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@@ -0,0 +1,2948 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants, by +Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants + A Psychic Revelation + +Author: Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon + +Release Date: September 27, 2008 [EBook #563] +Posting Date: June, 1996 + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS *** + + + + +Produced by Charles Keller. HTML version by Al Haines. + + + + + + + + + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + + +BY + +EROS URIDES + +(A MARTIAN) + + + + + DEDICATION + + To the millions of God's children on + this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom + the solicitude of the Father is now in + evidence, this book is dedicated. + + + May it be a beacon to light the way of + weary searchers after TRUTH. + + + +One hemisphere of Mars showing the North Polar Cap and the main Canal +System covering the planet. The many thousands of small lateral +canals, radiating from the larger waterways, and which form an +important part of the general plan, have been purposely omitted from +the above to avoid confusion. The circular spots and dots are the +principal reservoirs used for impounding water for use during the long +Martian summer. The dark areas shown in the drawing are Mars ancient +sea bottoms now covered with vegetation. It will be observed that most +of the canals are double, paralleling each other at a distance of about +seventy-five miles. Centers of population are not shown for the reason +that space is not available on so small a drawing. The City of Urid is +situated adjacent to the reservoir in the center of drawing, just north +of the equator. + + + + +CONTENTS + +Chapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author, +introduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS. + +Chapter II.-He describes the Population Centers, Temperatures and +Climate. The whole Planet is gridironed with Canals. (See Diagram.) + +Chapter III.-He gives a full description of the marvelous Martian Canal +System. + +Chapter IV.-Planetary Economy. No Worries, and the Wants of all are +supplied by the Commonwealth. + +Chapter V.-Property and Property Rights. God, the Creator of it, is +considered the Owner of all Property. Material things to the Martians +are but Expedients. The Millions of Martians live as one great family, +though divided into families. And it is this solidarity and filial +consideration towards each other that made the stupendous Canal and +other Works possible. + +Chapter VI.-Trade and Barter are unknown. Transportation is by Flying +Ships, and Gravitational Pull has been overcome. Also, they use Cosmic +or Universal Energy. All Distribution is from immense Warehouses. + +Chapter VII.-A great many Clairvoyant Visions were seen by the +Shorthand Recorder, which make most interesting reading. + +Chapter VIII.-Knowledge of God comes from within. Selfishness has been +eliminated; and the Martians require no Policemen, Watchmen or other +Guardians of the Peace. Christ is known to the Martians as one of the +great Powers in the Universe. + +Chapter IX.-Mars has no Political System; yet it is controlled by the +very Acme of System. Each Individual of their vast population is +guided by "The Light Within" and by "LOVE." + +Chapter X.-Mars is ruled by LOVE, their only law. There is no Evil, +for all are Good; all are Equal. Truth is simple. The people of Mars +are ready to stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets. +(This is a wonderful and most Inspiring chapter.) + +Chapter XI.-Education and Training of the Individual. They have a +Spoken and a Written Language; but Telepathy is often used. Set Rules +of Discipline are not required. There are References to Jupiter, +Neptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and the two Moons of Mars. + +Chapter XII.-Education and Training of the Individual (contd). +Vocational Determination. School Age. Marriage. Science and Domestic +Science. Relativity of Time, Space, Motion and Matter. All in the +whole Universe is ETERNAL MOTION. + +Chapter XIII.-Music is an Expression of the Father. "All around us is +a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE". About Music of the Spheres, and that +Singing is highly developed. + +Chapter XIV.-Aeronautics. Inhabited Planets. Sectarianism. No Sound, +no Discordant Vibrations disturb the Atmosphere of Mars. + +Chapter XV.-Life is an Attribute of the entire Universe. The Planet +Jupiter is enveloped in deep gloom and Darkness. Gives much +information. Vesta, an Asteroid, is about 500 miles in diameter. Says +that communications between Planets of our Solar System and our Earth +will soon be realized, and that the initial Message will be from Mars. +It will herald a New Era for the people of Earth, and will break down +our narrow-minded Theology. + +Chapter XVI.-The Risen Christ. All the Mars people have lived on other +Planets before, except your Earth. On Mars they live the Christ-Life +every day. 10,000 years ago the Mars people accepted Christ as their +Savior WITHOUT MURDER. + +Chapter XVII.-Physical Environment is the result of Spiritual Causes, +and is the Result of our Mental Attitude. + +Chapter XVIII.-Material Life is a Lesson, and is necessary for the +unfolding of Character. The Martians have mastered their Natural +Passions. + +Chapter XIX.-Eros gives a graphic Description of a Martian Home and +Surroundings, then shows how the Food is manipulated. It is brought +from a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is run +underground, thence up into the Dining room. The Soiled Dishes are run +down and off the same way. No Drudgery for the Housewife! + +Chapter XX.-"ART." The Martians have beautiful productions in Painting, +Sculpture and Tapestries, some of which depict the Scenes and Episodes +incident on Christ's Visit to Mars ten thousand years ago. + +Chapter XXI.-Eros Urides has a good deal to write on the subject of +"Scientific Sophistry," which has mostly to do with our Earth. + + + +FOREWORD + +It was Eros Urides, the real Martian behind the scenes, who dictated +the contents of this book through the medium to Mr. Kennon. It was +further stated that "The medium was held in trance for short periods +only, as the medium must necessarily experience the atmosphere of Mars +which is more rarified than that of your Earth." Writes also that the +medium seemed to have some difficulty, and at first pain in breathing +while in the trance condition. + +Mr. Kennon also wrote in his foreword of the original book that it was +not until January 4, 1920, it was decided to write the book in which +the Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art, +Industries, Philosophy of life, etc. would for the first time in the +history of this world be given. + +It appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of +our Solar system, the planet Mars being one of those visited and +investigated. And, as a proof of this it was Jesus Christ who +functioned as chairman or presidentat the great Peace Conference held +in the vast coliseum on the first sphere of the Heavens of our Earth. +That was in the year 1912, as fully reported in "World of Tomorrow," +page 98. It was at that conference He stated that Universal Peace must +be speeded up, as there were other planets to be investigated: and that +the Earth stood in the way and was becoming a menace to neighboring +planets. + + + +CHAPTER I. + +THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS + +Years ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your +sister planet. My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying "of +Urid"). But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life. + +In the Spirit world we are given a name in accordance with our +spiritual qualities and gifts and the kind of work we do. + +I came into material being as the fruit of the sacred union of my +parents. It is not necessary to say aught concerning their social +status, for on Mars all who unfold into a material expression of the +Father are equal. Equal in rank, station, and in possession of the +material fruits of earth. + +After my education had been completed I was, in accordance with the +Martian system of scientifically determining one's rightful vocation, +assigned as overseer to a section of one of the main canals supplying +water from the North Polar cap to an impounding reservoir near the city +of Urid, the place of my birth. + +I was in the 36th year (Martian reckoning) of my physical life on the +planet when my transition occurred, which event was the result of my +inability to observe, one night, warning signals sent out from a +central station advising the eve of a tremendous drop in temperature. +This occurred in the Martian autumn, and I succumbed to the intense +cold. I was not married, so I left no immediate family except my +parents, brothers and sisters. + +I have come to your Earth to give your inhabitants some idea of the +idealistic life lived by your more advanced brothers. I use the term +idealistic in a relative way only, for in God's universe the degrees of +material progress of His children are infinite in number. + +In giving this information to the inhabitants of your world I have been +assisted by the spirits of many former wise children of your Earth. + +The purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your +people is mainly to stimulate and hasten into material expression the +reign of God's kingdom on your Earth. + +Many will reject this information, but it is God's truth nevertheless. +But on the other hand, many of God's children now functioning on your +planet will accept the statements as true, and they will be helped and +encouraged in their hard struggle for material existence. This +struggle, unequal as it is, is the result of darkness engendered by the +loss of faith in God. + +Man's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present era of +darkness, was sublime. Man's attitude towards, and his confidence in +the promises of God was as the faith of a child to its parents, whom it +has always trusted. But selfishness has gained the upper hand, and is +now man's master on your Earth. To break the chains now binding man to +self is the purpose of God's holy emissaries, who have descended from +high spiritual spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out +of bondage. They will succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. It is +under their direction that I am now contributing my little part in this +movement. + +I am only too glad to have been able to give the information contained +in this book, and I also appreciate the assistance of all those on your +Earth plane who so willingly assisted; but of course we are all obeying +the Father's command. + +As life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material aspect of +all God's creations are the same. That is, life on another planet must +be thought of as being no different from what experience teaches you. + +All inspiration comes from the Father. Hence, the degree of a race's +advancement in point of civilization is in proportion to its spiritual +enfoldment. Therefore the material aspect of life, which includes +God's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, is the same on every +habitable globe in limitless space. + +In telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe that, from +a physical point of view, the Martians are just human beings, differing +little from the people of your Earth. + +The same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by all +of God's creatures. Martians work and have their recreations. They +enjoy the fruits of their earth just as you do the fruits of yours. +They have invented labor-saving machinery, and indulge in a multitude +of industrial pursuits, but with this difference: their economic system +is such that the life of the Martian is not the struggle for existence +you have created on your Earth. On the contrary it is a pleasurable +life in which work is as much enjoyed as is recreation. This condition +is due to two causes. First, Mars is much farther advanced as a world +in its evolutionary career. Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its +inhabitants is proportionately advanced. + +As the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical +characteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way, +the same, with the exceptions shown later in this book. + +The inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks and +dells, clouds, beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the physical +phenomena witnessed by the dwellers of your Earth. + +The Martians live and have their being just as your people do, but they +are surrounded by a different spiritual and a modified physical +environment. They take pleasure in music, art and the study of +physical science, but with this difference: the spiritual growth and +enfoldment of the individual is considered as most important, and all +material advancement as only an aid to ultimate ends. + +With main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend the real +Martian character, although it may be a disappointment to some who have +imagined the inhabitants of Mars as physically different from +themselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual entities, who have possibly +been transplanted from other worlds to undergo a sort of probationary +life amid a Paradise of beautiful surroundings and things. + + + +CHAPTER II. + +POPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE + +Although Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, its +diameter being 4,200 miles, it contains a larger area of habitable land +than the latter, its surface area being approximately 212,000,000 +square miles as against 51,000,000 miles for your Earth. Hence our +globe supports a larger population about 13,160,000,000 people. Your +population is in the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000. Your land area is +161,000,000 square miles less than the land area of Mars. This is for +the reason that your oceans occupy a vast surface of your Earth, and +Mars has no oceans, as these dried up ages ago. Consequently almost the +entire surface of our planet (with exception of some small areas +covered with swamps, remnants of ancient seas and oceans, and portions +of the extreme Northerly and Southerly Polar caps) is utilized by the +Martian inhabitants. + +Our planet is gridironed with canals, many hundreds of the main ones +being observable through your telescopes, and the art of intensive +farming is practised by us to a degree of perfection never dreamed of +by the dwellers of your Earth. + +Our winters, even in the Equatorial regions are severe, the +temperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below zero. +However, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and nearly twice as +long as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 days long. We grow +and mature many crops of necessary cereals, fruits and vegetables +during the spring and summer months, so that want is never felt by our +happy people. + +Our method of irrigation is somewhat different from that practised in +the arid portions of your Earth. We do not, except in a few instances, +flood our lands as you do. Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is +much lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8 +pounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth, +evaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much +moisture being in the air, is very great. + +This heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and the +temperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although frost is +not uncommon even in summer. As our vegetation is acclimated and +adapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason +of these frosts. + +The Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified +atmosphere. Neither have they abnormally developed lungs. God has +made ample provision for the comfort of His creatures throughout all of +His infinite creations, and we of Mars are not excepted from this +Fatherly care and love. + +Should an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to Mars he +could live but a few minutes, for the reason that his lungs could not +assimilate enough oxygen from our light atmosphere. + +Economy is a science with us. Nothing is wasted. Every possible +square inch of ground produces food for man or beast. Even the north +and south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with +vegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed. These +regions produce their quota of food by being utilized as pasturage for +our cattle. Immense amounts of forage are also gathered for the long +Martian winters, when a greater portion of either the north or south +hemisphere is covered with a mantle of snow. + +The equatorial regions are always pleasant. No severe wind storms are +experienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or other magnetic +disturbances such as you experience. + +As a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in peace, +Love and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our everyday +living, the climate is equable, the atmosphere clear and beautiful, the +sky serene and sapphire-blue: the severest winds but gentle zephyrs +wafted towards the equator from the more remote portions of our globe. +Cloudy skies are rare and rainstorms few. + +There is no lack of God's gifts on Mars. As intensive farming is a +necessity on our planet, plant food or fertilizing elements are +plentiful. One of the large white circular spots observed by your +astronomers, located in a region on Mars named by them Elysium, and +which has been a puzzle to all observers, is an immense deposit of +fertilizing chemicals. An immense well is located in this particular +spot which gushes forth a never-ending saline solution, highly +impregnated with sodium nitrate, potash and other salts. The country +for many miles around is covered with a white precipitate which has +been carried by the moist air and deposited on the Martian earth. +These chemical compounds are refined and used to replenish the soil +with plant food. + +There are 153,000 centers of population on Mars, but these centers are +not congested cities similar to those on your Earth. Every individual +has plenty of room to thrive and develop the best within him. + +Our cities are not crowded and our buildings are beautiful in their +simplicity: large and roomy, with an abundance of sunlight and ample +ventilation. White marble and metals are employed for building +purposes. + +The inhabitants congregate in centers and, owing to our more perfect +methods of transportation, go forth daily to their tasks in field or +factory, to return at the end of their allotted period to home and +fireside. + + + +CHAPTER III. + +THE MARTIAN CANAL SYSTEM + +The Canal system on Mars is comparatively new. The idea of +constructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the time of +Christ's visit to our planet. The Master warned the people that they +must make provision for their future water supply. At that time +(10,000 years ago) the water supply was becoming noticeably scarcer as +time went on. It was nearly 3,000 years after the Master's mission to +Mars had been concluded that actual construction of the Planetary Canal +system was undertaken; and during the intervening 7,000 years and up to +the present time, construction on the public waterways has continued. + +At the present day the system is most complete, but constant work is +required to keep the canals in working order. In addition to the +gigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable reservoirs +to impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the poles. To this +end immense reservoirs were constructed at most canal intersections. +In some instances the reservoirs are established between parallel +canals; but in every case smaller canals, or laterals, always intersect +at these points. + +Many of the canals on Mars are double, as they appear to your +astronomers. These double waterways parallel each other at a distance +of about 75 miles. The reason for this is that as the Martian +population is absolutely dependent upon the Polar waters to irrigate +their crops, any accident to a canal, such as a landslide stopping the +regular flow of water or the breaking of a lock or gate, would mean a +very serious calamity to a great number of people. And for that +reason, soon after the main canals were constructed, second and +parallel waterways were made for the purpose of guaranteeing an +uninterrupted flow of water from the Poles to the Equatorial regions. +The result of this was that on many occasions the foresight of the +Martian engineers who had the water supply of the planet in charge, +saved immense areas from drought. + +The rainfall on Mars is almost nil and the immense population (eight +times larger than that of your Earth) is entirely dependent on the +water supply from the melting Polar caps. Water on Mars is a most +precious fluid and there is none to waste. Our oceans evaporated ages +ago, and outside of the precipitation of moisture at the poles in the +form of snow, none is to be had anywhere else on the planet except in +very meager quantities. + +The astronomer Lowell of your Earth, who made a life study of our +planet, called these reservoirs "Oases," but he was mistaken in his +theory. He concluded that these points, which appear as round disks in +the telescope, were centers of population. This conclusion is +erroneous. The centers of population on Mars are scattered over the +entire planet regardless of the position of the so-called "Oases." It +is quite true that owing to the rapid evaporation of water in the +comparatively thin atmosphere of Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius +from the center of the reservoirs is considerable, with the result that +vegetation springs up, giving the "Oases" the appearance of a diameter +of about 75 miles. The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and hold +millions of gallons of water. + +The same explanation may be given of the Canals. The dewfall on each +side is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length +of the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most +prolific. + +The water in the canals, in most instances, is distributed by gravity; +but recourse is had to a lock system and to immense pumps for raising +the water to proper levels. + +The gates of the lock system and the pumps are operated by electricity, +the control of which energy is well understood by us. In fact, we are +centuries ahead of your Earth people in the knowledge of the use of +Electro-magnetic energy. (More will be given on the subject of +Electricity in a later chapter.) + +Another source of mystery to your astronomers has been the appearance +of triangular dark spots at the origin of some of the Martian canals. +These have been referred to by your astronomer Lowell as "Carets," +named so by reason of their peculiar shape. These so-called "Carets" +are the thoughtful provision for the impounding of a season's supply of +water. In other words they are in part a lock system for raising water +to the level of some of the main canals, and embrace also a prodigious +pumping system. + +These so-called "Carets," as the telescope will show, are located at +the edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on our +planet. These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in many +instances have been utilized by our engineers as natural reservoirs for +water. Their convenient location near the Poles has provided ideal +facilities for the preservation of an adequate supply of water. + +The construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in its +extent, might seem to your Earth people an impossible task. And it +might prove so to your Earth dwellers should you undertake a similar +project in the ages to come when your seas dry up, though it must be +remembered that gravity on Mars, compared with your Earth, is as 38 to +100. Excavations of large waterways then becomes a comparatively easy +task. We have no high mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000 +feet in altitude. + +Owing to the difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars is +nearly acute as against 45 degrees on your Earth, which permits of +almost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens the danger of +landslides and cave-ins. But above all, the biggest advantage enjoyed +by us in the construction of large public enterprises, such as are +embraced by our Canal system, is the solidarity and unity of purpose on +the part of the Martian people. As Love rules our planet no internal +dissension or public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard +any undertaking that is necessary for the good of all. + +It is lamentable that the dwellers on your Earth are divided against +one another. Not only are your false ideals of racial, sociological +and religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual and material +progress, but your political and economic falsities are as millstones +around your necks, which will ultimately lead you to destruction unless +you, as a people, retrace your steps and go back to the pathway pointed +out by Christ the Master 2,000 years ago, when He came to your Earth +with a message from the Most High. The pathway is LOVE which leads to +a true understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ. + +The Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in almost all +cases, follow straight lines. When necessary, mountains have been cut +through down to a proper level. Where the canals cross depressions or +old sea-bottoms, immense aqueducts have been constructed of solid stone +and concrete in such a manner that the water, in most cases, flows to +its destination by gravity. + +That this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined when +it is known that the width of the main canals averages from one to +twenty miles. This announcement might seem to many unreasonable, but +it must be remembered that the volume of water distributed over +212,000,000 square miles of territory is immense. You might ask where +this large volume of water comes from. + +The POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down nearly to +the equator, and cover about five-sevenths of the planet's surface when +at maximum; and as the snowfall averages from six inches at the edge of +the caps to 50 feet at and near the actual Poles, some idea may be +gained of the amount of moisture taken care of by these artificial +waterways. Ten feet of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there +exists on Mars an ample supply for all purposes. + +(NOTE--The question as to why many of the canals germinate has been a +perplexing one to our astronomers. Lowell observed that many of the +main canals germinated a short time after the commencement of the +Martian summer, and for a time it was thought that the phenomena might +be an optical illusion, and the latter theory was considered seriously +by some observers until the double canals were actually photographed at +the Flagstaff observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never +solved until the receipt of these revelations.) + + + +CHAPTER IV. + +PLANETARY ECONOMY + +Economy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars. On your Earth +you waste more than you use, not only in food but in the fruits of the +Earth. You are using up your resources at a tremendous rate, and some +day you must pay the penalty. Witness the wanton destruction of your +beautiful forests, the depletion of your coal beds and crude oil +deposits. All this waste is the result of lack of Spiritual guidance; +a gross materialism: an inordinate selfish greed. Instead of laying up +Spiritual treasures you are worshiping at the altar of Mamon. +Ultimately you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass--an +illusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction. + +With the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be in +harmony with the Creator, to develop spiritually and build for +Eternity. On Mars each one strives to live for his brother to the end +that all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a physical being. +Commercialism with us is unknown, for no one works for profit. The +products of the toil of all the inhabitants are for the public larder +and other necessities and even luxuries. + +As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism, +sweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and the +long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on your Earth +are unknown on our planet. + +No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no place in +the Martian mind. The wants of all are supplied by the Commonwealth, +and each one contributes his best efforts to the common good, and in +return each individual is supplied his every want. This is in +accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and +His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you." + + + +CHAPTER V. + +PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS + +On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its Creator, +who provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His creatures. No +individual lays claim to property in the sense that you Earth dwellers +do. + +Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, +but only for a season. Man comes into material being to express life +and acquire an individuality, after which he passes out of material +bondage, when his place is taken by another. + +At man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing else. If +the things he has striven for during his material life have been but +chimeras: the material things of life: the fruits of the Earth, then in +that case he will find himself poor indeed. The only real wealth, the +only thing worth striving for, is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom. +And with us Martians a knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought +for. Hence all material things to the Martian are but expedients, soon +to be forgotten. + +Material wealth is an abstraction. Its usual evidence is the +possession of property, which may be money, land, goods or chattels, as +the case may be. In final analysis this concrete evidence of wealth is +not real. + +Money is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the +possessor to so much human effort, for the real value behind money, +after all, is but so much human energy or force, varying according to +its quality and its worth. + +Other forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the result of +human endeavor and may be secured by the exchange of money, or it may +be produced by the owner. + +Wealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the benefit +of all humankind, and not for the individual, is the so-called +right-secured by barter, exchange or inheritance, to use or withhold +from use, at the caprice of the owner--of a certain piece or portion of +the planet. Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the +center of the Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction! + +The text: "Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" has a +deep significance to one who has come into a knowledge of Truth. +Drones have no place in the Divine Plan. It is not only essential but +mandatory, that each one do his part for the common good. The +non-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the vagabond who +neither toils nor spins. The Biblical test concerning the difficulty +of the rich man getting into Heaven means that it is impossible for a +drone or parasite to get into harmony with God. + +The possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the possession of +wealth is a corollary to selfishness. He who is unselfish will spurn +wealth. The individual who accumulates beyond his needs sins against +Heaven when he locks up his goods in strong boxes. The act of hoarding +deprives some creature of his just portion, for God has planned there +should be sufficient for all who make the effort, and a system that +permits an unequal distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the +Divine Plan, and doubly pernicious is a church organization that +permits it. + +Only after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the people of +your Earth will surcease come to the suffering millions on your planet. + +Happiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the former +is impossible unless the latter is eliminated from your world, for only +real happiness comes after complete surrender to God. Surrender to God +means subordination to His will. His will on Earth must be done as it +is in Heaven. All must be self-conscious of this. If God's will was +adhered to on your Earth what a different place it would be! Instead of +a shambles it would be a paradise, the brotherhood of man and the +Fatherhood of God a fact instead of the dream of a few. + +God loves all His creatures, both evolutionary and non-evolutionary. +His love is infinite in extent. We are all His children. Everything +has been provided for us. It is only man's selfishness that deprives +any creature of his just dues. Man suffers want on account of his lack +of faith in God! Before man lost his faith in God he walked and +communed with angels. He could do it now if he would but listen to the +Voice Within--if he would only open his heart to Christ, for help is +ready whenever one asks for it in sincerity and faith. + +One of the sources of great injustice to the majority of the +inhabitants of your Earth is the belief in the dogma of Divine Right. +This dogma includes not only the absurdity of the Divine Right of +kings, but the Divine Right to the ownership of goods and land through +the Creator's favoritism for a few. + +This dogma is the mother of untold misery and suffering. Out of this +ungodly theory has evolved your shameful caste system; your shameful +economic ideas. + +Your ancient feudal system of government has been but little improved +upon today over its primitive status, for you still draw well-defined +lines of class distinction between God's children--lines of demarcation +based on wealth and natal origin. With your inhabitants, communal +standing and social distinction is proportionate to the wealth of the +possessor or to the wealth or social standing of ancestors. + +The monstrous heresy of Divine Right is an invention of the powers of +darkness and must be eliminated from your world root and branch before +your progress forward is assured. God plays no favorites. His love is +showered upon all alike. His gifts are for all His children. It was +never the Divine intent that a favored few should bask in the sunshine +of His grace while the majority suffered want and deprivation. These +false ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom +now overshadowing your Earth. + +Spiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth. In primitive +times--ages ago--eras whose history has been lost to you, man on your +Earth was in harmony with his Creator. This was in the Golden Age when +man and the angels of God walked hand in hand; when man communed with +God, and when the Christ spirit was abiding in the hearts of the +people. In this age man was spiritually developed to a degree almost +unbelievable by you. + +Then the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser self), +and through the workings of the law of Atavism man degenerated almost +to the level of his animal prototype. + +This incident in your world's history is the source of the legend of +the "Fall of Man" in the "Garden of Eden." Man disobeyed God by +listening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish desires. He +slew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he abandoned himself to +selfish ends and took advantage of his fellowman. He has been guilty +of that sin ever since. IT IS NOW INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS +SELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE +FATHER'S KINGDOM. + +No fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the +millions of homes on Mars. No lines of demarcation divide one plot of +land from another. The millions of beautiful homes--beautiful in their +simplicity, for over-ornamentation such as the dwellers of your Earth +practise, is not tolerated on our planet--belong to the Commonwealth. +The same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only. + +The same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. Should a +Martian have use for a flying machine, also used by another, or other +kind of property for personal use, he does not ask the use of same in +the spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow from one another. Use of +the needed article is requested with the idea that it belongs to the +community: that all material possessions are the common property of the +entire race. + +THE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY. IT IS THIS SOLIDARITY, +THIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS FOR THE OTHER THAT HAS MADE +THE STUPENDOUS AND GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS ON MARS POSSIBLE. + +In the absence of a universal unity of purpose intelligent life on Mars +would have become extinct centuries ago, when the last remnants of its +oceans and seas dried up and a planetary irrigation system became +necessary in order to utilize the frozen Polar moisture. + + + +CHAPTER VI. + +DISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES + +Barter and trade are unknown on Mars. The entire race of Martians is +cooperative, and the production of all necessities is based on the +needs of the Commonwealth. + +Specialization in different branches of industrial activity is +centralized, as is the case of your Earth. That is, some particular +parts of the planet, owing to climatic and other conditions, are better +adapted for the production of some special kind of raw material used in +the manufacture of clothes or other necessities of life, or the +production of some particular foodstuff. But in every case the +incentive for industrial activity is not material profit. On the +contrary the real incentive is compliance with the Father's will. + +Transportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by the +control of gravitational attraction. These vehicles of the air, beside +your crude affairs[1] are most perfect, and the amount of freight +carried is unlimited, for the reason that the gravitational attraction +of the cargo is nullified as well as that of the ship. (A more +extended explanation concerning this matter is given in another section +of this book.) Another motive power used is Cosmic, or Universal +Energy. (We shall refer to this later.) + +Immense warehouses and depots are scattered throughout the entire +planet. These are centers of distribution. These warehouses are +filled with what all the people of the entire planet need in the way of +food, clothing and other necessities of life. These depots are in +charge of trained and competent workers who attend to the issuance and +distribution of all commodities. + +When a Martian is in need of any particular commodity he makes +application to have his want supplied to the depot nearest to his +habitation. He immediately receives the needed article. If the +quantity and nature of his requisition is too large for him to carry +personally, the same is delivered at his domicile by the Commonwealth's +Transportation Department. + + +[1] NOTE--Yes, 35 years ago, but not today, 1955. + + + +CHAPTER VII. + +CLAIRVOYANT VISIONS OF MARS + +In connection with the revelation contained in this book concerning the +physical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of this volume, as well +also as the medium, was given much information concerning this advanced +planet by means of clairvoyant visions. These pictures were given the +writer at different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing +until the book was finished. + +As has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental in +giving the information about Mars, the purpose of these clairvoyant +pictures was to give the compiler of this book real visual evidence as +to life on Mars; and in particular, real pictures setting forth its +topography, which could be elucidated in no other way. + +Written descriptions of scenery and of human activities necessarily +fall short of the reality, especially when an attempt is made to record +a series of events or a point of view outside the realm of our +experience. + +The first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the most +important one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, one of the +most Important centers of population on the planet Mars. + +It was while lying in bed one morning the writer was contemplating the +many messages being received from the Martian, who is the dictator of +the subject matter of this book, that he found himself at a strange +place, suspended as it were in the air over a beautiful lake of blue +water, whose surface was broken by gentle ripples, due to the soft, +balmy breeze blowing over the surface of the water. The writer was +facing what seemed to be a westerly direction; and at a distance of +about five miles there arose a series of small mountains about 2,500 +feet in altitude. These mountains skirted the shores of the lake. The +sky was a beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our +own desert lands. The mountains were tinted red from base to top, +except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a +vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red +of the soil. Two white clouds floated majestically near the peaks of +the highest mountains. + +The atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to stand +out in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by dwellers on our +Earth except in extremely dry and arid regions. + +On top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill at the +base of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 feet from the +shore line, I was startled to see a large city. The thousands of +closely nestling buildings seemed to be built of white stone. The +writer was lost in admiration, for there in front of him the pure white +of the city, contrasting so vividly with the red soil of this faraway +planet, stood the habitations of an advanced race many millions of +miles removed from my own world. + +The writer was impressed with the fact that, with but few exceptions, +the buildings of gleaming white were all one story in height, and it +became instantly evident that crowding is not tolerated by the +inhabitants of this progressive planet. A few structures towered above +the rest. These, as the writer was informed later, were the public +buildings dedicated to the use of the people as lecture halls, centers +for music and art, etc. + +On a subsequent occasion the writer was shown a close-up view of Urid. +Flowers, grass and green foliage abounded everywhere. The long streets +were broad and well paved, and flanked on two sides with long rows of +one-storied buildings of white stone, beautiful in their simplicity. +No extreme ornamentation is carried out in the erection of buildings on +Mars. On the contrary, the simple square outlines characteristic of +our own Old Mission architecture seems to prevail on the planet Mars. +The same simple style prevails with the public buildings, except that +massive stone columns marked the portals of same, reminding one of our +own early Grecian architecture. + +Many palm-like trees grew all over the city, especially in the +neighborhood of the public buildings. + +A week after the occurrence of the above incident the writer was shown, +in the same manner as before, one of the many canals that gridiron the +Martian globe. This particular canal is one of the main waterways on +Mars, and appeared to be about a mile wide at the point of observation. +The water was of a deep blue color, denoting great depth. Along the +banks of this waterway could be seen many houseboats or floating +dwellings. Some of these houseboats were very large and evidently +housed large families. The writer was informed that many Martians who +have charge of the waterways dwell in these habitations. + +The banks above the canal were covered with green grass and many +flowers. + +On subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, and +the manner in which some of the canals were cut through the mountains. +In some instances the walls of the canals were almost perpendicular. +Steep cuts, even in soft ground, seemed to be characteristic of all the +waterways observed by the writer. + +On another occasion the writer was given a view of the North Polar +regions. At that time the deep snows that covered the ground +everywhere were melting. The country seemed to be very hilly. As far +as the eye could reach I observed low-lying hills covered with a white +mantle of snow. Patches of reddish earth here and there indicated that +the thaw was general and that the snow had thinned out in spots. +Between the hills I observed a large body of water, and was informed +that this was an artificial reservoir which had been created by the +damming of a large valley. The sky on this occasion was hidden by a +mist, a very natural phenomenon in view of the fact that many thousands +of square miles of the country, covered with snow on this part of Mars, +was undergoing a rapid thaw. + +That the large dark-colored areas on Mars, supposed by early observers +to be seas, are nothing more or less than low, swampy land covered with +rank vegetation, was evidenced to me on one occasion when I was +permitted to see the true character of these portions of the planet. + +The rank vegetation was about three feet high and of a greenish red +color. Interspersed throughout the mass of coarse-leafed plants were +high, dry stalks the remnants of an earlier crop of Martian flora. The +season seemed to be advanced and all plant life was taking on autumnal +tints. + +It was in December 1919 that I saw the first close-up picture of a +Martian--a woman. Her head was covered with a thin veil which came +down to her well-formed mouth. She seemed to be a most beautiful woman +with most expressive eyes. Her hair was black. Her skin was unusually +white, which contrasted with the dark hair. She wore no jewelry, or +other ornaments that I could see. + +On a subsequent occasion I was permitted to see a Martian male. He was +playing a flutelike instrument, and as he was quite close to me I could +observe the wax-like texture of his skin. This semi-transparency of +the skin is characteristic of the Martians, and evidences a life that +is free from the many bodily ailments that afflict humanity on our +Earth. The Martian was dressed in graceful but loose-fitting clothes +of a reddish-brown color. His eyes were a deep blue and his lips +seemed to be unusually red. In respect to stature he was, I would say, +about five feet nine inches in height. In fact, on subsequent +occasions I have observed crowds of Martians gathered together and they +appeared no different from the inhabitants of our own world except as +to clothing, which is much simpler, but more graceful than our styles. + +I was informed by the spiritual control that the fauna of Mars is +varied, but that all animal life is domesticated, there being now no +wild animals on the planet. + +It was shortly after I had seen the Martians, described in the +foregoing paragraph, that I was shown two cat-like animals, which at +the time of my vision were engaged in playing about the feet of a +Martian. They did not exactly resemble cats, but were more feline than +canine. They were about the size of a large Airedale, and of a dark, +reddish-brown color with deep black stripes, similar to the markings of +our tigers. They were very playful and cavorted about just as our own +dogs and cats do when endeavoring to attract the attention of their +masters. + +On the morning of January 20, 1920, I was shown another Martian canal. +On this occasion I observed a large building on the banks of the +waterway near my point of vision. This building was more of a +grandstand with a roof than anything else I can compare it to. It +consisted of a large framework painted white, and was as high as our +two-storied structures. A multitude of the people were inside the +building, some sitting, some standing. They all seemed to be intently +gazing in a Northerly direction, up-stream. + +Much green foliage and varied-colored flowers lined the banks of the +canal, especially in the neighborhood of the building. The people all +seemed to be attired in holiday garb, and it was evident to me that a +celebration was going on. + +Later I was informed that what I had witnessed was an annual +celebration observed by the people of Mars on the occasion of arrival +of the first water from the North Pole after commencement of the +Martian Spring. It appears that this occasion is a very important +event with the Martians, as the arrival of the life-giving moisture +from the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the planet insures a season of +plenty for the inhabitants. The water arrives at the equatorial +regions in a little less than a Martian month (60 days) after the +commencement of the Polar thaws and after a season of thanksgiving to +the Father has been held by all in appreciation of His bountiful gifts. +The Spiritual leaders of the different communities preside at these +gatherings. + +The foregoing is in remarkable agreement with a statement on page 375 +of the late Professor Lowell's book titled "MARS," as follows. + +"The Canal quickening on Mars occupied 52 days, as evidenced by the +successive vegetal darkenings which descend from latitude 72 degrees +North and latitude 0, a journey of 2,650 miles. The rate of +progression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is carried +from near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale of extrinsic +aid, and the uniformity of the action increases its significance." + +On the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting Martian +scene, which was almost identical with the previous vision of the +Arctic regions of this planet, except that the warm season was more +advanced, and I was permitted to see the country from another angle. I +was facing East. Most of the Polar snow had disappeared, and the +low-lying hills were now covered with a growth of dark green +vegetation, except at a few isolated points which showed small patches +of snow. The sky was less misty than on the previous occasion. + +On the evening of January 21 I was shown a flock of Martian sheep. The +herd was small and I observed five of the animals at close range. I +call them sheep for the reason that the animals resembled our sheep in +every particular. The wool was very long and of a dark reddish-brown +color, except underneath their bellies which was yellowish. + +On the evening of January 29 I had a vision of a beautiful woman with a +child kneeling at her feet. She was seated on a chair and held a book +on her lap. The symbolism of the vision was later explained to me by +the controls, who said: "Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not +receive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter +therein." God's truths are perceived only by those who can acquire the +simple faith of a child. + +It was about the same time I had a vision in which I saw Sergius for +the first time distinctly. He is the principal control dominating the +writing of this book. He appeared very patriarchal with a long beard. +His features were decidedly semitic. His countenance was most +spiritual and beautiful. + +On February 10 I had my first vision of Mars' two moons, known to our +astronomers as Diemos and Phobos. The latter appeared as a satellite +about half as large as our full moon, and the former like a star +brighter than the first magnitude, and could be compared with Jupiter +as seen from our Earth during a favorable opposition of that planet. +The latter satellite sheds considerable light on her primary. An +interesting explanation of these two moons will be found in a later +chapter of this book. + +On February 17 I was shown the actual appearance of our sun from the +planet Mars. What I saw disproves the theory that owing to the +distance of Mars from the sun the latter would be viewed by the +Martians as a disk about half the size as seen from our Earth. The +Solar Orb appeared as to size and brightness, about the same as viewed +from our Earth, and seemed to give forth its heat with the same +intensity. I was facing the sun and its brilliance blinded my eyes for +an instant. + +On the evening of February 29 I had a vision of a strange looking +creature ape-like in appearance. The form was about five feet tall, +very hairy, his body being covered with a thick coat of woolly hair of +a grayish color. He was smoking what appeared to be a cigar-like roll +of something, probably some sort of leaves rolled up into a convenient +form for smoking. On the tips of his pointed ears were little tufts of +long hair, which gave his head a lynx-like appearance. There were +quite a number of large yellow spots on his hairy chest. His nose was +very stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike. + +I was later informed that I had seen an inhabitant of the planet +Mercury, where life has not yet evolved to a very high degree, and +where man has not yet wholly emerged from his primary beast-like state. + +Concerning the flora of Mars I have on various occasions viewed +orchards of growing fruit trees. The trees were set out in rows +similar to the methods adopted in our own orchards. The trees were +dwarf-like, being not over five or six feet high. I was informed that +this particular species of tree was cultivated for its fruit and for +the fiber obtained from its large leaves, which is made into cloth, +thread and cordage. + +On one occasion a short time after the chapter dealing with the +transmission of Electro-magnetic energy by wireless was received, I was +shown two immense towers on the planet Mars which are used for the +purpose of distributing power throughout the planet. The two towers +were very close together, probably 100 yards apart and 100 feet high. +They resembled two immense round smoke-stacks, such as are common in +our factory districts. The tops of the towers were surmounted by oval +caps, transparent as if made from glass, and protected by a system of +grill work. While I was intently observing the towers there occurred a +blinding flash of light simultaneously from the two oval caps. + +The surrounding country was covered with high trees, and it was +impossible for me to observe the base of the two structures. + + + +CHAPTER VIII. + +KNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES FROM WITHIN + +Mars, with its teeming millions of inhabitants, whose dwellings, +factories, storehouses, etc. cover most of the entire area, has no +watchmen, policemen or other guardians of the peace to prevent unlawful +acts on the part of its people. + +As all property is considered as belonging to the Father, and is held +in common by the people of the planet, there exists no incentive for +anyone to steal. Each individual has all he requires for his comfort. +Hence, why should anyone covet what is in the possession of his brother? + +There is no temptation on Mars for anyone to take more than he needs, +for selfishness has been entirely eliminated from our planet. +Selfishness has no place among really civilized beings. It is a relic +of the jungle where it is necessary to perpetuate the lower animal life. + +You of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial +condition or state through the law of Atavism. This is a part of your +fall from Divine Grace. And to induce man on your globe to realize his +pitiful condition and redeem himself is the work of the Spirits from +the higher Spheres who are now with you. + +Mars has no Church system and no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy. All +Martians recognize and worship one God, the Eternal Father. Each +individual is taught from infancy to seek God through the doors of his +own soul, which is an institutional faculty possessed by everyone. + +Jesus Christ, who came to your Earth 2,000 years ago with a message, is +known to us. The Christ is one of the greatest powers in the +Universe--next to the Creator. + +Your sectarian church systems are a hindrance to the proper spiritual +development of the individual. These systems engender an element of +dependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual +enfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and +unfold before real progress upwards begins. + +All knowledge of God should come from within and not through the +instrumentality of imperfect individuals, such as your religious +teachers are. + +The present lack of interest (in 1920) in sectarian matters on the part +of the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow but sure +disintegration of a system that has held your people in mental and +spiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn of a better day +for humanity on your Earth. + + + +CHAPTER IX. + +MARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM + +When Love rules a community of people there is no need of +administrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the +inhabitants who make up the population of a planet. For the same +reason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative center. + +This announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many +readers who have imagined that no considerable number of human beings +could live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a complex +administrative system such as you have on your Earth. + +Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped +civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has +been eliminated. + +When each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, is +actuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a horde of +political parasites to direct the destinies of the race. + +This lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to its +industrial and economic side. The law of supply and demand determines +just how many factories there should be, and just what output is +necessary for a given period. But it must be remembered that the law +of supply and demand on our planet has no relation to a competitive +system such as yours, for we have no competitor, a fact that will be +impressed elsewhere in this book. + +It is true that certain of our people who have been specially singled +out by the dominating influence of the Invisible World are occasionally +appealed to by those in doubt as to what is best for their individual +welfare, or the welfare of the community at large, to act in advisory +capacities. These are the Spiritual Advisers of the planet, and are +really God's prophets. There was a time when your race was guided by +similar individuals, as is evidenced from mention of them in your +sacred Scriptures. But their usefulness was lost when man on your +Earth forgot God. + +It was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded the +unwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator. He clamored for a +Code of Laws and received them (through Moses). His next downward step +was taken when he admitted it was necessary to have interpreters of the +Law: for if the spirit of the Law had been kept there would have been +no misunderstanding or juggling of the letter. + +Soon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's +growing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority over +all the interpreters, whose word should be final. So your people cried +aloud for Kings. And you have them, and your law has grown to immense +proportions, as have also the clever sins of your selfishness. WHERE +THERE IS NO SIN THERE IS NO NEED OF LAWS; FOR THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A +LAW UNTO HIMSELF. + +It must not be imagined that because of the lack of a political system +on Mars, such as you deem necessary on your Earth, that all is chaos +and life a sort of happy-go-lucky existence. On the contrary, the +Martian existence is controlled by the acme of system, which is in +accordance with the law of Divine Harmony. A system from which has +been eliminated all the useless wheels which so clog up your lives and +make your progress slow indeed. + + + +CHAPTER X. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE + +"And now abideth Faith, Hope and Love: these three; but the greatest of +these is LOVE." Paul to the Corinthians. + +THERE IS BUT ONE LAW ON MARS. THAT LAW IS LOVE. + +This law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people. + +It is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected in the +countenance of every individual. + +This law is the incentive before the entire population and urges each +individual onward to the completion of the task before him. + +There are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than his +brother. There is no evil, for all are good: all are equal. God endows +every individual expression of life with the Divine Heritage of a pure +soul. It is the individual's concern to keep this heavenly gift +unstained in its descent into matter. The love force of the Spirit is +the potent agent that does this for the individual when allowed to +permeate and radiate the entire being. When individuals have learned +to bathe their innermost beings in the Father's love, then it must +follow that a nation made up of such individuals will be governed only +by such precepts as are evolved from this dominating Love-force. + +It is of no import to the individual on this planet what his particular +task may be, for all work is for the Father; and the humblest vocation +(humbler from the point of view of the dwellers on your Earth) is as +important and as honorable as the highest. + +MARS IS RULED BY LOVE, which is in accordance with the Divine Intent. +It is the desire of the Father that every world in limitless space +inhabited by His children be ruled by that Divine Principle. For when +Love is the supreme law of a world, as it is of the Universe, there is +no need of a system of complex laws and a horde of judicial officers to +interpret and enforce them. + +When Love enters into the life of a community selfishness makes its +exit: misery becomes a stranger and pain and sickness vanish. + +From the cradle to transition the Martian is dominated by Love and +guided by the Father's will. The result of this Love-rule is +individual and communal happiness. But above all, a Spiritual progress +that unfolds the individual in accordance with the Cosmic Intent. + +To die, in the sense of passing out of one's physical environment, is +the destiny of every created being. Hence, in that sense, death exists +on Mars as it does on your Earth. But the real death referred to by +Christ: a Spiritual death imposed on man by his fall from Grace, a +penalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars. We +are in harmony with the Father. Those who are spiritually dead are cut +off from the Father as a result of their indifference and ignorance of +Spiritual Truth. + +The religion of the Martian may be expressed in two thoughts: "LOVE" +and "THY WILL BE DONE, NOT MINE." The true definition of Religion is a +"RULE OF LIFE," and as our lives are guided entirely by Love and the +Father's Will. WE HAVE A RELIGION. + +You, on your Earth, have created a Religion to satisfy your +conventionalities. Truth is simple, but you have made it intricate. +It is free, yet you buy it from the would-be disciples. Both you and +we must approach Him in simple faith: "Unless ye become as little +children ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven." + +Speaking of children, I desire to give expression to a thought that may +appear to be outside the subject: it is this: The beauty and simplicity +of youth is wonderful, and to be admired by all: but in the sight of +the Heavenly Father, and those who have progressed to higher realms, it +is not so wonderful as those older characters who have waded the +marshes of life, as it were, and who have trod the dirty steps without +losing faith. + +This is to encourage those who sometimes think when they look back on +their lives that all is dark. Their strength is being tried in the +darkness. Therefore their courage and faith is so much more. + +We who are giving you these messages have passed beyond the stage you +are in, and do not have to be tried on every hand. We look upon you +who are struggling through the pitfalls created by your false systems +with pity, knowing how great your trials are. Do not think that +because we have gone on to higher planes of life that we are out of +sympathy with you. The more we bask in the sunshine of Love the more +tender we become to those in the shadow. And if you would only realize +how strong you are, with the Father's love and His real consideration +for you, you would try so much harder to better your condition by +meeting His Love with Love. + +We of Mars have learnt to keep the right pictures before the minds of +our youth that they may not be so sorely tried, but on your planet you +have not even the beginning of a system whereby there could be kept +continually before the minds of your children the real goal to be +striven for. I make exception of the few homes on your planet where +the parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not +ideal--just a beginning of Idealism. But they are better far than the +masses in their home conditions on your planet. + +Now, we are ready to do all we can towards stimulating the living of +the Christ-life among all souls in the Universe when it can be so +arranged: but it will take aeons of time on some planets, and many +decades on yours before we can scientifically teach you. To be sure, +we are giving you all we can for this book, but it will not be +universally accepted, although it will bring great joy to those who +have faith. + +If you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the wonderful +happiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness of your own +life. Picture beautiful things and your heart must be beautiful. +Strive with all your mind to hold beautiful thoughts, for it is well +worth your every effort towards faith. + + + +CHAPTER XI. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL + +The people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so +filled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to the +high development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost as audible +as words. Hence, converse between individuals on our planet is not +altogether a series of vocal ejaculations. On the contrary, among the +older members of the race, communication between individuals is in some +cases audibly imperceptible. + +Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information +is usually transmitted impressionally. + +Education on Mars begins at the mother's knee. The first knowledge +imparted to the young is Spiritual. The first lessons given to the +child are: One's absolute dependence on God, and that the few years +before the individual are but an unfoldment, or an individualizing of +the entity into a separate and distinct unit. + +The Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps these +truths. This procedure continues until the pupil is ready to enter an +institution of learning. + +THE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A +PLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE. THE PARENTS ARE THE +FIRST TEACHERS. + +The primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on the +necessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and righteousness in +order that the mind of the individual be so moulded and fashioned that +absolute faith is placed in God's promises through the Master, Christ. + +The keynote to the education of the individual is that one must first +seek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, which is the +Divine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and that coming into a +knowledge of God means health, happiness and wisdom. + +After the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which result in +an unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to a school; but a +school system different from anything you have on your Earth. The task +of the teacher is, not to teach knowledge but to assist in bringing out +what is already latent in the soul, rather than a set routine, for +every individual is considered a master in some line of thought and +activity. The pupil is led into knowledge instead of being taught +directly. + +The individual is left to his own tastes and volition. The harmony of +music of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics and of Life, +together with a knowledge of the laws of Electricity, is especially +brought to the attention of the individual. You of the Earth know as +yet very little concerning the true nature of Electricity. Your +methods of handling and generating this wonderful force are crude +indeed, by comparison with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the +subject. + +And so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we of +Mars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to hear and +see many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not exist at all for +you. Of course there are some exceptions among the few of your Earth +who, after having striven hard for light have been favored by God's +angels in the development of a higher Spirituality. + +Our teachers are guides who look after their charges in an atmosphere +of Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth are acquired by +the pupil. + +Thought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian children +are never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth. As a consequence +of this they are easily led into true knowledge, and having a broad +vision are able to see all things in their true relations. They begin +at the cause and work towards the effect, which is the opposite of your +system. + +No set rules of discipline are used in the schools. Indeed they are +not necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one goal impressed +on the mind of the pupil is the complete expression of the Father +Within, for to express the Father is to have perfect life, life in +abundance. + +Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and +learned by the child in the early part of his career. + +Astronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an +understanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite +Universe of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of Mars, +unusual opportunity is presented to students in visual observations of +the Heavens. + +Entire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher +guides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's Heavens is +ablaze with scintillating points of light. The different +constellations as viewed from our planet present the same general +appearance as to configuration as they do to the dwellers on your +Earth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by reason of a more +advantageous viewpoint. + +The so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of the +larger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars than to +Earth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from this vantage +point. Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily seen with the +naked eye. + +Your Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with our +observing instruments we are able to see your continent and oceans when +not covered by a cloud canopy. + +As to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the former +presents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, but being so +near the sun it is only visible an hour before or after sunset, +depending upon its position. But Mercury, being so near the Solar Orb, +it is rarely its position is favorable for observation from our planet, +and then only with our more perfect telescopes. + +Our students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our planet +with the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do. + +Mars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking +phenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West, +passing each other at times within view of observers. The most distant +satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the +name of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth. Approximately 132 +hours elapse between its rising and setting at any particular point on +our planet, as a consequence of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours +18 minutes at a distance of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary; +and as Mars rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion +is almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite. + +During the time of its rotation it changes four times from full to new +and new to full. The appearance of this satellite to the Martians is +equal, if not a little brighter than the view of Jupiter from your +Earth. + +The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as +Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by +means of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700 +miles from the surface of Mars. This satellite is shut out from view +beyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary. +Its period is 7 hours and 30 minutes--less than one-third the time of +the rotation of Mars. It rises in the West and courses across the +Heavens in 11 hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of +its phases and gets through half another. Its disc appears to us as a +little more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full appears +to you. + +The realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the Martian +student. We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws to a point +which would appear to your understanding most incomprehensible. Long +ago we mastered the knowledge of the method of releasing Interatomic +Energy,[2] a knowledge which in the brain of an unscrupulous person +would be most disastrous, not only to himself but to those about him. +The energy locked up in an atom of matter is tremendous, and the +release of this power is only a matter of knowing the law. The +inhabitants of your world will have to bide a long time before the key +that will release this giant is placed within their reach. + +Not until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not before you +have learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be permitted to +harness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, a force equally as +great for evil as it is for good. This knowledge we have, and we have +utilized it in the construction and building of our mighty planetary +projects. + +This Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous heat. If +it were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt itself out ages ago. +All your theories to account for the continuity of solar radiation are +in error. The release of Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite +rate is the reason why its heat never increases or diminishes though +millions of years come and go in endless procession. + +And this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, some +of your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: Omnipotent, +Omniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the Directing Intelligence, +who sees to it that all is provided for His children. + +On your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements. In order +to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table, +there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists. On Mars +the most elementary school pupil is well informed on the subject, and +has knowledge of the complete list among the new elements yet to be +discovered by your chemists, and which exist in appreciable quantities +on your Earth, is one which has the peculiar property of neutralizing +Gravity. + +This neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the gravitational +pull when interposed between the Earth and the matter sought to be made +immune from the attraction, just as you would insulate against the flow +of electricity by interposing a non-conductor between two conducting +metals. + +The knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized in the +solution of our transportation problem. Instead of cumbersome +railroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an almost perfect +flying or floating ship. It is made buoyant by being screened from the +gravitational pull of the planet.[3] + +Another subject of importance, that takes no little time to understand +by the Martian student is the part played by the planet's satellites in +the generation of Electro-Magnetic energy. The sun together with its +circulating family of planets is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and +its satellites are minor generators of Electric energy. Satellites +have a higher importance and necessity than the mere creation of +moonshine. + +All the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers have +not yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. The latter +planet has a satellite whose distance is so close to its primary that +its presence is lost in the intense reflection of light caused by +Venus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser than that of your Earth. +In the case of Mercury, owing to its extremely close proximity to the +sun, its satellite probably never will be seen by observers on your +Earth, as it is lost in the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on +this planet. + + +[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following--"Sir +Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the +energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time will come when atomic +energy will take the place of coal as a source of power." The man who +spoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver +Lodge--one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has +devoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of +the atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may +utilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so appalling that +Sir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how to release it. I +hope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy, he +says, until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly, +because if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would +be unsafe. A force utterly disproportionate to the present source of +Power would be placed at the disposal Or the world. + +NOTE (By the Editor in 1920)--This article was published more than two +months after the revelation above was received, but is another striking +confirmation of the truth of these revelations. + +[3] In the February issue of the "Electrical Experimenter," (1920) +which was published about a month after this information was received +by revelation, the following article appeared--another startling +confirmation of the truth contained herein, and points to the +possibility that whatever is possible on one planet, is also possible +on another, depending upon that planet's type of civilization and real +knowledge, not superficial theory: + +"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement that +Prof. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a pool of mercury +lost a certain amount of weight. It was explained that the weight was +lost due to a screening effect which the mercury produced on the lead +balls. In other words, mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the +earth's gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated +the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T. J. +See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an address +before the California Academy of Sciences, announced recently that his +researches on gravitation in 1917 and his latest researches on +molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim that the screening of +gravitation has been shown to exist. In 1917, says Professor See, 'I +explained the fluctuation of the Moon's main motion by the circular +refraction of the sun's gravitation waves, as they are propagated +through the solid body of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.' + +"'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that quicksilver is +indeed very resistant to the waves which produce molecular action, and +this developed a new theory of the depression of the mercury in +capillary tubes. This would tend to confirm Maiorana's claim that a +basin of mercury beneath a suspended mass of lead may decrease the +gravitation of the lead by a small amount. My researches on ether show +conclusively that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain +very resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a slight +screening effect.' + +"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be +accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against +gravitation." + + + +CHAPTER XII. + +EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION, +SCHOOL AGE, MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued) + +Everyone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length of +time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. The Martian +year is nearly twice as long as on your globe. + +There are many universities on Mars where students enter direct from +their homes, where the primary and preparatory education is first +inculcated in their minds. Wonderful teachers have charge of the +students, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are taught. +Special and particular attention is given to the subject of the +development of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may come into man's +Divine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of the KINGDOM OF GOD. + +Each student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this +vocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what benefits +the individual also benefits the entire community. + +Each individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that will +ensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system of the +planet, and each unit understands the dignity and importance of his +position, no matter what that position may be, for on Mars no activity +of human endeavor is considered menial; no one position in life is less +important than the rest: all is God's work. + +And so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of physical +activity, for God has created each individual for some particular work. +Six hours is a day's work, the remainder of the time is devoted to +recreation, music, lectures, and those general activities that best +develop the highest spiritualities with the individual. For the +Martians realize that life on the material plane is but temporary the +isolation of the individual Divine Spark from the Infinite whole to the +end that the personality may become for all Eternity self-conscious and +in harmony with God, which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for +all time. + +Failure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the +individuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is +indestructible: it always was and always will be. + +Education on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of developing +the individual spiritually in order to prepare one for the spiritual +progress after the completion of the material probationary period as +well as having life in greatest abundance during that period, and with +this main end in view the subject of marriage, the rearing of children, +receives special consideration and attention. + +The pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the selection +of a wife by the prospective husband must be in accordance with true +conjugal harmony, and this is not possible in the absence of Spiritual +development. Hence, divorces are unknown with us, and to that end is +special care taken in the matter of teaching the truth concerning the +marital relation, the rearing of children and their Spiritual growth. + +The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your +time measurements. The result of this early training is that the young +couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," are true mates and go +through life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so +characteristic of your Earth's people. + +Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from +God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the +gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an +accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such marriages are unholy +and destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual +awakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your +Earth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished +and the extinction of the race will be inevitable. + +The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic +Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your +system that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those +having supervision over the studies of the young. + +One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular +attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an atmospheric +pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175 +degrees on our planet. This temperature is inadequate for cooking +foods properly, especially the coarser varieties. But recourse is had +to the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies +of the occasion demand. + +Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the +variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your +planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours. + +Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the +gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two reasons for +this. In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on +Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates +the necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your +physical make-up demands. In the second place the Martians partake of +food to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded +by the consumption of victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your +Earth tenants live to eat. + +Although each individual has his particular place in the universe where +he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in +all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is given an opportunity +to obtain a broad and comprehensive knowledge relating to all subjects, +both material and spiritual. + +The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, offers +an interesting field for study and research work, as does also its +concomitant Cosmic Energy. + +Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of labor-saving +devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of energy is +considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic Chemistry. But +it must be understood that the individual is taught that dependence +must be placed rather on one's own dexterity, born of that God-given +faculty of Intuition, than on the perfectness of a man-made machine, +the creation of finite mind. + +For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete +degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire +dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on +machinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator, +such dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the +worker's intuitional faculties. + +This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is +not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most +every line of industrial activity. You are now getting to the stage +where the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved +by merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator +understanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the +solution of the problems in hand. This means, in the near future, +brain atrophy through disuse. + +And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a +thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel +or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the +completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be impossible to +find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the +extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article. + +In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a +mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our +factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes +in winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our +knowledge of matter and energy. + +We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an +Effect world. The Cause world is the Reality which is invisible to all +while hampered with a physical body; that all forms of matter are but +the manifestation of the same ultimate Essence; that this Essence is +but a Divine Impulse--a thrust, as it were, in the Ether. That +although we observe with our sensory organs many different kinds of +matter, consisting of elements and compounds of elements: if we were +able to resolve any of the different forms of matter before us into +their ultimate units, these ultimate particles would all turn out to be +the same thing, the "Divine Impulses" just mentioned. + +Now you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed in an +Infinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is immersed in an +ocean of water. Everywhere, all about us, is a teeming maelstrom of +motion. There is not a cubic centimeter of space that you can call at +rest. All is eternal motion. All is Energy. + +And out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians draw our +energy. And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate essence of all +matter and all energy, therefore you might imagine matter in its +different aspects as Electrical in origin. As Electricity is a +manifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the only Reality in the +Universe is GOD. + +We have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into harmony +with its origin--GOD--for only through God can true knowledge be +obtained. + +On your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing +Electrical Energy. You expend more energy by burning coal or using +water power than you derive from your electrical pump: for a dynamo is +nothing more than a pump. Your machines do not generate electrical +power for, as stated before you are immersed in an Infinite sea of +energy. + +On Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite reservoir of +energy. We have learned the law as you some day must. + +Located at convenient points on our planet are high towers, capped with +suitable receiving apparatus. In turn this energy is transmitted to +different parts of our globe where it is used. We do not require wires +to transmit energy. Our landscape is neither disfigured with unsightly +wires, nor is it covered with a pall of black smoke. We devised a more +perfect method of power production and transmission. + +The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality +brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars. An +understanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the world of +gross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge concerning +Spiritual truths; for the latter are the only real tangible treasures +worthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. Already a knowledge of +these truths is beginning to be sought for by some of the more +spiritually enlightened inhabitants of your Earth; but so immersed in +the unreal things of life is the vast majority of your Earth people +that it will take a long time before the present seed-sowing toward +this end will bear fruit. + +The seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now going on +by a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the present day, +have in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on your Earth. Only +Truth can stand in the end. All that is unreal or false must +ultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has willed that the day +when error shall be no more shall be hastened. + +There are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them. + +But they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as long +as you function in a world of unreality and error your Spiritual vision +is incapable of discerning what lies beyond your present horizon, and +must remain dormant. Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul, +and your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but +little of the real things beyond. + + + +CHAPTER XIII. + +MUSIC AN EXPRESSION OF THE FATHER + +All material expressions of the Father, from the simplest chemical +element to the most complex compound; from the one-celled protoplasmic +life germ to the most complex organism, are Vibratory in their ultimate +nature. + +As has been stated elsewhere in this book, material life is the +vibratory reflection from the Cause world into an Effect world. The +universe is a vibratory expression of an absolute Reality--GOD: a +material expression of Divine Harmony. And as Harmony is an expression +of the Father, its antithesis, Discord, is the creation of man. + +Of all the vibrations that more fully express the Father and arouse the +Emotional within the soul, Music must of necessity head the list. + +Owing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all +receptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic +scale. + +And for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate +vibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his +visional faculties. The long waves of the Infra-red and the short +waves of the Ultra-violet ends of the spectrum are invisible to your +Earth people except in rare cases of developed mediumship, though your +photograph plates are somewhat sensitive to these vibrations. + +You are immersed in commercialism and other selfish pursuits while all +around you is a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE, vibrating with music too +heavenly for your dulled perceptions to enjoy. + +On Mars the development of the Musical talent is held to be of primary +importance. The laws of Harmony are part of the curriculum of all +schools, and all necessary paraphernalia for its proper exposition are +provided. We have instruments for measuring tone vibrations of so +delicate a pitch that the existence of these tones would be a blank to +the gross material ears of the inhabitants of your world. + +Music arouses the innermost emotions of the soul and its effect on the +individual is proportionate to his degree of spiritual development. +Music is harmony, but it also creates an atmosphere of harmony. + +The music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the very +essence of the Cosmos. By Music of the Spheres is meant the harmonious +interrelation of all spiritual planes. Every unit in the universe is +in perfect accord one with the other, and all are functioning in +perfect unison. Every Solar Orb and every Planet responds to +Harmonious law. The Cosmos as a whole is the expression of a Divine +Symphony. + +When man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment +entitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then will +the sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him. + +On Mars divers instruments are used for producing musical harmony, and +much of this harmony is of such a subtle nature that your crude +instruments could not give expression to it. + +We have a means of producing harmony of the highest order by utilizing +Ethereal Electric Vibration which produces light vibrations +corresponding to tone production, for true Electric Vibration is real +music. This device resembles a series of globes, all transparent, +colorless when not in action. But immediately they are allowed to +produce music they become units of color and tone work that would give +you the impression of SEEING AND HEARING A RAINBOW SIMULTANEOUSLY. You +are not ready to receive the scientific explanation of this phenomenon, +but we are ready to give it to you at any time. + +Singing is also highly developed on our planet, for it is the first +expression of harmony that the child is taught. This is true for the +reason that vocal music is the most natural expression of harmonious +vibrations. Much time is devoted to ensemble work among our people of +all ages. This chorus work is of great benefit to all partaking, for +individually and collectively much inspiration is received; and the +tremendous Love-force loosened by this united expression of harmony +becomes a phenomenal power and stimulus--a purifying agent for soul and +body. This will help you to realize why disease is unknown to us. + +In the development of the musical talents of the individual on Mars the +pupil is impressed with the necessity of expressing the true self, and +the original improvisation or composition is the method by which the +pupil expresses his understanding of the subject. No one attempts to +ape the technique or genius of another, for on Mars all are geniuses. +This is true in every form of activity. All must be creators to +express individuality. + +When an individual on Mars has surpassed all others in some special +expression of Divine Harmony the product of his genius is for the +benefit of all, hence copyrights and patents are unknown on our planet. + + + +CHAPTER XIV + +AERONAUTICS, INHABITED PLANETS, SECTARIANISM + +A great deal of interest is being manifested in your city this morning +(April 25, 1920), over the Aeronautical Show. You imagine the Flying +machines wonderful mechanisms; but in their present state they will not +lift you out of your atmosphere. You have yet to perfect a real +airship. + +Your Flying machines are cumbersome and awkward, and they consume lots +of fuel and make a deal of noise. It can hardly be said they are +harmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is only a sample +of your Earth's development. + +You have seen the seagulls soar over the water seemingly without +motion; and yet they go up and down, turning this way and that without +effort. This is the best idea I can give you of our airships, which +really soar. No sound, no discordant vibrations disturb the quiet of +the Martian atmosphere, and the tranquility of the Mars people. + +When you have learned the secret of how to tap the Universal Reservoir +of Cosmic Power, then will you evolve a perfect Flying machine such as +we have. A great deal of interest is also being centered on an attempt +to signal Mars, and your apparatus is not fine enough to receive our +waves. But success will come to you in another decade, and we will be +able to get something through for your scientific world. + +It is gratifying to know that a large portion of your population +entertain the belief that Mars is inhabited: and also that the +possibilities point to the fact that other planets are inhabited. + +You have advanced a long way to come to that belief, but you are yet a +long way from the truth. You are on the eve of an awakening and much +will come through the discoveries of scientists who are devoting their +lives to the study of Truth. It is true that only a few of that number +are bold enough to proclaim all they discover, and they must bear the +brunt of much harsh criticism. In the end, however, ignorance must +give way to Light. + +We look upon your inventions with much amusement, and yet with great +interest, just as you would look upon your children's finest toys. We +are much older than you and are doing all we can to help your +scientists by impressing them with thoughts that will lead them to +discover new truths, and our interest never flags. How could it if we +are doing the Father's work? For it is the Father's great pleasure to +give His children all they can receive. + +If you could cut loose from your world conventions and could perceive +new ideas; if you would but disregard man-made theories and open your +minds and souls to the Father's Revelations, it would not be long +before your sin-cursed and forsaken Earth would be changed into a +Paradise. + +But the tendency among you if to think as your forefathers thought +rather than cut new paths. However, your children of this generation +are of a different sort, and they must be taught the importance of +DEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL INTELLECT. There is MORE INDIVIDUALISM being +born into the world today than ever before. THERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN, +BUT THEY ARE STRONGER (the year 1920). + +THESE CHILDREN, WITH THEIR ORIGINALITY AND ESOTERIC TENDENCIES WILL +BRING ON A REVOLUTION ON YOUR PLANET THAT WILL END BY DESTROYING YOUR +THREADBARE DOGMATISM. This tendency is evidenced by the recent failure +of the Interchurch movement. It has been the habit on your planet that +you cannot accomplish anything without raising immense sums of money. + +It is not money that does the real work but rather PERSONAL SERVICE. +People are inclined to give almost everything than personal service. +If each person lived the Christ Life there would be no need of money. +A close study of the Mars Economic system will demonstrate that truth. + + + +CHAPTER XV. + +LIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. + +THE PLANET JUPITER + +LIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Go forth on a moonless +night and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of +scintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making: +the galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a +seething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the +one reality, OMNISCIENCE. + +Only presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the creation of +the Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous worldwide systems, and +place his particular world-unit at the center of the Cosmos. + +Man contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more +ornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, conceitedly +thinking that the Father's only consideration is centered about himself. + +As these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits +extending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with the +habitable worlds in space. Some there are where life is not yet +possible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive state: not +long since condensed from fire mist: others where life has just begun: +others on whose surfaces live teeming millions of God's creatures, just +as you live and others have lived before you. And there are other +worlds whose life-cycle has been run; where intelligent life has +ceased: where world-disintegration has set in. For this is in +accordance with the universal law of Growth and Decay--a law that +exempts neither the one-celled amoeba, nor the complex Solar system +whirling yonder in Infinite space. + +For all that comes from the Father into material expression must some +day revert to its primordial state. + +You have thus far received much concerning the idealistic conditions on +Mars, whose planetary career is now reaching the zenith of its Cosmic +cycle, and whose denizens have progressed to a degree of Divine +unfoldment not yet attained by many worlds. + +It is necessary that you now receive some information relating to one +of the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our sun, in +order you may be able to learn by contrast something of the wonders of +God's work. + +JUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times larger +than your Earth, but whose density is proportionately less, might well +be styled the Master Planet of our system. + +Jupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of +which is not necessary at this time. This planet is in what might be +styled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun. This +life has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it +will be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in +Geological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of +these periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have +attained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences +capable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth. + +Long before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will +undergo a tremendous change. Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise +new mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land +surfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water, +to rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and +solicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial +Creations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal +and petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will +inhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come. + +Jupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this +planet a very high mean temperature. Its atmosphere is still very +dense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the +extreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only +dissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun +penetrates to the surface of the globe. By reason of the constant +thick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped +in deep gloom and darkness. As radiation is arrested to a marked +degree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as +well as hot. In this steam environment grow forests of fern and +fungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of +time be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this +planet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed, +but is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type, +but which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and +adaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races +yet to come on the planet. + +Owing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms +are, and future ones will be evolved along specially modified lines, in +order that they may encompass the least possible volume, just as the +denizens of the extreme depths of your oceans have evolved. The +modification is necessary that organisms mat be able to function on a +planet where the difference in gravity is as one to three compared with +your Earth. In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce +maximum lightness. + +As there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature is +God Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is as +perfect within itself as is the most gigantic sun. Size is but +relative. The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and complex as is +that of the mammoth, and so there exist in the universe inhabited +worlds that are relatively very small. + +Circulating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are +numerous small planets or asteroids. One in particular, which is known +to your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an atmosphere and is +inhabited by diminutive people and a correspondingly diminutive fauna +and flora. The diameter of Vesta is about 500 miles, although your +astronomers give its size, erroneously, as much smaller. + +While the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are +getting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them you +are getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos. + +The universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a perfect +watch. Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit in a given +time mathematically proportional to the movements of all the other +celestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the watch conform to +their prescribed movements. The celestial bodies are seemingly +actuated by invisible gears and are held rigidly in their proper places +by a mighty force whose power is incalculable. This is evidenced by +the fact that all celestial bodies conform to that inexorable law, +Divine Harmony. + +That all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their +ceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their periods +is as the cube of their distance from their common centers, is an +exemplification of the reign of God's harmonious laws. + +You must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted view of +Truth. All the fleeting things of life are but dross: their apparent +reality an illusion. Material life is but a projection from the Cause +world into the Effect world. Man is but a reflection of a reality that +transcends his material vision. + +You are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, which is +yet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is nigh. Christ is +coming into His Kingdom, which must be in the hearts of the people. +His Second Coming means that He will come into your lives with the +Power of the Spirit. This can only become possible through an awakened +understanding of Spiritual laws. Although man on your Earth is in +great darkness it is not the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must +undergo many changes before it reaches your evolutionary stage. + +COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will be +realized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM MARS. +This event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your Earth, for it +will be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF THE MEDIEVAL +DOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY built upon a perverted +corruption of God's limitless universe: a universe narrowed down to +your Earth and the inhabitants thereof. + +Man's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his +ignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway among a +majority of your so-called learned scientists and the people generally. +But the materialism of the masses is not so degenerating and +destructive as the impossible dogmas entertained by your numerous sects +WHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER. +These dogmas are priestly inventions created to frighten God's +children; to make of man, created after the image of God a crawling, +servile creature, instead of what he really should be, the highest +manifestation of the Divine, the culmination of God's handiwork. + + + +CHAPTER XVI + +THE RISEN CHRIST + +Easter Sunday, April 4, 1920 + +Your Earth's inhabitants are celebrating today the Resurrection of your +Savior--by gratifying the desires of Self. + +We of Mars do not have such events to commemorate for we never +crucified Him. We opened the door to His wonderful Truth. + +Not one of your Earth's inhabitants can perform the miracles Christ +did, but we can. Our leaders, who are our advisers, guides and +Spiritual teachers are Christlike men who can do all the works that +Christ and His disciples did. He said. "These signs do follow them +that believe," and we have never stopped believing. + +Your condition is pitiful. There is nothing but darkness between you +and the Truth Christ tried to give you. Christ is only an idea on your +planet and not a reality in the hearts of your people. Their whole +thought, for weeks past, has been devoted to their personal adornment, +and in preparing festivals for this occasion. + +In your churches, where they seem to observe the period of Christ's +suffering, it is only a form. They go through their vain repetition of +prayers, that have no soul in them, and your six weeks of so-called +Lent is only a mockery of its real significance. + +If you would live the Christ life you would not crucify Him daily in +the flesh, but would come to that consciousness that He is risen in +your soul. You are continually crucifying Christ all over your planet +in the same way that you crucified Jesus Christ, for you either deny +Him or pervert His Truth to suit your selfishness. + +All of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except +your Earth. The Earth has not advanced enough to be placed in the line +of progression yet. However, the time is near when you will experience +that progression. It will be after you are high enough spiritually to +receive word from the Martians through mediums. This work evidences +the fact that you are beginning that experience now. Take hope, for +after the obscure darkness must come the dawn. Your whole Earth is now +in terrible travail, but the result will be the birth of the new Christ +Spirit. + +You get glimpses now and then of the real Christ Life, but do you, or +can you realize what life on a planet is like when all the inhabitants +live the Christ Life every day? That is why we have the wonderful +manifestations of the Father's Love in our intricate and delicate +mechanisms, and in our utilization of Cosmic Energy. It is thus that +we receive the Father's wondrous gifts. But Mars never became what it +is until God purified it by His Son's example, and we accepted Him as +our Savior WITHOUT MURDER. Your planet damned itself to many bloody +aeons by the rejection of Him, and your Religion has been blood, blood, +blood! In your last five years you have been given enough blood to +drown all the martyrs you have given to your bloody god. + +Your planet is in slavery. You are slaves to your conventionalities. +They are like shackles on your souls: like bands of iron. And yet you +cling to them until it seems you do not want freedom. + +It is only Truth that will free you; and as long as you cling to false +ideals and sham systems you must expect to be slaves. + +Pin your faith not in material money, but in Spiritual Wealth. "Take no +heed of the morrow." Be of good cheer. MAKE WIDE THE OPENING TO THE +SPIRIT! HE WILL ENTER! + + + +CHAPTER XVII. + +PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THE RESULT OF SPIRITUAL CAUSES + + "For they have sown the wind + and they shall reap the whirlwind." (Hosea, 8:7) + +The Creator and Dominator of the entire Universe is DIVINE MENTALITY. + +The only real actuality that confronts sentient beings is MIND. We are +born, live and have our being amidst physical surroundings that in +final analysis are mere illusions. This idea is not new. + +It forms the base of most systems of philosophy from the dawn of +civilization to the present day. + +Our physical environment is the result of our mental attitude. Mars is +blessed with a climatic tranquility that would surpass the +understanding of an Earth dweller. But this was not always so. + +In proportion to the spiritual unfoldment of the inhabitants of a +planet so is the degree of climatic tranquility enjoyed by them. This +may, at first reading, appear far-fetched, but it is true nevertheless. + +Those who live on a material plane are immersed in the Effect world. +The dominating and primary influence that gives rise to all material +phenomena have their inception in the Cause world--the world of Spirit. +Hence the turbulence of the elements originate, through the law of +Vibration, deep down in the mentalities of those who make up the +population of a planet. Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other +disturbances of Nature are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine. + +When a race has discarded the pursuit of false ideals and comes into +harmony with the Father then there occurs a corresponding change in its +physical environment by reason of the vibratory influences at work. +These influences have their inception in the mentalities of sentient +beings who are doing the Father's work in the advancement of the races +of men throughout the entire physical universe. + +This same vibratory law is at work throughout all physical planes, and +a knowledge of this law was referred to by Christ when He said: "THE +KINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU." + +On Mars, owing to the high spiritual state of its inhabitants, who are +in harmony with their Creator, climatic conditions are, compared with +your world, most perfect. However, there was a time, measured in terms +of your millions of years, when the elements on Mars were as agitated +and capricious as they are today on your blood-stained globe. That was +before man on Mars had enfolded spiritually. + +As the Martians progressed and unfolded spiritually there occurred a +subsidence in the roughness of the elements: and today our planet is +blessed with a tranquility proportionate to the high Mental state of +its inhabitants. + + + +CHAPTER XVIII. + +MATERIAL LIFE A LESSON + +At the expense of what may appear as painful reiteration it is my +desire to impress upon the readers of this book this Truth: Material +life is necessary to unfold character, to develop the real self, the +Divine part in man: the only principle that endures forever. + +There is a lesson in every phase of work, in every joy, in every +sorrow. That lesson is LOVE. Until you have fully realized this truth +you will not become full heirs in the Kingdom of God. "He that loveth +is born of God." + +Christ taught that the Kingdom was not of your Earth, and that all +material things are transitory and would ultimately vanish like mist. + +The story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be accomplished +towards a more harmonious relation with the Father: towards a truer +realization of God's real Kingdom. But in any event you should not +idolize the Mars people, for the Father's Kingdom is more perfect. +Mars' idealism is only a degree in the progress in the Cosmic Family of +worlds. The soul must really strive for a higher goal. + +The Martians, after ages of time, have mastered their natural passions +in suppressing self, but they have other heights to scale. But he who +conquers a sordid environment; he who rises from a black pool of +iniquity; he who finds the Father's Kingdom amidst an uncompromising +warfare with sin deserves more credit than he who is favored by +circumstances of birth with more congenial surroundings and a higher +Spiritual environment. + +You must remember that the individual on Mars, although living amidst +an idealism, is beset with problems of life also. Our problems are +more subtle and of a very different character than you are accustomed +to deal with. Every plane of life has its complexities. If this were +not so, the stimulus for growth would be weak indeed. Your most +apparent problems are material only to your understanding, since you +are living under a most pernicious social and economic system, a system +which puts a premium on selfishness. + +All sentient entities are functioning in a universe of Relativity, and +the perfectness of the Martian character and the ideal material and +spiritual aspects of the planet are so by comparison only. + +Martians are self-conscious of their shortcomings and aspire to higher +things in God's Kingdom, for progress is eternal and the ultimate goal +is never reached on the material plane of action, for the pinnacle of +all progress is God. "BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS +ALSO PERFECT." + + + +CHAPTER XIX. + +A MARTIAN HOME + +The HOME is the moulder of Character in the individual, and in most +cases the Home influences determine the future of the man. + +Home influences are the most lasting and abide by the individual unto +the end of his material career. + +All the habitations of the people of Mars are beautiful, and a brief +description of one will give our reader an understanding of the other +millions of homes on the planet. + +I will take you into a Martian home in the city of Urid the Beautiful. +The rooms are large and commodious. Sunlight, which has been filtered +through translucent glass to temper and rob it of its glare, floods +every room. + +There are no stairs to climb, for the five or six rooms--depending on +the size of the family--form a rectangle with a court in the center. +There is a fountain in the center of the court, and beautiful flowers +grow in profusion. Birds of vivid plumage fill the air with their song. + +In one of the large rooms a mother sits at a sewing machine making a +garment. For the Martians use these machines too, although they are a +great improvement on yours. Not all the clothing is made in the homes, +but much of it is, and this is easily understood when you recall that +the Martians are true artists and possessed of great originality. + +The mother's attention is now and then centered on a very small child +who sits on a velvety carpet. This carpet would be a most wonderful +acquisition in the home of a man of wealth on your Earth. It has a +soft, fluffy pile two inches thick, and makes a most comfortable floor +for the baby to play upon. This baby is about 18 months old, and plays +with toys just as your Earth babies do. + +A beautiful young girl enters the room. She is dressed in a simple +becoming gown of white, and she carries her school books with her. +After removing her hat and putting her books away she begins to tell +her mother of the wonderful things learned at school that day. She is +studying the Harmony of Music, particularly the relationship between +Electro-Magnetic Vibrations and Music. + +The mother shows much interest, and from her store of knowledge clears +up many doubtful points in the mind of her daughter. And so the hours +pass quickly until the father comes home and joins the family circle. + +The walls of the room are white, and are relieved here and there by the +most beautiful tapestries. The few furnishings of the room express +beauty through the artistry that is born of Love. + +There is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room. + +A table, a few chairs and a receptacle for books, also a couch, +complete the furnishings. But this simplicity in the matter of +furniture adds a spirit of freedom to the home. + +There is no kitchen drudgery in store for the Housewife. The family +repair to a dining-room where food is served by the mother. The food +has just arrived from a central depot in a mechanical contrivance which +runs underground. After the meal has been partaken of, the soiled +dishes are returned in the same manner by which they were conveyed to +the home. + +Later in the evening the family prepares to attend a lecture or musical +concert nearby. Or perhaps a visit to some distant part is considered, +in which case an airship is ordered from a public aerodrome. + + + +CHAPTER XX. + +ART + +As Harmony is an expression of the Father, its coexistent, Art, is an +expression of the laws of Rhythm through the individual when +permanently registered in a material way. + +The more a created object conforms to the laws of Harmony the more +pleasing it is to the eye. + +The artist gives expression to his soul within with paint brush, chisel +or loom, and the quality of his production is proportionate to the +development of his spiritual nature. + +All of God's creatures are artists, although only a small percentage of +His evolutionary creatures are able to express materially what lies +hidden in the soul. Hence, a beautifully executed painting, statue or +tapestry appeals to and interests almost everyone, even though few are +able to execute their own artistic impressions. + +The reason for this is that the average physical makeup is defective +and therefore affords a poor vehicle for the expression of the real +entity. Then again, artistic ability is a question of individual +development. + +Primordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul were +crude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's foremost +artists today. But in a relative sense only, for the state of your art +is as far behind the art of the Martians as are the carvings of your +prehistoric cavemen behind the productions of your Michael Angelos. As +man unfolds spiritually there is a corresponding advance in his +artistic point of view. + +This is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on your +Earth among those races and individuals who are spiritually inclined. +The products of the monastery and cloister in the Middle Ages are +witness to this fact. + +Amongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have +stultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the acquisition +of material things; a people whose only ambition is to satisfy self: a +people whose ideas of real happiness are the pursuit of material +pleasures, art has little place except as a fad. + +This is the condition today in many parts of your world, and especially +so on your Western continent. Prize fights and the sensualities of the +stage interest many more people than do Art galleries and the beauties +of Nature. + +The fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be +established not only with the microscope, but with one's natural eyes. +Divine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the universe; and poor +indeed is he in Spiritual gifts who fails to feast his eyes on God's +handiwork. + +As Art is an expression of God's law of Harmony it can be said that its +development on Mars has been a stimulus to the development of every +line of planetary activity and enters into every phase of Martian +social and industrial system. + +As every one of God's creatures is an artist in the making, every +Martian is a developed artist. Hence, every product of the loom or +forge on our planet is an artistic production, and reflects in a +material way the soul of the creator. + +The incentive before the Martian is to work for the pleasure of +working, which in ultimate analysis is God's work. Of course such a +system of industrial activity would be impossible among a partially +developed people. + +Art on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on this +planet. This planet's past history and present achievements are woven +into the products of the looms. The warp and woof of our beautiful +tapestries, so much in evidence in every home, express the Spirituality +of the Martian people; as do also the creations of the Martian +sculptors, and the works of those who use brush and paint. + +Some of the most beautiful productions of Mars art in painting, +sculpture or tapestry depict the scenes and various episodes incident +to Christ's visit to Mars 10,000 years ago. They show many wonderful +works of the Master, but we do not call them Miracles for, as later art +shows, the leaders of Martian spiritual attainment were and are true +disciples and do also the works of the Master. + +Mars' past has been one of achievement spiritually, and naturally in a +material way also, so when the Martian artist weaves the story of the +past in his loom there are no misgivings, for the Martian past is not +fraught with hate, sin and suffering. + + + +CHAPTER XXI. + +SCIENTIFIC SOPHISTRY + + "For we are of yesterday, and know nothing, + because our days upon Earth are a shadow." + Job 8:9. + +The term "Scientific Sophistry" well fits your multitude of theories +concerning Truth. + +Science which connotes a higher wisdom of hidden things has degenerated +on your Earth from its original purpose (the overthrow of ignorance and +superstition and the development among intelligent beings of a near +approximation of Ultimate Truth) to an orthodox dogmatism, which today +is on a par with the unreality which this selfsame science has sought +to eliminate from the shallowness of the human mind. + +It is quite true that the modern scientific method of investigation: +that is, along the lines of Observation, followed by the formation of a +theory, and finally by demonstration, has resulted in the release of +millions of souls from a darker thraldom than that which now besets +them, but nevertheless, the human race on your planet now undergoing +its probationary experience, is to be pitied for its blindness in +matters of real import, namely SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. + +Your scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the +Central Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your vision +that your race today--that is, the so-called enlightened and learned +portions of your population--have been deflected from the main path, +and they will soon find themselves pursuing an illusionary +will-o'-the-wisp. + +Another result of the adoption of the modern scientific method has been +the tendency of those endeavoring to bring light into the dark nooks +and crannies of human existence, to immerse themselves in an abysmal +materialism from which rescue is almost hopeless. + +This condition is the result of a loss of Spiritual vision, and is the +final effort on the part of scientists to explain the riddle of human +existence in accordance with a cleverly thought out, but most amazingly +deficient, mechanistic conception of life. + +Since the inception of modern Science on your Earth, based on the +scientific method of investigation, its devotees adopted a spirit of +skepticism concerning all problems of human activity not susceptible to +measurement with the foot-rule, or analysis with the test tube, with +the result that the newer Science of Psychology was invented to supply +a reasonable and material explanation for the subtle and mystifying +phenomena of the human mind. + +That the conceivers of this science of Psychology have been successful +is attested by the many remarkable explanations given to account for +everyday manifestations of human and animal mentality. + +I will venture to say that this idea applies to all branches of modern +science as there seems to be no class of phenomena in the entire +universe, whether in the realm of chemistry, physics or psychology but +what can be clearly elucidated to the satisfaction of all scientists +with the aid of an adequate terminology. So, today your Science in +final analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling. + +It is true there are today in the ranks of your foremost investigators +and God-inspired men who are seeking Truth. Their names and their +achievements will be treasured by a grateful posterity, and it is to be +regretted that their declarations, based upon tireless investigation +and honest opinion, are derided by their fellow-workers in the Realm of +Truth. + +All your scientific theories are based upon certain postulates that in +time are out of agreement with observed facts, and you are compelled to +cast those postulates aside, adopt others and theorize anew. This +fruitless search for Truth must go on until a divergence is made from +the blind trail and the right path is found that will lead you to the +ultimate goal. + +Be not surprised, then, that the revelations in this book will meet +with the usual criticisms launched at every new idea of Truth that has +been given to your world from the time man first walked erect and +beheld the stars in the firmament of God. Error must and will dissolve +presently in the presence of Truth, which will abide with you for all +time. HELP HASTEN THE DAY OF THE LORD. + + + + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Planet Mars and its Inhabitants, by +Eros Urides and J. L. Kennon + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS *** + +***** This file should be named 563.txt or 563.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/5/6/563/ + +Produced by Charles Keller. 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