importance and necessity than the mere creation of +moonshine. + +All the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers have +not yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. The latter +planet has a satellite whose distance is so close to its primary that +its presence is lost in the intense reflection of light caused by +Venus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser than that of your Earth. +In the case of Mercury, owing to its extremely close proximity to the +sun, its satellite probably never will be seen by observers on your +Earth, as it is lost in the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on +this planet. + + +[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following--"Sir +Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the +energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time will come when atomic +energy will take the place of coal as a source of power." The man who +spoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver +Lodge--one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has +devoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of +the atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may +utilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so appalling that +Sir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how to release it. I +hope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy, he +says, until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly, +because if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would +be unsafe. A force utterly disproportionate to the present source of +Power would be placed at the disposal Or the world. + +NOTE (By the Editor in 1920)--This article was published more than two +months after the revelation above was received, but is another striking +confirmation of the truth of these revelations. + +[3] In the February issue of the "Electrical Experimenter," (1920) +which was published about a month after this information was received +by revelation, the following article appeared--another startling +confirmation of the truth contained herein, and points to the +possibility that whatever is possible on one planet, is also possible +on another, depending upon that planet's type of civilization and real +knowledge, not superficial theory: + +"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement that +Prof. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a pool of mercury +lost a certain amount of weight. It was explained that the weight was +lost due to a screening effect which the mercury produced on the lead +balls. In other words, mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the +earth's gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated +the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T. J. +See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an address +before the California Academy of Sciences, announced recently that his +researches on gravitation in 1917 and his latest researches on +molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim that the screening of +gravitation has been shown to exist. In 1917, says Professor See, 'I +explained the fluctuation of the Moon's main motion by the circular +refraction of the sun's gravitation waves, as they are propagated +through the solid body of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.' + +"'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that quicksilver is +indeed very resistant to the waves which produce molecular action, and +this developed a new theory of the depression of the mercury in +capillary tubes. This would tend to confirm Maiorana's claim that a +basin of mercury beneath a suspended mass of lead may decrease the +gravitation of the lead by a small amount. My researches on ether show +conclusively that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain +very resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a slight +screening effect.' + +"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be +accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against +gravitation." + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION, +SCHOOL AGE, MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued) + +Everyone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length of +time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. The Martian +year is nearly twice as long as on your globe. + +There are many universities on Mars where students enter direct from +their homes, where the primary and preparatory education is first +inculcated in their minds. Wonderful teachers have charge of the +students, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are taught. +Special and particular attention is given to the subject of the +development of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may come into man's +Divine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of the KINGDOM OF GOD. + +Each student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this +vocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what benefits +the individual also benefits the entire community. + +Each individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that will +ensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system of the +planet, and each unit understands the dignity and importance of his +position, no matter what that position may be, for on Mars no activity +of human endeavor is considered menial; no one position in life is less +important than the rest: all is God's work. + +And so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of physical +activity, for God has created each individual for some particular work. +Six hours is a day's work, the remainder of the time is devoted to +recreation, music, lectures, and those general activities that best +develop the highest spiritualities with the individual. For the +Martians realize that life on the material plane is but temporary the +isolation of the individual Divine Spark from the Infinite whole to the +end that the personality may become for all Eternity self-conscious and +in harmony with God, which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for +all time. + +Failure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the +individuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is +indestructible: it always was and always will be. + +Education on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of developing +the individual spiritually in order to prepare one for the spiritual +progress after the completion of the material probationary period as +well as having life in greatest abundance during that period, and with +this main end in view the subject of marriage, the rearing of children, +receives special consideration and attention. + +The pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the selection +of a wife by the prospective husband must be in accordance with true +conjugal harmony, and this is not possible in the absence of Spiritual +development. Hence, divorces are unknown with us, and to that end is +special care taken in the matter of teaching the truth concerning the +marital relation, the rearing of children and their Spiritual growth. + +The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your +time measurements. The result of this early training is that the young +couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," are true mates and go +through life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so +characteristic of your Earth's people. + +Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from +God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the +gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an +accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such marriages are unholy +and destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual +awakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your +Earth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished +and the extinction of the race will be inevitable. + +The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic +Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your +system that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those +having supervision over the studies of the young. + +One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular +attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an atmospheric +pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175 +degrees on our planet. This temperature is inadequate for cooking +foods properly, especially the coarser varieties. But recourse is had +to the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies +of the occasion demand. + +Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the +variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your +planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours. + +Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the +gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two reasons for +this. In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on +Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates +the necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your +physical make-up demands. In the second place the Martians partake of +food to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded +by the consumption of victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your +Earth tenants live to eat. + +Although each individual has his particular place in the universe where +he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in +all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is given an opportunity +to obtain a broad and comprehensive knowledge relating to all subjects, +both material and spiritual. + +The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, offers +an interesting field for study and research work, as does also its +concomitant Cosmic Energy. + +Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of labor-saving +devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of energy is +considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic Chemistry. But +it must be understood that the individual is taught that dependence +must be placed rather on one's own dexterity, born of that God-given +faculty of Intuition, than on the perfectness of a man-made machine, +the creation of finite mind. + +For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete +degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire +dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on +machinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator, +such dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the +worker's intuitional faculties. + +This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is +not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most +every line of industrial activity. You are now getting to the stage +where the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved +by merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator +understanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the +solution of the problems in hand. This means, in the near future, +brain atrophy through disuse. + +And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a +thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel +or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the +completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be impossible to +find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the +extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article. + +In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a +mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our +factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes +in winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our +knowledge of matter and energy. + +We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an +Effect world. The Cause world is the Reality which is invisible to all +while hampered with a physical body; that all forms of matter are but +the manifestation of the same ultimate Essence; that this Essence is +but a Divine Impulse--a thrust, as it were, in the Ether. That +although we observe with our sensory organs many different kinds of +matter, consisting of elements and compounds of elements: if we were +able to resolve any of the different forms of matter before us into +their ultimate units, these ultimate particles would all turn out to be +the same thing, the "Divine Impulses" just mentioned. + +Now you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed in an +Infinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is immersed in an +ocean of water. Everywhere, all about us, is a teeming maelstrom of +motion. There is not a cubic centimeter of space that you can call at +rest. All is eternal motion. All is Energy. + +And out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians draw our +energy. And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate essence of all +matter and all energy, therefore you might imagine matter in its +different aspects as Electrical in origin. As Electricity is a +manifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the only Reality in the +Universe is GOD. + +We have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into harmony +with its origin--GOD--for only through God can true knowledge be +obtained. + +On your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing +Electrical Energy. You expend more energy by burning coal or using +water power than you derive from your electrical pump: for a dynamo is +nothing more than a pump. Your machines do not generate electrical +power for, as stated before you are immersed in an Infinite sea of +energy. + +On Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite reservoir of +energy. We have learned the law as you some day must. + +Located at convenient points on our planet are high towers, capped with +suitable receiving apparatus. In turn this energy is transmitted to +different parts of our globe where it is used. We do not require wires +to transmit energy. Our landscape is neither disfigured with unsightly +wires, nor is it covered with a pall of black smoke. We devised a more +perfect method of power production and transmission. + +The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality +brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars. An +understanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the world of +gross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge concerning +Spiritual truths; for the latter are the only real tangible treasures +worthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. Already a knowledge of +these truths is beginning to be sought for by some of the more +spiritually enlightened inhabitants of your Earth; but so immersed in +the unreal things of life is the vast majority of your Earth people +that it will take a long time before the present seed-sowing toward +this end will bear fruit. + +The seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now going on +by a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the present day, +have in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on your Earth. Only +Truth can stand in the end. All that is unreal or false must +ultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has willed that the day +when error shall be no more shall be hastened. + +There are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them. + +But they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as long +as you function in a world of unreality and error your Spiritual vision +is incapable of discerning what lies beyond your present horizon, and +must remain dormant. Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul, +and your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but +little of the real things beyond. + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +MUSIC AN EXPRESSION OF THE FATHER + +All material expressions of the Father, from the simplest chemical +element to the most complex compound; from the one-celled protoplasmic +life germ to the most complex organism, are Vibratory in their ultimate +nature. + +As has been stated elsewhere in this book, material life is the +vibratory reflection from the Cause world into an Effect world. The +universe is a vibratory expression of an absolute Reality--GOD: a +material expression of Divine Harmony. And as Harmony is an expression +of the Father, its antithesis, Discord, is the creation of man. + +Of all the vibrations that more fully express the Father and arouse the +Emotional within the soul, Music must of necessity head the list. + +Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all +receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic +scale. + +And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate +vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his +visional faculties. The long waves of the Infra-red and the short +waves of the Ultra-violet ends of the spectrum are invisible to your +Earth people except in rare cases of developed mediumship, though your +photograph plates are somewhat sensitive to these vibrations. + +You are immersed in commercialism and other selfish pursuits while all +around you is a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE, vibrating with music too +heavenly for your dulled perceptions to enjoy. + +On Mars the development of the Musical talent is held to be of primary +importance. The laws of Harmony are part of the curriculum of all +schools, and all necessary paraphernalia for its proper exposition are +provided. We have instruments for measuring tone vibrations of so +delicate a pitch that the existence of these tones would be a blank to +the gross material ears of the inhabitants of your world. + +Music arouses the innermost emotions of the soul and its effect on the +individual is proportionate to his degree of spiritual development. +Music is harmony, but it also creates an atmosphere of harmony. + +The music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the very +essence of the Cosmos. By Music of the Spheres is meant the harmonious +interrelation of all spiritual planes. Every unit in the universe is +in perfect accord one with the other, and all are functioning in +perfect unison. Every Solar Orb and every Planet responds to +Harmonious law. The Cosmos as a whole is the expression of a Divine +Symphony. + +When man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment +entitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then will +the sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him. + +On Mars divers instruments are used for producing musical harmony, and +much of this harmony is of such a subtle nature that your crude +instruments could not give expression to it. + +We have a means of producing harmony of the highest order by utilizing +Ethereal Electric Vibration which produces light vibrations +corresponding to tone production, for true Electric Vibration is real +music. This device resembles a series of globes, all transparent, +colorless when not in action. But immediately they are allowed to +produce music they become units of color and tone work that would give +you the impression of SEEING AND HEARING A RAINBOW SIMULTANEOUSLY. You +are not ready to receive the scientific explanation of this phenomenon, +but we are ready to give it to you at any time. + +Singing is also highly developed on our planet, for it is the first +expression of harmony that the child is taught. This is true for the +reason that vocal music is the most natural expression of harmonious +vibrations. Much time is devoted to ensemble work among our people of +all ages. This chorus work is of great benefit to all partaking, for +individually and collectively much inspiration is received; and the +tremendous Love-force loosened by this united expression of harmony +becomes a phenomenal power and stimulus--a purifying agent for soul and +body. This will help you to realize why disease is unknown to us. + +In the development of the musical talents of the individual on Mars the +pupil is impressed with the necessity of expressing the true self, and +the original improvisation or composition is the method by which the +pupil expresses his understanding of the subject. No one attempts to +ape the technique or genius of another, for on Mars all are geniuses. +This is true in every form of activity. All must be creators to +express individuality. + +When an individual on Mars has surpassed all others in some special +expression of Divine Harmony the product of his genius is for the +benefit of all, hence copyrights and patents are unknown on our planet. + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AERONAUTICS, INHABITED PLANETS, SECTARIANISM + +A great deal of interest is being manifested in your city this morning +(April 25, 1920), over the Aeronautical Show. You imagine the Flying +machines wonderful mechanisms; but in their present state they will not +lift you out of your atmosphere. You have yet to perfect a real +airship. + +Your Flying machines are cumbersome and awkward, and they consume lots +of fuel and make a deal of noise. It can hardly be said they are +harmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is only a sample +of your Earth's development. + +You have seen the seagulls soar over the water seemingly without +motion; and yet they go up and down, turning this way and that without +effort. This is the best idea I can give you of our airships, which +really soar. No sound, no discordant vibrations disturb the quiet of +the Martian atmosphere, and the tranquility of the Mars people. + +When you have learned the secret of how to tap the Universal Reservoir +of Cosmic Power, then will you evolve a perfect Flying machine such as +we have. A great deal of interest is also being centered on an attempt +to signal Mars, and your apparatus is not fine enough to receive our +waves. But success will come to you in another decade, and we will be +able to get something through for your scientific world. + +It is gratifying to know that a large portion of your population +entertain the belief that Mars is inhabited: and also that the +possibilities point to the fact that other planets are inhabited. + +You have advanced a long way to come to that belief, but you are yet a +long way from the truth. You are on the eve of an awakening and much +will come through the discoveries of scientists who are devoting their +lives to the study of Truth. It is true that only a few of that number +are bold enough to proclaim all they discover, and they must bear the +brunt of much harsh criticism. In the end, however, ignorance must +give way to Light. + +We look upon your inventions with much amusement, and yet with great +interest, just as you would look upon your children's finest toys. We +are much older than you and are doing all we can to help your +scientists by impressing them with thoughts that will lead them to +discover new truths, and our interest never flags. How could it if we +are doing the Father's work? For it is the Father's great pleasure to +give His children all they can receive. + +If you could cut loose from your world conventions and could perceive +new ideas; if you would but disregard man-made theories and open your +minds and souls to the Father's Revelations, it would not be long +before your sin-cursed and forsaken Earth would be changed into a +Paradise. + +But the tendency among you if to think as your forefathers thought +rather than cut new paths. However, your children of this generation +are of a different sort, and they must be taught the importance of +DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL INTELLECT. There is MORE INDIVIDUALISM being +born into the world today than ever before. THERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN, +BUT THEY ARE STRONGER (the year 1920). + +THESE CHILDREN, WITH THEIR ORIGINALITY AND ESOTERIC TENDENCIES WILL +BRING ON A REVOLUTION ON YOUR PLANET THAT WILL END BY DESTROYING YOUR +THREADBARE DOGMATISM. This tendency is evidenced by the recent failure +of the Interchurch movement. It has been the habit on your planet that +you cannot accomplish anything without raising immense sums of money. + +It is not money that does the real work but rather PERSONAL SERVICE. +People are inclined to give almost everything than personal service. +If each person lived the Christ Life there would be no need of money. +A close study of the Mars Economic system will demonstrate that truth. + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +LIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. + +THE PLANET JUPITER + +LIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a moonless +night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of +scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making: +the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a +seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the +one reality, OMNISCIENCE. + +Only presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the creation of +the Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous worldwide systems, and +place his particular world-unit at the center of the Cosmos. + +Man contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more +ornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, conceitedly +thinking that the Father's only consideration is centered about himself. + +As these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits +extending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with the +habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not yet +possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive state: not +long since condensed from fire mist: others where life has just begun: +others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of God's creatures, just +as you live and others have lived before you. And there are other +worlds whose life-cycle has been run; where intelligent life has +ceased: where world-disintegration has set in. For this is in +accordance with the universal law of Growth and Decay--a law that +exempts neither the one-celled amoeba, nor the complex Solar system +whirling yonder in Infinite space. + +For all that comes from the Father into material expression must some +day revert to its primordial state. + +You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic conditions on +Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the zenith of its Cosmic +cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to a degree of Divine +unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds. + +It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to one +of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our sun, in +order you may be able to learn by contrast something of the wonders of +God's work. + +JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times larger +than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately less, might well +be styled the Master Planet of our system. + +Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of +which is not necessary at this time. This planet is in what might be +styled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun. This +life has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it +will be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in +Geological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of +these periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have +attained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences +capable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth. + +Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will +undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise +new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land +surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water, +to rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and +solicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial +Creations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal +and petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will +inhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come. + +Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this +planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still very +dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the +extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only +dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun +penetrates to the surface of the globe. By reason of the constant +thick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped +in deep gloom and darkness. As radiation is arrested to a marked +degree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as +well as hot. In this steam environment grow forests of fern and +fungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of +time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this +planet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed, +but is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type, +but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and +adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races +yet to come on the planet. + +Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms +are, and future ones will be evolved along specially modified lines, in +order that they may encompass the least possible volume, just as the +denizens of the extreme depths of your oceans have evolved. The +modification is necessary that organisms mat be able to function on a +planet where the difference in gravity is as one to three compared with +your Earth. In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce +maximum lightness. + +As there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature is +God Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is as +perfect within itself as is the most gigantic sun. Size is but +relative. The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and complex as is +that of the mammoth, and so there exist in the universe inhabited +worlds that are relatively very small. + +Circulating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are +numerous small planets or asteroids. One in particular, which is known +to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an atmosphere and is +inhabited by diminutive people and a correspondingly diminutive fauna +and flora. The diameter of Vesta is about 500 miles, although your +astronomers give its size, erroneously, as much smaller. + +While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are +getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them you +are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos. + +The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a perfect +watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit in a given +time mathematically proportional to the movements of all the other +celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the watch conform to +their prescribed movements. The celestial bodies are seemingly +actuated by invisible gears and are held rigidly in their proper places +by a mighty force whose power is incalculable. This is evidenced by +the fact that all celestial bodies conform to that inexorable law, +Divine Harmony. + +That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their +ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their periods +is as the cube of their distance from their common centers, is an +exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious laws. + +You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted view of +Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross: their apparent +reality an illusion. Material life is but a projection from the Cause +world into the Effect world. Man is but a reflection of a reality that +transcends his material vision. + +You are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, which is +yet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is nigh. Christ is +coming into His Kingdom, which must be in the hearts of the people. +His Second Coming means that He will come into your lives with the +Power of the Spirit. This can only become possible through an awakened +understanding of Spiritual laws. Although man on your Earth is in +great darkness it is not the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must +undergo many changes before it reaches your evolutionary stage. + +COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will be +realized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM MARS. +This event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your Earth, for it +will be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF THE MEDIEVAL +DOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY built upon a perverted +corruption of God's limitless universe: a universe narrowed down to +your Earth and the inhabitants thereof. + +Man's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his +ignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway among a +majority of your so-called learned scientists and the people generally. +But the materialism of the masses is not so degenerating and +destructive as the impossible dogmas entertained by your numerous sects +WHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER. +These dogmas are priestly inventions created to frighten God's +children; to make of man, created after the image of God a crawling, +servile creature, instead of what he really should be, the highest +manifestation of the Divine, the culmination of God's handiwork. + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +THE RISEN CHRIST + +Easter Sunday, April 4, 1920 + +Your Earth's inhabitants are celebrating today the Resurrection of your +Savior--by gratifying the desires of Self. + +We of Mars do not have such events to commemorate for we never +crucified Him. We opened the door to His wonderful Truth. + +Not one of your Earth's inhabitants can perform the miracles Christ +did, but we can. Our leaders, who are our advisers, guides and +Spiritual teachers are Christlike men who can do all the works that +Christ and His disciples did. He said. "These signs do follow them +that believe," and we have never stopped believing. + +Your condition is pitiful. There is nothing but darkness between you +and the Truth Christ tried to give you. Christ is only an idea on your +planet and not a reality in the hearts of your people. Their whole +thought, for weeks past, has been devoted to their personal adornment, +and in preparing festivals for this occasion. + +In your churches, where they seem to observe the period of Christ's +suffering, it is only a form. They go through their vain repetition of +prayers, that have no soul in them, and your six weeks of so-called +Lent is only a mockery of its real significance. + +If you would live the Christ life you would not crucify Him daily in +the flesh, but would come to that consciousness that He is risen in +your soul. You are continually crucifying Christ all over your planet +in the same way that you crucified Jesus Christ, for you either deny +Him or pervert His Truth to suit your selfishness. + +All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except +your Earth. The Earth has not advanced enough to be placed in the line +of progression yet. However, the time is near when you will experience +that progression. It will be after you are high enough spiritually to +receive word from the Martians through mediums. This work evidences +the fact that you are beginning that experience now. Take hope, for +after the obscure darkness must come the dawn. Your whole Earth is now +in terrible travail, but the result will be the birth of the new Christ +Spirit. + +You get glimpses now and then of the real Christ Life, but do you, or +can you realize what life on a planet is like when all the inhabitants +live the Christ Life every day? That is why we have the wonderful +manifestations of the Father's Love in our intricate and delicate +mechanisms, and in our utilization of Cosmic Energy. It is thus that +we receive the Father's wondrous gifts. But Mars never became what it +is until God purified it by His Son's example, and we accepted Him as +our Savior WITHOUT MURDER. Your planet damned itself to many bloody +aeons by the rejection of Him, and your Religion has been blood, blood, +blood! In your last five years you have been given enough blood to +drown all the martyrs you have given to your bloody god. + +Your planet is in slavery. You are slaves to your conventionalities. +They are like shackles on your souls: like bands of iron. And yet you +cling to them until it seems you do not want freedom. + +It is only Truth that will free you; and as long as you cling to false +ideals and sham systems you must expect to be slaves. + +Pin your faith not in material money, but in Spiritual Wealth. "Take no +heed of the morrow." Be of good cheer. MAKE WIDE THE OPENING TO THE +SPIRIT! HE WILL ENTER! + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THE RESULT OF SPIRITUAL CAUSES + + "For they have sown the wind + and they shall reap the whirlwind." (Hosea, 8:7) + +The Creator and Dominator of the entire Universe is DIVINE MENTALITY. + +The only real actuality that confronts sentient beings is MIND. We are +born, live and have our being amidst physical surroundings that in +final analysis are mere illusions. This idea is not new. + +It forms the base of most systems of philosophy from the dawn of +civilization to the present day. + +Our physical environment is the result of our mental attitude. Mars is +blessed with a climatic tranquility that would surpass the +understanding of an Earth dweller. But this was not always so. + +In proportion to the spiritual unfoldment of the inhabitants of a +planet so is the degree of climatic tranquility enjoyed by them. This +may, at first reading, appear far-fetched, but it is true nevertheless. + +Those who live on a material plane are immersed in the Effect world. +The dominating and primary influence that gives rise to all material +phenomena have their inception in the Cause world--the world of Spirit. +Hence the turbulence of the elements originate, through the law of +Vibration, deep down in the mentalities of those who make up the +population of a planet. Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other +disturbances of Nature are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine. + +When a race has discarded the pursuit of false ideals and comes into +harmony with the Father then there occurs a corresponding change in its +physical environment by reason of the vibratory influences at work. +These influences have their inception in the mentalities of sentient +beings who are doing the Father's work in the advancement of the races +of men throughout the entire physical universe. + +This same vibratory law is at work throughout all physical planes, and +a knowledge of this law was referred to by Christ when He said: "THE +KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU." + +On Mars, owing to the high spiritual state of its inhabitants, who are +in harmony with their Creator, climatic conditions are, compared with +your world, most perfect. However, there was a time, measured in terms +of your millions of years, when the elements on Mars were as agitated +and capricious as they are today on your blood-stained globe. That was +before man on Mars had enfolded spiritually. + +As the Martians progressed and unfolded spiritually there occurred a +subsidence in the roughness of the elements: and today our planet is +blessed with a tranquility proportionate to the high Mental state of +its inhabitants. + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +MATERIAL LIFE A LESSON + +At the expense of what may appear as painful reiteration it is my +desire to impress upon the readers of this book this Truth: Material +life is necessary to unfold character, to develop the real self, the +Divine part in man: the only principle that endures forever. + +There is a lesson in every phase of work, in every joy, in every +sorrow. That lesson is LOVE. Until you have fully realized this truth +you will not become full heirs in the Kingdom of God. "He that loveth +is born of God." + +Christ taught that the Kingdom was not of your Earth, and that all +material things are transitory and would ultimately vanish like mist. + +The story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be accomplished +towards a more harmonious relation with the Father: towards a truer +realization of God's real Kingdom. But in any event you should not +idolize the Mars people, for the Father's Kingdom is more perfect. +Mars' idealism is only a degree in the progress in the Cosmic Family of +worlds. The soul must really strive for a higher goal. + +The Martians, after ages of time, have mastered their natural passions +in suppressing self, but they have other heights to scale. But he who +conquers a sordid environment; he who rises from a black pool of +iniquity; he who finds the Father's Kingdom amidst an uncompromising +warfare with sin deserves more credit than he who is favored by +circumstances of birth with more congenial surroundings and a higher +Spiritual environment. + +You must remember that the individual on Mars, although living amidst +an idealism, is beset with problems of life also. Our problems are +more subtle and of a very different character than you are accustomed +to deal with. Every plane of life has its complexities. If this were +not so, the stimulus for growth would be weak indeed. Your most +apparent problems are material only to your understanding, since you +are living under a most pernicious social and economic system, a system +which puts a premium on selfishness. + +All sentient entities are functioning in a universe of Relativity, and +the perfectness of the Martian character and the ideal material and +spiritual aspects of the planet are so by comparison only. + +Martians are self-conscious of their shortcomings and aspire to higher +things in God's Kingdom, for progress is eternal and the ultimate goal +is never reached on the material plane of action, for the pinnacle of +all progress is God. "BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS +ALSO PERFECT." + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +A MARTIAN HOME + +The HOME is the moulder of Character in the individual, and in most +cases the Home influences determine the future of the man. + +Home influences are the most lasting and abide by the individual unto +the end of his material career. + +All the habitations of the people of Mars are beautiful, and a brief +description of one will give our reader an understanding of the other +millions of homes on the planet. + +I will take you into a Martian home in the city of Urid the Beautiful. +The rooms are large and commodious. Sunlight, which has been filtered +through translucent glass to temper and rob it of its glare, floods +every room. + +There are no stairs to climb, for the five or six rooms--depending on +the size of the family--form a rectangle with a court in the center. +There is a fountain in the center of the court, and beautiful flowers +grow in profusion. Birds of vivid plumage fill the air with their song. + +In one of the large rooms a mother sits at a sewing machine making a +garment. For the Martians use these machines too, although they are a +great improvement on yours. Not all the clothing is made in the homes, +but much of it is, and this is easily understood when you recall that +the Martians are true artists and possessed of great originality. + +The mother's attention is now and then centered on a very small child +who sits on a velvety carpet. This carpet would be a most wonderful +acquisition in the home of a man of wealth on your Earth. It has a +soft, fluffy pile two inches thick, and makes a most comfortable floor +for the baby to play upon. This baby is about 18 months old, and plays +with toys just as your Earth babies do. + +A beautiful young girl enters the room. She is dressed in a simple +becoming gown of white, and she carries her school books with her. +After removing her hat and putting her books away she begins to tell +her mother of the wonderful things learned at school that day. She is +studying the Harmony of Music, particularly the relationship between +Electro-Magnetic Vibrations and Music. + +The mother shows much interest, and from her store of knowledge clears +up many doubtful points in the mind of her daughter. And so the hours +pass quickly until the father comes home and joins the family circle. + +The walls of the room are white, and are relieved here and there by the +most beautiful tapestries. The few furnishings of the room express +beauty through the artistry that is born of Love. + +There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. + +A table, a few chairs and a receptacle for books, also a couch, +complete the furnishings. But this simplicity in the matter of +furniture adds a spirit of freedom to the home. + +There is no kitchen drudgery in store for the Housewife. The family +repair to a dining-room where food is served by the mother. The food +has just arrived from a central depot in a mechanical contrivance which +runs underground. After the meal has been partaken of, the soiled +dishes are returned in the same manner by which they were conveyed to +the home. + +Later in the evening the family prepares to attend a lecture or musical +concert nearby. Or perhaps a visit to some distant part is considered, +in which case an airship is ordered from a public aerodrome. + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +ART + +As Harmony is an expression of the Father, its coexistent, Art, is an +expression of the laws of Rhythm through the individual when +permanently registered in a material way. + +The more a created object conforms to the laws of Harmony the more +pleasing it is to the eye. + +The artist gives expression to his soul within with paint brush, chisel +or loom, and the quality of his production is proportionate to the +development of his spiritual nature. + +All of God's creatures are artists, although only a small percentage of +His evolutionary creatures are able to express materially what lies +hidden in the soul. Hence, a beautifully executed painting, statue or +tapestry appeals to and interests almost everyone, even though few are +able to execute their own artistic impressions. + +The reason for this is that the average physical makeup is defective +and therefore affords a poor vehicle for the expression of the real +entity. Then again, artistic ability is a question of individual +development. + +Primordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul were +crude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's foremost +artists today. But in a relative sense only, for the state of your art +is as far behind the art of the Martians as are the carvings of your +prehistoric cavemen behind the productions of your Michael Angelos. As +man unfolds spiritually there is a corresponding advance in his +artistic point of view. + +This is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on your +Earth among those races and individuals who are spiritually inclined. +The products of the monastery and cloister in the Middle Ages are +witness to this fact. + +Amongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have +stultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the acquisition +of material things; a people whose only ambition is to satisfy self: a +people whose ideas of real happiness are the pursuit of material +pleasures, art has little place except as a fad. + +This is the condition today in many parts of your world, and especially +so on your Western continent. Prize fights and the sensualities of the +stage interest many more people than do Art galleries and the beauties +of Nature. + +The fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be +established not only with the microscope, but with one's natural eyes. +Divine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the universe; and poor +indeed is he in Spiritual gifts who fails to feast his eyes on God's +handiwork. + +As Art is an expression of God's law of Harmony it can be said that its +development on Mars has been a stimulus to the development of every +line of planetary activity and enters into every phase of Martian +social and industrial system. + +As every one of God's creatures is an artist in the making, every +Martian is a developed artist. Hence, every product of the loom or +forge on our planet is an artistic production, and reflects in a +material way the soul of the creator. + +The incentive before the Martian is to work for the pleasure of +working, which in ultimate analysis is God's work. Of course such a +system of industrial activity would be impossible among a partially +developed people. + +Art on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on this +planet. This planet's past history and present achievements are woven +into the products of the looms. The warp and woof of our beautiful +tapestries, so much in evidence in every home, express the Spirituality +of the Martian people; as do also the creations of the Martian +sculptors, and the works of those who use brush and paint. + +Some of the most beautiful productions of Mars art in painting, +sculpture or tapestry depict the scenes and various episodes incident +to Christ's visit to Mars 10,000 years ago. They show many wonderful +works of the Master, but we do not call them Miracles for, as later art +shows, the leaders of Martian spiritual attainment were and are true +disciples and do also the works of the Master. + +Mars' past has been one of achievement spiritually, and naturally in a +material way also, so when the Martian artist weaves the story of the +past in his loom there are no misgivings, for the Martian past is not +fraught with hate, sin and suffering. + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +SCIENTIFIC SOPHISTRY + + "For we are of yesterday, and know nothing, + because our days upon Earth are a shadow." + Job 8:9. + +The term "Scientific Sophistry" well fits your multitude of theories +concerning Truth. + +Science which connotes a higher wisdom of hidden things has degenerated +on your Earth from its original purpose (the overthrow of ignorance and +superstition and the development among intelligent beings of a near +approximation of Ultimate Truth) to an orthodox dogmatism, which today +is on a par with the unreality which this selfsame science has sought +to eliminate from the shallowness of the human mind. + +It is quite true that the modern scientific method of investigation: +that is, along the lines of Observation, followed by the formation of a +theory, and finally by demonstration, has resulted in the release of +millions of souls from a darker thraldom than that which now besets +them, but nevertheless, the human race on your planet now undergoing +its probationary experience, is to be pitied for its blindness in +matters of real import, namely SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. + +Your scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the +Central Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your vision +that your race today--that is, the so-called enlightened and learned +portions of your population--have been deflected from the main path, +and they will soon find themselves pursuing an illusionary +will-o'-the-wisp. + +Another result of the adoption of the modern scientific method has been +the tendency of those endeavoring to bring light into the dark nooks +and crannies of human existence, to immerse themselves in an abysmal +materialism from which rescue is almost hopeless. + +This condition is the result of a loss of Spiritual vision, and is the +final effort on the part of scientists to explain the riddle of human +existence in accordance with a cleverly thought out, but most amazingly +deficient, mechanistic conception of life. + +Since the inception of modern Science on your Earth, based on the +scientific method of investigation, its devotees adopted a spirit of +skepticism concerning all problems of human activity not susceptible to +measurement with the foot-rule, or analysis with the test tube, with +the result that the newer Science of Psychology was invented to supply +a reasonable and material explanation for the subtle and mystifying +phenomena of the human mind. + +That the conceivers of this science of Psychology have been successful +is attested by the many remarkable explanations given to account for +everyday manifestations of human and animal mentality. + +I will venture to say that this idea applies to all branches of modern +science as there seems to be no class of phenomena in the entire +universe, whether in the realm of chemistry, physics or psychology but +what can be clearly elucidated to the satisfaction of all scientists +with the aid of an adequate terminology. So, today your Science in +final analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling. + +It is true there are today in the ranks of your foremost investigators +and God-inspired men who are seeking Truth. Their names and their +achievements will be treasured by a grateful posterity, and it is to be +regretted that their declarations, based upon tireless investigation +and honest opinion, are derided by their fellow-workers in the Realm of +Truth. + +All your scientific theories are based upon certain postulates that in +time are out of agreement with observed facts, and you are compelled to +cast those postulates aside, adopt others and theorize anew. This +fruitless search for Truth must go on until a divergence is made from +the blind trail and the right path is found that will lead you to the +ultimate goal. + +Be not surprised, then, that the revelations in this book will meet +with the usual criticisms launched at every new idea of Truth that has +been given to your world from the time man first walked erect and +beheld the stars in the firmament of God. Error must and will dissolve +presently in the presence of Truth, which will abide with you for all +time. HELP HASTEN THE DAY OF THE LORD. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants, by +Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS *** + +***** This file should be named 563.txt or 563.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/6/563/ + +Produced by Charles Keller. 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FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* + + + + +Scanned by Charles Keller with +OmniPage Professional OCR software +donated by Caere Corporation, 1-800-535-7226. +Contact Mike Lough <Mikel@caere.com> + + + + + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + +BY +EROS URIDES +(A MARTIAN) + + + + +DEDICATION + +To the millions of God's children on +this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom +the solicitude of the Father is now in +evidence, this book is dedicated. + + +May it be a beacon to light the way of +weary searchers after TRUTH. + + +One hemisphere of Mars showing the North Polar Cap and the main +Canal System covering the planet. The many thousands of small +lateral canals, radiating from the larger waterways, and which +form an important part of the general plan, have been purposely +omitted from the above to avoid confusion. The circular spots +and dots are the principal reservoirs used for impounding water +for use during the long Martian summer. The dark areas shown in +the drawing are Mars ancient sea bottoms now covered with +vegetation. It will be observed that most of the canals are +double, paralleling each other at a distance of about +seventy-five miles. Centers of population are not shown for the +reason that space is not available on so small a drawing. The +City of Urid is situated adjacent to the reservoir in the center +of drawing, just north of the equator. + + +CONTENTS + +Chapter +I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, +introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS +INHABITANTS. + +Chapter +II.-He describes the Population Centers, Temperatures and +Climate. The whole Planet is gridironed with Canals. (See +Diagram.) + +Chapter +III.-He gives a full description of the marvelous Martian Canal +System. + +Chapter +IV.-Planetary Economy. No Worries, and the Wants of all are +supplied by the Commonwealth. + +Chapter +V.-Property and Property Rights. God, the Creator of it, is +considered the Owner of all Property. Material things to the +Martians are but Expedients. The Millions of Martians live as +one great family, though divided into families. And it is this +solidarity and filial consideration towards each other that made +the stupendous Canal and other Works possible. + +Chapter +VI.-Trade and Barter are unknown. Transportation is by Flying +Ships, and Gravitational Pull has been overcome. Also, they use +Cosmic or Universal Energy. All Distribution is from immense +Warehouses. + +Chapter +VII.-A great many Clairvoyant Visions were seen by the Shorthand +Recorder, which make most interesting reading. + +Chapter +VIII.-Knowledge of God comes from within. Selfishness has been +eliminated; and the Martians require no Policemen, Watchmen or +other Guardians of the Peace. Christ is known to the Martians as +one of the great Powers in the Universe. + +Chapter +IX.-Mars has no Political System; yet it is controlled by the +very Acme of System. Each Individual of their vast population is +guided by "The Light Within" and by "LOVE." + +Chapter +X.-Mars is ruled by LOVE, their only law. There is no Evil, for +all are Good; all are Equal. Truth is simple. The people of +Mars are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on +other Planets. (This is a wonderful and most Inspiring chapter.) + +Chapter +XI.-Education and Training of the Individual. They have a Spoken +and a Written Language; but Telepathy is often used. Set Rules +of Discipline are not required. There are References to Jupiter, +Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and the two Moons of Mars. + +Chapter +XII.-Education and Training of the Individual (contd). +Vocational Determination. School Age. Marriage. Science and +Domestic Science. Relativity of Time, Space, Motion and Matter. +All in the whole Universe is ETERNAL MOTION. + +Chapter +XIII.-Music is an Expression of the Father. "All around us is a +beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE". About Music of the Spheres, and +that Singing is highly developed. + +Chapter +XIV.-Aeronautics. Inhabited Planets. Sectarianism. No Sound, +no Discordant Vibrations disturb the Atmosphere of Mars. + +Chapter +XV.-Life is an Attribute of the entire Universe. The Planet +Jupiter is enveloped in deep gloom and Darkness. Gives much +information. Vesta, an Asteroid, is about 500 miles in diameter. +Says that communications between Planets of our Solar System and +our Earth will soon be realized, and that the initial Message +will be from Mars. It will herald a New Era for the people of +Earth, and will break down our narrow-minded Theology. + +Chapter +XVI.-The Risen Christ. All the Mars people have lived on other +Planets before, except your Earth. On Mars they live the +Christ-Life every day. 10,000 years ago the Mars people accepted +Christ as their Savior WITHOUT MURDER. + +Chapter +XVII.-Physical Environment is the result of Spiritual Causes, and +is the Result of our Mental Attitude. + +Chapter +XVIII.-Material Life is a Lesson, and is necessary for the +unfolding of Character. The Martians have mastered their Natural +Passions. + +Chapter +XIX.-Eros gives a graphic Description of a Martian Home and +Surroundings, then shows how the Food is manipulated. It is +brought from a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is +run underground, thence up into the Dining room. The Soiled +Dishes are run down and off the same way. No Drudgery for the +Housewife! + +Chapter +XX.-"ART." The Martians have beautiful productions in Painting, +Sculpture and Tapestries, some of which depict the Scenes and +Episodes incident on Christ's Visit to Mars ten thousand years +ago. + +Chapter +XI.-Eros Urides has a good deal to write on the subject of +"Scientific Sophistry," which has mostly to do with our Earth. + + +FOREWORD + +It was Eros Urides, the real Martian behind the scenes, who +dictated the contents of this book through the medium to Mr. +Kennon. It was further stated that "The medium was held in +trance for short periods only, as the medium must necessarily +experience the atmosphere of Mars which is more rarified than +that of your Earth." Writes also that the medium seemed to have +some difficulty, and at first pain in breathing while in the +trance condition. + +Mr. Kennon also wrote in his foreword of the original book that +it was not until January 4, 1920, it was decided to write the +book in which the Planet Mars, its people, its form of +government, its Art, Industries, Philosophy of life, etc. would +for the first time in the history of this world be given. + +It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets +of our Solar system, the planet Mars being one of those visited +and investigated. And, as a proof of this it was Jesus Christ +who functioned as chairman or presidentat the great Peace +Conference held in the vast coliseum on the first sphere of the +Heavens of our Earth. That was in the year 1912, as fully +reported in "World of Tomorrow," page 98. It was at that +conference He stated that Universal Peace must be speeded up, as +there were other planets to be investigated: and that the Earth +stood in the way and was becoming a menace to neighboring +planets. + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + +Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your +sister planet. My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying "of +Urid"). But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life. + +In the Spirit world we are given a name in accordance with our +spiritual qualities and gifts and the kind of work we do. + +I came into material being as the fruit of the sacred union of my +parents. It is not necessary to say aught concerning their +social status, for on Mars all who unfold into a material +expression of the Father are equal. Equal in rank, station, and +in possession of the material fruits of earth. + +After my education had been completed I was, in accordance with +the Martian system of scientifically determining one's rightful +vocation, assigned as overseer to a section of one of the main +canals supplying water from the North Polar cap to an impounding +reservoir near the city of Urid, the place of my birth. + +I was in the 36th year (Martian reckoning) of my physical life on +the planet when my transition occurred, which event was the +result of my inability to observe, one night, warning signals +sent out from a central station advising the eve of a tremendous +drop in temperature. This occurred in the Martian autumn, and I +succumbed to the intense cold. I was not married, so I left no +immediate family except my parents, brothers and sisters. + +I have come to your Earth to give your inhabitants some idea of +the idealistic life lived by your more advanced brothers. I use +the term idealistic in a relative way only, for in God's universe +the degrees of material progress of His children are infinite in +number. + +In giving this information to the inhabitants of your world I +have been assisted by the spirits of many former wise children of +your Earth. + +The purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your +people is mainly to stimulate and hasten into material expression +the reign of God's kingdom on your Earth. + +Many will reject this information, but it is God's truth +nevertheless. But on the other hand, many of God's children now +functioning on your planet will accept the statements as true, +and they will be helped and encouraged in their hard struggle for +material existence. This struggle, unequal as it is, is the +result of darkness engendered by the loss of faith in God. + +Man's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present +era of darkness, was sublime. Man's attitude towards, and his +confidence in the promises of God was as the faith of a child to +its parents, whom it has always trusted. But selfishness has +gained the upper hand, and is now man's master on your Earth. +To break the chains now binding man to self is the purpose of +God's holy emissaries, who have descended from high spiritual +spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out of +bondage. They will succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. +It is under their direction that I am now contributing my little +part in this movement. + +I am only too glad to have been able to give the information +contained in this book, and I also appreciate the assistance of +all those on your Earth plane who so willingly assisted; but of +course we are all obeying the Father's command. + +As life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material +aspect of all God's creations are the same. That is, life on +another planet must be thought of as being no different from what +experience teaches you. + +All inspiration comes from the Father. Hence, the degree of a +race's advancement in point of civilization is in proportion to +its spiritual enfoldment. Therefore the material aspect of life, +which includes God's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, +is the same on every habitable globe in limitless space. + +In telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe +that, from a physical point of view, the Martians are just human +beings, differing little from the people of your Earth. + +The same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by +all of God's creatures. Martians work and have their +recreations. They enjoy the fruits of their earth just as you do +the fruits of yours. They have invented labor-saving machinery, +and indulge in a multitude of industrial pursuits, but with this +difference: their economic system is such that the life of the +Martian is not the struggle for existence you have created on +your Earth. On the contrary it is a pleasurable life in which +work is as much enjoyed as is recreation. This condition is due +to two causes. First, Mars is much farther advanced as a world +in its evolutionary career. Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of +its inhabitants is proportionately advanced. + +As the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical +characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a +general way, the same, with the exceptions shown later in this +book. + +The inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks +and dells, clouds, beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the +physical phenomena witnessed by the dwellers of your Earth. + +The Martians live and have their being just as your people do, +but they are surrounded by a different spiritual and a modified +physical environment. They take pleasure in music, art and the +study of physical science, but with this difference: the +spiritual growth and enfoldment of the individual is considered +as most important, and all material advancement as only an aid to +ultimate ends. + +With main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend +the real Martian character, although it may be a disappointment +to some who have imagined the inhabitants of Mars as physically +different from themselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual +entities, who have possibly been transplanted from other worlds +to undergo a sort of probationary life amid a Paradise of +beautiful surroundings and things. + + +CHAPTER II. + +POPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE + +Although Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, +its diameter being 4,200 miles, it contains a larger area of +habitable land than the latter, its surface area being +approximately 212,000,000 square miles as against 51,000,000 +miles for your Earth. Hence our globe supports a larger +population about 13,160,000,000 people. Your population is in +the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000. Your land area is +161,000,000 square miles less than the land area of Mars. This +is for the reason that your oceans occupy a vast surface of your +Earth, and Mars has no oceans, as these dried up ages ago. +Consequently almost the entire surface of our planet (with +exception of some small areas covered with swamps, remnants of +ancient seas and oceans, and portions of the extreme Northerly +and Southerly Polar caps) is utilized by the Martian inhabitants. + +Our planet is gridironed with canals, many hundreds of the main +ones being observable through your telescopes, and the art of +intensive farming is practised by us to a degree of perfection +never dreamed of by the dwellers of your Earth. + +Our winters, even in the Equatorial regions are severe, the +temperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below +zero. However, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and +nearly twice as long as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 +days long. We grow and mature many crops of necessary cereals, +fruits and vegetables during the spring and summer months, so +that want is never felt by our happy people. + +Our method of irrigation is somewhat different from that +practised in the arid portions of your Earth. We do not, except +in a few instances, flood our lands as you do. Owing to the +fact that our atmosphere is much lighter than yours, the normal +air pressure being only about 8 pounds to the square inch as +against 15 pounds on your Earth, evaporation is very rapid, and +the dewfall, as a consequence of much moisture being in the air, +is very great. + +This heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and +the temperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although +frost is not uncommon even in summer. As our vegetation is +acclimated and adapted to our environment no damage is done to +growing crops by reason of these frosts. + +The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified +atmosphere. Neither have they abnormally developed lungs. God +has made ample provision for the comfort of His creatures +throughout all of His infinite creations, and we of Mars are not +excepted from this Fatherly care and love. + +Should an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to +Mars he could live but a few minutes, for the reason that his +lungs could not assimilate enough oxygen from our light +atmosphere. + +Economy is a science with us. Nothing is wasted. Every possible +square inch of ground produces food for man or beast. Even the +north and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws +blossom forth with vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth +have observed. These regions produce their quota of food by +being utilized as pasturage for our cattle. Immense amounts of +forage are also gathered for the long Martian winters, when a +greater portion of either the north or south hemisphere is +covered with a mantle of snow. + +The equatorial regions are always pleasant. No severe wind +storms are experienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or +other magnetic disturbances such as you experience. + +As a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in +peace, Love and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our +everyday living, the climate is equable, the atmosphere clear +and beautiful, the sky serene and sapphire-blue: the severest +winds but gentle zephyrs wafted towards the equator from the more +remote portions of our globe. Cloudy skies are rare and +rainstorms few. + +There is no lack of God's gifts on Mars. As intensive farming is +a necessity on our planet, plant food or fertilizing elements are +plentiful. One of the large white circular spots observed by +your astronomers, located in a region on Mars named by them +Elysium, and which has been a puzzle to all observers, is an +immense deposit of fertilizing chemicals. An immense well is +located in this particular spot which gushes forth a never-ending +saline solution, highly impregnated with sodium nitrate, potash +and other salts. The country for many miles around is covered +with a white precipitate which has been carried by the moist air +and deposited on the Martian earth. These chemical compounds are +refined and used to replenish the soil with plant food. + +There are 153,000 centers of population on Mars, but these +centers are not congested cities similar to those on your Earth. +Every individual has plenty of room to thrive and develop the +best within him. + +Our cities are not crowded and our buildings are beautiful in +their simplicity: large and roomy, with an abundance of sunlight +and ample ventilation. White marble and metals are employed for +building purposes. + +The inhabitants congregate in centers and, owing to our more +perfect methods of transportation, go forth daily to their tasks +in field or factory, to return at the end of their allotted +period to home and fireside. + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE MARTIAN CANAL SYSTEM + +The Canal system on Mars is comparatively new. The idea of +constructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the +time of Christ's visit to our planet. The Master warned the +people that they must make provision for their future water +supply. At that time (10,000 years ago) the water supply was +becoming noticeably scarcer as time went on. It was nearly 3,000 +years after the Master's mission to Mars had been concluded that +actual construction of the Planetary Canal system was undertaken; +and during the intervening 7,000 years and up to the present +time, construction on the public waterways has continued. + +At the present day the system is most complete, but constant work +is required to keep the canals in working order. In addition to +the gigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable +reservoirs to impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the +poles. To this end immense reservoirs were constructed at most +canal intersections. In some instances the reservoirs are +established between parallel canals; but in every case smaller +canals, or laterals, always intersect at these points. + +Many of the canals on Mars are double, as they appear to your +astronomers. These double waterways parallel each other at a +distance of about 75 miles. The reason for this is that as the +Martian population is absolutely dependent upon the Polar waters +to irrigate their crops, any accident to a canal, such as a land- +slide stopping the regular flow of water or the breaking of a +lock or gate, would mean a very serious calamity to a great +number of people. And for that reason, soon after the main +canals were constructed, second and parallel waterways were made +for the purpose of guaranteeing an uninterrupted flow of water +from the Poles to the Equatorial regions. The result of this was +that on many occasions the foresight of the Martian engineers who +had the water supply of the planet in charge, saved immense areas +from drought. + +The rainfall on Mars is almost nil and the immense population +(eight times larger than that of your Earth) is entirely +dependent on the water supply from the melting Polar caps. Water +on Mars is a most precious fluid and there is none to waste. Our +oceans evaporated ages ago, and outside of the precipitation of +moisture at the poles in the form of snow, none is to be had +anywhere else on the planet except in very meager quantities. + +The astronomer Lowell of your Earth, who made a life study of our +planet, called these reservoirs "Oases," but he was mistaken in +his theory. He concluded that these points, which appear as +round disks in the telescope, were centers of population. This +conclusion is erroneous. The centers of population on Mars are +scattered over the entire planet regardless of the position of +the so-called "Oases." It is quite true that owing to the rapid +evaporation of water in the comparatively thin atmosphere of +Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius from the center of the +reservoirs is considerable, with the result that vegetation +springs up, giving the "Oases" the appearance of a diameter of +about 75 miles. The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and +hold millions of gallons of water. + +The same explanation may be given of the Canals. The dewfall on +each side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the +full length of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some +cases, is most prolific. + +The water in the canals, in most instances, is distributed by +gravity; but recourse is had to a lock system and to immense +pumps for raising the water to proper levels. + +The gates of the lock system and the pumps are operated by +electricity, the control of which energy is well understood by +us. In fact, we are centuries ahead of your Earth people in the +knowledge of the use of Electro-magnetic energy. (More will be +given on the subject of Electricity in a later chapter.) + +Another source of mystery to your astronomers has been the +appearance of triangular dark spots at the origin of some of the +Martian canals. These have been referred to by your astronomer +Lowell as "Carets," named so by reason of their peculiar shape. +These so-called "Carets" are the thoughtful provision for the +impounding of a season's supply of water. In other words they +are in part a lock system for raising water to the level of some +of the main canals, and embrace also a prodigious pumping system. + +These so-called "Carets," as the telescope will show, are located +at the edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on +our planet. These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in +many instances have been utilized by our engineers as natural +reservoirs for water. Their convenient location near the Poles +has provided ideal facilities for the preservation of an adequate +supply of water. + +The construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in +its extent, might seem to your Earth people an impossible task. +And it might prove so to your Earth dwellers should you undertake +a similar project in the ages to come when your seas dry up, +though it must be remembered that gravity on Mars, compared with +your Earth, is as 38 to 100. Excavations of large waterways +then becomes a comparatively easy task. We have no high +mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000 feet in +altitude. + +Owing to the difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars +is nearly acute as against 45 degrees on your Earth, which +permits of almost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens +the danger of landslides and cave-ins. But above all, the +biggest advantage enjoyed by us in the construction of large +public enterprises, such as are embraced by our Canal system, is +the solidarity and unity of purpose on the part of the Martian +people. As Love rules our planet no internal dissension or +public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard any +undertaking that is necessary for the good of all. + +It is lamentable that the dwellers on your Earth are divided +against one another. Not only are your false ideals of racial, +sociological and religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual +and material progress, but your political and economic falsities +are as millstones around your necks, which will ultimately lead +you to destruction unless you, as a people, retrace your steps +and go back to the pathway pointed out by Christ the Master 2,000 +years ago, when He came to your Earth with a message from the +Most High. The pathway is LOVE which leads to a true +understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ. + +The Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in +almost all cases, follow straight lines. When necessary, +mountains have been cut through down to a proper level. Where +the canals cross depressions or old sea-bottoms, immense +aqueducts have been constructed of solid stone and concrete in +such a manner that the water, in most cases, flows to its +destination by gravity. + +That this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined +when it is known that the width of the main canals averages from +one to twenty miles. This announcement might seem to many +unreasonable, but it must be remembered that the volume of water +distributed over 212,000,000 square miles of territory is +immense. You might ask where this large volume of water comes +from. + +The POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down +nearly to the equator, and cover about five-sevenths of the +planet's surface when at maximum; and as the snowfall averages +from six inches at the edge of the caps to 50 feet at and near +the actual Poles, some idea may be gained of the amount of +moisture taken care of by these artificial waterways. Ten feet +of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there exists on Mars an +ample supply for all purposes. + +(NOTE--The question as to why many of the canals germinate has +been a perplexing one to our astronomers. Lowell observed that +many of the main canals germinated a short time after the +commencement of the Martian summer, and for a time it was thought +that the phenomena might be an optical illusion, and the latter +theory was considered seriously by some observers until the +double canals were actually photographed at the Flagstaff +observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never solved until +the receipt of these revelations.) + + +CHAPTER IV. + +PLANETARY ECONOMY + +Economy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars. On your +Earth you waste more than you use, not only in food but in the +fruits of the Earth. You are using up your resources at a +tremendous rate, and some day you must pay the penalty. Witness +the wanton destruction of your beautiful forests, the depletion +of your coal beds and crude oil deposits. All this waste is the +result of lack of Spiritual guidance; a gross materialism: an +inordinate selfish greed. Instead of laying up Spiritual +treasures you are worshiping at the altar of Mamon. Ultimately +you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass--an +illusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction. + +With the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be +in harmony with the Creator, to develop spiritually and build for +Eternity. On Mars each one strives to live for his brother to +the end that all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a +physical being. Commercialism with us is unknown, for no one +works for profit. The products of the toil of all the +inhabitants are for the public larder and other necessities and +even luxuries. + +As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism, +sweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and +the long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on +your Earth are unknown on our planet. + +No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no +place in the Martian mind. The wants of all are supplied by the +Commonwealth, and each one contributes his best efforts to the +common good, and in return each individual is supplied his every +want. This is in accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye +first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these +things shall be added unto you." + + +CHAPTER V. + +PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS + +On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its +Creator, who provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His +creatures. No individual lays claim to property in the sense +that you Earth dwellers do. + +Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material +universe, but only for a season. Man comes into material being +to express life and acquire an individuality, after which he +passes out of material bondage, when his place is taken by +another. + +At man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing +else. If the things he has striven for during his material life +have been but chimeras: the material things of life: the fruits +of the Earth, then in that case he will find himself poor +indeed. The only real wealth, the only thing worth striving for, +is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom. And with us Martians a +knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought for. Hence all +material things to the Martian are but expedients, soon to be +forgotten. + +Material wealth is an abstraction. Its usual evidence is the +possession of property, which may be money, land, goods or +chattels, as the case may be. In final analysis this concrete +evidence of wealth is not real. + +Money is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the +possessor to so much human effort, for the real value behind +money, after all, is but so much human energy or force, varying +according to its quality and its worth. + +Other forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the +result of human endeavor and may be secured by the exchange of +money, or it may be produced by the owner. + +Wealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the +benefit of all humankind. and not for the individual, is the +so-called right-secured by barter, exchange or inheritance, to +use or withhold from use, at the caprice of the owner--of a +certain piece or portion of the planet. Under a legal fiction +the title to land extends to the center of the Earth and to +infinity in an opposite direction! + +The text: "Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" +has a deep significance to one who has come into a knowledge of +Truth. Drones have no place in the Divine Plan. It is not only +essential but mandatory, that each one do his part for the common +good. The non-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the +vagabond who neither toils nor spins. The Biblical test +concerning the difficulty of the rich man getting into Heaven +means that it is impossible for a drone or parasite to get into +harmony with God. + +The possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the +possession of wealth is a corollary to selfishness. He who is +unselfish will spurn wealth. The individual who accumulates +beyond his needs sins against Heaven when he locks up his goods +in strong boxes. The act of hoarding deprives some creature of +his just portion, for God has planned there should be sufficient +for all who make the effort, and a system that permits an unequal +distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the Divine Plan, +and doubly pernicious is a church organization that permits it. + +Only after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the +people of your Earth will surcease come to the suffering millions +on your planet. + +Happiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the +former is impossible unless the latter is eliminated from your +world, for only real happiness comes after complete surrender to +God. Surrender to God means subordination to His will. His will +on Earth must be done as it is in Heaven. All must be self- +conscious of this. If God's will was adhered to on your Earth +what a different place it would be! Instead of a shambles it +would be a paradise, the brotherhood of man and the Fatherhood of +God a fact instead of the dream of a few. + +God loves all His creatures, both evolutionary and +non-evolutionary. His love is infinite in extent. We are all +His children. Everything has been provided for us. It is only +man's selfishness that deprives any creature of his just dues. +Man suffers want on account of his lack of faith in God! Before +man lost his faith in God he walked and communed with angels. He +could do it now if he would but listen to the Voice Within--if he +would only open his heart to Christ, for help is ready whenever +one asks for it in sincerity and faith. + +One of the sources of great injustice to the majority of the +inhabitants of your Earth is the belief in the dogma of Divine +Right. This dogma includes not only the absurdity of the Divine +Right of kings, but the Divine Right to the ownership of goods +and land through the Creator's favoritism for a few. + +This dogma is the mother of untold misery and suffering. Out of +this ungodly theory has evolved your shameful caste system; your +shameful economic ideas. + +Your ancient feudal system of government has been but little +improved upon today over its primitive status, for you still draw +well-defined lines of class distinction between God's +children--lines of demarcation based on wealth and natal origin. +With your inhabitants, communal standing and social distinction +is proportionate to the wealth of the possessor or to the wealth +or social standing of ancestors. + +The monstrous heresy of Divine Right is an invention of the +powers of darkness and must be eliminated from your world root +and branch before your progress forward is assured. God plays no +favorites. His love is showered upon all alike. His gifts are +for all His children. It was never the Divine intent that a +favored few should bask in the sunshine of His grace while the +majority suffered want and deprivation. These false ideas have +been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom now +overshadowing your Earth. + +Spiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth. In +primitive times--ages ago--eras whose history has been lost to +you, man on your Earth was in harmony with his Creator. This was +in the Golden Age when man and the angels of God walked hand in +hand; when man communed with God, and when the Christ spirit was +abiding in the hearts of the people. In this age man was +spiritually developed to a degree almost unbelievable by you. + +Then the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser +self), and through the workings of the law of Atavism man +degenerated almost to the level of his animal prototype. + +This incident in your world's history is the source of the legend +of the "Fall of Man" in the "Garden of Eden." Man disobeyed God +by listening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish +desires. He slew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he +abandoned himself to selfish ends and took advantage of his +fellowman. He has been guilty of that sin ever since. IT IS NOW +INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS SELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED +BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE FATHER'S KINGDOM. + +No fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the +millions of homes on Mars. No lines of demarcation divide one +plot of land from another. The millions of beautiful +homes--beautiful in their simplicity, for over-ornamentation such +as the dwellers of your Earth practise, is not tolerated on our +planet--belong to the Commonwealth. The same are allotted to the +individual as a life tenure only. + +The same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. +Should a Martian have use for a flying machine, also used by +another, or other kind of property for personal use, he does not +ask the use of same in the spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow +from one another. Use of the needed article is requested with +the idea that it belongs to the community: that all material +possessions are the common property of the entire race. + +THE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY. IT IS THIS +SOLIDARITY, THIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS FOR THE +OTHER THAT HAS MADE THE STUPENDOUS AND GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS ON +MARS POSSIBLE. + +In the absence of a universal unity of purpose intelligent life +on Mars would have become extinct centuries ago, when the last +remnants of its oceans and seas dried up and a planetary +irrigation system became necessary in order to utilize the frozen +Polar moisture. + + +CHAPTER VI. + +DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES + +Barter and trade are unknown on Mars. The entire race of +Martians is cooperative, and the production of all necessities is +based on the needs of the Commonwealth. + +Specialization in different branches of industrial activity is +centralized, as is the case of your Earth. That is, some +particular parts of the planet, owing to climatic and other +conditions, are better adapted for the production of some special +kind of raw material used in the manufacture of clothes or other +necessities of life, or the production of some particular +foodstuff. But in every case the incentive for industrial +activity is not material profit. On the contrary the real +incentive is compliance with the Father's will. + +Transportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by +the control of gravitational attraction. These vehicles of the +air, beside your crude affairs[1] are most perfect, and the +amount of freight carried is unlimited, for the reason that the +gravitational attraction of the cargo is nullified as well as +that of the ship. (A more extended explanation concerning this +matter is given in another section of this book.) Another +motive power used is Cosmic, or Universal Energy. (We shall +refer to this later.) + +[1] NOTE--Yes, 35 years ago, but not today, 1955. + +Immense warehouses and depots are scattered throughout the entire +planet. These are centers of distribution. These warehouses are +filled with what all the people of the entire planet need in the +way of food, clothing and other necessities of life. These +depots are in charge of trained and competent workers who attend +to the issuance and distribution of all commodities. + +When a Martian is in need of any particular commodity he makes +application to have his want supplied to the depot nearest to his +habitation. He immediately receives the needed article. If the +quantity and nature of his requisition is too large for him to +carry personally, the same is delivered at his domicile by the +Commonwealth's Transportation Department. + + +CHAPTER VII. + +CLAIRVOYANT VISIONS OF MARS + +In connection with the revelation contained in this book +concerning the physical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of +this volume, as well also as the medium, was given much +information concerning this advanced planet by means of +clairvoyant visions. These pictures were given the writer at +different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing until +the book was finished. + +As has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental +in giving the information about Mars, the purpose of these +clairvoyant pictures was to give the compiler of this book real +visual evidence as to life on Mars; and in particular, real +pictures setting forth its topography, which could be elucidated +in no other way. + +Written descriptions of scenery and of human activities +necessarily fall short of the reality, especially when an attempt +is made to record a series of events or a point of view outside +the realm of our experience. + +The first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the +most important one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, +one of the most Important centers of population on the planet +Mars. + +It was while lying in bed one morning the writer was +contemplating the many messages being received from the Martian, +who is the dictator of the subject matter of this book, that he +found himself at a strange place, suspended as it were in the air +over a beautiful lake of blue water, whose surface was broken by +gentle ripples, due to the soft, balmy breeze blowing over the +surface of the water. The writer was facing what seemed to be a +westerly direction; and at a distance of about five miles there +arose a series of small mountains about 2,500 feet in altitude. +These mountains skirted the shores of the lake. The sky was a +beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our own +desert lands. The mountains were tinted red from base to top, +except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had +stimulated a vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most +harmoniously with the red of the soil. Two white clouds floated +majestically near the peaks of the highest mountains. + +The atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to +stand out in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by +dwellers on our Earth except in extremely dry and arid regions. + +On top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill +at the base of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 feet +from the shore line, I was startled to see a large city. The +thousands of closely nestling buildings seemed to be built of +white stone. The writer was lost in admiration, for there in +front of him the pure white of the city, contrasting so vividly +with the red soil of this faraway planet, stood the habitations +of an advanced race many millions of miles removed from my own +world. + +The writer was impressed with the fact that, with but few +exceptions, the buildings of gleaming white were all one story in +height, and it became instantly evident that crowding is not +tolerated by the inhabitants of this progressive planet. A few +structures towered above the rest. These, as the writer was +informed later, were the public buildings dedicated to the use of +the people as lecture halls, centers for music and art, etc. + +On a subsequent occasion the writer was shown a close-up view of +Urid. Flowers, grass and green foliage abounded everywhere. The +long streets were broad and well paved, and flanked on two sides +with long rows of one-storied buildings of white stone, beautiful +in their simplicity. No extreme ornamentation is carried out in +the erection of buildings on Mars. On the contrary, the simple +square outlines characteristic of our own Old Mission +architecture seems to prevail on the planet Mars. The same +simple style prevails with the public buildings, except that +massive stone columns marked the portals of same, reminding one +of our own early Grecian architecture. + +Many palm-like trees grew all over the city, especially in the +neighborhood of the public buildings. + +A week after the occurrence of the above incident the writer was +shown, in the same manner as before, one of the many canals that +gridiron the Martian globe. This particular canal is one of the +main waterways on Mars, and appeared to be about a mile wide at +the point of observation. The water was of a deep blue color, +denoting great depth. Along the banks of this waterway could be +seen many houseboats or floating dwellings. Some of these +houseboats were very large and evidently housed large families. +The writer was informed that many Martians who have charge of the +waterways dwell in these habitations. + +The banks above the canal were covered with green grass and many +flowers. + +On subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, +and the manner in which some of the canals were cut through the +mountains. In some instances the walls of the canals were almost +perpendicular. Steep cuts, even in soft ground, seemed to be +characteristic of all the waterways observed by the writer. + +On another occasion the writer was given a view of the North +Polar regions. At that time the deep snows that covered the +ground everywhere were melting. The country seemed to be very +hilly. As far as the eye could reach I observed low-lying hills +covered with a white mantle of snow. Patches of reddish earth +here and there indicated that the thaw was general and that the +snow had thinned out in spots. Between the hills I observed a +large body of water, and was informed that this was an artificial +reservoir which had been created by the damming of a large +valley. The sky on this occasion was hidden by a mist, a very +natural phenomenon in view of the fact that many thousands of +square miles of the country, covered with snow on this part of +Mars, was undergoing a rapid thaw. + +That the large dark-colored areas on Mars, supposed by early +observers to be seas, are nothing more or less than low, swampy +land covered with rank vegetation, was evidenced to me on one +occasion when I was permitted to see the true character of these +portions of the planet. + +The rank vegetation was about three feet high and of a greenish +red color. Interspersed throughout the mass of coarse-leafed +plants were high, dry stalks the remnants of an earlier crop of +Martian flora. The season seemed to be advanced and all plant +life was taking on autumnal tints. + +It was in December 1919 that I saw the first close-up picture of +a Martian--a woman. Her head was covered with a thin veil which +came down to her well-formed mouth. She seemed to be a most +beautiful woman with most expressive eyes. Her hair was black. +Her skin was unusually white, which contrasted with the dark +hair. She wore no jewelry, or other ornaments that I could see. + +On a subsequent occasion I was permitted to see a Martian male. +He was playing a flutelike instrument, and as he was quite close +to me I could observe the wax-like texture of his skin. This +semi-transparency of the skin is characteristic of the Martians, +and evidences a life that is free from the many bodily ailments +that afflict humanity on our Earth. The Martian was dressed in +graceful but loose-fitting clothes of a reddish-brown color. His +eyes were a deep blue and his lips seemed to be unusually red. +In respect to stature he was, I would say, about five feet nine +inches in height. In fact, on subsequent occasions I have +observed crowds of Martians gathered together and they appeared +no different from the inhabitants of our own world except as to +clothing, which is much simpler, but more graceful than our +styles. + +I was informed by the spiritual control that the fauna of Mars is +varied, but that all animal life is domesticated, there being now +no wild animals on the planet. + +It was shortly after I had seen the Martians, described in the +foregoing paragraph, that I was shown two cat-like animals, which +at the time of my vision were engaged in playing about the feet +of a Martian. They did not exactly resemble cats, but were more +feline than canine. They were about the size of a large +Airedale, and of a dark, reddish-brown color with deep black +stripes, similar to the markings of our tigers. They were very +playful and cavorted about just as our own dogs and cats do when +endeavoring to attract the attention of their masters. + +On the morning of January 20, 1920, I was shown another Martian +canal. On this occasion I observed a large building on the banks +of the waterway near my point of vision. This building was more +of a grandstand with a roof than anything else I can compare it +to. It consisted of a large framework painted white, and was as +high as our two-storied structures. A multitude of the people +were inside the building, some sitting, some standing. They all +seemed to be intently gazing in a Northerly direction, up-stream. + +Much green foliage and varied-colored flowers lined the banks of +the canal, especially in the neighborhood of the building. The +people all seemed to be attired in holiday garb, and it was +evident to me that a celebration was going on. + +Later I was informed that what I had witnessed was an annual +celebration observed by the people of Mars on the occasion of +arrival of the first water from the North Pole after commencement +of the Martian Spring. It appears that this occasion is a very +important event with the Martians. as the arrival of the life- +giving moisture from the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the +planet insures a season of plenty for the inhabitants. The water +arrives at the equatorial regions in a little less than a Martian +month (60 days) after the commencement of the Polar thaws and +after a season of thanksgiving to the Father has been held by all +in appreciation of His bountiful gifts. The Spiritual leaders of +the different communities preside at these gatherings. + +The foregoing is in remarkable agreement with a statement on page +375 of the late Professor Lowell's book titled "MARS," as +follows. + +"The Canal quickening on Mars occupied 52 days, as evidenced by +the successive vegetal darkenings which descend from latitude 72 +degrees North and latitude 0, a journey of 2,650 miles. The rate +of progression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is +carried from near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale +of extrinsic aid, and the uniformity of the action increases its +significance." + +On the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting +Martian scene, which was almost identical with the previous +vision of the Arctic regions of this planet, except that the warm +season was more advanced, and I was permitted to see the country +from another angle. I was facing East. Most of the Polar snow +had disappeared, and the low-lying hills were now covered with a +growth of dark green vegetation, except at a few isolated points +which showed small patches of snow. The sky was less misty than +on the previous occasion. + +On the evening of January 21 I was shown a flock of Martian +sheep. The herd was small and I observed five of the animals at +close range. I call them sheep for the reason that the animals +resembled our sheep in every particular. The wool was very long +and of a dark reddish-brown color, except underneath their +bellies which was yellowish. + +On the evening of January 29 I had a vision of a beautiful woman +with a child kneeling at her feet. She was seated on a chair and +held a book on her lap. The symbolism of the vision was later +explained to me by the controls. who said: "Verily I say unto +you whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little +child, he shall not enter therein." God's truths are perceived +only by those who can acquire the simple faith of a child. + +It was about the same time I had a vision in which I saw Sergius +for the first time distinctly. He is the principal control +dominating the writing of this book. He appeared very +patriarchal with a long beard. His features were decidedly +semitic. His countenance was most spiritual and beautiful. + +On February 10 I had my first vision of Mars' two moons, known to +our astronomers as Diemos and Phobos. The latter appeared as a +satellite about half as large as our full moon, and the former +like a star brighter than the first magnitude, and could be +compared with Jupiter as seen from our Earth during a favorable +opposition of that planet. The latter satellite sheds +considerable light on her primary. An interesting explanation of +these two moons will be found in a later chapter of this book. + +On February 17 I was shown the actual appearance of our sun from +the planet Mars. What I saw disproves the theory that owing to +the distance of Mars from the sun the latter would be viewed by +the Martians as a disk about half the size as seen from our +Earth. The Solar Orb appeared as to size and brightness, about +the same as viewed from our Earth, and seemed to give forth its +heat with the same intensity. I was facing the sun and its +brilliance blinded my eyes for an instant. + +On the evening of February 29 I had a vision of a strange looking +creature ape-like in appearance. The form was about five feet +tall, very hairy, his body being covered with a thick coat of +woolly hair of a grayish color. He was smoking what appeared to +be a cigar-like roll of something, probably some sort of leaves +rolled up into a convenient form for smoking. On the tips of his +pointed ears were little tufts of long hair, which gave his head +a lynx-like appearance. There were quite a number of large +yellow spots on his hairy chest. His nose was very stubby, and +his entire face was decidedly apelike. + +I was later informed that I had seen an inhabitant of the planet +Mercury, where life has not yet evolved to a very high degree, +and where man has not yet wholly emerged from his primary +beast-like state. + +Concerning the flora of Mars I have on various occasions viewed +orchards of growing fruit trees. The trees were set out in rows +similar to the methods adopted in our own orchards. The trees +were dwarf-like, being not over five or six feet high. I was +informed that this particular species of tree was cultivated for +its fruit and for the fiber obtained from its large leaves, which +is made into cloth, thread and cordage. + +On one occasion a short time after the chapter dealing with the +transmission of Electro-magnetic energy by wireless was received, +I was shown two immense towers on the planet Mars which are used +for the purpose of distributing power throughout the planet. The +two towers were very close together, probably 100 yards apart and +100 feet high. They resembled two immense round smoke-stacks, +such as are common in our factory districts. The tops of the +towers were surmounted by oval caps, transparent as if made from +glass, and protected by a system of grill work. While I was +intently observing the towers there occurred a blinding flash of +light simultaneously from the two oval caps. + +The surrounding country was covered with high trees, and it was +impossible for me to observe the base of the two structures. + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +KNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES FROM WITHIN + +Mars, with its teeming millions of inhabitants, whose dwellings, +factories, storehouses, etc. cover most of the entire area, has +no watchmen, policemen or other guardians of the peace to prevent +unlawful acts on the part of its people. + +As all property is considered as belonging to the Father, and is +held in common by the people of the planet, there exists no +incentive for anyone to steal. Each individual has all he +requires for his comfort. Hence, why should anyone covet what is +in the possession of his brother? + +There is no temptation on Mars for anyone to take more than he +needs, for selfishness has been entirely eliminated from our +planet. Selfishness has no place among really civilized beings. +It is a relic of the jungle where it is necessary to perpetuate +the lower animal life. + +You of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial +condition or state through the law of Atavism. This is a part of +your fall from Divine Grace. And to induce man on your globe to +realize his pitiful condition and redeem himself is the work of +the Spirits from the higher Spheres who are now with you. + +Mars has no Church system and no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. All +Martians recognize and worship one God, the Eternal Father. Each +individual is taught from infancy to seek God through the doors +of his own soul, which is an institutional faculty possessed by +everyone. + +Jesus Christ, who came to your Earth 2,000 years ago with a +message, is known to us. The Christ is one of the greatest +powers in the Universe--next to the Creator. + +Your sectarian church systems are a hindrance to the proper +spiritual development of the individual. These systems engender +an element of dependability on the individual which holds back +his spiritual enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, +which must grow and unfold before real progress upwards begins. + +All knowledge of God should come from within and not through the +instrumentality of imperfect individuals, such as your religious +teachers are. + +The present lack of interest (in 1920) in sectarian matters on +the part of the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow +but sure disintegration of a system that has held your people in +mental and spiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn +of a better day for humanity on your Earth. + + +CHAPTER IX. + +MARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM + +When Love rules a community of people there is no need of +administrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the +inhabitants who make up the population of a planet. For the same +reason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative +center. + +This announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many +readers who have imagined that no considerable number of human +beings could live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a +complex administrative system such as you have on your Earth. + +Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped +civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness +has been eliminated. + +When each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, +is actuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a +horde of political parasites to direct the destinies of the race. + +This lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to +its industrial and economic side. The law of supply and demand +determines just how many factories there should be, and just +what output is necessary for a given period. But it must be +remembered that the law of supply and demand on our planet has no +relation to a competitive system such as yours, for we have no +competitor, a fact that will be impressed elsewhere in this book. + +It is true that certain of our people who have been specially +singled out by the dominating influence of the Invisible World +are occasionally appealed to by those in doubt as to what is best +for their individual welfare, or the welfare of the community at +large, to act in advisory capacities. These are the Spiritual +Advisers of the planet, and are really God's prophets. There was +a time when your race was guided by similar individuals, as is +evidenced from mention of them in your sacred Scriptures. But +their usefulness was lost when man on your Earth forgot God. + +It was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded +the unwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator. He +clamored for a Code of Laws and received them (through Moses). +His next downward step was taken when he admitted it was +necessary to have interpreters of the Law: for if the spirit of +the Law had been kept there would have been no misunderstanding +or juggling of the letter. + +Soon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's +growing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority +over all the interpreters, whose word should be final. So your +people cried aloud for Kings. And you have them, and your law +has grown to immense proportions, as have also the clever sins of +your selfishness. WHERE THERE IS NO SIN THERE IS NO NEED OF +LAWS; FOR THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A LAW UNTO HIMSELF. + +It must not be imagined that because of the lack of a political +system on Mars, such as you deem necessary on your Earth, that +all is chaos and life a sort of happy-go-lucky existence. On the +contrary, the Martian existence is controlled by the acme of +system, which is in accordance with the law of Divine Harmony. A +system from which has been eliminated all the useless wheels +which so clog up your lives and make your progress slow indeed. + + +CHAPTER X. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE + +"And now abideth Faith, Hope and Love: these three; but the +greatest of these is LOVE." Paul to the Corinthians. + +THERE IS BUT ONE LAW ON MARS. THAT LAW IS LOVE. + +This law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people. + +It is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected +in the countenance of every individual. + +This law is the incentive before the entire population and urges +each individual onward to the completion of the task before him. + +There are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than +his brother. There is no evil, for all are good: all are equal. +God endows every individual expression of life with the Divine +Heritage of a pure soul. It is the individual's concern to keep +this heavenly gift unstained in its descent into matter. The +love force of the Spirit is the potent agent that does this for +the individual when allowed to permeate and radiate the entire +being. When individuals have learned to bathe their innermost +beings in the Father's love, then it must follow that a nation +made up of such individuals will be governed only by such +precepts as are evolved from this dominating Love-force. + +It is of no import to the individual on this planet what his +particular task may be, for all work is for the Father; and the +humblest vocation (humbler from the point of view of the dwellers +on your Earth) is as important and as honorable as the highest. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE, which is in accordance with the Divine +Intent. It is the desire of the Father that every world in +limitless space inhabited by His children be ruled by that Divine +Principle. For when Love is the supreme law of a world, as it is +of the Universe, there is no need of a system of complex laws and +a horde of judicial officers to interpret and enforce them. + +When Love enters into the life of a community selfishness makes +its exit: misery becomes a stranger and pain and sickness vanish. + +From the cradle to transition the Martian is dominated by Love +and guided by the Father's will. The result of this Love-rule is +individual and communal happiness. But above all, a Spiritual +progress that unfolds the individual in accordance with the +Cosmic Intent. + +To die, in the sense of passing out of one's physical +environment, is the destiny of every created being. Hence, in +that sense, death exists on Mars as it does on your Earth. But +the real death referred to by Christ: a Spiritual death imposed +on man by his fall from Grace, a penalty for having forgotten +God, is unknown on this planet Mars. We are in harmony with the +Father. Those who are spiritually dead are cut off from the +Father as a result of their indifference and ignorance of +Spiritual Truth. + +The religion of the Martian may be expressed in two thoughts: +"LOVE" and "THY WILL BE DONE, NOT MINE." The true definition of +Religion is a "RULE OF LIFE," and as our lives are guided +entirely by Love and the Father's Will. WE HAVE A RELIGION. + +You, on your Earth, have created a Religion to satisfy your +conventionalities. Truth is simple, but you have made it +intricate. It is free, yet you buy it from the would-be +disciples. Both you and we must approach Him in simple faith: +"Unless ye become as little children ye cannot enter the Kingdom +of Heaven." + +Speaking of children, I desire to give expression to a thought +that may appear to be outside the subject: it is this: The beauty +and simplicity of youth is wonderful, and to be admired by all: +but in the sight of the Heavenly Father, and those who have +progressed to higher realms, it is not so wonderful as those +older characters who have waded the marshes of life, as it were, +and who have trod the dirty steps without losing faith. + +This is to encourage those who sometimes think when they look +back on their lives that all is dark. Their strength is being +tried in the darkness. Therefore their courage and faith is so +much more. + +We who are giving you these messages have passed beyond the stage +you are in, and do not have to be tried on every hand. We look +upon you who are struggling through the pitfalls created by your +false systems with pity, knowing how great your trials are. Do +not think that because we have gone on to higher planes of life +that we are out of sympathy with you. The more we bask in the +sunshine of Love the more tender we become to those in the +shadow. And if you would only realize how strong you are, with +the Father's love and His real consideration for you, you would +try so much harder to better your condition by meeting His Love +with Love. + +We of Mars have learnt to keep the right pictures before the +minds of our youth that they may not be so sorely tried, but on +your planet you have not even the beginning of a system whereby +there could be kept continually before the minds of your children +the real goal to be striven for. I make exception of the few +homes on your planet where the parents are in spiritual growth, +but these homes are not ideal--just a beginning of Idealism. But +they are better far than the masses in their home conditions on +your planet. + +Now, we are ready to do all we can towards stimulating the living +of the Christ-life among all souls in the Universe when it can be +so arranged: but it will take aeons of time on some planets, and +many decades on yours before we can scientifically teach you. To +be sure, we are giving you all we can for this book, but it will +not be universally accepted, although it will bring great joy to +those who have faith. + +If you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the +wonderful happiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness +of your own life. Picture beautiful things and your heart must +be beautiful. Strive with all your mind to hold beautiful +thoughts, for it is well worth your every effort towards faith. + + +CHAPTER XI. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL + +The people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so +filled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to +the high development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost +as audible as words. Hence, converse between individuals on our +planet is not altogether a series of vocal ejaculations. On the +contrary, among the older members of the race, communication +between individuals is in some cases audibly imperceptible. + +Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as +information is usually transmitted impressionally. + +Education on Mars begins at the mother's knee. The first +knowledge imparted to the young is Spiritual. The first lessons +given to the child are: One's absolute dependence on God, and +that the few years before the individual are but an unfoldment, +or an individualizing of the entity into a separate and distinct +unit. + +The Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps +these truths. This procedure continues until the pupil is ready +to enter an institution of learning. + +THE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A +PLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE. THE PARENTS +ARE THE FIRST TEACHERS. + +The primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on +the necessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and +righteousness in order that the mind of the individual be so +moulded and fashioned that absolute faith is placed in God's +promises through the Master, Christ. + +The keynote to the education of the individual is that one must +first seek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, +which is the Divine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and +that coming into a knowledge of God means health, happiness and +wisdom. + +After the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which +result in an unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to +a school; but a school system different from anything you have on +your Earth. The task of the teacher is, not to teach knowledge +but to assist in bringing out what is already latent in the soul, +rather than a set routine, for every individual is considered a +master in some line of thought and activity. The pupil is led +into knowledge instead of being taught directly. + +The individual is left to his own tastes and volition. The +harmony of music of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics +and of Life, together with a knowledge of the laws of +Electricity, is especially brought to the attention of the +individual. You of the Earth know as yet very little concerning +the true nature of Electricity. Your methods of handling and +generating this wonderful force are crude indeed, by comparison +with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the subject. + +And so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we +of Mars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to +hear and see many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not +exist at all for you. Of course there are some exceptions among +the few of your Earth who, after having striven hard for light +have been favored by God's angels in the development of a higher +Spirituality. + +Our teachers are guides who look after their charges in an +atmosphere of Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth +are acquired by the pupil. + +Thought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian +children are never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth. As +a consequence of this they are easily led into true knowledge, +and having a broad vision are able to see all things in their +true relations. They begin at the cause and work towards the +effect, which is the opposite of your system. + +No set rules of discipline are used in the schools. Indeed they +are not necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one +goal impressed on the mind of the pupil is the complete +expression of the Father Within, for to express the Father is to +have perfect life, life in abundance. + +Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and +learned by the child in the early part of his career. + +Astronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an +understanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite +Universe of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of +Mars, unusual opportunity is presented to students in visual +observations of the Heavens. + +Entire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher +guides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's +Heavens is ablaze with scintillating points of light. The +different constellations as viewed from our planet present the +same general appearance as to configuration as they do to the +dwellers on your Earth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by +reason of a more advantageous viewpoint. + +The so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of +the larger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars +than to Earth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from +this vantage point. Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily +seen with the naked eye. + +Your Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with +our observing instruments we are able to see your continent and +oceans when not covered by a cloud canopy. + +As to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the +former presents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, +but being so near the sun it is only visible an hour before or +after sunset, depending upon its position. But Mercury, being so +near the Solar Orb, it is rarely its position is favorable for +observation from our planet, and then only with our more perfect +telescopes. + +Our students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our +planet with the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do. + +Mars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking +phenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West, +passing each other at times within view of observers. The most +distant satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has +been given the name of Deimos by the first observers on your +Earth. Approximately 132 hours elapse between its rising and +setting at any particular point on our planet, as a consequence +of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours 18 minutes at a distance +of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary; and as Mars +rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion is +almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite. + +During the time of its rotation it changes four times from full +to new and new to full. The appearance of this satellite to the +Martians is equal, if not a little brighter than the view of +Jupiter from your Earth. + +The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your +astronomers as Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the +Martian landscape by means of its large size and close proximity, +being distant about 3,700 miles from the surface of Mars. This +satellite is shut out from view beyond 69 degrees latitude by +reason of the curvature of its primary. Its period is 7 hours +and 30 minutes--less than one-third the time of the rotation of +Mars. It rises in the West and courses across the Heavens in 11 +hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of its +phases and gets through half another. Its disc appears to us as +a little more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full +appears to you. + +The realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the +Martian student. We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws +to a point which would appear to your understanding most +incomprehensible. Long ago we mastered the knowledge of the +method of releasing Interatomic Energy,[2] a knowledge which in +the brain of an unscrupulous person would be most disastrous, not +only to himself but to those about him. The energy locked up in +an atom of matter is tremendous, and the release of this power is +only a matter of knowing the law. The inhabitants of your world +will have to bide a long time before the key that will release +this giant is placed within their reach. + +[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the +following--"Sir Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized +enough to use the energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time +will come when atomic energy will take the place of coal as a +source of power." The man who spoke thus before the Royal +Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver Lodge--one of the +towering figures in modern science, a man who has devoted the +better part of his life to the study and interpretation of the +atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren +may utilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so +appalling that Sir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how +to release it. I hope that the human race will not discover how +to use this energy, he says, until it has brains and morality +enough to use it properly, because if the discovery is made by +the wrong people this planet would be unsafe. A force utterly +disproportionate to the present source of Power would be placed +at the disposal Or the world." + +NOTE (By the Editor in 1920) --This article was published +more than two months after the revelation above was received, but +is another striking confirmation of the truth of these +revelations. + + +Not until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not +before you have learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be +permitted to harness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, +a force equally as great for evil as it is for good. This +knowledge we have, and we have utilized it in the construction +and building of our mighty planetary projects. + +This Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous +heat. If it were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt +itself out ages ago. All your theories to account for the +continuity of solar radiation are in error. The release of +Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite rate is the reason +why its heat never increases or diminishes though millions of +years come and go in endless procession. + +And this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, +some of your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: +Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the +Directing Intelligence, who sees to it that all is provided for +His children. + +On your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements. In +order to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called +Periodic Table, there are yet seven elements to be found by your +scientists. On Mars the most elementary school pupil is well +informed on the subject, and has knowledge of the complete list +among the new elements yet to be discovered by your chemists, and +which exist in appreciable quantities on your Earth, is one which +has the peculiar property of neutralizing Gravity. + +This neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the +gravitational pull when interposed between the Earth and the +matter sought to be made immune from the attraction, just as you +would insulate against the flow of electricity by inter- posing a +non-conductor between two conducting metals. + +The knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized +in the solution of our transportation problem. Instead of +cumbersome railroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an +almost perfect flying or floating ship. It is made buoyant by +being screened from the gravitational pull of the planet.[3] + +[3] In the February issue of the "Electrical Experimenter," +(1920) which was published about a month after this information +was received by revelation, the following article +appeared--another startling confirmation of the truth contained +herein, and points to the possibility that whatever is possible +on one planet, is also possible on another, depending upon that +planet's type of civilization and real knowledge, not superficial +theory: + +"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement +that Prof. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a +pool of mercury lost a certain amount of weight. It was +explained that the weight was lost due to a screening effect +which the mercury produced on the lead balls. In other words, +mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the earth's +gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated +the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T. +J. See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an +address before the California Academy of Sciences, announced +recently that his researches on gravitation in 1917 and his +latest researches on molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim +that the screening of gravitation has been shown to exist. In +1917, says Professor See, 'I explained the fluctuation of the +Moon's main motion by the circular refraction of the sun's +gravitation waves, as they are propagated through the solid body +of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.' + +" 'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that +quicksilver is indeed very resistant to the waves which produce +molecular action, and this developed a new theory of the +depression of the mercury in capillary tubes. This would tend +to confirm Maiorana's claim that a basin of mercury beneath a +suspended mass of lead may decrease the gravitation of the lead +by a small amount. My researches on ether show conclusively +that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain very +resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a +slight screening effect.' + +"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be +accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen +against gravitation." + +Another subject of importance, that takes no little time to +understand by the Martian student is the part played by the +planet's satellites in the generation of Electro-Magnetic +energy. The sun together with its circulating family of planets +is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and its satellites are +minor generators of Electric energy. Satellites have a higher +importance and necessity than the mere creation of moonshine. + +All the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers +have not yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. +The latter planet has a satellite whose distance is so close to +its primary that its presence is lost in the intense reflection +of light caused by Venus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser +than that of your Earth. In the case of Mercury, owing to its +extremely close proximity to the sun, its satellite probably +never will be seen by observers on your Earth, as it is lost in +the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on this planet. + + +CHAPTER XII. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, +VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION, SCHOOL AGE, +MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued) + +Everyone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length +of time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. The +Martian year is nearly twice as long as on your globe. + +There are many universities on Mars where students enter direct +from their homes, where the primary and preparatory education is +first inculcated in their minds. Wonderful teachers have charge +of the students, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are +taught. Special and particular attention is given to the subject +of the development of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may +come into man's Divine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of +the KINGDOM OF GOD. + +Each student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this +vocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what +benefits the individual also benefits the entire community. + +Each individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that +will ensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system +of the planet, and each unit understands the dignity and +importance of his position, no matter what that position may be, +for on Mars no activity of human endeavor is considered menial; +no one position in life is less important than the rest: all is +God's work. + +And so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of +physical activity, for God has created each individual for some +particular work. Six hours is a day's work, the remainder of the +time is devoted to recreation, music, lectures, and those general +activities that best develop the highest spiritualities with the +individual. For the Martians realize that life on the material +plane is but temporary the isolation of the individual Divine +Spark from the Infinite whole to the end that the personality may +become for all Eternity self-conscious and in harmony with God, +which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for all time. + +Failure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the +individuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is +indestructible: it always was and always will be. + +Education on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of +developing the individual spiritually in order to prepare one for +the spiritual progress after the completion of the material +probationary period as well as having life in greatest abundance +during that period, and with this main end in view the subject of +marriage, the rearing of children, receives special consideration +and attention. + +The pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the +selection of a wife by the prospective husband must be in +accordance with true conjugal harmony, and this is not possible +in the absence of Spiritual development. Hence, divorces are +unknown with us, and to that end is special care taken in the +matter of teaching the truth concerning the marital relation, the +rearing of children and their Spiritual growth. + +The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of +your time measurements. The result of this early training is +that the young couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," +are true mates and go through life without the usual occurrence +of domestic turmoil so characteristic of your Earth's people. + +Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated +from God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the +gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children +is an accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such +marriages are unholy and destructive, and unless your people +respond to a Spiritual awakening such as God's workers are now +trying to inaugurate on your Earth the growing degeneracy will be +augmented rather than diminished and the extinction of the race +will be inevitable. + +The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic +Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from +your system that Spiritual development must be the principal task +of those having supervision over the studies of the young. + +One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular +attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an +atmospheric pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, +water boils at 175 degrees on our planet. This temperature is +inadequate for cooking foods properly, especially the coarser +varieties. But recourse is had to the cooking of food in vacuum +or under pressure, as the exigencies of the occasion demand. + +Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and +the variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive +as on your planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little +from yours. + +Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require +the gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two +reasons for this. In the first place the difference in the +gravitational pull on Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to +that of your Earth, obviates the necessity of supplying as much +fuel to the human body as your physical make-up demands. In the +second place the Martians partake of food to keep the body alive, +and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded by the consumption of +victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your Earth tenants +live to eat. + +Although each individual has his particular place in the universe +where he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two +persons in all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is +given an opportunity to obtain a broad and comprehensive +knowledge relating to all subjects, both material and spiritual. + +The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, +offers an interesting field for study and research work, as does +also its concomitant Cosmic Energy. + +Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of +labor-saving devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of +energy is considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic +Chemistry. But it must be understood that the individual is +taught that dependence must be placed rather on one's own +dexterity, born of that God-given faculty of Intuition, than on +the perfectness of a man-made machine, the creation of finite +mind. + +For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete +degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire +dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, +on machinery to do the work required of the individual by the +Creator, such dependence finally terminating in almost complete +atrophy of the worker's intuitional faculties. + +This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a +halt is not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic +machines for most every line of industrial activity. You are now +getting to the stage where the most simple and elementary +mathematical problems are solved by merely pressing a few buttons +or turning a crank, the operator understanding little or nothing +of the fundamentals underlying the solution of the problems in +hand. This means, in the near future, brain atrophy through +disuse. + +And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a +thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a +heel or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units +in the completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be +impossible to find one individual whose intuitional faculties +were developed to the extent that he could turn out the perfect, +completed article. + +In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in +harnessing a mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the +same in turning our factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and +giving warmth to our homes in winter, it might not be amiss to +state a few facts concerning our knowledge of matter and energy. + +We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning +in an Effect world. The Cause world is the Reality which is +invisible to all while hampered with a physical body; that all +forms of matter are but the manifestation of the same ultimate +Essence; that this Essence is but a Divine Impulse--a thrust, as +it were, in the Ether. That although we observe with our sensory +organs many different kinds of matter, consisting of elements and +compounds of elements: if we were able to resolve any of the +different forms of matter before us into their ultimate units, +these ultimate particles would all turn out to be the same thing, +the "Divine Impulses" just mentioned. + +Now you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed +in an Infinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is +immersed in an ocean of water. Everywhere. all about us, is a +teeming maelstrom of motion. There is not a cubic centimeter of +space that you can call at rest. All is eternal motion. All is +Energy. + +And out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians +draw our energy. And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate +essence of all matter and all energy, therefore you might imagine +matter in its different aspects as Electrical in origin. As +Electricity is a manifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the +only Reality in the Universe is GOD. + +We have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into +harmony with its origin--GOD--for only through God can true +knowledge be obtained. + +On your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing +Electrical Energy. You expend more energy by burning coal or +using water power than you derive from your electrical pump: for +a dynamo is nothing more than a pump. Your machines do not +generate electrical power for, as stated before you are immersed +in an Infinite sea of energy. + +On Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite +reservoir of energy. We have learned the law as you some day +must. + +Located at convenient points on our planet are high towers, +capped with suitable receiving apparatus. In turn this energy is +transmitted to different parts of our globe where it is used. We +do not require wires to transmit energy. Our landscape is +neither disfigured with unsightly wires, nor is it covered with a +pall of black smoke. We devised a more perfect method of power +production and transmission. + +The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality +brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars. An +understanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the +world of gross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge +concerning Spiritual truths; for the latter are the only real +tangible treasures worthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. +Already a knowledge of these truths is beginning to be sought for +by some of the more spiritually enlightened inhabitants of your +Earth; but so immersed in the unreal things of life is the vast +majority of your Earth people that it will take a long time +before the present seed-sowing toward this end will bear fruit. + +The seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now +going on by a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the +present day, have in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on +your Earth. Only Truth can stand in the end. All that is unreal +or false must ultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has +willed that the day when error shall be no more shall be +hastened. + +There are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them. + +But they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as +long as you function in a world of unreality and error your +Spiritual vision is incapable of discerning what lies beyond your +present horizon, and must remain dormant. Material eyes are but +the windows of the Soul, and your environment has so beclouded +your vision that you grasp but little of the real things beyond. + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +MUSIC AN EXPRESSION OF THE FATHER + +All material expressions of the Father, from the simplest +chemical element to the most complex compound; from the +one-celled protoplasmic life germ to the most complex organism, +are Vibratory in their ultimate nature. + +As has been stated elsewhere in this book, material life is the +vibratory reflection from the Cause world into an Effect world. +The universe is a vibratory expression of an absolute +Reality--GOD: a material expression of Divine Harmony. And as +Harmony is an expression of the Father, its antithesis, Discord, +is the creation of man. + +Of all the vibrations that more fully express the Father and +arouse the Emotional within the soul, Music must of necessity +head the list. + +Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost +all receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the +chromatic scale. + +And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate +vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified +his visional faculties. The long waves of the Infra-red and the +short waves of the Ultra-violet ends of the spectrum are +invisible to your Earth people except in rare cases of developed +mediumship, though your photograph plates are somewhat sensitive +to these vibrations. + +You are immersed in commercialism and other selfish pursuits +while all around you is a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE, vibrating +with music too heavenly for your dulled perceptions to enjoy. + +On Mars the development of the Musical talent is held to be of +primary importance. The laws of Harmony are part of the +curriculum of all schools, and all necessary paraphernalia for +its proper exposition are provided. We have instruments for +measuring tone vibrations of so delicate a pitch that the +existence of these tones would be a blank to the gross material +ears of the inhabitants of your world. + +Music arouses the innermost emotions of the soul and its effect +on the individual is proportionate to his degree of spiritual +development. Music is harmony, but it also creates an atmosphere +of harmony. + +The music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the +very essence of the Cosmos. By Music of the Spheres is meant the +harmonious interrelation of all spiritual planes. Every unit in +the universe is in perfect accord one with the other, and all are +functioning in perfect unison. Every Solar Orb and every Planet +responds to Harmonious law. The Cosmos as a whole is the +expression of a Divine Symphony. + +When man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment +entitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then +will the sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him. + +On Mars divers instruments are used for producing musical +harmony, and much of this harmony is of such a subtle nature that +your crude instruments could not give expression to it. + +We have a means of producing harmony of the highest order by +utilizing Ethereal Electric Vibration which produces light +vibrations corresponding to tone production. for true Electric +Vibration is real music. This device resembles a series of +globes. all transparent, colorless when not in action. But +immediately they are allowed to produce music they become units +of color and tone work that would give you the impression of +SEEING AND HEARING A RAINBOW SIMULTANEOUSLY. You are not ready +to receive the scientific explanation of this phenomenon, but we +are ready to give it to you at any time. + +Singing is also highly developed on our planet, for it is the +first expression of harmony that the child is taught. This is +true for the reason that vocal music is the most natural +expression of harmonious vibrations. Much time is devoted to +ensemble work among our people of all ages. This chorus work is +of great benefit to all partaking, for individually and +collectively much inspiration is received; and the tremendous +Love-force loosened by this united expression of harmony becomes +a phenomenal power and stimulus--a purifying agent for soul and +body. This will help you to realize why disease is unknown to +us. + +In the development of the musical talents of the individual on +Mars the pupil is impressed with the necessity of expressing the +true self, and the original improvisation or composition is the +method by which the pupil expresses his understanding of the +subject. No one attempts to ape the technique or genius of +another, for on Mars all are geniuses. This is true in every +form of activity. All must be creators to express individuality. + +When an individual on Mars has surpassed all others in some +special expression of Divine Harmony the product of his genius is +for the benefit of all, hence copyrights and patents are unknown +on our planet. + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AERONAUTICS, INHABITED PLANETS, SECTARIANISM + +A great deal of interest is being manifested in your city this +morning (April 25, 1920), over the Aeronautical Show. You +imagine the Flying machines wonderful mechanisms; but in their +present state they will not lift you out of your atmosphere. You +have yet to perfect a real airship. + +Your Flying machines are cumbersome and awkward, and they consume +lots of fuel and make a deal of noise. It can hardly be said +they are harmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is +only a sample of your Earth's development. + +You have seen the seagulls soar over the water seemingly without +motion; and yet they go up and down, turning this way and that +without effort. This is the best idea I can give you of our +airships, which really soar. No sound, no discordant vibrations +disturb the quiet of the Martian atmosphere, and the tranquility +of the Mars people. + +When you have learned the secret of how to tap the Universal +Reservoir of Cosmic Power, then will you evolve a perfect Flying +machine such as we have. A great deal of interest is also being +centered on an attempt to signal Mars, and your apparatus is not +fine enough to receive our waves. But success will come to you +in another decade, and we will be able to get something through +for your scientific world. + +It is gratifying to know that a large portion of your population +entertain the belief that Mars is inhabited: and also that the +possibilities point to the fact that other planets are inhabited. + +You have advanced a long way to come to that belief, but you are +yet a long way from the truth. You are on the eve of an +awakening and much will come through the discoveries of +scientists who are devoting their lives to the study of Truth. +It is true that only a few of that number are bold enough to +proclaim all they discover. and they must bear the brunt of much +harsh criticism. In the end, however, ignorance must give way +to Light. + +We look upon your inventions with much amusement, and yet with +great interest, just as you would look upon your children's +finest toys. We are much older than you and are doing all we can +to help your scientists by impressing them with thoughts that +will lead them to discover new truths, and our interest never +flags. How could it if we are doing the Father's work? For it is +the Father's great pleasure to give His children all they can +receive. + +If you could cut loose from your world conventions and could +perceive new ideas; if you would but disregard man-made theories +and open your minds and souls to the Father's Revelations, it +would not be long before your sin-cursed and forsaken Earth would +be changed into a Paradise. + +But the tendency among you if to think as your forefathers +thought rather than cut new paths. However, your children of +this generation are of a different sort, and they must be taught +the importance of DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL INTELLECT. There is +MORE INDIVIDUALISM being born into the world today than ever +before. THERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN, BUT THEY ARE STRONGER (the +year 1920). + +THESE CHILDREN, WITH THEIR ORIGINALITY AND ESOTERIC TENDENCIES +WILL BRING ON A REVOLUTION ON YOUR PLANET THAT WILL END BY +DESTROYING YOUR THREADBARE DOGMATISM. This tendency is evidenced +by the recent failure of the Interchurch movement. It has been +the habit on your planet that you cannot accomplish anything +without raising immense sums of money, + +It is not money that does the real work but rather PERSONAL +SERVICE. People are inclined to give almost everything than +personal service. If each person lived the Christ Life there +would be no need of money. A close study of the Mars Economic +system will demonstrate that truth. + + +CHAPTER XV. + +LIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. +THE PLANET JUPITER + +LIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a +moonless night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its +myriad of scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems +in the making: the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the +canopy of Heaven; a seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns +in space all expressing the one reality, OMNISCIENCE. + +Only presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the +creation of the Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous +worldwide systems, and place his particular world-unit at the +center of the Cosmos. + +Man contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more +ornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, +conceitedly thinking that the Father's only consideration is +centered about himself. + +As these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits +extending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with +the habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not +yet possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive +state: not long since condensed from fire mist: others where life +has just begun: others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of +God's creatures, just as you live and others have lived before +you. And there are other worlds whose life-cycle has been run; +where intelligent life has ceased: where world-disintegration has +set in. For this is in accordance with the universal law of +Growth and Decay--a law that exempts neither the one-celled +amoeba, nor the complex Solar system whirling yonder in Infinite +space. + +For all that comes from the Father into material expression must +some day revert to its primordial state. + +You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic +conditions on Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the +zenith of its Cosmic cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to +a degree of Divine unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds. + +It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to +one of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our +sun, in order you may be able to learn by contrast something of +the wonders of God's work. + +JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times +larger than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately +less, might well be styled the Master Planet of our system. + +Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a +description of which is not necessary at this time. This planet +is in what might be styled its primary evolutionary stage where +life has just begun. This life has not evolved beyond the +unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it will be only after the +lapse of a long period of time, measured in Geological units, +when more complex organisms will appear: and many of these +periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have +attained a proper development for the propagation of +intelligences capable of being classed with the denizens of your +Earth. + +Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere +will undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms +will raise new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and +the present land surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered +with slime and water, to rise again in the centuries to come, for +the Father's love and solicitude will provide, as it has in the +case of all His Celestial Creations, a bountiful supply of +stored-up radiant energy, such as coal and petroleum, and other +elements, for the comfort of those who will inhabit this giant +among the worlds of this system in time to come. + +Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this +planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still +very dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due +to the extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, +which only dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which +times only the sun penetrates to the surface of the globe. By +reason of the constant thick cloud canopy over the surface of +Jupiter the planet is enveloped in deep gloom and darkness. As +radiation is arrested to a marked degree by the clouds and +atmosphere the temperature is very humid as well as hot. In this +steam environment grow forests of fern and fungus-like trees and +rank vegetal growths which will in the course of time be +preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this planet. +This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed, but +is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type, +but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and +adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the +races yet to come on the planet. + +Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present +organisms are, and future ones will be evolved along specially +modified lines, in order that they may encompass the least +possible volume, just as the denizens of the extreme depths of +your oceans have evolved. The modification is necessary that +organisms mat be able to function on a planet where the +difference in gravity is as one to three compared with your +Earth. In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce +maximum lightness. + +As there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature +is God Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is +as perfect within itself as is the most gigantic sun. Size is +but relative. The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and +complex as is that of the mammoth, and so there exist in the +universe inhabited worlds that are relatively very small. + +Circulating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are +numerous small planets or asteroids. One in particular, which is +known to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an +atmosphere and is inhabited by diminutive people and a +correspondingly diminutive fauna and flora. The diameter of +Vesta is about 500 miles, although your astronomers give its +size, erroneously, as much smaller. + +While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are +getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them +you are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos. + +The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a +perfect watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit +in a given time mathematically proportional to the movements of +all the other celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the +watch conform to their prescribed movements. The celestial +bodies are seemingly actuated by invisible gears and are held +rigidly in their proper places by a mighty force whose power is +incalculable. This is evidenced by the fact that all celestial +bodies conform to that inexorable law, Divine Harmony. + +That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their +ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their +periods is as the cube of their distance from their common +centers, is an exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious +laws. + +You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted +view of Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross: +their apparent reality an illusion. Material life is but a +projection from the Cause world into the Effect world. Man is +but a reflection of a reality that transcends his material +vision. + +You are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, +which is yet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is +nigh. Christ is coming into His Kingdom, which must be in the +hearts of the people. His Second Coming means that He will come +into your lives with the Power of the Spirit. This can only +become possible through an awakened understanding of Spiritual +laws. Although man on your Earth is in great darkness it is not +the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must undergo many changes +before it reaches your evolutionary stage. + +COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will +be realized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM +MARS. This event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your +Earth, for it will be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF +THE MEDIEVAL DOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY +built upon a perverted corruption of God's limitless universe: a +universe narrowed down to your Earth and the inhabitants thereof. + +Man's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his +ignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway +among a majority of your so-called learned scientists and the +people generally. But the materialism of the masses is not so +degenerating and destructive as the impossible dogmas entertained +by your numerous sects WHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, +AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER. These dogmas are priestly inventions +created to frighten God's children; to make of man, created after +the image of God a crawling, servile creature, instead of what he +really should be, the highest manifestation of the Divine, the +culmination of God's handiwork. + + +CHAPTER XVI + +THE RISEN CHRIST +Easter Sunday, April 4, 1920 + +Your Earth's inhabitants are celebrating today the Resurrection +of your Savior--by gratifying the desires of Self. + +We of Mars do not have such events to commemorate for we never +crucified Him. We opened the door to His wonderful Truth. + +Not one of your Earth's inhabitants can perform the miracles +Christ did, but we can. Our leaders, who are our advisers, +guides and Spiritual teachers are Christlike men who can do all +the works that Christ and His disciples did. He said. "These +signs do follow them that believe," and we have never stopped +believing. + +Your condition is pitiful. There is nothing but darkness between +you and the Truth Christ tried to give you. Christ is only an +idea on your planet and not a reality in the hearts of your +people. Their whole thought, for weeks past, has been devoted to +their personal adornment, and in preparing festivals for this +occasion. + +In your churches, where they seem to observe the period of +Christ's suffering, it is only a form. They go through their +vain repetition of prayers, that have no soul in them, and your +six weeks of so-called Lent is only a mockery of its real +significance. + +If you would live the Christ life you would not crucify Him daily +in the flesh, but would come to that consciousness that He is +risen in your soul. You are continually crucifying Christ all +over your planet in the same way that you crucified Jesus Christ, +for you either deny Him or pervert His Truth to suit your +selfishness. + +All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, +except your Earth. The Earth has not advanced enough to be +placed in the line of progression yet. However, the time is near +when you will experience that progression. It will be after you +are high enough spiritually to receive word from the Martians +through mediums. This work evidences the fact that you are +beginning that experience now. Take hope, for after the obscure +darkness must come the dawn. Your whole Earth is now in terrible +travail, but the result will be the birth of the new Christ +Spirit. + +You get glimpses now and then of the real Christ Life, but do +you, or can you realize what life on a planet is like when all +the inhabitants live the Christ Life every day? That is why we +have the wonderful manifestations of the Father's Love in our +intricate and delicate mechanisms, and in our utilization of +Cosmic Energy. It is thus that we receive the Father's wondrous +gifts. But Mars never became what it is until God purified it by +His Son's example, and we accepted Him as our Savior WITHOUT +MURDER. Your planet damned itself to many bloody aeons by the +rejection of Him, and your Religion has been blood, blood, blood! +In your last five years you have been given enough blood to drown +all the martyrs you have given to your bloody god. + +Your planet is in slavery. You are slaves to your +conventionalities. They are like shackles on your souls: like +bands of iron. And yet you cling to them until it seems you do +not want freedom. + +It is only Truth that will free you; and as long as you cling to +false ideals and sham systems you must expect to be slaves. + +Pin your faith not in material money, but in Spiritual Wealth. +"Take no heed of the morrow." Be of good cheer. MAKE WIDE THE +OPENING TO THE SPIRIT! HE WILL ENTER! + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THE RESULT OF +SPIRITUAL CAUSES + + "For they have sown the wind + and they shall reap the whirlwind." (Hosea, 8:7) + +The Creator and Dominator of the entire Universe is DIVINE +MENTALITY. + +The only real actuality that confronts sentient beings is MIND. +We are born, live and have our being amidst physical surroundings +that in final analysis are mere illusions. This idea is not new. + +It forms the base of most systems of philosophy from the dawn of +civilization to the present day. + +Our physical environment is the result of our mental attitude. +Mars is blessed with a climatic tranquility that would surpass +the understanding of an Earth dweller. But this was not always +so. + +In proportion to the spiritual unfoldment of the inhabitants of a +planet so is the degree of climatic tranquility enjoyed by them. +This may, at first reading, appear far-fetched, but it is true +nevertheless. + +Those who live on a material plane are immersed in the Effect +world. The dominating and primary influence that gives rise to +all material phenomena have their inception in the Cause +world--the world of Spirit. Hence the turbulence of the elements +originate, through the law of Vibration, deep down in the +mentalities of those who make up the population of a planet. +Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other disturbances of Nature +are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine. + +When a race has discarded the pursuit of false ideals and comes +into harmony with the Father then there occurs a corresponding +change in its physical environment by reason of the vibratory +influences at work. These influences have their inception in the +mentalities of sentient beings who are doing the Father's work in +the advancement of the races of men throughout the entire +physical universe. + +This same vibratory law is at work throughout all physical +planes, and a knowledge of this law was referred to by Christ +when He said: "THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU." + +On Mars, owing to the high spiritual state of its inhabitants, +who are in harmony with their Creator, climatic conditions are, +compared with your world, most perfect. However, there was a +time, measured in terms of your millions of years, when the +elements on Mars were as agitated and capricious as they are +today on your blood-stained globe. That was before man on Mars +had enfolded spiritually, + +As the Martians progressed and unfolded spiritually there +occurred a subsidence in the roughness of the elements: and today +our planet is blessed with a tranquility proportionate to the +high Mental state of its inhabitants. + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +MATERIAL LIFE A LESSON + +At the expense of what may appear as painful reiteration it is my +desire to impress upon the readers of this book this Truth: +Material life is necessary to unfold character, to develop the +real self, the Divine part in man: the only principle that +endures forever. + +There is a lesson in every phase of work, in every joy, in every +sorrow. That lesson is LOVE. Until you have fully realized this +truth you will not become full heirs in the Kingdom of God. "He +that loveth is born of God." + +Christ taught that the Kingdom was not of your Earth, and that +all material things are transitory and would ultimately vanish +like mist. + +The story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be +accomplished towards a more harmonious relation with the Father: +towards a truer realization of God's real Kingdom. But in any +event you should not idolize the Mars people, for the Father's +Kingdom is more perfect. Mars' idealism is only a degree in the +progress in the Cosmic Family of worlds. The soul must really +strive for a higher goal. + +The Martians, after ages of time, have mastered their natural +passions in suppressing self, but they have other heights to +scale. But he who conquers a sordid environment; he who rises +from a black pool of iniquity; he who finds the Father's Kingdom +amidst an uncompromising warfare with sin deserves more credit +than he who is favored by circumstances of birth with more +congenial surroundings and a higher Spiritual environment. + +You must remember that the individual on Mars, although living +amidst an idealism, is beset with problems of life also. Our +problems are more subtle and of a very different character than +you are accustomed to deal with. Every plane of life has its +complexities. If this were not so, the stimulus for growth would +be weak indeed. Your most apparent problems are material only to +your understanding, since you are living under a most pernicious +social and economic system, a system which puts a premium on +selfishness. + +All sentient entities are functioning in a universe of +Relativity, and the perfectness of the Martian character and the +ideal material and spiritual aspects of the planet are so by +comparison only. + +Martians are self-conscious of their shortcomings and aspire to +higher things in God's Kingdom, for progress is eternal and the +ultimate goal is never reached on the material plane of action, +for the pinnacle of all progress is God. "BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS +YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS ALSO PERFECT." + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +A MARTIAN HOME + +The HOME is the moulder of Character in the individual, and in +most cases the Home influences determine the future of the man. + +Home influences are the most lasting and abide by the individual +unto the end of his material career. + +All the habitations of the people of Mars are beautiful, and a +brief description of one will give our reader an understanding of +the other millions of homes on the planet. + +I will take you into a Martian home in the city of Urid the +Beautiful. The rooms are large and commodious. Sunlight, which +has been filtered through translucent glass to temper and rob it +of its glare, floods every room. + +There are no stairs to climb, for the five or six +rooms--depending on the size of the family--form a rectangle with +a court in the center. There is a fountain in the center of the +court, and beautiful flowers grow in profusion. Birds of vivid +plumage fill the air with their song. + +In one of the large rooms a mother sits at a sewing machine +making a garment. For the Martians use these machines too, +although they are a great improvement on yours. Not all the +clothing is made in the homes, but much of it is, and this is +easily understood when you recall that the Martians are true +artists and possessed of great originality. + +The mother's attention is now and then centered on a very small +child who sits on a velvety carpet. This carpet would be a most +wonderful acquisition in the home of a man of wealth on your +Earth. It has a soft, fluffy pile two inches thick, and makes a +most comfortable floor for the baby to play upon. This baby is +about 18 months old, and plays with toys just as your Earth +babies do. + +A beautiful young girl enters the room. She is dressed in a +simple becoming gown of white, and she carries her school books +with her. After removing her hat and putting her books away she +begins to tell her mother of the wonderful things learned at +school that day. She is studying the Harmony of Music, +particularly the relationship between Electro-Magnetic Vibrations +and Music. + +The mother shows much interest, and from her store of knowledge +clears up many doubtful points in the mind of her daughter. And +so the hours pass quickly until the father comes home and joins +the family circle. + +The walls of the room are white, and are relieved here and there +by the most beautiful tapestries. The few furnishings of the +room express beauty through the artistry that is born of Love. + +There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. + +A table, a few chairs and a receptacle for books, also a couch, +complete the furnishings. But this simplicity in the matter of +furniture adds a spirit of freedom to the home. + +There is no kitchen drudgery in store for the Housewife. The +family repair to a dining-room where food is served by the +mother. The food has just arrived from a central depot in a +mechanical contrivance which runs underground. After the meal +has been partaken of, the soiled dishes are returned in the same +manner by which they were conveyed to the home. + +Later in the evening the family prepares to attend a lecture or +musical concert nearby. Or perhaps a visit to some distant part +is considered, in which case an airship is ordered from a public +aerodrome. + + +CHAPTER XX. + +ART + +As Harmony is an expression of the Father, its coexistent, Art, +is an expression of the laws of Rhythm through the individual +when permanently registered in a material way. + +The more a created object conforms to the laws of Harmony the +more pleasing it is to the eye. + +The artist gives expression to his soul within with paint brush, +chisel or loom, and the quality of his production is +proportionate to the development of his spiritual nature. + +All of God's creatures are artists, although only a small +percentage of His evolutionary creatures are able to express +materially what lies hidden in the soul. Hence, a beautifully +executed painting, statue or tapestry appeals to and interests +almost everyone, even though few are able to execute their own +artistic impressions. + +The reason for this is that the average physical makeup is +defective and therefore affords a poor vehicle for the expression +of the real entity. Then again, artistic ability is a question +of individual development. + +Primordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul +were crude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's +foremost artists today. But in a relative sense only, for the +state of your art is as far behind the art of the Martians as are +the carvings of your prehistoric cavemen behind the productions +of your Michael Angelos. As man unfolds spiritually there is a +corresponding advance in his artistic point of view. + +This is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on +your Earth among those races and individuals who are spiritually +inclined. The products of the monastery and cloister in the +Middle Ages are witness to this fact. + +Amongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have +stultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the +acquisition of material things; a people whose only ambition is +to satisfy self: a people whose ideas of real happiness are the +pursuit of material pleasures, art has little place except as a +fad. + +This is the condition today in many parts of your world, and +especially so on your Western continent. Prize fights and the +sensualities of the stage interest many more people than do Art +galleries and the beauties of Nature. + +The fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be +established not only with the microscope, but with one's natural +eyes. Divine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the +universe; and poor indeed is he in Spiritual gifts who fails to +feast his eyes on God's handiwork. + +As Art is an expression of God's law of Harmony it can be said +that its development on Mars has been a stimulus to the +development of every line of planetary activity and enters into +every phase of Martian social and industrial system. + +As every one of God's creatures is an artist in the making, every +Martian is a developed artist. Hence, every product of the loom +or forge on our planet is an artistic production, and reflects in +a material way the soul of the creator. + +The incentive before the Martian is to work for the pleasure of +working, which in ultimate analysis is God's work. Of course +such a system of industrial activity would be impossible among a +partially developed people. + +Art on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on +this planet. This planet's past history and present achievements +are woven into the products of the looms. The warp and woof of +our beautiful tapestries, so much in evidence in every home, +express the Spirituality of the Martian people; as do also the +creations of the Martian sculptors, and the works of those who +use brush and paint. + +Some of the most beautiful productions of Mars art in painting, +sculpture or tapestry depict the scenes and various episodes +incident to Christ's visit to Mars 10,000 years ago. They show +many wonderful works of the Master, but we do not call them +Miracles for, as later art shows, the leaders of Martian +spiritual attainment were and are true disciples and do also the +works of the Master. + +Mars' past has been one of achievement spiritually, and naturally +in a material way also, so when the Martian artist weaves the +story of the past in his loom there are no misgivings, for the +Martian past is not fraught with hate, sin and suffering. + + +CHAPTER XI. + +SCIENTIFIC SOPHISTRY + + "For we are of yesterday, and know nothing, + because our days upon Earth are a shadow." + Job 8:9. + +The term "Scientific Sophistry" well fits your multitude of +theories concerning Truth. + +Science which connotes a higher wisdom of hidden things has +degenerated on your Earth from its original purpose (the +overthrow of ignorance and superstition and the development among +intelligent beings of a near approximation of Ultimate Truth) to +an orthodox dogmatism, which today is on a par with the unreality +which this selfsame science has sought to eliminate from the +shallowness of the human mind. + +It is quite true that the modern scientific method of +investigation: that is, along the lines of Observation, followed +by the formation of a theory, and finally by demonstration, has +resulted in the release of millions of souls from a darker +thraldom than that which now besets them, but nevertheless, the +human race on your planet now undergoing its probationary +experience, is to be pitied for its blindness in matters of real +import, namely SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. + +Your scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the +Central Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your +vision that your race today--that is, the so-called enlightened +and learned portions of your population--have been deflected from +the main path, and they will soon find themselves pursuing an +illusionary will-o'-the-wisp. + +Another result of the adoption of the modern scientific method +has been the tendency of those endeavoring to bring light into +the dark nooks and crannies of human existence, to immerse +themselves in an abysmal materialism from which rescue is almost +hopeless. + +This condition is the result of a loss of Spiritual vision, and +is the final effort on the part of scientists to explain the +riddle of human existence in accordance with a cleverly thought +out, but most amazingly deficient, mechanistic conception of +life. + +Since the inception of modern Science on your Earth, based on the +scientific method of investigation, its devotees adopted a +spirit of skepticism concerning all problems of human activity +not susceptible to measurement with the foot-rule, or analysis +with the test tube, with the result that the newer Science of +Psychology was invented to supply a reasonable and material +explanation for the subtle and mystifying phenomena of the human +mind. + +That the conceivers of this science of Psychology have been +successful is attested by the many remarkable explanations given +to account for everyday manifestations of human and animal +mentality. + +I will venture to say that this idea applies to all branches of +modern science as there seems to be no class of phenomena in the +entire universe, whether in the realm of chemistry, physics or +psychology but what can be clearly elucidated to the satisfaction +of all scientists with the aid of an adequate terminology. So, +today your Science in final analysis, has degenerated into a +system of clever word-juggling. + +It is true there are today in the ranks of your foremost +investigators and God-inspired men who are seeking Truth. Their +names and their achievements will be treasured by a grateful +posterity, and it is to be regretted that their declarations, +based upon tireless investigation and honest opinion, are derided +by their fellow-workers in the Realm of Truth. + +All your scientific theories are based upon certain postulates +that in time are out of agreement with observed facts, and you +are compelled to cast those postulates aside, adopt others and +theorize anew. This fruitless search for Truth must go on until +a divergence is made from the blind trail and the right path is +found that will lead you to the ultimate goal. + +Be not surprised, then, that the revelations in this book will +meet with the usual criticisms launched at every new idea of +Truth that has been given to your world from the time man first +walked erect and beheld the stars in the firmament of God. +Error must and will dissolve presently in the presence of Truth, +which will abide with you for all time. HELP HASTEN THE DAY OF +THE LORD. + + + + + +End of The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Planet Mars & Its Inhabitants + diff --git a/old/marsi10.zip b/old/marsi10.zip Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..6ff96da --- /dev/null +++ b/old/marsi10.zip |