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