Chapter VII

MARS

Mars was calling to invite us to visit their planet. We were told they

knew of our condition and that we would be in need of fuel if we used

much more of what we now have. If we wished to accept their invitation

at this time, they would instruct the Moonalites right in this vicinity

to look after our ship while we were away and they would send a ship

from their planet to our landing field here on the Moon to pick us up.

This was indeed a surprise beyond our greatest hopes and an invitation

we certainly do want to accept.

Johnny replied that we would like, more than anything else, to come to

planet Mars but he must first contact the Earth and tell them of this

unexpected trip, since he had just told them we were starting Earthward

in the morning.

This he did.

The Earth people were overjoyed about our making a trip to Mars and

they told us such a visit at this time would make our trip a far

greater success than had been anticipated.

After contact with the Earth had been broken, Mars came in again and

Johnny told them he had notified the Earth of our change in plans and

we would be awaiting arrival of their ship.

"That's good. Our ship will be there for you early in the morning,"

was the friendly reply. "And by the way, don't worry about your fuel

supply. If you should need more than you have to make your trip

home to Earth, we will give you all you need. We have plenty of

it. Our chemical laboratories use the same type fuel as you use in

your airships, but our ships haven't used anything of that kind for

thousands of years."

"We would like to bring your ship to Mars to show the people here for

no one living now has ever seen one like it. But it isn't built to make

such a trip. This isn't a reflection upon your intelligence when we

tell you that your ship would be an antiquated curiosity to present day

Martonians, belonging to a long forgotten people who were just growing

into a state of civilization. We are glad you reached the Moon safely

in it and we will find some other way for our people to see your ship."

After having seen so many ships from other planets, we understood what

they meant and our feelings weren't hurt in the least.

This contact with Mars had hardly been broken when a large group of

natives from both villages arrived on the scene to look after our ship

while we were away. What method of communication they had between

themselves and Mars, we don't know unless it was mental telepathy.

After again greeting our Moonalite friends, we groomed ourselves and

then took a good rest for the journey just ahead.

As the first rays of the rising sun pierced the morning sky we saw a

giant airship streaking out of space towards us. We knew it was the

Martonian ship. It circled overhead once and then landed alongside of

our ship.

As they land and start coming out of their ship, we realize these are

not the same men we met in the city. The first man to leave the ship

comes directly to us and shakes our hands in warm friendly greeting as

he introduces himself.

He is a Martonian scientist and has been chosen as our host and guide

on this trip. This man is about five feet, ten inches in height,

well built but not heavy, or stout. His face is quite round with

such a happy expression he seems always to be smiling. He is olive

complexioned, has sparkling brown eyes and jet black hair. There is a

warmth about his being which seems to so enfold us that we have not the

slightest awareness of strangeness between us and these men.

After introducing himself, he introduces us to all the others who

have come with him from Mars to meet us. In the group there are

twelve scientists, six pilots, forty crew-men, and fourteen servants,

seventy-two men in all.

After all introductions had been made and greetings had been exchanged

between the Martonians and the Moonalites, we were all invited to come

into the diner of their ship for a meal which had already been prepared.

In the diner the tables are all set for just the number of people there

are present.

The flavor of the food defies description. Most of it is entirely

different than anything we have ever eaten on Earth, but there is some

kind of fowl served that is similar to Earthly chicken both in taste

and appearance. The drink is delicious in flavor and non-intoxicating

but we have no idea what it is.

This ship is far larger than the one we had seen in the city. During

the conversation at the table, the first pilot remarked that it was in

readiness to come to the Moon to meet us as an official ship from Mars

when the people there knew that everything was set on the Earth for us

to leave the Moon.

In surprise Johnny asked how they knew when we were leaving.

"On Mars we have a big laboratory with all sorts of instruments

with which we can pick up anything in our solar system, be it human

activities or natural disturbances," explained our host. "We have

tried innumerable times to contact the Earth using many means, but

your scientists are not well enough developed. They have too many

complications in their own minds and their method is not simplified.

Every time we have succeeded in reaching the Earth and our messages

picked up by your crude instruments, your scientists have always named

it something else like cosmic rays and many other things."

"True. There are cosmic rays in space, for each planet radiates

outwardly from its own body, intermingling with its neighboring

planets, plus the sun radiates to them all. Between these rays are

neutral lanes so fine that they are undetectable, and through these

we send our messages to Earth and to other planets. Ofttimes our

messages are impregnated with these cosmic rays, as you Earth men

call it, but if the Earth men had the proper instruments whereby they

could screen the cosmic ray out, they would get our messages. Your

crude form of transmission which you call radio, crude but good for a

beginning, gets interference as you call it, from time to time which

is not due to sun interference, as you think it is. It is mostly due

to us using tremendous power of transmission to alert the Earth men

to our messages, but even then we do not seem to be successful. Yes,

there have been some stray messages caught by some of your alert radio

operators as they were experimenting just to see what they could get,

which were sent from us to Earth, for we can send messages to you in

your own language, in your own code, since we are far enough advanced

that we can master any and all tongues in our solar system. But the

few messages that you have caught have been given absolutely false

interpretation. And speaking of sending messages, remember when you

shot the Moon with radar? You alerted the inhabitants on the Moon as

well as those on every planet in our system, and we all have answered

you; but we have received no answer from you, proving that people

beyond the Earth are more alert than people on the Earth. However

we are daily awaiting that reply which should come in the very near

future, for we know that your scientists are working towards that end.

"We even commune with what you call the lower forms of life, like

animals and so forth. To us there is no high nor low for all forms are

creations of the Creator and are respected alike."

At this, we suddenly awakened to the realization that all this talking

which we have been telling of was told to us in our own language.

There was no sign language employed. And we were surprised and

relieved! For we know now that we will be able to get much information

direct and correctly.

Right there and then we asked why the men of the other ship had not

talked to us the same so that we could have understood their words,

instead of using the sign language as they had done.

The reply was, "they were not authorized to do so, but what they did

tell you in relation to the telescope and other things was just as they

told you."

Now we wanted to know, "how long has the Moon been so inhabited?"

And this is the story as it was told to us:

"Twenty thousand years ago the people of Mars became curious about this

moon after they had already thoroughly explored their own two moons.

Their interest was purely scientific since they were a people with a

wondering type of mind who wanted to know what the vastness beyond

their own planet was composed of."

"Their first scouting expedition brought to this Moon a few men from

all the various races then on planet Mars, and a lot of supplies for

their well being. From experiences on their own moons they knew they

would find atmospheric conditions in which they could live and build

for future development, should they find no inhabitants dwelling here."

"The spot where that first expedition landed is the site of the present

city where the telescope and The House of Records have been placed

somewhat as a memorial."

"At that time they found no native inhabitants on this Moon so later

expeditions brought more men and women, as well as supplies to care for

them until they could produce some food here through cultivation. And

from that start this Moon has become inhabited as you find it today.

There are still some necessities of life which the Moon does not have,

but we bring these to the people here from our planet Mars."

"This seems to be one way the Supreme Intelligence has of keeping our

planet from becoming too densely populated, as you asked the men of the

other ship about, for you see, we have many such outposts in space."

"In that long ago, the light side of the Moon to the Earth was a

steaming side, all the craters were hot water pools. Since then the

water has been evaporated through heat. That is the reason you find

mountains within the craters that are solid rock, for the water washed

away all dirt that clung around the rock, leaving the rock standing."

"You Earth men have a wrong conception of the Moon, thinking that the

craters were made by meteors. When we take the ship up we will fly over

some of these craters. We will not be able to land in any of them since

they are all too rugged for safe landing, but we will lower the ship

over two different types of craters and with instruments which we have

to look through, you will be able to see just as well as if you were

walking on the bottom of them or were handling the formations in your

hands. You will see the difference between a meteoric crater and a hot

water crater."

With this promise our enjoyable mealtime visit was drawn to a close as

all left their places at the tables and went outside again for a final

look around before our takeoff. Of course the natives have all been

left with our ship before, so we have no last details to take care of

in that respect.

However we notice that one of the Martonian scientists has brought a

small instrument that looks like a microphone with a cord attached to

it out of the ship with him. This cord he is attaching to our ship,

while the instrument itself he is placing in front of it, a little to

one side.

As we watched this procedure we wondered what it was all about, and as

if in answer to our unspoken question our host explained to us that no

harm would come to the ship through this instrument. Later on we would

see for ourselves the purpose of its being attached as it was.

After this was done, the Martonians and the four of us from Earth

re-entered their ship and we took up very gently into the air, almost

straight up. There wasn't any noise to the ship.

First thing we knew, we were over one of the craters and lowering

again. The hatch was opened, the same kind of a hatch that the first

Martonian ship had. Through this hatch we are observing the bottom

of the crater, just as though we were walking on it; in fact a lot

better than we could have done had we been walking on the ground. For

from this low altitude we can see the bottom and the sides all at the

same time. The lenses magnified to a certain extent and sure enough,

this was a hot water crater. We can definitely see the water line,

especially when it began to vanish, for it left a ring around the

crater like dirty water would in a tub.

Then the hatch was closed and the ship began to rise.

Within half a mile we started lowering again over another crater. Again

the hatch was opened and the bottom of this crater was just as flat as

anything could be, and the sides of it showed a definite upheaval had

taken place here.

Our scientist friend explained, "this is where a meteor did fall, as

you men call them. There are only a few such craters on the whole Moon,

while there are hundreds of the others. Notice that the bottom of this

crater is absolutely flat, while the bottom of the other craters are

not. They have mountains within them towering thousands of feet. If a

meteor had made those craters, there would not have been any mountains

in the bottom of them. The water left them."

Then the hatch was closed and we started rising again. We flew over

a ledge of rugged mountains and the hatch was opened again and the

scientist speaker told us to now look at these jagged peaks and rugged

mountains, these were volcanic upheavals. And sure enough they were,

definitely so, yet in crevices we could see moss-like vegetation

growing. In some places there would be a trickle of water we could see.

We flew over a large territory of the so-called light side of the

Moon. The heat upon this side was terrific, yet the ship was of normal

temperature, very comfortable.

There is one thing we have noticed about these Martonians. They are so

friendly and so comfortable to be with that we feel we have known them

all of our lives. Dr. Johnston has been taken in by these scientists

as though he was an old classmate of theirs and their ship laboratory

has been opened to his use in any way he desires it. The servants

are treated with the same respect as every other man in the ship was

given yet they were servants in every degree. They were very attentive

concerning the comforts and wishes of all, asking every few minutes if

we were thirsty or desired anything.

After one such inquiry we asked if it would be proper for us to smoke

in the ship. No one understood what we meant by smoking, for cigarettes

were unknown to them, but we were told that if that was our pleasure,

it was proper. So we smoked. They were all very much interested in the

procedure and asked us what was the reason of it, and does everybody on

Earth smoke?

As is customary where we came from, we offered cigarettes to all of

them but only one of their scientists accepted. He didn't want to smoke

but he was interested because here was something new to him. Each

one of us smoked a different make cigarette, so we gave one of each

make to him. He went to the back of the ship and analyzed them in his

laboratory.

When he came back he looked at us with a sort of surprised expression

and said, "I can't understand how you men succeeded in getting to the

Moon, but I do understand why you can't get our messages if all of

your men on Earth smoke these things. This weed which is wrapped up

in this paper, as well as the paper itself, has a paralyzing chemical

in it which dulls the brain. That is why the brain of the Earth man is

not more alert: it is in a sort of stupor. We scientists on Mars could

never indulge in things like these, for if we did we could never make

the discoveries we have made. If our people used this weed they would

be going mad and we could not have the peace and harmony which we now

have throughout our planet. Instead, confusion would take the place of

understanding, for a stupor brain cannot conceive things clearly."

They were not criticizing us, only analyzing differences between our

habits and theirs. If we wanted to smoke, it was still all right with

them. So we felt no resentment.

During all this, we were heading straight for Mars at the speed of one

and a half million miles per hour, flying on her light beam and the

ship kept in contact with Mars steadily.

Noting our interest in their constant communication with planet Mars,

our host suggested that we might like to try contacting the Earth with

their instruments.

Both Johnny and George replied with an enthusiastic, "Yes."

One of the scientists handed each of us a small disc and told us to

hold it in the palm of our hands while speaking through it as we would

a microphone. He would operate the sending apparatus, beaming towards

the Earth.

We followed his instructions carefully but received no reply to our

call.

Johnny immediately asked what frequency they were using.

"Three billion kilocycles and five million watts," he was told.

In surprise he said, "they have nothing on Earth with which they can

receive that power." Then he wanted to know why they used such high

frequency.

"We have to in order to keep on the lane in between two cosmic rays,"

the operator explained. "Even that is not always high enough. Sometimes

we have to step it up much more to get our messages through to other

planets. Most of the planets communicate with each other through

consciousness which is faster than anything else, but we Martonians

have indulged largely in our abilities to be able to make things that

would work for us. However we do also use the consciousness, or what

you Earthmen know as mental telepathy."

All this time the pilots of this ship were talking back and forth to

Mars just as though they were right there. They had no earphones,

mouthpieces or any visible instrument through which they were speaking.

They must have been using something installed in their panel board. We

could hear them talking but we didn't hear any replies coming to them.

We don't know how they were getting it but there was so much here that

we didn't understand, we couldn't ask questions about everything.

By now we have gone forty million miles distant from the Moon and

another of the scientists tells us we are about to enter the neutral

zone which separates the two bodies, planet Mars and the Moon, from

each other.

Dr. Johnston asked him, "how wide is this neutral zone?"

"It is five million miles wide."

Bob wanted to know if the pilots will have to speed the ship up to jump

the gap, as we call it.

"No," he replied. "You had to do that because you used different fuel

in your ship than we use in any of ours. Since we are now using light

energy as a motivating power, our ship will go through it just as if

it wasn't there. The only difference between going through a neutral

zone and space between it and a planet, is that certain instruments

in the ship don't work while crossing the gap, while all the rest of

them do. The only ones that don't work are the pressure instruments

or gravitational ones, also the ship glides somewhat easier through

the neutral zone for there is no resistance. There is this kind of a

gap between all bodies. The width of the neutral zone as well as its

distance from any body depends upon the size of the bodies between

which it extends. Smaller bodies do not reach out as far with their

gravitational power as larger ones, so the gap isn't always half way."

Coming from the Moon to this point we have run into a regular shower of

meteors as thick as snow falling. This was for several million miles.

They appeared to us as a Fourth of July affair, like so many raindrops

all illuminated with various shades or colors of illumination. Some

of these meteors were big and some were small, but none of them have

touched the ship. This was quite mysterious to us.

Our host sensed our questioning and explained that all interplanetary

space ships are protected from damage through such meteoric showers by

a repulsing power built within the walls of the ship. Then he showed

us the instrument which registered this power radiating out from the

ship. "If it wasn't for this," he added, "we would be bombarded within

a split second. No one can build a ship to withstand a steady pounding

of these meteors."

As we enter the gap, or the neutral zone, we realize that this

one seems to have the same kind of substance in it as the one we

encountered from the Earth to the Moon, except here it is heavier.

"What is the gap made of?" queried Dr. Johnston.

"We will let you see," was the prompt reply, as one of the assistants

turned on an instrument which was as though we were looking through a

window. To our surprise we saw there, minute particles of dust, barely

moving. It looked like almost dead stillness.

"This," our friend explained, "is the incubator of planets, suns,

moons, and comets. Nothing has ever come into form except through

stillness. Once a birth is given, the stillness within that particle

becomes action, which then ventures out of the stillness into the outer

edge of it. In doing this, it grows very fast. Finally it is thrown

out of this neutral zone, or pulled away from it and allowed to speed

on through interstellar space where it takes on the relationship of

gravity. As it does this, it thereby forms also a neutral zone between

itself and other bodies as it whirls through space, growing now vaster

in size than ever. No one can tell whether it be a planet, sun, moon,

or a comet in the end, until it has reached its full growth. Moons,

like the one we left are female aspects, while earths or planets are

male aspects and the suns are supreme and ruling powers in each system.

You see, everything is paired up with a male and a female, in turn

governed by a supreme power that governs them with equality."

After passing through the gap and on entering the space beyond it, we

encountered another very heavy meteoric shower like the one we had

passed through before entering the gap. To our surprise, we witnessed

what might be a planet in the making. It was a large sized ball flying

through space and we could see a meteor hit it every now and then.

Johnny asked, "don't the meteors crack it up?"

"Not this kind, they are not big enough."

And in fact as we watched closely, we noted that they did look like

only so many large sparks when they hit.

"They help the planet grow to its full size," he continued, "for every

time they land and hit the planet, they become part of it."

This one, being in front of our ship, indicated on our instrument a

gravitational force of one thousand miles, which it had already made

around itself.

Immediately the speaker exclaimed, "see what we mean, it creates its

own protective field. This force becomes larger and larger as the

planet becomes bigger and bigger."

"How long does it take for a planet to become a full fledged planet?"

inquired Dr. Johnston, "and does it remain within the system within

which it was born?"

"Sometimes it does remain within the system within which it is born,"

was the answer, "but more often it is the beginning of a new system."

"It takes anywhere from five million to fifty million years for a

planet to attain its full growth, depending upon its size. Then it

takes another five million to thirty million years before it is in a

fit state for human habitation. When a new system is born, it starts

out with one of these planets like in the beginning. While this

planet-like ball does not break up and divide itself, it does attract

conditions unto itself, and small particles slightly larger than dust

eventually become other planets. For while in the state of being larger

than dust, they do break up and multiply, as cells do in the body. And

the fine, so-called dust, forms a boundary or a system consisting of a

boundary. The boundary in turn is nothing but an influence of a system

into the outer space of a given distance between itself and another

system, also forming a neutral gap between its system and another

system, the same as there is between two planets which may be easily

called a boundary of its influence, acting as a protector against

colliding one system against another."

At this point we are nearing planet Mars and are told, "we will soon

be where we can explain these things a lot better. As you were told

while on the Moon, we have on Mars a large telescope and space library

by which we can show you in great detail the exact law operating which

brings these conditions into manifestation. Then you will understand

more clearly what you have been seeing during this trip."

In what seemed to be a split second from the time he spoke, due to the

great speed of the ship, we were circling over one of the large cities

of planet Mars. Then we lowered and landed.

This landing field is enormous. It would have to be to accommodate

ships the size of these and there are quite a number of them standing

by on it, some larger than this one we are in.

As the doors of the ship were opened after landing, our host led the

way out. To our amazement, there is a crowd of about two million people

gathered to welcome us. It seems as though the whole city has turned

out to greet us.

A small group of men whom our host introduced as the leader, or head

of Mars, and some of his assistants, met us at the ship, greeting us

enthusiastically. Then we were taken to a slightly elevated platform

from which the leader spoke in his native tongue to the people gathered

there. In his speech, according to our scientist host, the leader told

the people that we were the first visitors from their sister planet,

Earth, to ever come to planet Mars and that we have left our ship on

the Moon.

When he got through speaking, the applauding and cheering was beyond

description.

After this was over, a vehicle which resembled somewhat a beautiful

yacht was brought alongside of the platform and we were invited to get

in. The leader and his assistants as well as our host on this trip

joined us. This vehicle has no wheels, yet it glides very smoothly over

the Mars earth without making any sort of noise. It feels as though we

are riding on the wings of a bird.

The atmospheric pressure here is lighter than that of Earth but heavier

than the Moon's, but we don't realize any difference since we have been

on the Moon so long and have become accustomed to the pressure there.

The general appearance of the ground here is very much like that of

Earth. This particular spot reminds us of the flat lands of Kansas

for the only hills we see are far in the distance. The surface of the

ground, with the exception of this wide highway over which we are

travelling, is covered with a fine covering of green grassy growth with

large patches here and there of beautifully colored flowers.

The distance from the airport to the city proper is quite short but the

beauty along the way has been sublime. Conversation was unnecessary, so

there was none. The beauty of the surroundings filled us completely.

Now we have reached the city and are stopping in front of a magnificent

building towering a thousand feet into the air. Incredible as it may

sound, this building appears to be made of pearls. We are spellbound by

its grandeur.

As we leave our vehicle and enter the building, our host informs us

that this is what we would call a civic center or community social

center. Banquets and ceremonies of all sorts are held here and

entertainments of all types. There are no business offices of any kind

within it, but there are several floors devoted entirely to interesting

displays of educational value and art.

Inside we were taken into a room and onto what appeared to be a

platform that elevated us to a higher floor. From here we were taken

into a very large banquet hall in which, as we later learned, one

hundred thousand people could be seated at the same time. The ceiling

structure of this large banquet hall has a sort of an interlocking

system, thus permitting the elimination of supporters throughout the

room, which would otherwise have been necessary in a building of this

size.

On the ceiling as well as on the walls were beautiful murals of other

planets and their inhabitants, as well as of other systems. In the east

end of the building on the wall was a mural of the same Deity as we

have seen in the Jupiter ship in the city of the Moon. Only, instead of

being a portrait as in the ship, this mural was a full length portrayal

of the Deity seated on a throne with such a majestic beauty and state

of expression beyond description, yet possessing some mysterious power

which really made us feel that we were in the presence of the Almighty,

as we already knew we were.

When the leader of the state of Mars took his place at the head of this

magnificent banquet table and the room was filled with an overflowing

capacity of the citizens of that city, the leader turned to the mural.

As he did this, all heads bowed and these are the words he said:

"Almighty Father of us all, creator of Thy magnificent kingdom, we give

thanks unto Thee for the privilege of being the first ones to admit

unto us our long lost brothers, children of our Father. May this feast

be one of holiness. And may the eternal message, 'that Thine love is

greater than Thine kingdom' be so retained within the hearts of these

brethren, that when they return to their home which Thou hast given

them to dwell therein, they may give unto their brothers, who are also

our brothers, the truth as they now have received it."

And then the head of the state bowed upon his knees to the mural upon

the wall, the likeness of the all Supreme Intelligence, as known upon

Earth, the God of the Universe.

After this blessing, we proceeded with the feast which included

everything, we might say, that was eatable upon Mars. We have never

seen anything like it. Out of nowhere, it seemed, smaller banquet

tables had appeared in front of the spectators, as we may call them,

and they too feasted with us.

During the progress of the feast our scientist host spoke, saying:

"These Earthly brothers have come a long way to reach our home land.

They have succeeded while others have failed after many disastrous

attempts. There have been many civilizations upon our sister planet

known as Earth who have tried to come to our planet. Each time a

disaster has overtaken them. Now the all loving Father has guided these

brothers to arrive safely, where others have failed."

"We are grateful for the privilege and the honor of having them among

us that we may impart to them the truth as it is. Our planet of Mars,

as the Earthmen call it, has been called by them a planet of conflict.

Instead, for the first time, they will learn from their own brothers

who are here visiting us, that we are a people and a planet of absolute

peace, and of love that surpasses all understanding. They will learn

that the way of life which is eternally peaceful, is everlastingly

revealing the secrets and the wonders of the Father, His divine wisdom

and intelligence. Those who abide by His way can never perish but they

do eternally rejoice, for the gifts of our Father and the revelations

of His kingdom are forever being made unto such."

"So we, the scientists of Mars, have been endowed with the

responsibility of maintaining the tranquility of eternity among our

people and our brothers in other lands; to bring the good tidings of

love unto the children of the great Father of the Heavenly Kingdom,

that the children may forever rejoice through love of their fellow

beings, as through love of their eternal Father. For it is by loving

our brothers, wherever they may be and whoever they may be, that we

express our love for our Father, since all are His children."

"As scientists, it is our duty as humble servants to forever keep our

eyes and hearts open to the guidance of our Father and watch with

humility over all His children that they may all have their daily needs

as one. This is why the people on planet Mars have the wonders that

we so enjoy. We have served our Creator faithfully without wavering,

honoring all of His creations and beyond all, His image, which we are

from the beginning."

"The Earth too may in time be blessed to know and enjoy these blessings

of our Father, when our brothers in the Earthly home have learned this

great lesson of brotherly state and the love of the Father that put

them there. Then they also will possess the wonders that we have upon

Mars."

"But as scientists, as servants of the Almighty, we never impose upon

others that which they may not want. The minds of the Earthly brothers

must be renewed if these wonders are to be known by them. At present

their minds are not only on conquering one another, but even on

conquering others like those of us and many within the kingdom of our

Father, including His kingdom. Yet it is not these things that they

must conquer. It is themselves individually. They must conquer there,

in order to realize that each is his brother's keeper."

"As we have said in the earlier part, many have tried to invade us and

have met with disaster, and whoever will try again, the same fate will

befall them. But all can come here, as these Earthly ones have come

now, if they come as brothers and are brought here by the will of the

Father."

"Many have come to our brothers on Earth to show them the way the

Father wanted them to live. Each time they, too, met with disaster by

the hands of those whose burdens they had come to lessen."

"This time the Earthly ones have come to us to learn from us the way we

have been taught to live, and they will take this eternal truth back to

their brothers on Earth."

"I, as the one scientist representing the many, shall take these

brothers on a journey after the feast and show them the marvels of our

Creator as He has given unto us the understanding to bring them forth.

So, again we say, 'glory be unto the Father of all creation. In the

most humble way we do give thanks for the privilege of having these

among us.'"

When this speech was ended the feasting continued, but after hearing

that talk from a great scientist, we did not know whether we were

eating or dreaming for it had caused something to happen within us

which made us feel very humble. At the same time we felt quite small,

for within ourselves we knew that we had come to the Moon with only one

purpose in mind; to find out what we could about the Moon towards the

possibility of future exploration. Now we realized that we as Earthly

men understood but little in the channel of life and for the first

time, we felt guilty of warring against the Infinite Creator by warring

against His creations.

So when we were asked to get up and say something, the best we could do

was to bow in a humble manner and thank the audience and the speakers

for the great love they have shown us and ask forgiveness for our

wrong thoughts. It seemed like something melted within us which is

indescribable.

The head of the state and our scientist host have come around the table

to us and have laid their hands upon our shoulders, making us feel like

little children, comforted by a great understanding Father.

The feasting has now ended and we are told we are to be taken on a

tour of the city. This is the capital and largest city of Mars, with a

population of twenty-two million. The total population of the planet is

one and a half billion.

With the head of the state, the officials of the city, and our host we

have left the banquet hall and have re-entered the gliding vehicle that

brought us here from the airfield.

We are riding through the business section of the city first. Here the

streets are about five hundred feet wide, paved with white coral and

very smooth. Down the center of the street is a six foot strip planted

with beautiful flowers of delicate shades and quite fine in texture.

These are planted in designs depicting various forms of nature found on

planet Mars as well as many within the universal vastness. This strip

acts as a dividing lane for traffic travelling in opposite directions.

Greyish blue coral curbings frame this flowering strip and similar ones

two feet wide between the sidewalks and the street.

The sidewalks, like the streets, are made of white coral. They are ten

feet wide.

The buildings are masterpieces of art and engineering. Designed with

modern and Mosaic architecture combined, they tower twenty-two stories

and up. Some of them have flat roofs while others have spear-like

towers on them, acting as standards for huge flood lights which

illumine this section of the city as sunlight, when necessary.

Amazing as it may sound, both the shopping rooms and factories are

housed in these large buildings, yet no noise of machinery can be heard

nor is there smoke or any kind of fumes. Workers here only put in three

hours each day in business, and the different industries operate at

different times of the day, thereby giving all workers an opportunity

to shop and have their needs fulfilled, it was explained to us.

The shop windows are filled with beautiful displays of Martonian

designed clothing for all occasions, household articles to fill every

need, games and amusements of all sorts, and foods for every taste.

Admiring these exquisite displays and having already been told of the

short working hours, Johnny was curious to know what method of exchange

was used here on Mars to enable the people to obtain these articles.

We are told that all people on the planet are considered as children

of the Father, that they are equally treated as such, and all equally

produced for the wealth or good of all alike. Therefore, they have an

access to goods as they need them. While the servant in one of the

shops serves them, he too is in need of things which are not in the

shop in which he serves. So all things that serve in channels in which

he has a need, give unto him. In that way, the labor of the planet is

done for the good of the planet without distinction of profession,

for the necessity is all that is recognized. In this way, the man

who brings forth the coral rock of which the streets, sidewalks and

curbings are made is as important and great as the man who paints the

mural of the Creator upon the walls within the buildings and temples or

the scientist who brings forth the blessings of the planet or the one

who teaches the way of life unto the people. Everybody has equally with

plenty of everything, so envy or wants are unknown among the people.

Instead, absolute certainty, on Earth known as security, is realized by

all.

For the convenience of pedestrians desiring to cross from one side of

the street to the other, there are underground tunnels with conveyor

system which takes them across.

Traffic is heavy in this section of the city, yet there is no

congestion nor confusion and the air is permeated with the sweet

fragrance of the flowers growing down the center and on each side of

the streets.

On the outskirts of the business district we are stopping before a

beautiful, large building which our host tells us is known as a 'House

of Knowledge'. On entering, we find ourselves in a magnificent hallway

on the walls of which are all sorts of murals. Directly in front of us

is portrayed in infinite detail the total constellation of the heavens.

On the wall at the head of the hallway is a mural of the Creator. As we

pass this, our hosts bow and we do likewise.

Leaving this entrance hallway, we enter a very large room in which we

see all sorts of literature in very large volumes. Our guide tells us

that some of these volumes contain the history of our solar system.

In the Venetian room are murals of planet Venus and life there, as well

as volumes of literature containing the history of that planet.

Next is the room of Saturn. On the walls in this room are murals of

that planet and life as lived by the people there, while the volumes of

literature contain the complete history of Saturn and its purpose in

the system.

The grandeur of all these rooms is indescribable, for even as the

fullness of life as they live it and as portrayed by these murals is

inconceivable to us, so the distinctive architecture of each planet

as found in the various rooms is beyond our power of word expression.

Our guide tells us that within this 'House of Knowledge' there is a

room for every planet within our solar system and within each of these

rooms are murals and the history of its planet with the architecture in

each room varying from all others according to that of the planet it

portrays.

But now we are being taken into the Earth room and the pictures here

look very familiar. The volumes here contain the history of the Earth

and all the civilizations who have lived there and vanished, of which

we on Earth have no history.

"The people of Earth have always seemed to behave as little, unruly

children, never knowing what they wanted, and not too stable, very

aggressive or hostile against each other. The history within this room

is nothing but full of blunders," explained the leader of Mars.

Leaving the Earth room, we come into a vast sized room called the

'House of Knowing' for it contains various developments in the field of

science and all phases of it; things that have been, that are, and are

yet to come. We would like to spend a great deal of time here for this

room is fascinating and contains some things of which we have a little

understanding. There is much we could learn in this room. Yet there is

much to learn everywhere here and a great deal to see, and our visit

here has just begun.

We are leaving the building now to re-enter our gliding vehicle and

continue our sight-seeing tour of the city.

Travelling up the highway, we are passing slowly through a park, a sort

of glorified playground in which hundreds of children are playing.

Many grownups are in this park also. These people are joyous and free,

friendly but not curious.

Here and there throughout the park are various sizes and types of

statues of great immortals whom the children are taught to honor and

imitate. The lawns, flower gardens and shrubbery are beautiful and well

cared for. Here, too, are large towering trees with flexible limbs,

looking very much like the weeping willows of Earth; yet they are not.

They appear to be festooned with a moss-like or feathery lace, a

natural growth. We really know we are in another world.

There are beautiful water lanes, or pools, where children play. These

have a purple bluish cast to them and the water in them, we are told,

never chills below sixty-five degrees for it is automatically heated by

the utilization of light.

Light seems to be the power used for all purposes, illumination,

heating, refrigeration, motivation, or energy of any sort, in the home

and in business.

Their temples of worship are many and these also are beyond the

imagination or description by men, at least Earthly men. Noticing the

number and beauty of these temples, George asked about their spiritual

beings, how many forms of religion and denominations they have.

The head of Mars answered, saying, "We have but one, the Father of

all, whom we honor, obey and live purely to please by doing His will,

not ours. Our spiritual quality is to respect each man as if he is the

Deity Himself, knowing that no form can be a form without the support

of the Deity. Thus doing against a form would be doing against Deity.

This is our firm belief by which we live."

Remembering that the temples on the Moon are used also as their

schools, Johnny asked if this same system is used here and what is

their method of teaching.

"Yes, our temples are where the fundamental laws of living are taught

to the little ones from the very time of their birth," our host

replied. "All are taught our ways of living. But they also are given

freedom to express their abilities with which they have been endowed by

the great Infinite Father. Ofttimes a great soul brings forth great

things in that way. Sometimes, that soul as a form is very young, yet

all look up to it for the greatness and the guidance it may have for

others, enabling them to rise still higher to greater beings. On one

occasion there was a great soul in the form of a child of seven years

of age who brought to our people such enlightenment that it transformed

their way of thought and their way of living to a greater way of

living. Not only do the people accept such as a leader, but even the

leaders, like the head of the state, will bow to such an enlightened

soul when bestowed upon them. Our belief is firm that it is not the age

that counts, but the wisdom, the understanding that might even come

through a new born babe who has been granted to us by the grace of the

Great Creator."

"As the children grow in age and understanding, there are other places

of learning where more advanced laws of the universe are worked with.

These will be shown to you later. At the same time, the temples are

never outgrown for worship and study. They are never closed and people

of all ages come to them whenever they desire.

"There are no nations on this planet for the people of Mars are

citizens of Mars. They have no states nor divisions of any kind. The

whole of Mars is just one state and the people of the planet are all

governed from the central government."

"What do you mean 'central government'," asked Dr. Johnston. "What does

it consist of; how is it operated; how does the head of state attain

that position and does he keep it until he dies?"

Our host chuckled at such a number of questions as he answered, "the

choice is made by the people regularly every year. They express

themselves in favor of the one whom they feel they would want in

office."

Here the head of the state spoke up, saying, "I have been chosen now

three different times in succession, which is the greatest honor

bestowed by the people upon anyone at any time."

His words were an explanation, completely devoid of any personal pride

or boastfulness.

Our host continued, "the choosing is not made from a certain caste but

from the people as a whole, for we have no castes nor divisions. At

the same time a council is selected from various sections of the total

planet to assist the chosen leader, as well as to serve the people.

When one is chosen to be the head of the state or of a district, he is

honored as you call it, in being given the right to execute the will of

all the people and above all, the will of the Creator."

"In this way there is never duplication of effort nor wasted energy

through friction. We have harmony and happiness throughout our planet.

And it is the same with the other planets in our system. We are all

unified as one in the service of our Father. Thus we have become so

aware of His laws and alert to conditions throughout space, that should

a hostile condition of any kind try to encroach upon our tranquility,

with the united force of all, it would be repulsed, for we possess

the power through the Divine Providence to reverse the law upon any

intrusion so that the very things projected towards us with an idea of

possession or destruction would react against the projector, instead

of us. If it was a great evil it would devour him."

"We know conditions of hostility and division exist, like they do upon

your Earth: yet we know them not upon our planets. Here we know no evil

nor good but just to live as the Great Father of the Infinite Kingdom

has meant us to live, according to the knowledge we possess, which has

been given to us by our Father who is on high."

* * * * *

Today we are being taken to one of the many Houses of Science where

more advanced laws of the universe are studied and worked with. These

correspond a great deal to our universities. Learning here never ceases.

This House of Science is one of a group like one building of the many

built on the campus grounds belonging to any large university. Entering

it, we find ourselves in a vast room without windows. The light is

equal to the out-of-doors but we are unable to detect its source. The

air too, is fresh and clean but there is neither sound nor feel of any

type of air conditioning with which we are familiar.

The floor is covered with a thick, soft covering and beautiful easy

chairs are placed about for the comfort of those coming here.

On the wall directly in front of us is an immense screen.

After we were seated, our guide and host darkened the room. Then he

pushed a button on the wall and to our amazement, our ship that we had

left on the Moon was right there before us. This was done, we were

told, by means of the little instrument which had been attached to our

ship before we left the Moon for Mars. It is the same principle which

we call 'television' but used with a far greater degree of advancement

than we have yet learned on Earth.

"Here is something else," our friend remarked, as he pressed another

button on the wall.

Our ship was gone and we were on Earth again, looking upon the airbase

in the desert, a short distance out of Los Angeles, from where we

had taken off on our trip to the Moon. The scene shifted and we were

viewing downtown Los Angeles. The people walking along the sidewalks

and crossing the streets were so clear and their individual expressions

so distinct that we could easily have recognized anyone that we knew.

"You can now understand how we know so much about your Earth, what you

do, how far you have progressed, and in what direction," explained our

host.

"We know the people on Earth are hostile and to prove to you how well

we know this, here is another part of the Earth you will recognize.

Isn't this the part where the great law-giver was born, whom you call

Jesus? See how hostile the people are around his birthplace, when he

only gave love as the law by which men of the Earth were to live."

Another scene comes into view as he continues. "This is one of your

large cities on Earth. Here you see two men arguing. One strikes the

other. You call it 'fighting'. Isn't that hostile?"

"We give you another scene which you call a prison where you lock your

brother up. Here you push a button and he is burned up. Isn't that

hostile?"

"Here is still another scene of remembrance which goes into history

against Earth's people. We see shattered bodies lying everywhere;

children and older people are mangled. We see men destroying one

another. And here is one way Earth man has used his scientific

inventions for we see flying ships dropping destruction upon innocence.

See how they all innocently have been blown into space. They had not

even a chance, and you would say that is good? We call it hostile."

"That is why we do not desire to come to Earth or visit there, until

the Earth becomes brotherly, where the Holy Father, the Creator of the

Infinite Kingdom will be fully acknowledged; when the Earth man will do

His will and not theirs."

Next he showed us the life of the Martonians as lived throughout their

planet; then life upon the other planets in our solar system, and from

here he brought before us life as lived upon other planets in systems

beyond ours which was still greater.

As this comparison of life of man on other planets and other systems

unfolded on the screen before us, our Martonian friend explained, "this

is what we work for, to earn the right to go into other systems by the

grace of our Infinite Father. This privilege can only be earned by

serving the will of the Divine Father."

"It is just as in your educational system on Earth, a child cannot

enter the higher grades or institutions until he has first learned

the lessons of the lower classes. We are all children of the Infinite

Father and a system of planets is really a big school with many grades

in it. Planet Earth is not really a kindergarten, as we might call it

according to the Earthly name, but it seems nothing higher than the

first grade can be made of this classroom. The people on Earth have a

very small amount of knowledge in relationship to the universe, and

that little knowledge is a dangerous thing to the civilizations as they

come and go; for with it their ego becomes inflated and they think

they know it all. Ego really is only personality which tends towards

hostility."

"When the people on Earth once realize that with the little knowledge

they have, they really have none, since there is an eternal highway of

learning and progression before them, and when they learn this fact

well; they will eliminate the hostile expression within themselves

and towards their fellow beings. Instead, they will become humble

servants and willing subjects to be taught and guided by the Infinite

Father that made their birth possible. After that, while most of them

would be advanced unto greater rooms of knowledge, which is other

planets, there would always be a certain number left on Earth to teach

coming generations the same. In that way there will be a permanent

inhabitation on Earth and no rising and falling of civilizations."

"That is why the Saturn pilots and the Jupiter pilots did not talk

to you more than they did there in the airport on the Moon. You

thought you were being rebuked. By the very thinking that you were

rebuked you have displayed your hostile nature and your lack of proper

understanding, for it was not meant that way by these men from the

other planets who were merely trying to give you a word picture of

yourselves as men on Earth are expressing. A higher understanding and

intelligence could not be so easily touched as you have shown in this

case. The fact is that there is a universal law operating in the solar

system, as it is also operating throughout infinity, that one just

cannot jump ahead of his time, and we Martonians, being the nearest

like you Earth people, it is through us that you can be brought into

relationship with those ahead of us."

"Let me give you an example. I will explain it this way for it is a

lesson you must learn well before you can become an inhabitant of Mars,

because the next step above your Earth planet is Mars for any of the

Earthly ones. Yet we can take you on a tour to Venus, Jupiter or any

of the other planets, were you permitted to enter these higher planes,

and show you what the people there are like and their way of living;

also what one would have to learn to be one of them; but to get all the

secrets of their way of living or their knowledge is prohibitive. You

must learn step by step starting with Earth evolvement in relationship

with Mars. Then with Mars in relationship with Venus and so on."

"The Saturn pilots, as you have been told before, the Saturn planet

itself with all its inhabitants is very just. Not more so than others,

but she has been given the authority to be the balancer of the system

that points out the wrongs for the rights. In other words, she enforces

the law of compensation, 'as ye sow, so shall ye reap' in line with

the Divine will. That is the reason those pilots spoke as they did.

As to loving, they all love the lowest as well as the highest. There

are no divisions shown, for they love all the creations of the Creator

equally."

"This is one reason we have brought you to planet Mars, that you may

be given a better understanding of the purpose of the solar system and

your relationship to it. And this is to be given by you to all the

inhabitants of Earth. There will be many through this explanation who

will begin to really understand, as you say on Earth, what the score

is."

Now the lights came on once more and we are leaving this building and

going to another one nearby. It is an immense observatory, larger than

we ever imagined could be built. Within it is housed a fifteen thousand

inch telescope, very much like the one on the Moon except it is three

times as large. It calculates distances and analyzes the bodies not

only for their minerals and waters, but also for form-life upon the

planets.

As many people as can get within the building can observe the

revelations on its screen at one time. Here are held enlightening

educational classes for the people of the planet.

Planets and systems, minute stars due to their distance were brought

before us in all their glory as though they were in the immediate

heavens.

Communication system? Yes, using the same instrument with which these

stars were brought into view, they can also communicate with human

beings upon any of them, if there should be any there.

Then, to our amazement, within a short time we were shown hundreds

of thousands of planets outside of our own system, all inhabited. We

noticed in this that the geometrical pattern is universal. The bodies

as forms differ, some taller, some shorter, but in each case more

exquisite, more beautiful than any upon Earth. One planet in particular

in one of the solar systems which they called the twenty-second

unit, the appearance and expressions of the people indicated great

intelligence. They were very beautiful, yet only about two feet in size

and looked like many dolls.

Dr. Johnston asked, "why are they so small? Is it due to heavy

pressure?"

"No," our companion replied, "the pressure on this planet is fairly

light but the gap, the space between planets is very small in

comparison with other systems. However, neither of these have anything

to do with the size of the people. This seems to be the pattern of the

people here, yet they possess greater intelligence than our system has."

An adjustment is being made and focused on the screen in what we would

call a vacuum spot, one of the many neutral zones in space. In it we

could see particules, very minute particles of dust without any action,

at least action could not be detected. It seemed that all particles

were suspended in dead stillness. This vacuum-like space seemed to

have an agitator enter it every now and then which looked to us like

an electrical lightning shock. Our host explained that this came from

a sphere, as an influence from out of one body to another, trying

to close the gap. As this happened, it would agitate the seeming

stillness and every now and then it would cause two or more particles

to adhere to each other; then it would start them on a journey towards

a form growth that later could become a planet or a sun or a moon or a

comet.

As his explanation continued, he showed us upon another screen the

difference between particles. This second screen was made of something

like glass, yet it isn't glass. It is partially opaque, yet reflected

in such a way that we could see the particles all the way around. In

other words, all the sides of them showed at the same time.

As he was showing this to us, he explained the action in this way,

"some of these particles have two masculine cells, while others have

two feminine cells, and still others have two masculine cells and one

feminine. If the ball which began to take place was made up of more of

the masculine cells, it would become a sun, while if it was made up

of two masculine cells and a feminine cell it would become a planet,

whereas if it was made up of feminine cells, it would be a moon."

This seems to be the law by which all systems throughout the vastness

are made and governed.

* * * * *

Although much of our time here has been spent in their 'houses of

learning' where natural laws of infinity have been revealed to us

by pictures and word explanations, we also have met many people and

learned a great deal about them through observation.

They are all naturally of a fine character.

Their body structure is very much like ours except of a finer quality;

while the clothing they wear is light in weight and exquisite in

styling, attractive to each individual form.

The people are slow in speaking so that every thought seems to be well

premeditated as well as pleasing. Their voices are soft and musical.

Everyone we have met is very easy going, one might say of a

happy-go-lucky nature, thoroughly enjoying every moment of living. What

labor they do seems to be in the form of recreation since they enjoy

it so much. We call it labor for that is the way it would be known on

Earth since our mode of living and working for the reward of money or

honor makes a burden or labor of work to be done. Here, however, with

their mode of living, doing all unto the Father with no thought of

reward, their joyous enthusiasm makes easy the doing of that which to

us would be labor. No one is in any hurry. Impatience is absolutely

lacking upon planet Mars. They do for others as they would do for

themselves and their reason for this has already been explained.

Their morals are very high and the word 'modesty' is not known, for as

stated before, they don't know the word 'evil' or the word 'good', but

just do the will of the Infinite.

The women are more of the madonna type that we have pictured on Earth.

The mothers of the families are respected or looked upon as the

Father's channels for His children to be born on the planet. Their life

seems to consist of nothing but pleasure, for everything they do is

pleasure to them.

All the people are very supple with bodies that seem to be what we

would call double-jointed, for they can put them through any and every

kind of maneuvering that can be thought of. Sickness or pain, we learn,

are unknown to them.

The people here, with their joy and their way of living and working

together all seem very wonderful to us, yet they remind us that as we

have been shown on the screen, people on the other planets are still

farther ahead in all these things than they are, for here they use

machines for different purposes, while people on the other planets

don't; there they have no need for machines to accomplish the same

results. They say they are related to us closer than other planets are

for they are just a step ahead of us. Yet, as we see it, that step

consists of thousands of years in advancement. In other words, it is

something like this, when we evolve as we should have done long ago, we

will take their place in living as they do, while they will go still

farther, living as the people on the next planet do. In fact, they are

doing that even now, for those who have served the planet well and are

finally called from it in what the Earth man calls death, are always

called to the next planet which they have earned through service.

In the absolute truth, we have been told, there is no stilling of

any brother but rather increased action and steady progression as he

develops or evolves.

Their span of life on Mars is from five hundred to one thousand years.

There are several residential districts in this city to fill the needs

and satisfy the individual tastes of the people. Here, as on Earth,

some families are large in number, some few, while other people enjoy

living alone or with only one other person. Some needs are for large

homes with lawns, others need only small homes and yards, while still

others prefer living in apartments without any yards whatever to care

for. So each person and each family has living quarters which he most

enjoys.

The apartment or community houses vary too. Some have kitchen

arrangements so the occupants may do their own cooking as they enjoy.

Others do not. However there are community dining rooms conveniently

located where the citizens may enjoy their meals, if they wish to have

them prepared for them.

The furnishings within each home and apartment are according to the

tastes and desires of the occupants, with everything up to the latest

development in convenience and comfort.

All lawns are beautifully kept up and they all have marvelous color

displays of growing flowers that seem to have personality to them, a

definite drawing power which certainly does attract us. There is a

variation of colors all blending with each other in a way that reminds

us of a regular rainbow. Speaking of colors, these flowers are almost

as delicate in color as the rainbow when we see it on Earth.

The dwelling places are all constructed of rock, some of which has a

bluish cast and some of it has a pink cast. The rock trimming on some

of the dwellings is light brown in color, while on others it has a

greenish cast, having an appearance similar to an agate. The entrance

of each home, but not the whole building, is made of the material that

looked like pearls, the same as that used in the construction of the

community social center building which so astounded us when we first

saw it on our arrival here on Mars.

Now Johnny asks what that material is?

We are told it is a pearl-like rock formation which they have here

and which is mined for building purposes. It comes in slab form from

one inch to six inches in thickness and is broken up in various sizes

according to the purpose for which it is to be used. It is not only

beautiful but also very durable and nondeteriorating.

On the whole of planet Mars there are no slums nor congested areas.

Neither are there any run-down or neglected places. Beauty, cleanliness

and order are expressed in everything everywhere.

It could not be otherwise, considering their way of thinking and living.

All the streets are very wide. We have not measured nor asked, but we

judge that in the residential districts they are about two hundred feet

wide as compared to the business district where they are five hundred

feet in width. Here, however, there is no flowering lane down the

center. It is not necessary.

There is a considerable amount of timber growing in the mountain

regions which they use in their building structures, we are told. Some

of it is very hard and resembles mahogany. This is highly polished in

every case. Then there is another kind of wood they have here which

looks much like Earthly gum and is very hard. The grains within it are

of various colors looking like marble. The trees from which this wood

comes grow about one hundred fifty feet high, while the others grow to

a height of seventy-five to one hundred feet.

The light of the day is not the yellowish sort of white-yellow color

that we have on Earth, but rather, it has a bluish cast to it.

They have a big power plant here, too, that furnishes illumination

and heat for the whole of the planet and the whole planet is well

populated. The rural districts, they tell us, are just as well taken

care of with all the conveniences as any city could be.

All power is developed by the planetary government and is freely

distributed to all places for all needs. It is generated from light,

the same as that used by the airships. Here in the power plant, we

notice, there is also a stand-by and Bob asked what it was for?

The reason given was, that, should something happen to the apparatus

generating their power from the light, they could resort to this sort

of power, which was utilizing static electricity out of space.

Attending a concert under the stars was a most enjoyable experience.

Several thousands of the citizens of all ages gathered for an evening

in a large open spot just outside the city. Many brought musical

instruments with them. Some of these were similar to those on Earth,

while a few were entirely different than any we have ever seen before.

There were no guests of honor at this concert. The instruments were

played solely as accompaniment for the singers and everybody sang. The

harmony and beauty of the melodies were so exquisite and the joy of

the singers so unified in a smooth outpouring of feeling that we were

carried completely out of ourselves in a state of joyous ecstasy.

There are no words to describe such a concert. It can only be realized

through feeling.

Their art excels anything on Earth.

For meat, they eat mostly various kinds of fowl, yet they are more

vegetarians than meat eaters. Their vegetation has within it the

richest minerals known to our scientists. Just to learn what he

could about their mineral content, Dr. Johnston has tested some of

the vegetables, using one of the laboratories here which he has been

invited to use at any time he desires. After the test, he expressed

the thought that if we could get as much out of our vegetation as they

do here, we too could live a thousand years. At this, they told us the

other planets are still richer in their minerals than Mars is, that the

higher one goes, the greater richness they have.

For a telephone communication system they have more of a radio type

than the kind we have on Earth. Each home has a receiver and a

transmitter and the same instrument is also used for their amusement,

very much the same way as we get amusement from our radio sets, as well

as all news of the planet or from outside their planet which is of

interest to the people. Everybody is well informed about all activities

for there are no secrets from anyone on this planet.

There are four large oceans and many rivers and lakes on this planet as

well as a considerable amount of natural desert-land. Water is brought

from the oceans to the desert areas through vast canals, thus making

them useable for vegetation growth.

At the entrance to these canals there is a big plant operated by which

minerals are extracted from the water. The minerals, we are told,

are used for manufacturing and many other purposes, while the water

continues on through the canals to the deserts. Much gold is extracted

from the water, which they use for ornamentation, especially in their

temples. There are various other places in manufacturing where this

gold is also used.

The waterways, which we call canals, are actually of vast size and have

big ships floating upon them, mostly freighters, hauling vegetables to

the inhabited settlements. The system is one of a unique nature. There

is no lost motion nor lost energy anywhere.

Nowhere have we found confusion of any kind. Organization is perfect.

These people actually are a very, very happy lot. The whole of the

population that we have seen so far seem to be interested in the other

and doing for each other as for themselves. In that way, it seems that

service is the predominate thought in all, with a conscious state of

awareness. Living this way they have so developed their feeling that

they are really experts in what we would call the science of mental

telepathy, for they can read our very thoughts before we have a chance

to express them in words. To them all that is done for their fellow

being, is done unto the Creator, and as a result of this manner of

living, only the best within each one is brought forth. Fear of any

nature is wholly non-existent with their love and the foundation upon

which the humanity is founded.

Do not misunderstand the word 'love' here. It is not the kind we on

Earth know, which is possessiveness and passion. The love on Mars is

expressed through each individual towards all others regardless how

distant they may be in human relation, though as one would love an

only begotten child. In other words it is a Divine love which knows no

possessions but bathes all alike in its waters of loveliness. It is

warm and gentle and kind, enveloping all alike and without any bindings

whatever of personality. If a sacrifice was called for to help even

one of us, total strangers, they would make it. Theirs is a love that

is not easy to explain but is easy to feel and understand and wondrous

to enjoy, for it is like the air we breathe that is given to all alike

without differences. Children of one family are loved the same as of

another, for as our remarkable host, the great scientist, had it in his

little speech, they believe loving the Creator's creations is loving

the Creator.

If I can be given the privilege of expressing my opinion, I would right

here say that what the great Messiah tried to teach mankind on Earth is

really being practiced here on Mars.

Our trip this evening is a visit to a large building just a little

outside of the city which our host tells us is the main Temple of

Divine Inspiration. It is a magnificent building towering about twelve

hundred feet into space and covering around ten acres of ground, with a

large dome, larger than anything we have ever seen occupying the middle

part of it.

As we come into the portion of the building under the dome, we see

another telescope just like the two we have seen previously, the one

on the Moon and the fifteen thousand inch here on Mars, only this one

is still larger. We are told it measures twenty-five thousand inches

in diameter. The only difference between this one and the others, that

we can see, is that the screen on which reflections are focused is

proportionately larger.

The telescope is now being focused on the Moon and here on this large

screen we see our ship and all around it in such fine detail that we

can even recognize different ones of the natives who were left to care

for our things during our absence.

An adjustment is made on the telescope and here we see the Earth

focused upon the screen. This is a section of America. We see the

towers of different broadcasting stations and their letters. We see

cities just as clearly as if we were flying low over them. Now Los

Angeles comes into view. We see the city hall and the entire Civic

Center as though we were just above them. Moving on up into the

shipping district we see people clearly enough to be able to observe

their facial expressions as they walk along the sidewalks and in and

out of the stores.

It is no wonder they know so much about the Earth. They can see nearly

everything that goes on with the aid of this instrument. In fact, they

really know more about us than we know about ourselves.

Now the European section of the Earth is brought into view and here is

where our friend speaks up, saying, "see what you people on the Earth

do. You build and then you destroy. That is why there isn't any true

progress in your civilization. You have much to learn. You behave at

present as though you were just little children, not knowing the value

of each other."

The telescope is being moved again and this time we are told they are

going to focus on Pluto, the farthest planet away from the Earth. Here

comes Pluto into reflection on the screen. It is a large planet, half

again as large as our Earth planet, or planet Venus and almost two and

a half times as large as planet Mars, and they show us the whole of

Pluto at one time.

This planet, too, is inhabited, we can see, for they are bringing

portions of it into magnification showing us its inhabitation. The

people seems to be a dwarf type of people, around three and a half feet

to four feet tall at the most. They are built rather slender for their

height, but well formed.

The cities are built in what we would call miniature but corresponding

proportionately with the size of the people. These cities are

beautifully laid out, what we see of them, and very artistic, reminding

us of a fairyland.

Our host tells us that the inhabitants on planet Pluto really are

ahead of those on all the immediate planets in advancement, that they

are sort of masters of natural laws. Through being farthest out in

our system, they get much knowledge in regards to other solar systems

beyond ours and are more in relationship and contact with the near

solar systems to them than they are with their own.

"And," he continues, "there is another planet almost on the border line

of our system, about three hundred million miles away from Pluto, on

the same line to the north of Pluto, where the people are still farther

advanced than those on Pluto. It is nearly out of our system. The

people on this planet are slightly taller than those on Pluto and in

both cases they are almost of an angelic type."

We asked if the people on either of these planets ever come to visit

any of our planets.

"No, but they do go to visit other solar systems from their own and

transmit the information on to our planets," is the answer.

Johnny asked, "How is the transmission accomplished?"

"It is done through what you on Earth call mental telepathy."

So he wanted to know, "Do the Martonians communicate through the powers

of mental telepathy?"

"We have a few who do, but for the most part we depend on instruments

just like you people on Earth do, but Saturn, Venus and Jupiter are on

constant communication with them, for most of their people use that

power. As we in turn are moving between these planets with our ships,

we get the information from them, then we check for records with our

instruments."

Surrounding this observatory section of the building in which this

gigantic telescope is housed are many large rooms of science. In each

of these rooms is worked out mechanically to the minutest degree some

phase of science. The people of Mars who come to this Temple of Divine

Inspiration for greater learning are privileged to come to these rooms

as they desire, to use and to study these mechanical developments.

Now we are to be taken through some of these rooms to see for

ourselves how these things are worked out that their people might study

them.

Our host and guide who is conducting us on this tour explains that in

this first room we are entering there is the history, as well as a

mechanical conception of the mystery of life as to how an invisible

intelligence builds a form in which it later lives.

Here we are shown what we call ideas or thoughts passing through space.

They are minute in size and have no special purpose. In form they

are similar to dust particles or snowflakes, of perfect geometrical

patterns. Separately they are almost like pieces of a jig-saw puzzle,

but when they get together they form a complete picture of an idea.

Each particle fits into the proper place to form a complete idea as

thought, similar to so many pieces put together form a definite picture

in a jig-saw puzzle. Or better, like so many vibrations unseen and

unheard, condensed in a mechanical device known as radio, producing

music or words. The invisible manifestations are prior to form

expression.

In the beginning, form is preceded by what might be called an imaginary

complete picture of what the form is to be. Once this is gathered

in completion, slow-up action of all these minute units making up

the imaginary picture starts taking place. As this slow-up action

continues, the form gradually begins to come into visibility as a

manifestation, for the difference between the visible and invisible is

speed, or lower and higher vibrations.

For an example, when an electric fan is standing idle, its blades are

an obstruction to things standing behind them, as far as vision is

concerned. But when the fan is in high speed, the obstruction ceases

to be. An invisibility of the blades takes place to almost such a

perfect state that one is inclined to pick up the article that is

behind the fan. Yet to do that, his hands would be struck with the

blades.

So the invisible thought or picture may be called imaginary but it is

real and can be brought into materialistic or solidified manifestation.

Of course back of this life force manifestation is its perception and

birth. Back of all forms lies the Fatherly intelligence of the Infinite

Kingdom, called God. Beyond this, man cannot go.

The next room is of a vast size with a series of operations to be

worked through, showing the birth and development of a planet.

Here we see a process taking place where clouds upon clouds of dust

particles are floating freely in space. Now through the law of

affinity, we see two different particles uniting as one. In doing

so they take on a new sphere of action by becoming slightly heavier

than they were singularly. Due to this uniting of the two as one,

they become sort of masters over all other particles by now having a

stronger influence than they had as single particles. It is almost the

same as if you made a snowball and kept rolling it in snow until it

became of a mammoth size.

So these united particles speeding on through clouds of dust draw more

particles of dust unto themselves, thereby becoming a bigger and bigger

ball. As it grows larger in size and heavier in weight, its speed

also increases. At the same time the increasing speed compresses the

particles tighter and tighter to adherence unto each other into more

solidification.

During this process of growth and rapid whirling through space, the

ball has made its own orbit within the system in which it is moving.

Its orbit is a sphere of influence surrounding it, as well as a path

that it will travel from now on, governed by the size and the speed of

the ball. The larger the ball, the greater distance its influence will

be felt.

It is similar to experiences most of us have had, when standing in dead

calmness of atmospheric movement to let a car or a train pass by. If

we stood too close to the moving object, there was a suction formed by

its speed which had a tendency to draw us toward it; while at a certain

given distance from it, there was a tendency to blow us away.

So it is with this ever-growing ball, this planet-in-the-making; its

speed and size create what we know as gravitational force that pulls

things unto itself out of space, while at a certain given distance away

from it the force reverses or so-called gravity ceases.

Once the ball becomes a certain size and compression reaches a definite

state, combustion within the center takes place. Since each particle of

dust contains within itself in minute form, all elements known to man,

the different minerals begin to melt and run into separate channels

or lanes as the heat from the internal combustion grows in intensity.

For instance, gold and silver melt into liquids through this terrific

heat and flow within the ball into the channels of least resistance,

lodging there in the form of veins. Other minerals do the same. If

they happen to be of silica, they will not adhere tightly to each

other when they meet, as rougher type minerals do, especially if the

consistency of these glassy elements, like quartz, differ slightly from

each other. Yet they meet. Because of their differences they do adhere

to each other fair enough, but being very smooth, the union is not as

firm as other minerals. This makes a weak spot in the ball which can

easily slip through any sort of a jolt of sufficient intensity. Such a

unification is known to man on Earth as a fault.

After the different ores are melted and flow together, the remaining

portion of each tiny particle in the huge fast-whirling ball is tightly

compressed into apparently solid or rocky formations, composing by far

the greater part of this planet-to-be.

However there is nothing so solid but what is is porous. The gasses

which have been freed by the heat of combustion within the center of

this planet-in-the-making must escape someplace, so they begin to work

through the ball to the surface, forced by a terrific pressure from

within.

On their way to the surface a certain amount of the gasses unite while

the rest continue outward. During the constant movement going on within

the growing ball due to the heat, the melting and separating of the

ores, the movement of the freed gasses and so on, pockets or cavities

are formed inside the ball. Into these some of the united and condensed

gasses flow, forming the underground rivers and lakes, as well as the

pockets of oil made by the fatty residue of the particles that have

been compressed, heated, and separated.

On reaching the surface of the ball, the gasses expand as they are

warmed by the rays of the sun of the system and they also contract

due to the cold created by the whirling speed of the ball itself when

portions of the ball are shadowed from the sun's rays as it speeds on

its path through space. Due to this process, the first moisture, like

sweat, is formed upon the surface of the ball. At the same time, the

expansion of these various gasses around the ball form what is known as

an atmospheric belt, the width of which depends upon the size of the

ball.

Within the atmospheric belt from time to time, due to the heat and cold

and other disturbances, moisture is formed so that now and then rain

falls upon the surface of the growing ball, filling the lower levels

and cavities and thereby making the lakes, rivers, and oceans. From

time to time these waters spill over other territories of the planet by

its tilting one way or another.

As moisture from within and without the new planet dampens its surface

and the enfolding atmosphere, the life germ within the dust particles

is moved to activity. In the beginning a moss-like vegetation takes

form in the creases and crevices of the surface where moisture is most

prevalent. As time goes on and activity continues, larger and sturdier

forms of vegetation grow forth from the life germ contained within the

planet itself, also dependent somewhat on the temperature and moisture

as well as the pressure of the enveloping atmosphere.

After food and water have thus been brought forth, insect life appears

upon the planet, then fowl life, next the animal, with the human form

being the last and finest expression to inhabit this new planet.

Here too is shown that during the growth and development of the planet

as well as after inhabitation has taken place, upheavals known as

volcanic action or earthquakes come from time to time. These are shown

to be nothing but congestion of gasses accumulated in a period of time

that eventually must escape in volume to the surface of the planet, for

which man should be thankful. For if this wasn't possible, the planet

would blow up into billions of parts like a balloon.

As we approach the end of this immense room, we observe the beginning

of retrogression towards disintegration of life upon the planet, as

well as for the planet itself.

In an adjoining room is a mechanical conception of the solar system

complete, showing the sun as the central force and the radiation going

out from its body in a terrific bombardment. It shows here that the

sun is so cold that it is really hot. We can see how an invisible ray

emanating from the body of the sun penetrated a sixty foot thickness of

what we would call the hardest type of steel and its penetration turned

the other side of that steel red.

Dr. Johnston asked, "what is this power really?"

"It is what men on Earth call atomic for convenience of expression,"

explained our host. "It is as good a name as any, but one thing we can

say about it is, that it is electrical where it is repulsive as well as

attractive, composed totally of a positive force; but to name it, we

haven't been able to do that as yet. The only thing we know is that it

is composed of seven different major elements that govern the solar

system, and each tiny atom is made up of these seven elements."

"Would it be possible for people to live on the sun?" asked Bob.

"No," our host replied, "the force of its radiation is too terrific for

any kind of form to be upon it. Yet it is possible that a form could be

born to be in line with its radiation, for nothing is impossible."

"We have another telescope here," he continued as he pointed to it

in the distance, "which analyzes the sun to the minutest part of it.

There are thirty-three different types of rays emanating from it that

permeate the total solar system. But as far as the sun is concerned,

that is one part of our system we still have much to learn about."

From here we are taken into another room in which is a mechanical

conception showing the pulsation system of the solar system as well as

of each of the planets within it. While in the next room is very much

the same kind of a pulsation system which makes up a human being, his

brain acting as a receiver.

In the adjoining room is a working out of how ideas that come to men

from nowhere are really made up, also how ideas that come from men

themselves influence other men.

Now we are leaving this main building of Divine Inspiration and are

going into an adjoining section or annex where we are asked to be

seated in some beautiful armed chairs before a screen. Here a large

picture is being taken of us as a group, including our host. We see

ourselves as a picture reflected on the screen. The operator of this

picture making machine tells us that by pressing a button on the wall,

as he is about to do, our picture as we are will be transmitted to

Saturn, Venus, and Jupiter all at one time and that in thirty seconds

we will get the acknowledgment from Venus and the other planets back

upon the screen. And here it is.

A highly distinguished individual is holding the picture in his hand

just as we saw it on the screen a few seconds ago. We are told this

man is on Venus and that this is their acknowledgment of receiving the

picture.

Now another man appears on the screen, this one is from Saturn.

And here is the third, he is from Jupiter.

At this point our scientist guide steps out of our group, walks over

to the screen, pushes two buttons and talks in a language we do not

understand, to the individual from Venus who is holding the picture in

his hand. This individual is answering. We can hear him but we do not

understand what he is saying.

The conversation has finally ended and our guide is telling us that we

have a standing invitation to visit Venus. We can accept it and go now

from here or we can return some future day and go.

We tell him that we will decide within a short time and let him know.

He asks us why wait?

We answer him that our minds have been so occupied with the beauties

and the marvels of the universe as he has been showing them to us, and

this invitation has been so unexpected that we don't know just what to

answer. We most certainly would enjoy a trip to Venus at this time,

but there has been a wondering thought as to whether there might be an

evaporation of the fuel for our ship, making us short on our return

trip to Earth.

He replied, "you shouldn't worry about that. When the time comes for

you to return to Earth we will see that your ship has all the fuel

needed. We can make up on short notice, all the fuel you want of the

kind you are using."

So without further hesitation we told him we would go to Venus now

instead of waiting.

The date was made for two days later because he said, "we are going to

groom a ship for that purpose, get it all in readiness for the trip,

for we have different types of ships to go to different planets. And,"

he added, "I am going with you."

After these arrangements had all been made, we are taken to a beach

resort along one of the ocean fronts where we will spend the next two

days before leaving on our trip to Venus.

There is a beautiful building here, reminding us of some of our most

exclusive club buildings in America, yet much more magnificent. In here

we are given a suite of rooms containing elegance and comfort beyond

our ability to describe. Here, as elsewhere, service is supreme and we

are given anything and everything that our hearts can desire. Truly, we

are being served as though we are kings of Earth.

After a good rest we venture to the beach along the water front. Many

people are bathing in the waters of this ocean, while many others are

lying around in the sands of the beach. They are of all ages, pretty

much as we see them on Earth, only here we see people of different

colors all playing together and having a wonderful time as we can see

by their expressions and actions. They are all very carefree. The

beauty part of it is that we cannot detect any distinction between the

groups, all seem to be one. It is so different than on Earth where you

see the poor on one part of a beach, then those a little better off,

and very much segregating themselves are the wealthy.

The only distinction that seems to be on this beach is us, for we

are of a slightly different structure and they know we are from the

Earth planet, but at that we are taken in as though we are one of

them, not through curiosity but with a warm feeling of friendliness.

No differences in feeling or actions is shown between us and the

inhabitants of their own planet.

Their friendliness is so encompassing that we are now talking to a

group of citizens who are basking on this beach. To our surprise they

too, can speak as well as understand our language, even as their

scientists and others have. They are asking us about our Earth and

telling us about theirs. All these people are scientifically well

learned. Even the little children ask us questions that our scientists

on Earth would not think of. Being among such people is beginning to

make us feel kind of carefree ourselves, and we like it.

We have been here now one day and one night. During last evening we had

a most exhilarating time. We will never forget it as long as we live.

In this magnificent building in which we are staying there were many

types of entertainment going on. The place was filled with people and

all were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Some danced while others only

watched. In one large room a drama was being staged to a large and

enthusiastic audience. In another section games were being played. Some

of them seemed similar to various sports enjoyed on Earth, but others

were entirely different than any we had ever seen before. One thing we

noticed about those participating in the games. There seemed not the

slightest feeling of competition on the part of any of the players, but

instead, a whole hearted expression of joy by all. Here, as everywhere

else on this planet, we saw some people who were fairly dark, others

were white, while still others had an olive color complexion, yet

all the body structure is pretty much the same. This showed us that

there are at least three races of people here, but the way they mingle

together in work and in play, we have been unable to detect the

slightest difference of feeling anywhere. And of course all speak the

same language which we do not understand. Only when they talk with us

they use our language and we can understand them.

Now it is morning of our last day here. We are told that we will be

leaving for the airfield during the afternoon in preparation for the

trip to Venus.