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+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.
+
+
+
+
+
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