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HTML version by Al Haines.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTHE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS\n\n\nBY\n\nEROS URIDES\n\n(A MARTIAN)\n\n\n\n\n  DEDICATION\n\n  To the millions of God's children on\n  this earth enthralled in darkness, for whom\n  the solicitude of the Father is now in\n  evidence, this book is dedicated.\n\n\n  May it be a beacon to light the way of\n  weary searchers after TRUTH.\n\n\n\nOne hemisphere of Mars showing the North Polar Cap and the main Canal\nSystem covering the planet.  The many thousands of small lateral\ncanals, radiating from the larger waterways, and which form an\nimportant part of the general plan, have been purposely omitted from\nthe above to avoid confusion.  The circular spots and dots are the\nprincipal reservoirs used for impounding water for use during the long\nMartian summer.  The dark areas shown in the drawing are Mars ancient\nsea bottoms now covered with vegetation.  It will be observed that most\nof the canals are double, paralleling each other at a distance of about\nseventy-five miles.  Centers of population are not shown for the reason\nthat space is not available on so small a drawing.  The City of Urid is\nsituated adjacent to the reservoir in the center of drawing, just north\nof the equator.\n\n\n\n\nCONTENTS\n\nChapter I.-EROS URIDES, of the City of Urid, planet Mars, the Author,\nintroduces himself and his book THE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS.\n\nChapter II.-He describes the Population Centers, Temperatures and\nClimate.  The whole Planet is gridironed with Canals.  (See Diagram.)\n\nChapter III.-He gives a full description of the marvelous Martian Canal\nSystem.\n\nChapter IV.-Planetary Economy.  No Worries, and the Wants of all are\nsupplied by the Commonwealth.\n\nChapter V.-Property and Property Rights.  God, the Creator of it, is\nconsidered the Owner of all Property.  Material things to the Martians\nare but Expedients.  The Millions of Martians live as one great family,\nthough divided into families.  And it is this solidarity and filial\nconsideration towards each other that made the stupendous Canal and\nother Works possible.\n\nChapter VI.-Trade and Barter are unknown.  Transportation is by Flying\nShips, and Gravitational Pull has been overcome.  Also, they use Cosmic\nor Universal Energy.  All Distribution is from immense Warehouses.\n\nChapter VII.-A great many Clairvoyant Visions were seen by the\nShorthand Recorder, which make most interesting reading.\n\nChapter VIII.-Knowledge of God comes from within.  Selfishness has been\neliminated; and the Martians require no Policemen, Watchmen or other\nGuardians of the Peace.  Christ is known to the Martians as one of the\ngreat Powers in the Universe.\n\nChapter IX.-Mars has no Political System; yet it is controlled by the\nvery Acme of System.  Each Individual of their vast population is\nguided by \"The Light Within\" and by \"LOVE.\"\n\nChapter X.-Mars is ruled by LOVE, their only law.  There is no Evil,\nfor all are Good; all are Equal.  Truth is simple.  The people of Mars\nare ready to  stimulate the living of the Christ-Life on other Planets.\n(This is a wonderful and most Inspiring chapter.)\n\nChapter XI.-Education and Training of the Individual.  They have a\nSpoken and a Written Language; but Telepathy is often used.  Set Rules\nof Discipline are not required.  There are References to Jupiter,\nNeptune, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and the two Moons of Mars.\n\nChapter XII.-Education and Training of the Individual (contd).\nVocational Determination.  School Age.  Marriage.  Science and Domestic\nScience.  Relativity of Time, Space, Motion and Matter. All in the\nwhole Universe is ETERNAL MOTION.\n\nChapter XIII.-Music is an Expression of the Father.  \"All around us is\na beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE\".  About Music of the Spheres, and that\nSinging is highly developed.\n\nChapter XIV.-Aeronautics.  Inhabited Planets.  Sectarianism.  No Sound,\nno Discordant Vibrations disturb the Atmosphere of Mars.\n\nChapter XV.-Life is an Attribute of the entire Universe.  The Planet\nJupiter is enveloped in deep gloom and Darkness.  Gives much\ninformation.  Vesta, an Asteroid, is about 500 miles in diameter. Says\nthat communications between Planets of our Solar System and our Earth\nwill soon be realized, and that the initial Message will be from Mars.\nIt will herald a New Era for the people of Earth, and will break down\nour narrow-minded Theology.\n\nChapter XVI.-The Risen Christ.  All the Mars people have lived on other\nPlanets before, except your Earth.  On Mars they live the Christ-Life\nevery day.  10,000 years ago the Mars people accepted Christ as their\nSavior WITHOUT MURDER.\n\nChapter XVII.-Physical Environment is the result of Spiritual Causes,\nand is the Result of our Mental Attitude.\n\nChapter XVIII.-Material Life is a Lesson, and is necessary for the\nunfolding of Character.  The Martians have mastered their Natural\nPassions.\n\nChapter XIX.-Eros gives a graphic Description of a Martian Home and\nSurroundings, then shows how the Food is manipulated.  It is brought\nfrom a Central Depot in a Mechanical Contrivance which is run\nunderground, thence up into the Dining room.  The Soiled Dishes are run\ndown and off the same way.  No Drudgery for the Housewife!\n\nChapter XX.-\"ART.\" The Martians have beautiful productions in Painting,\nSculpture and Tapestries, some of which depict the Scenes and Episodes\nincident on Christ's Visit to Mars ten thousand years ago.\n\nChapter XXI.-Eros Urides has a good deal to write on the subject of\n\"Scientific Sophistry,\" which has mostly to do with our Earth.\n\n\n\nFOREWORD\n\nIt was Eros Urides, the real Martian behind the scenes, who dictated\nthe contents of this book through the medium to Mr. Kennon.  It was\nfurther stated that \"The medium was held in trance for short periods\nonly, as the medium must necessarily experience the atmosphere of Mars\nwhich is more rarified than that of your Earth.\" Writes also that the\nmedium seemed to have some difficulty, and at first pain in breathing\nwhile in the trance condition.\n\nMr. Kennon also wrote in his foreword of the original book that it was\nnot until January 4, 1920, it was decided to write the book in which\nthe Planet Mars, its people, its form of government, its Art,\nIndustries, Philosophy of life, etc. would for the first time in the\nhistory of this world be given.\n\nIt appears that Jesus the Christed One of God visited the planets of\nour Solar system, the planet Mars being one of those visited and\ninvestigated.  And, as a proof of this it was Jesus Christ who\nfunctioned as chairman or presidentat the great Peace Conference held\nin the vast coliseum on the first sphere of the Heavens of our Earth.\nThat was in the year 1912, as fully reported in \"World of Tomorrow,\"\npage 98.  It was at that conference He stated that Universal Peace must\nbe speeded up, as there were other planets to be investigated: and that\nthe Earth stood in the way and was becoming a menace to neighboring\nplanets.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER I.\n\nTHE PLANET MARS AND ITS INHABITANTS\n\nYears ago, as you measure time, I was an inhabitant of Mars, your\nsister planet.  My name is Eros Urides (the latter signifying \"of\nUrid\").  But a physical name is only an incidental in one's life.\n\nIn the Spirit world we are given a name in accordance with our\nspiritual qualities and gifts and the kind of work we do.\n\nI came into material being as the fruit of the sacred union of my\nparents.  It is not necessary to say aught concerning their social\nstatus, for on Mars all who unfold into a material expression of the\nFather are equal.  Equal in rank, station, and in possession of the\nmaterial fruits of earth.\n\nAfter my education had been completed I was, in accordance with the\nMartian system of scientifically determining one's rightful vocation,\nassigned as overseer to a section of one of the main canals supplying\nwater from the North Polar cap to an impounding reservoir near the city\nof Urid, the place of my birth.\n\nI was in the 36th year (Martian reckoning) of my physical life on the\nplanet when my transition occurred, which event was the result of my\ninability to observe, one night, warning signals sent out from a\ncentral station advising the eve of a tremendous drop in temperature.\nThis occurred in the Martian autumn, and I succumbed to the intense\ncold.  I was not married, so I left no immediate family except my\nparents, brothers and sisters.\n\nI have come to your Earth to give your inhabitants some idea of the\nidealistic life lived by your more advanced brothers.  I use the term\nidealistic in a relative way only, for in God's universe the degrees of\nmaterial progress of His children are infinite in number.\n\nIn giving this information to the inhabitants of your world I have been\nassisted by the spirits of many former wise children of your Earth.\n\nThe purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your\npeople is mainly to stimulate and hasten into material expression the\nreign of God's kingdom on your Earth.\n\nMany will reject this information, but it is God's truth nevertheless.\nBut on the other hand, many of God's children now functioning on your\nplanet will accept the statements as true, and they will be helped and\nencouraged in their hard struggle for material existence.   This\nstruggle, unequal as it is, is the result of darkness engendered by the\nloss of faith in God.\n\nMan's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present era of\ndarkness, was sublime.  Man's attitude towards, and his confidence in\nthe promises of God was as the faith of a child to its parents, whom it\nhas always trusted.  But selfishness has gained the upper hand, and is\nnow man's master on your Earth. To break the chains now binding man to\nself is the purpose of God's holy emissaries, who have descended from\nhigh spiritual spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out\nof bondage.  They will succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. It is\nunder their direction that I am now contributing my little part in this\nmovement.\n\nI am only too glad to have been able to give the information contained\nin this book, and I also appreciate the assistance of all those on your\nEarth plane who so willingly assisted; but of course we are all obeying\nthe Father's command.\n\nAs life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material aspect of\nall God's creations are the same.  That is, life on another planet must\nbe thought of as being no different from what experience teaches you.\n\nAll inspiration comes from the Father.  Hence, the degree of a race's\nadvancement in point of civilization is in proportion to its spiritual\nenfoldment.  Therefore the material aspect of life, which includes\nGod's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, is the same on every\nhabitable globe in limitless space.\n\nIn telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe that, from\na physical point of view, the Martians are just human beings, differing\nlittle from the people of your Earth.\n\nThe same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by all\nof God's creatures.  Martians work and have their recreations.  They\nenjoy the fruits of their earth just as you do the fruits of yours.\nThey have invented labor-saving machinery, and indulge in a multitude\nof industrial pursuits, but with this difference: their economic system\nis such that the life of the Martian is not the struggle for existence\nyou have created on your Earth.  On the contrary it is a pleasurable\nlife in which work is as much enjoyed as is recreation.  This condition\nis due to two causes.  First, Mars is much farther advanced as a world\nin its evolutionary career.  Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its\ninhabitants is proportionately advanced.\n\nAs the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical\ncharacteristics of Mars, compared to your Earth are, in a general way,\nthe same, with the exceptions shown later in this book.\n\nThe inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks and\ndells, clouds, beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the physical\nphenomena witnessed by the dwellers of your Earth.\n\nThe Martians live and have their being just as your people do, but they\nare surrounded by a different spiritual and a modified physical\nenvironment.  They take pleasure in music, art and the study of\nphysical science, but with this difference: the spiritual growth and\nenfoldment of the individual is considered as most important, and all\nmaterial advancement as only an aid to ultimate ends.\n\nWith main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend the real\nMartian character, although it may be a disappointment to some who have\nimagined the inhabitants of Mars as physically different from\nthemselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual entities, who have possibly\nbeen transplanted from other worlds to undergo a sort of probationary\nlife amid a Paradise of beautiful surroundings and things.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER II.\n\nPOPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE\n\nAlthough Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, its\ndiameter being 4,200 miles, it contains a larger area of habitable land\nthan the latter, its surface area being approximately 212,000,000\nsquare miles as against 51,000,000 miles for your Earth.  Hence our\nglobe supports a larger population about 13,160,000,000 people.  Your\npopulation is in the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000.  Your land area is\n161,000,000 square miles less than the land area of Mars.  This is for\nthe reason that your oceans occupy a vast surface of your Earth, and\nMars has no oceans, as these dried up ages ago. Consequently almost the\nentire surface of our planet (with exception of some small areas\ncovered with swamps, remnants of ancient seas and oceans, and portions\nof the extreme Northerly and Southerly Polar caps) is utilized by the\nMartian inhabitants.\n\nOur planet is gridironed with canals, many hundreds of the main ones\nbeing observable through your telescopes, and the art of intensive\nfarming is practised by us to a degree of perfection never dreamed of\nby the dwellers of your Earth.\n\nOur winters, even in the Equatorial regions are severe, the\ntemperatures at times descending to as low as 80 degrees below zero.\nHowever, our springs, summers, and autumns are mild and nearly twice as\nlong as your seasons, for the Martian year is 687 days long.  We grow\nand mature many crops of necessary cereals, fruits and vegetables\nduring the spring and summer months, so that want is never felt by our\nhappy people.\n\nOur method of irrigation is somewhat different from that practised in\nthe arid portions of your Earth.  We do not, except in a few instances,\nflood our lands as you do.  Owing to the fact that our atmosphere is\nmuch lighter than yours, the normal air pressure being only about 8\npounds to the square inch as against 15 pounds on your Earth,\nevaporation is very rapid, and the dewfall, as a consequence of much\nmoisture being in the air, is very great.\n\nThis heavy humidity also tends to prevent radiation of heat, and the\ntemperature at night does not drop exceedingly low, although frost is\nnot uncommon even in summer.  As our vegetation is acclimated and\nadapted to our environment no damage is done to growing crops by reason\nof these frosts.\n\nThe Martians experience no difficulty in living in a rarified\natmosphere.  Neither have they abnormally developed lungs.  God has\nmade ample provision for the comfort of His creatures throughout all of\nHis infinite creations, and we of Mars are not excepted from this\nFatherly care and love.\n\nShould an inhabitant of your Earth be suddenly transported to Mars he\ncould live but a few minutes, for the reason that his lungs could not\nassimilate enough oxygen from our light atmosphere.\n\nEconomy is a science with us.  Nothing is wasted.  Every possible\nsquare inch of ground produces food for man or beast.  Even the north\nand south Arctic regions, after their seasonal thaws blossom forth with\nvegetal growth, as astronomers on your Earth have observed.  These\nregions produce their quota of food by being utilized as pasturage for\nour cattle.  Immense amounts of forage are also gathered for the long\nMartian winters, when a greater portion of either the north or south\nhemisphere is covered with a mantle of snow.\n\nThe equatorial regions are always pleasant.  No severe wind storms are\nexperienced on Mars; neither do we have lightning or other magnetic\ndisturbances such as you experience.\n\nAs a corollary to the tranquility of our inhabitants living in peace,\nLove and harmony, and the truths of God expressed in our everyday\nliving, the climate is equable, the atmosphere clear and beautiful, the\nsky serene and sapphire-blue: the severest winds but gentle zephyrs\nwafted towards the equator from the more remote portions of our globe.\nCloudy skies are rare and rainstorms few.\n\nThere is no lack of God's gifts on Mars.  As intensive farming is a\nnecessity on our planet, plant food or fertilizing elements are\nplentiful.  One of the large  white circular spots observed by your\nastronomers, located in a region on Mars named by them Elysium, and\nwhich has been a puzzle to all observers, is an immense deposit of\nfertilizing chemicals.  An immense well is located in this particular\nspot which gushes forth a never-ending saline solution, highly\nimpregnated with sodium nitrate, potash and other salts.  The country\nfor many miles around is covered with a white precipitate which has\nbeen carried by the moist air and deposited on the Martian earth.\nThese chemical compounds are refined and used to replenish the soil\nwith plant food.\n\nThere are 153,000 centers of population on Mars, but these centers are\nnot congested cities similar to those on your Earth. Every individual\nhas plenty of room to thrive and develop the best within him.\n\nOur cities are not crowded and our buildings are beautiful in their\nsimplicity: large and roomy, with an abundance of sunlight and ample\nventilation.  White marble and metals are employed for building\npurposes.\n\nThe inhabitants congregate in centers and, owing to our more perfect\nmethods of transportation, go forth daily to their tasks in field or\nfactory, to return at the end of their allotted period to home and\nfireside.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER III.\n\nTHE MARTIAN CANAL SYSTEM\n\nThe Canal system on Mars is comparatively new.  The idea of\nconstructing a planetary Canal system had its incipiency at the time of\nChrist's visit to our planet.  The Master warned the people that they\nmust make provision for their future water supply.  At that time\n(10,000 years ago) the water supply was becoming noticeably scarcer as\ntime went on.  It was nearly 3,000 years after the Master's mission to\nMars had been concluded that actual construction of the Planetary Canal\nsystem was undertaken; and during the intervening 7,000 years and up to\nthe present time, construction on the public waterways has continued.\n\nAt the present day the system is most complete, but constant work is\nrequired to keep the canals in working order.  In addition to the\ngigantic Canal system, provision had to be made for suitable reservoirs\nto impound the water after the seasonal thaws at the poles.  To this\nend immense reservoirs were constructed at most canal intersections.\nIn some instances the reservoirs are established between parallel\ncanals; but in every case smaller canals, or laterals, always intersect\nat these points.\n\nMany of the canals on Mars are double, as they appear to your\nastronomers.  These double waterways parallel each other at a distance\nof about 75 miles.  The reason for this is that as the Martian\npopulation is absolutely dependent upon the Polar waters to irrigate\ntheir crops, any accident to a canal, such as a landslide stopping the\nregular flow of water or the breaking of a lock or gate, would mean a\nvery serious calamity to a great number of people.  And for that\nreason, soon after the main canals were constructed, second and\nparallel waterways were made for the purpose of guaranteeing an\nuninterrupted flow of water from the Poles to the Equatorial regions.\nThe result of this was that on many occasions the foresight of the\nMartian engineers who had the water supply of the planet in charge,\nsaved immense areas from drought.\n\nThe rainfall on Mars is almost nil and the immense population (eight\ntimes larger than that of your Earth) is entirely dependent on the\nwater supply from the melting Polar caps.  Water on Mars is a most\nprecious fluid and there is none to waste.  Our oceans evaporated ages\nago, and outside of the precipitation of moisture at the poles in the\nform of snow, none is to be had anywhere else on the planet except in\nvery meager quantities.\n\nThe astronomer Lowell of your Earth, who made a life study of our\nplanet, called these reservoirs \"Oases,\" but he was mistaken in his\ntheory.  He concluded that these points, which appear as round disks in\nthe telescope, were centers of population.  This conclusion is\nerroneous.  The centers of population on Mars are scattered over the\nentire planet regardless of the position of the so-called \"Oases.\" It\nis quite true that owing to the rapid evaporation of water in the\ncomparatively thin atmosphere of Mars, the dewfall for quite a radius\nfrom the center of the reservoirs is considerable, with the result that\nvegetation springs up, giving the \"Oases\" the appearance of a diameter\nof about 75 miles.  The reservoirs are about 60 miles across and hold\nmillions of gallons of water.\n\nThe same explanation may be given of the Canals.  The dewfall on each\nside is extensive, and the vegetal growth which extends the full length\nof the water-ways and for thousands of miles in some cases, is most\nprolific.\n\nThe water in the canals, in most instances, is distributed by gravity;\nbut recourse is had to a lock system and to immense pumps for raising\nthe water to proper levels.\n\nThe gates of the lock system and the pumps are operated by electricity,\nthe control of which energy is well understood by us.  In fact, we are\ncenturies ahead of your Earth people in the knowledge of the use of\nElectro-magnetic energy.  (More will be given on the subject of\nElectricity in a later chapter.)\n\nAnother source of mystery to your astronomers has been the appearance\nof triangular dark spots at the origin of some of the Martian canals.\nThese have been referred to by your astronomer Lowell as \"Carets,\"\nnamed so by reason of their peculiar shape. These so-called \"Carets\"\nare the thoughtful provision for the impounding of a season's supply of\nwater.  In other words they are in part a lock system for raising water\nto the level of some of the main canals, and embrace also a prodigious\npumping system.\n\nThese so-called \"Carets,\" as the telescope will show, are located at\nthe edge of some of what appear to you as very dark areas on our\nplanet.  These dark areas are Mars' old sea bottoms, and in many\ninstances have been utilized by our engineers as natural reservoirs for\nwater.  Their convenient location near the Poles has provided ideal\nfacilities for the preservation of an adequate supply of water.\n\nThe construction of Mars' gigantic Canal system, planetary in its\nextent, might seem to your Earth people an impossible task. And it\nmight prove so to your Earth dwellers should you undertake a similar\nproject in the ages to come when your seas dry up, though it must be\nremembered that gravity on Mars, compared with your Earth, is as 38 to\n100.  Excavations of large waterways then becomes a comparatively easy\ntask.  We have no high mountains on Mars; in fact, none exceeding 3,000\nfeet in altitude.\n\nOwing to the difference in gravity the angle of repose on Mars is\nnearly acute as against 45 degrees on your Earth, which permits of\nalmost perpendicular walls to the canals and lessens the danger of\nlandslides and cave-ins.  But above all, the biggest advantage enjoyed\nby us in the construction of large public enterprises, such as are\nembraced by our Canal system, is the solidarity and unity of purpose on\nthe part of the Martian people.  As Love rules our planet no internal\ndissension or public misunderstanding exists among its people to retard\nany undertaking that is necessary for the good of all.\n\nIt is lamentable that the dwellers on your Earth are divided against\none another.  Not only are your false ideals of racial, sociological\nand religious distinctions a bar to your Spiritual and material\nprogress, but your political and economic falsities are as millstones\naround your necks, which will ultimately lead you to destruction unless\nyou, as a people, retrace your steps and go back to the pathway pointed\nout by Christ the Master 2,000 years ago, when He came to your Earth\nwith a message from the Most High.  The pathway is LOVE which leads to\na true understanding of God and the Kingdom referred to by Christ.\n\nThe Martian canals, as telescopic observation will prove in almost all\ncases, follow straight lines.  When necessary, mountains have been cut\nthrough down to a proper level.  Where the canals cross depressions or\nold sea-bottoms, immense aqueducts have been constructed of solid stone\nand concrete in such a manner that the water, in most cases, flows to\nits destination by gravity.\n\nThat this has been a stupendous task may be more readily imagined when\nit is known that the width of the main canals averages from one to\ntwenty miles.  This announcement might seem to many unreasonable, but\nit must be remembered that the volume of water distributed over\n212,000,000 square miles of territory is immense.  You might ask where\nthis large volume of water comes from.\n\nThe POLAR CAPS! During the Martian winter these extend down nearly to\nthe equator, and cover about five-sevenths of the planet's surface when\nat maximum; and as the snowfall averages from six inches at the edge of\nthe caps to 50 feet at and near the actual Poles, some idea may be\ngained of the amount of moisture taken care of by these artificial\nwaterways.  Ten feet of snow will make 12 inches of water, so there\nexists on Mars an ample supply for all purposes.\n\n(NOTE--The question as to why many of the canals germinate has been a\nperplexing one to our astronomers.  Lowell observed that many of the\nmain canals germinated a short time after the commencement of the\nMartian summer, and for a time it was thought that the phenomena might\nbe an optical illusion, and the latter theory was considered seriously\nby some observers until the double canals were actually photographed at\nthe Flagstaff observatory, but the cause of the doubling was never\nsolved until the receipt of these revelations.)\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IV.\n\nPLANETARY ECONOMY\n\nEconomy is a virtue long cultivated on the Planet Mars.  On your Earth\nyou waste more than you use, not only in food but in the fruits of the\nEarth.  You are using up your resources at a tremendous rate, and some\nday you must pay the penalty.  Witness the wanton destruction of your\nbeautiful forests, the depletion of your coal beds and crude oil\ndeposits.  All this waste is the result of lack of Spiritual guidance;\na gross materialism: an inordinate selfish greed.  Instead of laying up\nSpiritual treasures you are worshiping at the altar of Mamon.\nUltimately you will find your hoardings nothing but tarnished brass--an\nillusion leading you on to Spiritual destruction.\n\nWith the Martians the incentive to live is to express life and be in\nharmony with the Creator, to develop spiritually and build for\nEternity.  On Mars each one strives to live for his brother to the end\nthat all may inherit the promised Kingdom when yet as a physical being.\nCommercialism with us is unknown, for no one works for profit.  The\nproducts of the toil of all the inhabitants are for the public larder\nand other necessities and even luxuries.\n\nAs a result of this system of public economy and industrialism,\nsweat-shops, child labor, poor houses, public reformatories, and the\nlong list of pernicious and iniquitous customs in vogue on your Earth\nare unknown on our planet.\n\nNo worries mar the life of the people of Mars.  Worry has no place in\nthe Martian mind.  The wants of all are supplied by the Commonwealth,\nand each one contributes his best efforts to the common good, and in\nreturn each individual is supplied his every want.  This is in\naccordance with Christ's message: \"Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and\nHis righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.\"\n\n\n\nCHAPTER V.\n\nPROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS\n\nOn Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its Creator,\nwho provided it for the enfoldment and comfort of His creatures.  No\nindividual lays claim to property in the sense that you Earth dwellers\ndo.\n\nThrough God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe,\nbut only for a season.  Man comes into material being to express life\nand acquire an individuality, after which he passes out of material\nbondage, when his place is taken by another.\n\nAt man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing else.  If\nthe things he has striven for during his material life have been but\nchimeras: the material things of life: the fruits of the Earth, then in\nthat case he will find himself poor indeed.  The only real wealth, the\nonly thing worth striving for, is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom.\nAnd with us Martians a knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought\nfor.  Hence all material things to the Martian are but expedients, soon\nto be forgotten.\n\nMaterial wealth is an abstraction.  Its usual evidence is the\npossession of property, which may be money, land, goods or chattels, as\nthe case may be.  In final analysis this concrete evidence of wealth is\nnot real.\n\nMoney is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the\npossessor to so much human effort, for the real value behind money,\nafter all, is but so much human energy or force, varying according to\nits quality and its worth.\n\nOther forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the result of\nhuman endeavor and may be secured by the exchange of money, or it may\nbe produced by the owner.\n\nWealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the benefit\nof all humankind, and not for the individual, is the so-called\nright-secured by barter, exchange or inheritance, to use or withhold\nfrom use, at the caprice of the owner--of a certain piece or portion of\nthe planet.  Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the\ncenter of the Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction!\n\nThe text: \"Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow\" has a\ndeep significance to one who has come into a knowledge of Truth.\nDrones have no place in the Divine Plan.  It is not only essential but\nmandatory, that each one do his part for the common good.  The\nnon-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the vagabond who\nneither toils nor spins.  The Biblical test concerning the difficulty\nof the rich man getting into Heaven means that it is impossible for a\ndrone or parasite to get into harmony with God.\n\nThe possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the possession of\nwealth is a corollary to selfishness.  He who is unselfish will spurn\nwealth.  The individual who accumulates beyond his needs sins against\nHeaven when he locks up his goods in strong boxes.  The act of hoarding\ndeprives some creature of his just portion, for God has planned there\nshould be sufficient for all who make the effort, and a system that\npermits an unequal distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the\nDivine Plan, and doubly pernicious is a church organization that\npermits it.\n\nOnly after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the people of\nyour Earth will surcease come to the suffering millions on your planet.\n\nHappiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the former\nis impossible unless the latter is eliminated from your world, for only\nreal happiness comes after complete surrender to God.  Surrender to God\nmeans subordination to His will.  His will on Earth must be done as it\nis in Heaven.  All must be self-conscious of this.  If God's will was\nadhered to on your Earth what a different place it would be! Instead of\na shambles it would be a paradise, the brotherhood of man and the\nFatherhood of God a fact instead of the dream of a few.\n\nGod loves all His creatures, both evolutionary and non-evolutionary.\nHis love is infinite in extent.  We are all His children.  Everything\nhas been provided for us.  It is only man's selfishness that deprives\nany creature of his just dues. Man suffers want on account of his lack\nof faith in God! Before man lost his faith in God he walked and\ncommuned with angels.  He could do it now if he would but listen to the\nVoice Within--if he would only open his heart to Christ, for help is\nready whenever one asks for it in sincerity and faith.\n\nOne of the sources of great injustice to the majority of the\ninhabitants of your Earth is the belief in the dogma of Divine Right.\nThis dogma includes not only the absurdity of the Divine Right of\nkings, but the Divine Right to the ownership of goods and land through\nthe Creator's favoritism for a few.\n\nThis dogma is the mother of untold misery and suffering.  Out of this\nungodly theory has evolved your shameful caste system; your shameful\neconomic ideas.\n\nYour ancient feudal system of government has been but little improved\nupon today over its primitive status, for you still draw well-defined\nlines of class distinction between God's children--lines of demarcation\nbased on wealth and natal origin. With your inhabitants, communal\nstanding and social distinction is proportionate to the wealth of the\npossessor or to the wealth or social standing of ancestors.\n\nThe monstrous heresy of Divine Right is an invention of the powers of\ndarkness and must be eliminated from your world root and branch before\nyour progress forward is assured.  God plays no favorites.  His love is\nshowered upon all alike.  His gifts are for all His children.  It was\nnever the Divine intent that a favored few should bask in the sunshine\nof His grace while the majority suffered want and deprivation.  These\nfalse ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom\nnow overshadowing your Earth.\n\nSpiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth.  In primitive\ntimes--ages ago--eras whose history has been lost to you, man on your\nEarth was in harmony with his Creator.  This was in the Golden Age when\nman and the angels of God walked hand in hand; when man communed with\nGod, and when the Christ spirit was abiding in the hearts of the\npeople.  In this age man was spiritually developed to a degree almost\nunbelievable by you.\n\nThen the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser self),\nand through the workings of the law of Atavism man degenerated almost\nto the level of his animal prototype.\n\nThis incident in your world's history is the source of the legend of\nthe \"Fall of Man\" in the \"Garden of Eden.\"  Man disobeyed God by\nlistening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish desires.  He\nslew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he abandoned himself to\nselfish ends and took advantage of his fellowman.  He has been guilty\nof that sin ever since.  IT IS NOW INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS\nSELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE\nFATHER'S KINGDOM.\n\nNo fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the\nmillions of homes on Mars.  No lines of demarcation divide one plot of\nland from another.  The millions of beautiful homes--beautiful in their\nsimplicity, for over-ornamentation such as the dwellers of your Earth\npractise, is not tolerated on our planet--belong to the Commonwealth.\nThe same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only.\n\nThe same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. Should a\nMartian have use for a flying machine, also used by another, or other\nkind of property for personal use, he does not ask the use of same in\nthe spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow from one another.  Use of\nthe needed article is requested with the idea that it belongs to the\ncommunity: that all material possessions are the common property of the\nentire race.\n\nTHE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY.  IT IS THIS SOLIDARITY,\nTHIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS FOR THE OTHER THAT HAS MADE\nTHE STUPENDOUS AND GIGANTIC PUBLIC WORKS ON MARS POSSIBLE.\n\nIn the absence of a universal unity of purpose intelligent life on Mars\nwould have become extinct centuries ago, when the last remnants of its\noceans and seas dried up and a planetary irrigation system became\nnecessary in order to utilize the frozen Polar moisture.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VI.\n\nDISTRIBUTION OF COMMODITIES\n\nBarter and trade are unknown on Mars.  The entire race of Martians is\ncooperative, and the production of all necessities is based on the\nneeds of the Commonwealth.\n\nSpecialization in different branches of industrial activity is\ncentralized, as is the case of your Earth.  That is, some particular\nparts of the planet, owing to climatic and other conditions, are better\nadapted for the production of some special kind of raw material used in\nthe manufacture of clothes or other necessities of life, or the\nproduction of some particular foodstuff.  But in every case the\nincentive for industrial activity is not material profit.  On the\ncontrary the real incentive is compliance with the Father's will.\n\nTransportation is effected by means of flying ships actuated by the\ncontrol of gravitational attraction.  These vehicles of the air, beside\nyour crude affairs[1] are most perfect, and the amount of freight\ncarried is unlimited, for the reason that the gravitational attraction\nof the cargo is nullified as well as that of the ship.  (A more\nextended explanation concerning this matter is given in another section\nof this book.) Another motive power used is Cosmic, or Universal\nEnergy.  (We shall refer to this later.)\n\nImmense warehouses and depots are scattered throughout the entire\nplanet.  These are centers of distribution.  These warehouses are\nfilled with what all the people of the entire planet need in the way of\nfood, clothing and other necessities of life.  These depots are in\ncharge of trained and competent workers who attend to the issuance and\ndistribution of all commodities.\n\nWhen a Martian is in need of any particular commodity he makes\napplication to have his want supplied to the depot nearest to his\nhabitation.  He immediately receives the needed article.  If the\nquantity and nature of his requisition is too large for him to carry\npersonally, the same is delivered at his domicile by the Commonwealth's\nTransportation Department.\n\n\n[1] NOTE--Yes, 35 years ago, but not today, 1955.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VII.\n\nCLAIRVOYANT VISIONS OF MARS\n\nIn connection with the revelation contained in this book concerning the\nphysical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of this volume, as well\nalso as the medium, was given much information concerning this advanced\nplanet by means of clairvoyant visions.  These pictures were given the\nwriter at different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing\nuntil the book was finished.\n\nAs has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental in\ngiving the information about Mars, the purpose of these clairvoyant\npictures was to give the compiler of this book real visual evidence as\nto life on Mars; and in particular, real pictures setting forth its\ntopography, which could be elucidated in no other way.\n\nWritten descriptions of scenery and of human activities necessarily\nfall short of the reality, especially when an attempt is made to record\na series of events or a point of view outside the realm of our\nexperience.\n\nThe first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the most\nimportant one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, one of the\nmost Important centers of population on the planet Mars.\n\nIt was while lying in bed one morning the writer was contemplating the\nmany messages being received from the Martian, who is the dictator of\nthe subject matter of this book, that he found himself at a strange\nplace, suspended as it were in the air over a beautiful lake of blue\nwater, whose surface was broken by gentle ripples, due to the soft,\nbalmy breeze blowing over the surface of the water.  The writer was\nfacing what seemed to be a westerly direction; and at a  distance of\nabout five miles there arose a series of small mountains about 2,500\nfeet in altitude. These mountains skirted the shores of the lake.  The\nsky was a beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our\nown desert lands.  The mountains were tinted red from base to top,\nexcept where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a\nvegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red\nof the soil.  Two white clouds floated majestically near the peaks of\nthe highest mountains.\n\nThe atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to stand\nout in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by dwellers on our\nEarth except in extremely dry and arid regions.\n\nOn top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill at the\nbase of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 feet from the\nshore line, I was startled to see a large city.  The thousands of\nclosely nestling buildings seemed to be built of white stone.  The\nwriter was lost in admiration, for there in front of him the pure white\nof the city, contrasting so vividly with the red soil of this faraway\nplanet, stood the habitations of an advanced race many millions of\nmiles removed from my own world.\n\nThe writer was impressed with the fact that, with but few exceptions,\nthe buildings of gleaming white were all one story in height, and it\nbecame instantly evident that crowding is not tolerated by the\ninhabitants of this progressive planet.  A few structures towered above\nthe rest.  These, as the writer was informed later, were the public\nbuildings dedicated to the use of the people as lecture halls, centers\nfor music and art, etc.\n\nOn a subsequent occasion the writer was shown a close-up view of Urid.\nFlowers, grass and green foliage abounded everywhere.  The long streets\nwere broad and well paved, and flanked on two sides with long rows of\none-storied buildings of white stone, beautiful in their simplicity.\nNo extreme ornamentation is carried out in the erection of buildings on\nMars.  On the contrary, the simple square outlines characteristic of\nour own Old Mission architecture seems to prevail on the planet Mars.\nThe same simple style prevails with the public buildings, except that\nmassive stone columns marked the portals of same, reminding one of our\nown early Grecian architecture.\n\nMany palm-like trees grew all over the city, especially in the\nneighborhood of the public buildings.\n\nA week after the occurrence of the above incident the writer was shown,\nin the same manner as before, one of the many canals that gridiron the\nMartian globe.  This particular canal is one of the main waterways on\nMars, and appeared to be about a mile wide at the point of observation.\nThe water was of a deep blue color, denoting great depth.  Along the\nbanks of this waterway could be seen many houseboats or floating\ndwellings.  Some of these houseboats were very large and evidently\nhoused large families. The writer was informed that many Martians who\nhave charge of the waterways dwell in these habitations.\n\nThe banks above the canal were covered with green grass and many\nflowers.\n\nOn subsequent occasions I was shown other canals and reservoirs, and\nthe manner in which some of the canals were cut through the mountains.\nIn some instances the walls of the canals were almost perpendicular.\nSteep cuts, even in soft ground, seemed to be characteristic of all the\nwaterways observed by the writer.\n\nOn another occasion the writer was given a view of the North Polar\nregions.  At that time the deep snows that covered the ground\neverywhere were melting.  The country seemed to be very hilly.  As far\nas the eye could reach I observed low-lying hills covered with a white\nmantle of snow.  Patches of reddish earth here and there indicated that\nthe thaw was general and that the snow had thinned out in spots.\nBetween the hills I observed a large body of water, and was informed\nthat this was an artificial reservoir which had been created by the\ndamming of a large valley.  The sky on this occasion was hidden by a\nmist, a very natural phenomenon in view of the fact that many thousands\nof square miles of the country, covered with snow on this part of Mars,\nwas undergoing a rapid thaw.\n\nThat the large dark-colored areas on Mars, supposed by early observers\nto be seas, are nothing more or less than low, swampy land covered with\nrank vegetation, was evidenced to me on one occasion when I was\npermitted to see the true character of these portions of the planet.\n\nThe rank vegetation was about three feet high and of a greenish red\ncolor.  Interspersed throughout the mass of coarse-leafed plants were\nhigh, dry stalks the remnants of an earlier crop of Martian flora.  The\nseason seemed to be advanced and all plant life was taking on autumnal\ntints.\n\nIt was in December 1919 that I saw the first close-up picture of a\nMartian--a woman.  Her head was covered with a thin veil which came\ndown to her well-formed mouth.  She seemed to be a most beautiful woman\nwith most expressive eyes.  Her hair was black. Her skin was unusually\nwhite, which contrasted with the dark hair.  She wore no jewelry, or\nother ornaments that I could see.\n\nOn a subsequent occasion I was permitted to see a Martian male. He was\nplaying a flutelike instrument, and as he was quite close to me I could\nobserve the wax-like texture of his skin.  This semi-transparency of\nthe skin is characteristic of the Martians, and evidences a life that\nis free from the many bodily ailments that afflict humanity on our\nEarth.  The Martian was dressed in graceful but loose-fitting clothes\nof a reddish-brown color.  His eyes were a deep blue and his lips\nseemed to be unusually red. In respect to stature he was, I would say,\nabout five feet nine inches in height.  In fact, on subsequent\noccasions I have observed crowds of Martians gathered together and they\nappeared no different from the inhabitants of our own world except as\nto clothing, which is much simpler, but more graceful than our styles.\n\nI was informed by the spiritual control that the fauna of Mars is\nvaried, but that all animal life is domesticated, there being now no\nwild animals on the planet.\n\nIt was shortly after I had seen the Martians, described in the\nforegoing paragraph, that I was shown two cat-like animals, which at\nthe time of my vision were engaged in playing about the feet of a\nMartian.  They did not exactly resemble cats, but were more feline than\ncanine.  They were about the size of a large Airedale, and of a dark,\nreddish-brown color with deep black stripes, similar to the markings of\nour tigers.  They were very playful and cavorted about just as our own\ndogs and cats do when endeavoring to attract the attention of their\nmasters.\n\nOn the morning of January 20, 1920, I was shown another Martian canal.\nOn this occasion I observed a large building on the banks of the\nwaterway near my point of vision.  This building was more of a\ngrandstand with a roof than anything else I can compare it to.  It\nconsisted of a large framework painted white, and was as high as our\ntwo-storied structures.  A multitude of the people were inside the\nbuilding, some sitting, some standing.  They all seemed to be intently\ngazing in a Northerly direction, up-stream.\n\nMuch green foliage and varied-colored flowers lined the banks of the\ncanal, especially in the neighborhood of the building.  The people all\nseemed to be attired in holiday garb, and it was evident to me that a\ncelebration was going on.\n\nLater I was informed that what I had witnessed was an annual\ncelebration observed by the people of Mars on the occasion of arrival\nof the first water from the North Pole after commencement of the\nMartian Spring.  It appears that this occasion is a very important\nevent with the Martians, as the arrival of the life-giving moisture\nfrom the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the planet insures a season of\nplenty for the inhabitants.  The water arrives at the equatorial\nregions in a little less than a Martian month (60 days) after the\ncommencement of the Polar thaws and after a season of thanksgiving to\nthe Father has been held by all in appreciation of His bountiful gifts.\nThe Spiritual leaders of the different communities preside at these\ngatherings.\n\nThe foregoing is in remarkable agreement with a statement on page 375\nof the late Professor Lowell's book titled \"MARS,\" as follows.\n\n\"The Canal quickening on Mars occupied 52 days, as evidenced by the\nsuccessive vegetal darkenings which descend from latitude 72 degrees\nNorth and latitude 0, a journey of 2,650 miles.  The rate of\nprogression is remarkably uniform, and this fact that it is carried\nfrom near the Pole to the Equator is sufficient tell-tale of extrinsic\naid, and the uniformity of the action increases its significance.\"\n\nOn the morning of January 21 I witnessed another interesting Martian\nscene, which was almost identical with the previous vision of the\nArctic regions of this planet, except that the warm season was more\nadvanced, and I was permitted to see the country from another angle.  I\nwas facing East.  Most of the Polar snow had disappeared, and the\nlow-lying hills were now covered with a growth of dark green\nvegetation, except at a few isolated points which showed small patches\nof snow.  The sky was less misty than on the previous occasion.\n\nOn the evening of January 21 I was shown a flock of Martian sheep.  The\nherd was small and I observed five of the animals at close range.  I\ncall them sheep for the reason that the animals resembled our sheep in\nevery particular.  The wool was very long and of a dark reddish-brown\ncolor, except underneath their bellies which was yellowish.\n\nOn the evening of January 29 I had a vision of a beautiful woman with a\nchild kneeling at her feet.  She was seated on a chair and held a book\non her lap.  The symbolism of the vision was later explained to me by\nthe controls, who said: \"Verily I say unto you whosoever shall not\nreceive the Kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter\ntherein.\"  God's truths are perceived only by those who can acquire the\nsimple faith of a child.\n\nIt was about the same time I had a vision in which I saw Sergius for\nthe first time distinctly.  He is the principal control dominating the\nwriting of this book.  He appeared very patriarchal with a long beard.\nHis features were decidedly semitic.  His countenance was most\nspiritual and beautiful.\n\nOn February 10 I had my first vision of Mars' two moons, known to our\nastronomers as Diemos and Phobos.  The latter appeared as a satellite\nabout half as large as our full moon, and the former like a star\nbrighter than the first magnitude, and could be compared with Jupiter\nas seen from our Earth during a favorable opposition of that planet.\nThe latter satellite sheds considerable light on her primary.  An\ninteresting explanation of these two moons will be found in a later\nchapter of this book.\n\nOn February 17 I was shown the actual appearance of our sun from the\nplanet Mars.  What I saw disproves the theory that owing to the\ndistance of Mars from the sun the latter would be viewed by the\nMartians as a disk about half the size as seen from our Earth.  The\nSolar Orb appeared as to size and brightness, about the same as viewed\nfrom our Earth, and seemed to give forth its heat with the same\nintensity.  I was facing the sun and its brilliance blinded my eyes for\nan instant.\n\nOn the evening of February 29 I had a vision of a strange looking\ncreature ape-like in appearance.  The form was about five feet tall,\nvery hairy, his body being covered with a thick coat of woolly hair of\na grayish color.  He was smoking what appeared to be a cigar-like roll\nof something, probably some sort of leaves rolled up into a convenient\nform for smoking.  On the tips of his pointed ears were little tufts of\nlong hair, which gave his head a lynx-like appearance.  There were\nquite a number of large yellow spots on his hairy chest.  His nose was\nvery stubby, and his entire face was decidedly apelike.\n\nI was later informed that I had seen an inhabitant of the planet\nMercury, where life has not yet evolved to a very high degree, and\nwhere man has not yet wholly emerged from his primary beast-like state.\n\nConcerning the flora of Mars I have on various occasions viewed\norchards of growing fruit trees.  The trees were set out in rows\nsimilar to the methods adopted in our own orchards.  The trees were\ndwarf-like, being not over five or six feet high.  I was informed that\nthis particular species of tree was cultivated for its fruit and for\nthe fiber obtained from its large leaves, which is made into cloth,\nthread and cordage.\n\nOn one occasion a short time after the chapter dealing with the\ntransmission of Electro-magnetic energy by wireless was received, I was\nshown two immense towers on the planet Mars which are used for the\npurpose of distributing power throughout the planet.  The two towers\nwere very close together, probably 100 yards apart and 100 feet high.\nThey resembled two immense round smoke-stacks, such as are common in\nour factory districts.  The tops of the towers were surmounted by oval\ncaps, transparent as if made from glass, and protected by a system of\ngrill work.  While I was intently observing the towers there occurred a\nblinding flash of light simultaneously from the two oval caps.\n\nThe surrounding country was covered with high trees, and it was\nimpossible for me to observe the base of the two structures.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER VIII.\n\nKNOWLEDGE OF GOD COMES FROM WITHIN\n\nMars, with its teeming millions of inhabitants, whose dwellings,\nfactories, storehouses, etc. cover most of the entire area, has no\nwatchmen, policemen or other guardians of the peace to prevent unlawful\nacts on the part of its people.\n\nAs all property is considered as belonging to the Father, and is held\nin common by the people of the planet, there exists no incentive for\nanyone to steal.  Each individual has all he requires for his comfort.\nHence, why should anyone covet what is in the possession of his brother?\n\nThere is no temptation on Mars for anyone to take more than he needs,\nfor selfishness has been entirely eliminated from our planet.\nSelfishness has no place among really civilized beings. It is a relic\nof the jungle where it is necessary to perpetuate the lower animal life.\n\nYou of your Earth have reverted or degenerated to a primordial\ncondition or state through the law of Atavism.  This is a part of your\nfall from Divine Grace.  And to induce man on your globe to realize his\npitiful condition and redeem himself is the work of the Spirits from\nthe higher Spheres who are now with you.\n\nMars has no Church system and no Ecclesiastical Hierarchy.  All\nMartians recognize and worship one God, the Eternal Father.  Each\nindividual is taught from infancy to seek God through the doors of his\nown soul, which is an institutional faculty possessed by everyone.\n\nJesus Christ, who came to your Earth 2,000 years ago with a message, is\nknown to us.  The Christ is one of the greatest powers in the\nUniverse--next to the Creator.\n\nYour sectarian church systems are a hindrance to the proper spiritual\ndevelopment of the individual.  These systems engender an element of\ndependability on the individual which holds back his spiritual\nenfoldment and perverts his true individuality, which must grow and\nunfold before real progress upwards begins.\n\nAll knowledge of God should come from within and not through the\ninstrumentality of imperfect individuals, such as your religious\nteachers are.\n\nThe present lack of interest (in 1920) in sectarian matters on the part\nof the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow but sure\ndisintegration of a system that has held your people in mental and\nspiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn of a better day\nfor humanity on your Earth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER IX.\n\nMARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM\n\nWhen Love rules a community of people there is no need of\nadministrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the\ninhabitants who make up the population of a planet.  For the same\nreason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative center.\n\nThis announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many\nreaders who have imagined that no considerable number of human beings\ncould live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a complex\nadministrative system such as you have on your Earth.\n\nBureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped\ncivilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has\nbeen eliminated.\n\nWhen each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, is\nactuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a horde of\npolitical parasites to direct the destinies of the race.\n\nThis lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to its\nindustrial and economic side.  The law of supply and demand determines\njust how many  factories there should be, and just what output is\nnecessary for a given period.  But it must be remembered that the law\nof supply and demand on our planet has no relation to a competitive\nsystem such as yours, for we have no competitor, a fact that will be\nimpressed elsewhere in this book.\n\nIt is true that certain of our people who have been specially singled\nout by the dominating influence of the Invisible World are occasionally\nappealed to by those in doubt as to what is best for their individual\nwelfare, or the welfare of the community at large, to act in advisory\ncapacities.  These are the Spiritual Advisers of the planet, and are\nreally God's prophets.  There was a time when your race was guided by\nsimilar individuals, as is evidenced from mention of them in your\nsacred Scriptures.  But their usefulness was lost when man on your\nEarth forgot God.\n\nIt was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded the\nunwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator.  He clamored for a\nCode of Laws and received them (through Moses). His next downward step\nwas taken when he admitted it was necessary to have interpreters of the\nLaw: for if the spirit of the Law had been kept there would have been\nno misunderstanding or juggling of the letter.\n\nSoon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's\ngrowing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority over\nall the interpreters, whose word should be final.  So your people cried\naloud for Kings.  And you have them, and your law has grown to immense\nproportions, as have also the clever sins of your selfishness.  WHERE\nTHERE IS NO SIN THERE IS NO NEED OF LAWS; FOR THE RIGHTEOUS MAN IS A\nLAW UNTO HIMSELF.\n\nIt must not be imagined that because of the lack of a political system\non Mars, such as you deem necessary on your Earth, that all is chaos\nand life a sort of happy-go-lucky existence.  On the contrary, the\nMartian existence is controlled by the acme of system, which is in\naccordance with the law of Divine Harmony.  A system from which has\nbeen eliminated all the useless wheels which so clog up your lives and\nmake your progress slow indeed.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER X.\n\nMARS IS RULED BY LOVE\n\n\"And now abideth Faith, Hope and Love: these three; but the greatest of\nthese is LOVE.\" Paul to the Corinthians.\n\nTHERE IS BUT ONE LAW ON MARS.  THAT LAW IS LOVE.\n\nThis law is not written in a code for the guidance of the people.\n\nIt is graven in the hearts of the inhabitants, and is reflected in the\ncountenance of every individual.\n\nThis law is the incentive before the entire population and urges each\nindividual onward to the completion of the task before him.\n\nThere are no rulers to bow before: neither is anyone better than his\nbrother.  There is no evil, for all are good: all are equal. God endows\nevery individual expression of life with the Divine Heritage of a pure\nsoul.  It is the individual's concern to keep this heavenly gift\nunstained in its descent into matter.  The love force of the Spirit is\nthe potent agent that does this for the individual when allowed to\npermeate and radiate the entire being.  When individuals have learned\nto bathe their innermost beings in the Father's love, then it must\nfollow that a nation made up of such individuals will be governed only\nby such precepts as are evolved from this dominating Love-force.\n\nIt is of no import to the individual on this planet what his particular\ntask may be, for all work is for the Father; and the humblest vocation\n(humbler from the point of view of the dwellers on your Earth) is as\nimportant and as honorable as the highest.\n\nMARS IS RULED BY LOVE, which is in accordance with the Divine Intent.\nIt is the desire of the Father that every world in limitless space\ninhabited by His children be ruled by that Divine Principle.  For when\nLove is the supreme law of a world, as it is of the Universe, there is\nno need of a system of complex laws and a horde of judicial officers to\ninterpret and enforce them.\n\nWhen Love enters into the life of a community selfishness makes its\nexit: misery becomes a stranger and pain and sickness vanish.\n\nFrom the cradle to transition the Martian is dominated by Love and\nguided by the Father's will.  The result of this Love-rule is\nindividual and communal happiness.  But above all, a Spiritual progress\nthat unfolds the individual in accordance with the Cosmic Intent.\n\nTo die, in the sense of passing out of one's physical environment, is\nthe destiny of every created being.  Hence, in that sense, death exists\non Mars as it does on your Earth.  But the real death referred to by\nChrist: a Spiritual death imposed on man by his fall from Grace, a\npenalty for having forgotten God, is unknown on this planet Mars.  We\nare in harmony with the Father.  Those who are spiritually dead are cut\noff from the Father as a result of their indifference and ignorance of\nSpiritual Truth.\n\nThe religion of the Martian may be expressed in two thoughts: \"LOVE\"\nand \"THY WILL BE DONE, NOT MINE.\" The true definition of Religion is a\n\"RULE OF LIFE,\" and as our lives are guided entirely by Love and the\nFather's Will.  WE HAVE A RELIGION.\n\nYou, on your Earth, have created a Religion to satisfy your\nconventionalities.  Truth is simple, but you have made it intricate.\nIt is free, yet you buy it from the would-be disciples.  Both you and\nwe must approach Him in simple faith: \"Unless ye become as little\nchildren ye cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.\"\n\nSpeaking of children, I desire to give expression to a thought that may\nappear to be outside the subject: it is this: The beauty and simplicity\nof youth is wonderful, and to be admired by all: but in the sight of\nthe Heavenly Father, and those who have progressed to higher realms, it\nis not so wonderful as those older characters who have waded the\nmarshes of life, as it were, and who have trod the dirty steps without\nlosing faith.\n\nThis is to encourage those who sometimes think when they look back on\ntheir lives that all is dark.  Their strength is being tried in the\ndarkness.  Therefore their courage and faith is so much more.\n\nWe who are giving you these messages have passed beyond the stage you\nare in, and do not have to be tried on every hand.  We look upon you\nwho are struggling through the pitfalls created by your false systems\nwith pity, knowing how great your trials are.  Do not think that\nbecause we have gone on to higher planes of life that we are out of\nsympathy with you.  The more we bask in the sunshine of Love the more\ntender we become to those in the shadow.  And if you would only realize\nhow strong you are, with the Father's love and His real consideration\nfor you, you would try so much harder to better your condition by\nmeeting His Love with Love.\n\nWe of Mars have learnt to keep the right pictures before the minds of\nour youth that they may not be so sorely tried, but on your planet you\nhave not even the beginning of a system whereby there could be kept\ncontinually before the minds of your children the real goal to be\nstriven for.  I make exception of the few homes on your planet where\nthe parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not\nideal--just a beginning of Idealism.  But they are better far than the\nmasses in their home conditions on your planet.\n\nNow, we are ready to do all we can towards stimulating the living of\nthe Christ-life among all souls in the Universe when it can be so\narranged: but it will take aeons of time on some planets, and many\ndecades on yours before we can scientifically teach you.  To be sure,\nwe are giving you all we can for this book, but it will not be\nuniversally accepted, although it will bring great joy to those who\nhave faith.\n\nIf you can keep some of the pictures we are giving you of the wonderful\nhappiness we possess it will help you in the sordidness of your own\nlife.  Picture beautiful things and your heart must be beautiful.\nStrive with all your mind to hold beautiful thoughts, for it is well\nworth your every effort towards faith.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XI.\n\nEDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL\n\nThe people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so\nfilled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to the\nhigh development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost as audible\nas words.  Hence, converse between individuals on our planet is not\naltogether a series of vocal ejaculations.  On the contrary, among the\nolder members of the race, communication between individuals is in some\ncases audibly imperceptible.\n\nPrinted books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information\nis usually transmitted impressionally.\n\nEducation on Mars begins at the mother's knee.  The first knowledge\nimparted to the young is Spiritual.  The first lessons given to the\nchild are: One's absolute dependence on God, and that the few years\nbefore the individual are but an unfoldment, or an individualizing of\nthe entity into a separate and distinct unit.\n\nThe Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps these\ntruths.  This procedure continues until the pupil is ready to enter an\ninstitution of learning.\n\nTHE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A\nPLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE.  THE PARENTS ARE THE\nFIRST TEACHERS.\n\nThe primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on the\nnecessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and righteousness in\norder that the mind of the individual be so moulded and fashioned that\nabsolute faith is placed in God's promises through the Master, Christ.\n\nThe keynote to the education of the individual is that one must first\nseek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, which is the\nDivine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and that coming into a\nknowledge of God means health, happiness and wisdom.\n\nAfter the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which result in\nan unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to a school; but a\nschool system different from anything you have on your Earth.  The task\nof the teacher is, not to teach knowledge but to assist in bringing out\nwhat is already latent in the soul, rather than a set routine, for\nevery individual is considered a master in some line of thought and\nactivity.  The pupil is led into knowledge instead of being taught\ndirectly.\n\nThe individual is left to his own tastes and volition.  The harmony of\nmusic of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics and of Life,\ntogether with a knowledge of the laws of Electricity, is especially\nbrought to the attention of the individual.  You of the Earth know as\nyet very little concerning the true nature of Electricity.  Your\nmethods of handling and generating this wonderful force are crude\nindeed, by comparison with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the\nsubject.\n\nAnd so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we of\nMars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to hear and\nsee many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not exist at all for\nyou.  Of course there are some exceptions among the few of your Earth\nwho, after having striven hard for light have been favored by God's\nangels in the development of a higher Spirituality.\n\nOur teachers are guides who look after their charges in an atmosphere\nof Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth are acquired by\nthe pupil.\n\nThought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian children\nare never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth.  As a consequence\nof this they are easily led into true knowledge, and having a broad\nvision are able to see all things in their true relations.  They begin\nat the cause and work towards the effect, which is the opposite of your\nsystem.\n\nNo set rules of discipline are used in the schools.  Indeed they are\nnot necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one goal impressed\non the mind of the pupil is the complete expression of the Father\nWithin, for to express the Father is to have perfect life, life in\nabundance.\n\nConcentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and\nlearned by the child in the early part of his career.\n\nAstronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an\nunderstanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite\nUniverse of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of Mars,\nunusual opportunity is presented to students in visual observations of\nthe Heavens.\n\nEntire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher\nguides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's Heavens is\nablaze with scintillating points of light.  The different\nconstellations as viewed from our planet present the same general\nappearance as to configuration as they do to the dwellers on your\nEarth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by reason of a more\nadvantageous viewpoint.\n\nThe so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of the\nlarger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars than to\nEarth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from this vantage\npoint.  Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily seen with the\nnaked eye.\n\nYour Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with our\nobserving instruments we are able to see your continent and oceans when\nnot covered by a cloud canopy.\n\nAs to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the former\npresents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, but being so\nnear the sun it is only visible an hour before or after sunset,\ndepending upon its position.  But Mercury, being so near the Solar Orb,\nit is rarely its position is favorable for observation from our planet,\nand then only with our more perfect telescopes.\n\nOur students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our planet\nwith the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do.\n\nMars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking\nphenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West,\npassing each other at times within view of observers.  The most distant\nsatellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the\nname of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth.  Approximately 132\nhours elapse between its rising and setting at any particular point on\nour planet, as a consequence of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours\n18 minutes at a distance of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary;\nand as Mars rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion\nis almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite.\n\nDuring the time of its rotation it changes four times from full to new\nand new to full.  The appearance of this satellite to the Martians is\nequal, if not a little brighter than the view of Jupiter from your\nEarth.\n\nThe second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as\nPhobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by\nmeans of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700\nmiles from the surface of Mars.  This satellite is shut out from view\nbeyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary.\nIts period is 7 hours and 30 minutes--less than one-third the time of\nthe rotation of Mars.  It rises in the West and courses across the\nHeavens in 11 hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of\nits phases and gets through half another.  Its disc appears to us as a\nlittle more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full appears\nto you.\n\nThe realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the Martian\nstudent.  We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws to a point\nwhich would appear to your understanding most incomprehensible.  Long\nago we mastered the knowledge of the method of releasing Interatomic\nEnergy,[2] a knowledge which in the brain of an unscrupulous person\nwould be most disastrous, not only to himself but to those about him.\nThe energy locked up in an atom of matter is tremendous, and the\nrelease of this power is only a matter of knowing the law.  The\ninhabitants of your world will have to bide a long time before the key\nthat will release this giant is placed within their reach.\n\nNot until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not before you\nhave learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be permitted to\nharness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, a force equally as\ngreat for evil as it is for good.  This knowledge we have, and we have\nutilized it in the construction and building of our mighty planetary\nprojects.\n\nThis Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous heat.  If\nit were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt itself out ages ago.\nAll your theories to account for the continuity of solar radiation are\nin error.  The release of Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite\nrate is the reason why its heat never increases or diminishes though\nmillions of years come and go in endless procession.\n\nAnd this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, some\nof your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: Omnipotent,\nOmniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the Directing Intelligence,\nwho sees to it that all is provided for His children.\n\nOn your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements.  In order\nto complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table,\nthere are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists.  On Mars\nthe most elementary school pupil is well informed on the subject, and\nhas knowledge of the complete list among the new elements yet to be\ndiscovered by your chemists, and which exist in appreciable quantities\non your Earth, is one which has the peculiar property of neutralizing\nGravity.\n\nThis neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the gravitational\npull when interposed between the Earth and the matter sought to be made\nimmune from the attraction, just as you would insulate against the flow\nof electricity by interposing a non-conductor between two conducting\nmetals.\n\nThe knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized in the\nsolution of our transportation problem.  Instead of cumbersome\nrailroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an almost perfect\nflying or floating ship.  It is made buoyant by being screened from the\ngravitational pull of the planet.[3]\n\nAnother subject of importance, that takes no little time to understand\nby the Martian student is the part played by the planet's satellites in\nthe generation  of Electro-Magnetic energy.  The sun together with its\ncirculating family of planets is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and\nits satellites are minor generators of Electric energy.  Satellites\nhave a higher importance and necessity than the mere creation of\nmoonshine.\n\nAll the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers have\nnot yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. The latter\nplanet has a satellite whose distance is so close to its primary that\nits presence is lost in the intense reflection of light caused by\nVenus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser than that of your Earth.\nIn the case of Mercury, owing to its extremely close proximity to the\nsun, its satellite probably never will be seen by observers on your\nEarth, as it is lost in the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on\nthis planet.\n\n\n[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following--\"Sir\nOliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the\nenergy hidden in ordinary matter.   The time will come when atomic\nenergy will take the place of coal as a source of power.\"  The man who\nspoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver\nLodge--one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has\ndevoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of\nthe atom.   This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may\nutilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so appalling that\nSir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how to release it.  I\nhope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy, he\nsays, until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly,\nbecause if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would\nbe unsafe.  A force utterly disproportionate to the present source of\nPower would be placed at the disposal Or the world.\n\nNOTE (By the Editor in 1920)--This article was published more than two\nmonths after the revelation above was received, but is another striking\nconfirmation of the truth of these revelations.\n\n[3] In the February issue of the \"Electrical Experimenter,\" (1920)\nwhich was published about a month after this information was received\nby revelation, the following article appeared--another startling\nconfirmation of the truth contained herein, and points to the\npossibility that whatever is possible on one planet, is also possible\non another, depending upon that planet's type of civilization and real\nknowledge, not superficial theory:\n\n\"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement that\nProf. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a pool of mercury\nlost a certain amount of weight.  It was explained that the weight was\nlost due to a screening effect which the mercury produced on the lead\nballs.  In other words, mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the\nearth's gravitational waves.  For gravitation certainly is propagated\nthe same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form.  Prof. T. J.\nSee, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an address\nbefore the California Academy of Sciences, announced recently that his\nresearches on gravitation in 1917 and his latest researches on\nmolecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim that the screening of\ngravitation has been shown to exist.  In 1917, says Professor See, 'I\nexplained the fluctuation of the Moon's main motion by the circular\nrefraction of the sun's gravitation waves, as they are propagated\nthrough the solid body of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.'\n\n\"'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that quicksilver is\nindeed very resistant to the waves which produce molecular action, and\nthis developed a new theory of the depression of the mercury in\ncapillary tubes.  This would tend to confirm Maiorana's claim that a\nbasin of mercury beneath a suspended mass of lead may decrease the\ngravitation of the lead by a small amount.  My researches on ether show\nconclusively that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain\nvery resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a slight\nscreening effect.'\n\n\"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be\naccomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against\ngravitation.\"\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XII.\n\nEDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION,\nSCHOOL AGE, MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued)\n\nEveryone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length of\ntime on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth.  The Martian\nyear is nearly twice as long as on your globe.\n\nThere are many universities on Mars where students enter direct from\ntheir homes, where the primary and preparatory education is first\ninculcated in their minds.  Wonderful teachers have charge of the\nstudents, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are taught.\nSpecial and particular attention is given to the subject of the\ndevelopment of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may come into man's\nDivine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of the KINGDOM OF GOD.\n\nEach student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this\nvocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what benefits\nthe individual also benefits the entire community.\n\nEach individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that will\nensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system of the\nplanet, and each unit understands the dignity and importance of his\nposition, no matter what that position may be, for on Mars no activity\nof human endeavor is considered menial; no one position in life is less\nimportant than the rest: all is God's work.\n\nAnd so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of physical\nactivity, for God has created each individual for some particular work.\nSix hours is a day's work, the remainder of the time is devoted to\nrecreation, music, lectures, and those general activities that best\ndevelop the highest spiritualities with the individual.  For the\nMartians realize that life on the material plane is but temporary the\nisolation of the individual Divine Spark from the Infinite whole to the\nend that the personality may become for all Eternity self-conscious and\nin harmony with God, which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for\nall time.\n\nFailure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the\nindividuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is\nindestructible: it always was and always will be.\n\nEducation on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of developing\nthe individual spiritually in order to prepare one for the spiritual\nprogress after the completion of the material probationary period as\nwell as having life in greatest abundance during that period, and with\nthis main end in view the subject of marriage, the rearing of children,\nreceives special consideration and attention.\n\nThe pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the selection\nof a wife by the prospective husband must be in accordance with true\nconjugal harmony, and this is not possible in the absence of Spiritual\ndevelopment.  Hence, divorces are unknown with us, and to that end is\nspecial care taken in the matter of teaching the truth concerning the\nmarital relation, the rearing of children and their Spiritual growth.\n\nThe marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your\ntime measurements.  The result of this early training is that the young\ncouple just embarked on the \"Sea of Matrimony,\" are true mates and go\nthrough life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so\ncharacteristic of your Earth's people.\n\nMarriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from\nGod's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the\ngratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an\naccident rather than a preconceived reality.  Such marriages are unholy\nand destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual\nawakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your\nEarth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished\nand the extinction of the race will be inevitable.\n\nThe curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic\nScience, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your\nsystem that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those\nhaving supervision over the studies of the young.\n\nOne of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular\nattention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS.  With an atmospheric\npressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175\ndegrees on our planet.  This temperature is inadequate for cooking\nfoods properly, especially the coarser varieties.  But recourse is had\nto the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies\nof the occasion demand.\n\nElectrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the\nvariety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your\nplanet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours.\n\nMartians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the\ngross foods so characteristic of your Earth.  There are two reasons for\nthis.  In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on\nMars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates\nthe necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your\nphysical make-up demands.  In the second place the Martians partake of\nfood to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded\nby the consumption of victuals.  We eat to live: whereas most of your\nEarth tenants live to eat.\n\nAlthough each individual has his particular place in the universe where\nhe will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in\nall Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is given an opportunity\nto obtain a broad and comprehensive knowledge relating to all subjects,\nboth material and spiritual.\n\nThe study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, offers\nan interesting field for study and research work, as does also its\nconcomitant Cosmic Energy.\n\nCompared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of labor-saving\ndevices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of energy is\nconsiderable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic Chemistry.  But\nit must be understood that the individual is taught that dependence\nmust be placed rather on one's own dexterity, born of that God-given\nfaculty of Intuition, than on the perfectness of a man-made machine,\nthe creation of finite mind.\n\nFor it has so happened to races on other planets that complete\ndegeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire\ndependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on\nmachinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator,\nsuch dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the\nworker's intuitional faculties.\n\nThis calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is\nnot called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most\nevery line of industrial activity.  You are now getting to the stage\nwhere the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved\nby merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator\nunderstanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the\nsolution of the problems in hand.  This means, in the near future,\nbrain atrophy through disuse.\n\nAnd so with other lines of industrial activity.  Not one among a\nthousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel\nor perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the\ncompletion of a pair of shoes.  And perhaps it would be impossible to\nfind one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the\nextent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article.\n\nIn order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a\nmighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our\nfactory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes\nin winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our\nknowledge of matter and energy.\n\nWe have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an\nEffect world.  The Cause world is the Reality which is invisible to all\nwhile hampered with a physical body; that all forms of matter are but\nthe manifestation of the same ultimate Essence; that this Essence is\nbut a Divine Impulse--a thrust, as it were, in the Ether.  That\nalthough we observe with our sensory organs many different kinds of\nmatter, consisting of elements and compounds of elements: if we were\nable to resolve any of the different forms of matter before us into\ntheir ultimate units, these ultimate particles would all turn out to be\nthe same thing, the \"Divine Impulses\" just mentioned.\n\nNow you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed in an\nInfinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is immersed in an\nocean of water.  Everywhere, all about us, is a teeming maelstrom of\nmotion.  There is not a cubic centimeter of space that you can call at\nrest.  All is eternal motion.  All is Energy.\n\nAnd out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians draw our\nenergy.  And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate essence of all\nmatter and all energy, therefore you might imagine matter in its\ndifferent aspects as Electrical in origin.  As Electricity is a\nmanifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the only Reality in the\nUniverse is GOD.\n\nWe have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into harmony\nwith its origin--GOD--for only through God can true knowledge be\nobtained.\n\nOn your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing\nElectrical Energy.  You expend more energy by burning coal or using\nwater power than you derive from your electrical pump: for a dynamo is\nnothing more than a pump.  Your machines do not generate electrical\npower for, as stated before you are immersed in an Infinite sea of\nenergy.\n\nOn Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite reservoir of\nenergy.  We have learned the law as you some day must.\n\nLocated at convenient points on our planet are high towers, capped with\nsuitable receiving apparatus.  In turn this energy is transmitted to\ndifferent parts of our globe where it is used.  We do not require wires\nto transmit energy.  Our landscape is neither disfigured with unsightly\nwires, nor is it covered with a pall of black smoke.  We devised a more\nperfect method of power production and transmission.\n\nThe relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality\nbrought to the attention of advanced students on Mars.  An\nunderstanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the world of\ngross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge concerning\nSpiritual truths; for the latter are the only real tangible treasures\nworthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. Already a knowledge of\nthese truths is beginning to be sought for by some of the more\nspiritually enlightened inhabitants of your Earth; but so immersed in\nthe unreal things of life is the vast majority of your Earth people\nthat it will take a long time before the present seed-sowing toward\nthis end will bear fruit.\n\nThe seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now going on\nby a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the present day,\nhave in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on your Earth.  Only\nTruth can stand in the end.  All that is unreal or false must\nultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has willed that the day\nwhen error shall be no more shall be hastened.\n\nThere are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them.\n\nBut they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as long\nas you function in a world of unreality and error your Spiritual vision\nis incapable of discerning what lies beyond your present horizon, and\nmust remain dormant.  Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul,\nand your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but\nlittle of the real things beyond.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIII.\n\nMUSIC AN EXPRESSION OF THE FATHER\n\nAll material expressions of the Father, from the simplest chemical\nelement to the most complex compound; from the one-celled protoplasmic\nlife germ to the most complex organism, are Vibratory in their ultimate\nnature.\n\nAs has been stated elsewhere in this book, material life is the\nvibratory reflection from the Cause world into an Effect world. The\nuniverse is a vibratory expression of an absolute Reality--GOD: a\nmaterial expression of Divine Harmony.  And as Harmony is an expression\nof the Father, its antithesis, Discord, is the creation of man.\n\nOf all the vibrations that more fully express the Father and arouse the\nEmotional within the soul, Music must of necessity head the list.\n\nOwing to man's degeneration or fall, on your Earth, he has lost all\nreceptibility to the more refined vibratory tones of the chromatic\nscale.\n\nAnd for the same reason he has lost receptibility to intermediate\nvibrations in the COLOR spectrum, which has clouded or stultified his\nvisional faculties.  The long waves of the Infra-red and the short\nwaves of the Ultra-violet ends of the spectrum are invisible to your\nEarth people except in rare cases of developed mediumship, though your\nphotograph plates are somewhat sensitive to these vibrations.\n\nYou are immersed in commercialism and other selfish pursuits while all\naround you is a beautiful RAINBOW UNIVERSE, vibrating with music too\nheavenly for your dulled perceptions to enjoy.\n\nOn Mars the development of the Musical talent is held to be of primary\nimportance.  The laws of Harmony are part of the curriculum of all\nschools, and all necessary paraphernalia for its proper exposition are\nprovided.  We have instruments for measuring tone vibrations of so\ndelicate a pitch that the existence of these tones would be a blank to\nthe gross material ears of the inhabitants of your world.\n\nMusic arouses the innermost emotions of the soul and its effect on the\nindividual is proportionate to his degree of spiritual development.\nMusic is harmony, but it also creates an atmosphere of harmony.\n\nThe music of the spheres is a living reality, for Harmony is the very\nessence of the Cosmos.  By Music of the Spheres is meant the harmonious\ninterrelation of all spiritual planes.  Every unit in the universe is\nin perfect accord one with the other, and all are functioning in\nperfect unison.  Every Solar Orb and every Planet responds to\nHarmonious law.  The Cosmos as a whole is the expression of a Divine\nSymphony.\n\nWhen man's spiritual progress has attained a degree of enfoldment\nentitling him to come into possession of his Divine Heritage then will\nthe sublime vibrations of the spheres be a reality to him.\n\nOn Mars divers instruments are used for producing musical harmony, and\nmuch of this harmony is of such a subtle nature that your crude\ninstruments could not give expression to it.\n\nWe have a means of producing harmony of the highest order by utilizing\nEthereal Electric Vibration which produces light vibrations\ncorresponding to tone production, for true Electric Vibration is real\nmusic.  This device resembles a series of globes, all transparent,\ncolorless when not in action.  But immediately they are allowed to\nproduce music they become units of color and tone work that would give\nyou the impression of SEEING AND HEARING A RAINBOW SIMULTANEOUSLY.  You\nare not ready to receive the scientific explanation of this phenomenon,\nbut we are ready to give it to you at any time.\n\nSinging is also highly developed on our planet, for it is the first\nexpression of harmony that the child is taught.  This is true for the\nreason that vocal music is the most natural expression of harmonious\nvibrations.  Much time is devoted to ensemble work among our people of\nall ages.  This chorus work is of great benefit to all partaking, for\nindividually and collectively much inspiration is received; and the\ntremendous Love-force loosened by this united expression of harmony\nbecomes a phenomenal power and stimulus--a purifying agent for soul and\nbody.  This will help you to realize why disease is unknown to us.\n\nIn the development of the musical talents of the individual on Mars the\npupil is impressed with the necessity of expressing the true self, and\nthe original improvisation or composition is the method by which the\npupil expresses his understanding of the subject.  No one attempts to\nape the technique or genius of another, for on Mars all are geniuses.\nThis is true in every form of activity.  All must be creators to\nexpress individuality.\n\nWhen an individual on Mars has surpassed all others in some special\nexpression of Divine Harmony the product of his genius is for the\nbenefit of all, hence copyrights and patents are unknown on our planet.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIV\n\nAERONAUTICS, INHABITED PLANETS, SECTARIANISM\n\nA great deal of interest is being manifested in your city this morning\n(April 25, 1920), over the Aeronautical Show.  You imagine the Flying\nmachines wonderful mechanisms; but in their present state they will not\nlift you out of your atmosphere.  You have yet to perfect a real\nairship.\n\nYour Flying machines are cumbersome and awkward, and they consume lots\nof fuel and make a deal of noise.  It can hardly be said they are\nharmonious with the music of the spheres, but then it is only a sample\nof your Earth's development.\n\nYou have seen the seagulls soar over the water seemingly without\nmotion; and yet they go up and down, turning this way and that without\neffort.  This is the best idea I can give you of our airships, which\nreally soar.  No sound, no discordant vibrations disturb the quiet of\nthe Martian atmosphere, and the tranquility of the Mars people.\n\nWhen you have learned the secret of how to tap the Universal Reservoir\nof Cosmic Power, then will you evolve a perfect Flying machine such as\nwe have.  A great deal of interest is also being centered on an attempt\nto signal Mars, and your apparatus is not fine enough to receive our\nwaves.  But success will come to you in another decade, and we will be\nable to get something through for your scientific world.\n\nIt is gratifying to know that a large portion of your population\nentertain the belief that Mars is inhabited: and also that the\npossibilities point to the fact that other planets are inhabited.\n\nYou have advanced a long way to come to that belief, but you are yet a\nlong way from the truth.  You are on the eve of an awakening and much\nwill come through the discoveries of scientists who are devoting their\nlives to the study of Truth. It is true that only a few of that number\nare bold enough to proclaim all they discover, and they must bear the\nbrunt of much harsh criticism.  In the end, however, ignorance must\ngive way to Light.\n\nWe look upon your inventions with much amusement, and yet with great\ninterest, just as you would look upon your children's finest toys.  We\nare much older than you and are doing all we can to help your\nscientists by impressing them with thoughts that will lead them to\ndiscover new truths, and our interest never flags.  How could it if we\nare doing the Father's work? For it is the Father's great pleasure to\ngive His children all they can receive.\n\nIf you could cut loose from your world conventions and could perceive\nnew ideas; if you would but disregard man-made theories and open your\nminds and souls to the Father's Revelations, it would not be long\nbefore your sin-cursed and forsaken Earth would be changed into a\nParadise.\n\nBut the tendency among you if to think as your forefathers thought\nrather than cut new paths.  However, your children of this generation\nare of a different sort, and they must be taught the importance of\nDEVELOPING THE SPIRITUAL INTELLECT.  There is MORE INDIVIDUALISM being\nborn into the world today than ever before.  THERE ARE FEWER CHILDREN,\nBUT THEY ARE STRONGER (the year 1920).\n\nTHESE CHILDREN, WITH THEIR ORIGINALITY AND ESOTERIC TENDENCIES WILL\nBRING ON A REVOLUTION ON YOUR PLANET THAT WILL END BY DESTROYING YOUR\nTHREADBARE DOGMATISM.  This tendency is evidenced by the recent failure\nof the Interchurch movement.  It has been the habit on your planet that\nyou cannot accomplish anything without raising immense sums of money.\n\nIt is not money that does the real work but rather PERSONAL SERVICE.\nPeople are inclined to give almost everything than personal service.\nIf each person lived the Christ Life there would be no need of money.\nA close study of the Mars Economic system will demonstrate that truth.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XV.\n\nLIFE AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.\n\nTHE PLANET JUPITER\n\nLIFE IS AN ATTRIBUTE OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE.  Go forth on a moonless\nnight and behold the firmament emblazoned with its myriad of\nscintillating stars, solar orbs, nebulae, world-systems in the making:\nthe galactic circle, a jeweled band athwart the canopy of Heaven; a\nseething maelstrom of Light: countless suns in space all expressing the\none reality, OMNISCIENCE.\n\nOnly presumptuous man can question the Divine Intent in the creation of\nthe Infinite number of giant suns, stupendous worldwide systems, and\nplace his particular world-unit at the center of the Cosmos.\n\nMan contemplates this handiwork of God as a mere adjunct (more\nornamental than useful) to his terrestrial environment, conceitedly\nthinking that the Father's only consideration is centered about himself.\n\nAs these life-giving orbs are countless in number, their orbits\nextending as they do to Infinity in all directions, so is it with the\nhabitable worlds in space.  Some there are where life is not yet\npossible: worlds not yet far removed from their primitive state: not\nlong since condensed from fire mist: others where life has just begun:\nothers on whose surfaces live teeming millions of God's creatures, just\nas you live and others have lived before you.  And there are other\nworlds whose life-cycle has been run; where intelligent life has\nceased: where world-disintegration has set in.  For this is in\naccordance with the universal law of Growth and Decay--a law that\nexempts neither the one-celled amoeba, nor the complex Solar system\nwhirling yonder in Infinite space.\n\nFor all that comes from the Father into material expression must some\nday revert to its primordial state.\n\nYou have thus far received much concerning the idealistic conditions on\nMars, whose planetary career is now reaching the zenith of its Cosmic\ncycle, and whose denizens have progressed to a degree of Divine\nunfoldment not yet attained by many worlds.\n\nIt is necessary that you now receive some information relating to one\nof the less-advanced planets belonging to the family of our sun, in\norder you may be able to learn by contrast something of the wonders of\nGod's work.\n\nJUPITER, owing to its prodigious size, being nearly eleven times larger\nthan your Earth, but whose density is proportionately less, might well\nbe styled the Master Planet of our system.\n\nJupiter is well blessed with satellites, having eight, a description of\nwhich is not necessary at this time.  This planet is in what might be\nstyled its primary evolutionary stage where life has just begun.  This\nlife has not evolved beyond the unicellular, or amoebic stage; and it\nwill be only after the lapse of a long period of time, measured in\nGeological units, when more complex organisms will appear: and many of\nthese periods will come and go before this planet's surface will have\nattained a proper development for the propagation of intelligences\ncapable of being classed with the denizens of your Earth.\n\nLong before that age arrives Jupiter's surface and atmosphere will\nundergo a tremendous change.  Mighty planetary cataclysms will raise\nnew mountain ranges; new continents will appear, and the present land\nsurfaces on this planet will sink, to be covered with slime and water,\nto rise again in the centuries to come, for the Father's love and\nsolicitude will provide, as it has in the case of all His Celestial\nCreations, a bountiful supply of stored-up radiant energy, such as coal\nand petroleum, and other elements, for the comfort of those who will\ninhabit this giant among the worlds of this system in time to come.\n\nJupiter still retains much of its internal heat, which gives this\nplanet a very high mean temperature.  Its atmosphere is still very\ndense, and owing to the very rapid evaporation of water due to the\nextreme heat a constant cloud canopy covers its surface, which only\ndissipates occasionally in a slight degree, at which times only the sun\npenetrates to the surface of the globe.  By reason of the constant\nthick cloud canopy over the surface of Jupiter the planet is enveloped\nin deep gloom and darkness.  As radiation is arrested to a marked\ndegree by the clouds and atmosphere the temperature is very humid as\nwell as hot.  In this steam environment grow forests of fern and\nfungus-like trees and rank vegetal growths which will in the course of\ntime be preserved as coal for the races destined to inhabit this\nplanet. This vegetal growth is a flora that knows not bloom or seed,\nbut is propagated by root and spores, a flora most primitive in type,\nbut which will in time evolve through the law of mutation and\nadaptation into a diversified and useful vegetal kingdom for the races\nyet to come on the planet.\n\nOwing to the tremendous gravitational pull on Jupiter present organisms\nare, and future ones will be evolved along specially modified lines, in\norder that they may encompass the least possible volume, just as the\ndenizens of the extreme depths of your oceans have evolved.  The\nmodification is necessary that organisms mat be able to function on a\nplanet where the difference in gravity is as one to three compared with\nyour Earth.  In other words a minimum density is necessary to produce\nmaximum lightness.\n\nAs there is no lesser or greater in the economy of Nature (Nature is\nGod Manifest), the most infinitesimal mote in the universe is as\nperfect within itself  as is the most gigantic sun.  Size is but\nrelative.  The anatomy of the midget is as perfect and complex as is\nthat of the mammoth, and so there exist in the universe inhabited\nworlds that are relatively very small.\n\nCirculating around the sun in orbits between Mars and Jupiter are\nnumerous small planets or asteroids.  One in particular, which is known\nto your astronomers as Vesta, is encompassed by an atmosphere and is\ninhabited by diminutive people and a correspondingly diminutive fauna\nand flora.  The diameter of Vesta is about 500 miles, although your\nastronomers give its size, erroneously, as much smaller.\n\nWhile the subject of these discourses is mainly Spiritual you are\ngetting many scientific facts, and although not a volume of them you\nare getting a proper understanding of the Cosmos.\n\nThe universe with all its suns and planets is analogous to a perfect\nwatch.  Each sun and planet moves over a prescribed orbit in a given\ntime mathematically proportional to the movements of all the other\ncelestial bodies, just as the geared wheels of the watch conform to\ntheir prescribed movements.  The celestial bodies are seemingly\nactuated by invisible gears and are held rigidly in their proper places\nby a mighty force whose power is incalculable.  This is evidenced by\nthe fact that all celestial bodies conform to that inexorable law,\nDivine Harmony.\n\nThat all planets describe equal areas in the same time in their\nceaseless journeyings, and that the square of the time of their periods\nis as the cube of their distance from their common centers, is an\nexemplification of the reign of God's harmonious laws.\n\nYou must remember that Empirical knowledge is but a perverted view of\nTruth.  All the fleeting things of life are but dross: their apparent\nreality an illusion.  Material life is but a projection from the Cause\nworld into the Effect world.  Man is but a reflection of a reality that\ntranscends his material vision.\n\nYou are on the threshold of a great awakening on your planet, which is\nyet in great darkness, but the dawn of a better day is nigh.  Christ is\ncoming into His Kingdom, which must be in the hearts of the people.\nHis Second Coming means that He will come into your lives with the\nPower of the Spirit.  This can only become possible through an awakened\nunderstanding of Spiritual laws.  Although man on your Earth is in\ngreat darkness it is not the darkness of Jupiter, which planet must\nundergo many changes before it reaches your evolutionary stage.\n\nCOMMUNICATION BETWEEN PLANETS in our system and your Earth will be\nrealized in a short time, and the INITIAL MESSAGE WILL BE FROM MARS.\nThis event will herald A NEW ERA for the people of your Earth, for it\nwill be an important factor in the BREAKING DOWN OF THE MEDIEVAL\nDOGMATISM of the past, A NARROW-MINDED THEOLOGY built upon a perverted\ncorruption of God's limitless universe: a universe narrowed down to\nyour Earth and the inhabitants thereof.\n\nMan's presumptuousness and sophistry is in direct ratio to his\nignorance, and that is one reason why materialism holds sway among a\nmajority of your so-called learned scientists and the people generally.\nBut the materialism of the masses is not so degenerating and\ndestructive as the impossible dogmas entertained by your numerous sects\nWHO HAVE MADE GOD, WHO IS INFINITE LOVE, AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC MONSTER.\nThese dogmas are priestly inventions created to frighten God's\nchildren; to make of man, created after the image of God a crawling,\nservile creature, instead of what he really should be, the highest\nmanifestation of the Divine, the culmination of God's handiwork.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVI\n\nTHE RISEN CHRIST\n\nEaster Sunday, April 4, 1920\n\nYour Earth's inhabitants are celebrating today the Resurrection of your\nSavior--by gratifying the desires of Self.\n\nWe of Mars do not have such events to commemorate for we never\ncrucified Him.  We opened the door to His wonderful Truth.\n\nNot one of your Earth's inhabitants can perform the miracles Christ\ndid, but we can.  Our leaders, who are our advisers, guides and\nSpiritual teachers are Christlike men who can do all the works that\nChrist and His disciples did.  He said.  \"These signs do follow them\nthat believe,\" and we have never stopped believing.\n\nYour condition is pitiful.  There is nothing but darkness between you\nand the Truth Christ tried to give you.  Christ is only an idea on your\nplanet and not a reality in the hearts of your people.  Their whole\nthought, for weeks past, has been devoted to their personal adornment,\nand in preparing festivals for this occasion.\n\nIn your churches, where they seem to observe the period of Christ's\nsuffering, it is only a form.  They go through their vain repetition of\nprayers, that have no soul in them, and your six weeks of so-called\nLent is only a mockery of its real significance.\n\nIf you would live the Christ life you would not crucify Him daily in\nthe flesh, but would come to that consciousness that He is risen in\nyour soul.  You are continually crucifying Christ all over your planet\nin the same way that you crucified Jesus Christ, for you either deny\nHim or pervert His Truth to suit your selfishness.\n\nAll of the people on Mars have lived on other planets before, except\nyour Earth.  The Earth has not advanced enough to be placed in the line\nof progression yet.  However, the time is near when you will experience\nthat progression.  It will be after you are high enough spiritually to\nreceive word from the Martians through mediums.  This work evidences\nthe fact that you are beginning that experience now.  Take hope, for\nafter the obscure darkness must come the dawn.  Your whole Earth is now\nin terrible travail, but the result will be the birth of the new Christ\nSpirit.\n\nYou get glimpses now and then of the real Christ Life, but do you, or\ncan you realize what life on a planet is like when all the inhabitants\nlive the Christ Life every day? That is why we have the wonderful\nmanifestations of the Father's Love in our intricate and delicate\nmechanisms, and in our utilization of Cosmic Energy.  It is thus that\nwe receive the Father's wondrous gifts.  But Mars never became what it\nis until God purified it by His Son's example, and we accepted Him as\nour Savior WITHOUT MURDER.  Your planet damned itself to many bloody\naeons by the rejection of Him, and your Religion has been blood, blood,\nblood! In your last five years you have been given enough blood to\ndrown all the martyrs you have given to your bloody god.\n\nYour planet is in slavery.  You are slaves to your conventionalities.\nThey are like shackles on your souls: like bands of iron.  And yet you\ncling to them until it seems you do not want freedom.\n\nIt is only Truth that will free you; and as long as you cling to false\nideals and sham systems you must expect to be slaves.\n\nPin your faith not in material money, but in Spiritual Wealth. \"Take no\nheed of the morrow.\"  Be of good cheer.  MAKE WIDE THE OPENING TO THE\nSPIRIT! HE WILL ENTER!\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVII.\n\nPHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT THE RESULT OF SPIRITUAL CAUSES\n\n  \"For they have sown the wind\n  and they shall reap the whirlwind.\" (Hosea, 8:7)\n\nThe Creator and Dominator of the entire Universe is DIVINE MENTALITY.\n\nThe only real actuality that confronts sentient beings is MIND. We are\nborn, live and have our being amidst physical surroundings that in\nfinal analysis are mere illusions.  This idea is not new.\n\nIt forms the base of most systems of philosophy from the dawn of\ncivilization to the present day.\n\nOur physical environment is the result of our mental attitude. Mars is\nblessed with a climatic tranquility that would surpass the\nunderstanding of an Earth dweller.  But this was not always so.\n\nIn proportion to the spiritual unfoldment of the inhabitants of a\nplanet so is the degree of climatic tranquility enjoyed by them. This\nmay, at first reading, appear far-fetched, but it is true nevertheless.\n\nThose who live on a material plane are immersed in the Effect world.\nThe dominating and primary influence that gives rise to all material\nphenomena have their inception in the Cause world--the world of Spirit.\nHence the turbulence of the elements originate, through the law of\nVibration, deep down in the mentalities of those who make up the\npopulation of a planet. Cloudbursts, severe wind storms and other\ndisturbances of Nature are all adjuncts of the spirit of war and rapine.\n\nWhen a race has discarded the pursuit of false ideals and comes into\nharmony with the Father then there occurs a corresponding change in its\nphysical environment by reason of the vibratory influences at work.\nThese influences have their inception in the mentalities of sentient\nbeings who are doing the Father's work in the advancement of the races\nof men throughout the entire physical universe.\n\nThis same vibratory law is at work throughout all physical planes, and\na knowledge of this law was referred to by Christ when He said: \"THE\nKINGDOM OF GOD IS WITHIN YOU.\"\n\nOn Mars, owing to the high spiritual state of its inhabitants, who are\nin harmony with their Creator, climatic conditions are, compared with\nyour world, most perfect.  However, there was a time, measured in terms\nof your millions of years, when the elements on Mars were as agitated\nand capricious as they are today on your blood-stained globe.  That was\nbefore man on Mars had enfolded spiritually.\n\nAs the Martians progressed and unfolded spiritually there occurred a\nsubsidence in the roughness of the elements: and today our planet is\nblessed with a tranquility proportionate to the high Mental state of\nits inhabitants.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XVIII.\n\nMATERIAL LIFE A LESSON\n\nAt the expense of what may appear as painful reiteration it is my\ndesire to impress upon the readers of this book this Truth: Material\nlife is necessary to unfold character, to develop the real self, the\nDivine part in man: the only principle that endures forever.\n\nThere is a lesson in every phase of work, in every joy, in every\nsorrow.  That lesson is LOVE.  Until you have fully realized this truth\nyou will not become full heirs in the Kingdom of God.  \"He that loveth\nis born of God.\"\n\nChrist taught that the Kingdom was not of your Earth, and that all\nmaterial things are transitory and would ultimately vanish like mist.\n\nThe story of Mars is a lesson to you as to what may be accomplished\ntowards a more harmonious relation with the Father: towards a truer\nrealization of God's real Kingdom.  But in any event you should not\nidolize the Mars people, for the Father's Kingdom is more perfect.\nMars' idealism is only a degree in the progress in the Cosmic Family of\nworlds.  The soul must really strive for a higher goal.\n\nThe Martians, after ages of time, have mastered their natural passions\nin suppressing self, but they have other heights to scale.  But he who\nconquers a sordid environment; he who rises from a black pool of\niniquity; he who finds the Father's Kingdom amidst an uncompromising\nwarfare with sin deserves more credit than he who is favored by\ncircumstances of birth with more congenial surroundings and a higher\nSpiritual environment.\n\nYou must remember that the individual on Mars, although living amidst\nan idealism, is beset with problems of life also.  Our problems are\nmore subtle and of a very different character than you are accustomed\nto deal with.  Every plane of life has its complexities.  If this were\nnot so, the stimulus for growth would be weak indeed.  Your most\napparent problems are material only to your understanding, since you\nare living under a most pernicious social and economic system, a system\nwhich puts a premium on selfishness.\n\nAll sentient entities are functioning in a universe of Relativity, and\nthe perfectness of the Martian character and the ideal material and\nspiritual aspects of the planet are so by comparison only.\n\nMartians are self-conscious of their shortcomings and aspire to higher\nthings in God's Kingdom, for progress is eternal and the ultimate goal\nis never reached on the material plane of action, for the pinnacle of\nall progress is God.  \"BE YE PERFECT, EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS\nALSO PERFECT.\"\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XIX.\n\nA MARTIAN HOME\n\nThe HOME is the moulder of Character in the individual, and in most\ncases the Home influences determine the future of the man.\n\nHome influences are the most lasting and abide by the individual unto\nthe end of his material career.\n\nAll the habitations of the people of Mars are beautiful, and a brief\ndescription of one will give our reader an understanding of the other\nmillions of homes on the planet.\n\nI will take you into a Martian home in the city of Urid the Beautiful.\nThe rooms are large and commodious.  Sunlight, which has been filtered\nthrough translucent glass to temper and rob it of its glare, floods\nevery room.\n\nThere are no stairs to climb, for the five or six rooms--depending on\nthe size of the family--form a rectangle with a court in the center.\nThere is a fountain in the center of the court, and beautiful flowers\ngrow in profusion.  Birds of vivid plumage fill the air with their song.\n\nIn one of the large rooms a mother sits at a sewing machine making a\ngarment.  For the Martians use these machines too, although they are a\ngreat improvement on yours.  Not all the clothing is made in the homes,\nbut much of it is, and this is easily understood when you recall that\nthe Martians are true artists and possessed of great originality.\n\nThe mother's attention is now and then centered on a very small child\nwho sits on a velvety carpet.  This carpet would be a most wonderful\nacquisition in the home of a man of wealth on your Earth.  It has a\nsoft, fluffy pile two inches thick, and makes a most comfortable floor\nfor the baby to play upon.  This baby is about 18 months old, and plays\nwith toys just as your Earth babies do.\n\nA beautiful young girl enters the room.  She is dressed in a simple\nbecoming gown of white, and she carries her school books with her.\nAfter removing her hat and putting her books away she begins to tell\nher mother of the wonderful things learned at school that day.  She is\nstudying the Harmony of Music, particularly the relationship between\nElectro-Magnetic Vibrations and Music.\n\nThe mother shows much interest, and from her store of knowledge clears\nup many doubtful points in the mind of her daughter.  And so the hours\npass quickly until the father comes home and joins the family circle.\n\nThe walls of the room are white, and are relieved here and there by the\nmost beautiful tapestries.  The few furnishings of the room express\nbeauty through the artistry that is born of Love.\n\nThere is a lack of useless furniture and bric-a-brac in the room.\n\nA table, a few chairs and a receptacle for books, also a couch,\ncomplete the furnishings.  But this simplicity in the matter of\nfurniture adds a spirit of freedom to the home.\n\nThere is no kitchen drudgery in store for the Housewife.  The family\nrepair to a dining-room where food is served by the mother.  The food\nhas just arrived from a central depot in a mechanical contrivance which\nruns underground.  After the meal has been partaken of, the soiled\ndishes are returned in the same manner by which they were conveyed to\nthe home.\n\nLater in the evening the family prepares to attend a lecture or musical\nconcert nearby.  Or perhaps a visit to some distant part is considered,\nin which case an airship is ordered from a public aerodrome.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XX.\n\nART\n\nAs Harmony is an expression of the Father, its coexistent, Art, is an\nexpression of the laws of Rhythm through the individual when\npermanently registered in a material way.\n\nThe more a created object conforms to the laws of Harmony the more\npleasing it is to the eye.\n\nThe artist gives expression to his soul within with paint brush, chisel\nor loom, and the quality of his production is proportionate to the\ndevelopment of his spiritual nature.\n\nAll of God's creatures are artists, although only a small percentage of\nHis evolutionary creatures are able to express materially what lies\nhidden in the soul.  Hence, a beautifully executed painting, statue or\ntapestry appeals to and interests almost everyone, even though few are\nable to execute their own artistic impressions.\n\nThe reason for this is that the average physical makeup is defective\nand therefore affords a poor vehicle for the expression of the real\nentity.  Then again, artistic ability is a question of individual\ndevelopment.\n\nPrimordial man's efforts to depict that which delighted his soul were\ncrude indeed, compared with the creations of your world's foremost\nartists today.  But in a relative sense only, for the state of your art\nis as far behind the art of the Martians as are the carvings of your\nprehistoric cavemen behind the productions of your Michael Angelos.  As\nman unfolds spiritually there is a corresponding advance in his\nartistic point of view.\n\nThis is evidenced by the fact that art has flourished more on your\nEarth among those races and individuals who are spiritually inclined.\nThe products of the monastery and cloister in the Middle Ages are\nwitness to this fact.\n\nAmongst a materially inclined people whose selfish instincts have\nstultified their souls; a people whose ultimate goal is the acquisition\nof material things; a people whose only ambition is to satisfy self: a\npeople whose ideas of real happiness are the pursuit of material\npleasures, art has little place except as a fad.\n\nThis is the condition today in many parts of your world, and especially\nso on your Western continent.  Prize fights and the sensualities of the\nstage interest many more people than do Art galleries and the beauties\nof Nature.\n\nThe fact that God is the Supreme Artist of the Universe can be\nestablished not only with the microscope, but with one's natural eyes.\nDivine Art is expressed in every atom comprising the universe; and poor\nindeed is he in Spiritual gifts who fails to feast his eyes on God's\nhandiwork.\n\nAs Art is an expression of God's law of Harmony it can be said that its\ndevelopment on Mars has been a stimulus to the development of every\nline of planetary activity and enters into every phase of Martian\nsocial and industrial system.\n\nAs every one of God's creatures is an artist in the making, every\nMartian is a developed artist.  Hence, every product of the loom or\nforge on our planet is an artistic production, and reflects in a\nmaterial way the soul of the creator.\n\nThe incentive before the Martian is to work for the pleasure of\nworking, which in ultimate analysis is God's work.  Of course such a\nsystem of industrial activity would be impossible among a partially\ndeveloped people.\n\nArt on Mars typifies man's spiritual and material progress on this\nplanet.  This planet's past history and present achievements are woven\ninto the products of the looms.  The warp and woof of our beautiful\ntapestries, so much in evidence in every home, express the Spirituality\nof the Martian people; as do also the creations of the Martian\nsculptors, and the works of those who use brush and paint.\n\nSome of the most beautiful productions of Mars art in painting,\nsculpture or tapestry depict the scenes and various episodes incident\nto Christ's visit to Mars 10,000 years ago.  They show many wonderful\nworks of the Master, but we do not call them Miracles for, as later art\nshows, the leaders of Martian spiritual attainment were and are true\ndisciples and do also the works of the Master.\n\nMars' past has been one of achievement spiritually, and naturally in a\nmaterial way also, so when the Martian artist weaves the story of the\npast in his loom there are no misgivings, for the Martian past is not\nfraught with hate, sin and suffering.\n\n\n\nCHAPTER XXI.\n\nSCIENTIFIC SOPHISTRY\n\n   \"For we are of yesterday, and know nothing,\n   because our days upon Earth are a shadow.\"\n                                    Job 8:9.\n\nThe term \"Scientific Sophistry\" well fits your multitude of theories\nconcerning Truth.\n\nScience which connotes a higher wisdom of hidden things has degenerated\non your Earth from its original purpose (the overthrow of ignorance and\nsuperstition and the development among intelligent beings of a near\napproximation of Ultimate Truth) to an orthodox dogmatism, which today\nis on a par with the unreality which this selfsame science has sought\nto eliminate from the shallowness of the human mind.\n\nIt is quite true that the modern scientific method of investigation:\nthat is, along the lines of Observation, followed by the formation of a\ntheory, and finally by demonstration, has resulted in the release of\nmillions of souls from a darker thraldom than that which now besets\nthem, but nevertheless, the human race on your planet now undergoing\nits probationary experience, is to be pitied for its blindness in\nmatters of real import, namely SPIRITUAL TRUTHS.\n\nYour scientific methods instead of leading you onward towards the\nCentral Sun of Spiritual enlightenment has so beclouded your vision\nthat your race today--that is, the so-called enlightened and learned\nportions of your population--have been deflected from the main path,\nand they will soon find themselves pursuing an illusionary\nwill-o'-the-wisp.\n\nAnother result of the adoption of the modern scientific method has been\nthe tendency of those endeavoring to bring light into the dark nooks\nand crannies of human existence, to immerse themselves in an abysmal\nmaterialism from which rescue is almost hopeless.\n\nThis condition is the result of a loss of Spiritual vision, and is the\nfinal effort on the part of scientists to explain the riddle of human\nexistence in accordance with a cleverly thought out, but most amazingly\ndeficient, mechanistic conception of life.\n\nSince the inception of modern Science on your Earth, based on the\nscientific method of investigation, its devotees adopted a spirit of\nskepticism concerning all problems of human activity not susceptible to\nmeasurement with the foot-rule, or analysis with the test tube, with\nthe result that the newer Science of Psychology was invented to supply\na reasonable and material explanation for the subtle and mystifying\nphenomena of the human mind.\n\nThat the conceivers of this science of Psychology have been successful\nis attested by the many remarkable explanations given to account for\neveryday manifestations of human and animal mentality.\n\nI will venture to say that this idea applies to all branches of modern\nscience as there seems to be no class of phenomena in the entire\nuniverse, whether in the realm of chemistry, physics or psychology but\nwhat can be clearly elucidated to the satisfaction of all scientists\nwith the aid of an adequate terminology.  So, today your Science in\nfinal analysis, has degenerated into a system of clever word-juggling.\n\nIt is true there are today in the ranks of your foremost investigators\nand God-inspired men who are seeking Truth.  Their names and their\nachievements will be treasured by a grateful posterity, and it is to be\nregretted that their declarations, based upon tireless investigation\nand honest opinion, are derided by their fellow-workers in the Realm of\nTruth.\n\nAll your scientific theories are based upon certain postulates that in\ntime are out of agreement with observed facts, and you are compelled to\ncast those postulates aside, adopt others and theorize anew.  This\nfruitless search for Truth must go on until a divergence is made from\nthe blind trail and the right path is found that will lead you to the\nultimate goal.\n\nBe not surprised, then, that the revelations in this book will meet\nwith the usual criticisms launched at every new idea of Truth that has\nbeen given to your world from the time man first walked erect and\nbeheld the stars in the firmament of God. Error must and will dissolve\npresently in the presence of Truth, which will abide with you for all\ntime.  HELP HASTEN THE DAY OF THE LORD.","title":"The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a Psychic Revelation","tradition":"scripture-revelation","translated_text":null,"word_count":22110}