EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL
The people of Mars have a spoken and written language, but not so
filled with complexities as yours, for the reason that owing to the
high development of the mental faculties thoughts are almost as audible
as words. Hence, converse between individuals on our planet is not
altogether a series of vocal ejaculations. On the contrary, among the
older members of the race, communication between individuals is in some
cases audibly imperceptible.
Printed books are used, but mostly for the very young, as information
is usually transmitted impressionally.
Education on Mars begins at the mother's knee. The first knowledge
imparted to the young is Spiritual. The first lessons given to the
child are: One's absolute dependence on God, and that the few years
before the individual are but an unfoldment, or an individualizing of
the entity into a separate and distinct unit.
The Spiritual lessons are amplified as the child grows and grasps these
truths. This procedure continues until the pupil is ready to enter an
institution of learning.
THE HOME IS THE PRIMARY SCHOOL, JUST AS A PHYSICAL EXISTENCE ON A
PLANET IS THE KINDERGARTEN OF A NEVER-ENDING LIFE. THE PARENTS ARE THE
FIRST TEACHERS.
The primary education consists, as already said, in lessons on the
necessity of expressing God in our lives in truth and righteousness in
order that the mind of the individual be so moulded and fashioned that
absolute faith is placed in God's promises through the Master, Christ.
The keynote to the education of the individual is that one must first
seek God's Kingdom, and that all knowledge and wisdom, which is the
Divine Heritage of all, will be easily attained: and that coming into a
knowledge of God means health, happiness and wisdom.
After the individual has grasped the primary lessons, which result in
an unfoldment of the spirit within, he is then sent to a school; but a
school system different from anything you have on your Earth. The task
of the teacher is, not to teach knowledge but to assist in bringing out
what is already latent in the soul, rather than a set routine, for
every individual is considered a master in some line of thought and
activity. The pupil is led into knowledge instead of being taught
directly.
The individual is left to his own tastes and volition. The harmony of
music of God's laws, which embrace Astronomy, Physics and of Life,
together with a knowledge of the laws of Electricity, is especially
brought to the attention of the individual. You of the Earth know as
yet very little concerning the true nature of Electricity. Your
methods of handling and generating this wonderful force are crude
indeed, by comparison with the deep knowledge attained on Mars with the
subject.
And so with the study and development of the Harmony of Music, we of
Mars have developed a high spiritual sense, and are able to hear and
see many intermediate degrees of vibration that do not exist at all for
you. Of course there are some exceptions among the few of your Earth
who, after having striven hard for light have been favored by God's
angels in the development of a higher Spirituality.
Our teachers are guides who look after their charges in an atmosphere
of Love and, as a result, right conceptions of Truth are acquired by
the pupil.
Thought is the expression or fruit of the Spirit, and Martian children
are never allowed to forget their Spiritual growth. As a consequence
of this they are easily led into true knowledge, and having a broad
vision are able to see all things in their true relations. They begin
at the cause and work towards the effect, which is the opposite of your
system.
No set rules of discipline are used in the schools. Indeed they are
not necessary for the reason that the one ideal: the one goal impressed
on the mind of the pupil is the complete expression of the Father
Within, for to express the Father is to have perfect life, life in
abundance.
Concentration of mind, economy of time and energy are studied and
learned by the child in the early part of his career.
Astronomy on our planet offers an ideal field in seeking an
understanding of the reign of immutable law through the Infinite
Universe of God, and owing to the clear rarified atmosphere of Mars,
unusual opportunity is presented to students in visual observations of
the Heavens.
Entire classes of advanced students, accompanied by their teacher
guides repair to the open at night when the canopy of God's Heavens is
ablaze with scintillating points of light. The different
constellations as viewed from our planet present the same general
appearance as to configuration as they do to the dwellers on your
Earth; but the view is decidedly more vivid by reason of a more
advantageous viewpoint.
The so-called Superior planets, such as Saturn, Jupiter, some of the
larger asteroids, and Uranus and Neptune, are nearer to Mars than to
Earth, and for that reason are more easily discerned from this vantage
point. Some of the satellites of Jupiter are easily seen with the
naked eye.
Your Earth appears to us about as Jupiter does to you, and with our
observing instruments we are able to see your continent and oceans when
not covered by a cloud canopy.
As to the so-called Inferior planets Venus and Mercury, the former
presents the appearance of a star of the first magnitude, but being so
near the sun it is only visible an hour before or after sunset,
depending upon its position. But Mercury, being so near the Solar Orb,
it is rarely its position is favorable for observation from our planet,
and then only with our more perfect telescopes.
Our students view the phenomena of eclipses of the sun and our planet
with the greatest interest, just as your astronomers do.
Mars' two moons present what would appear to you a most striking
phenomenon, for one rises in the East and the other in the West,
passing each other at times within view of observers. The most distant
satellite of Mars is known to us as Laster, to which has been given the
name of Deimos by the first observers on your Earth. Approximately 132
hours elapse between its rising and setting at any particular point on
our planet, as a consequence of the fact that it revolves in 30 hours
18 minutes at a distance of 14,600 miles more or less from its primary;
and as Mars rotates in 24 hours 37 minutes from East to West the motion
is almost neutralized by the circulation of this satellite.
During the time of its rotation it changes four times from full to new
and new to full. The appearance of this satellite to the Martians is
equal, if not a little brighter than the view of Jupiter from your
Earth.
The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as
Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by
means of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700
miles from the surface of Mars. This satellite is shut out from view
beyond 69 degrees latitude by reason of the curvature of its primary.
Its period is 7 hours and 30 minutes--less than one-third the time of
the rotation of Mars. It rises in the West and courses across the
Heavens in 11 hours, during which time it undergoes one entire cycle of
its phases and gets through half another. Its disc appears to us as a
little more than half of the moon's disc on your Earth at full appears
to you.
The realm of Physics presents another interesting study to the Martian
student. We have advanced to the study of Nature's laws to a point
which would appear to your understanding most incomprehensible. Long
ago we mastered the knowledge of the method of releasing Interatomic
Energy,[2] a knowledge which in the brain of an unscrupulous person
would be most disastrous, not only to himself but to those about him.
The energy locked up in an atom of matter is tremendous, and the
release of this power is only a matter of knowing the law. The
inhabitants of your world will have to bide a long time before the key
that will release this giant is placed within their reach.
Not until you have eliminated your inherent selfishness; not before you
have learnt the lesson as Christ taught it will you be permitted to
harness one of the mightiest forces in the universe, a force equally as
great for evil as it is for good. This knowledge we have, and we have
utilized it in the construction and building of our mighty planetary
projects.
This Interatomic Energy is the source of the sun's continuous heat. If
it were combustion the Solar orb would have burnt itself out ages ago.
All your theories to account for the continuity of solar radiation are
in error. The release of Interatomic Energy in the sun at a definite
rate is the reason why its heat never increases or diminishes though
millions of years come and go in endless procession.
And this process is not the working of a blind, senseless force, some
of your scientists would have you believe, but the Creator: Omnipotent,
Omniscient, Omnipresent is the Dominator: the Directing Intelligence,
who sees to it that all is provided for His children.
On your Earth you have thus far discovered some 85 elements. In order
to complete the list of 92, to conform to the so-called Periodic Table,
there are yet seven elements to be found by your scientists. On Mars
the most elementary school pupil is well informed on the subject, and
has knowledge of the complete list among the new elements yet to be
discovered by your chemists, and which exist in appreciable quantities
on your Earth, is one which has the peculiar property of neutralizing
Gravity.
This neutralizing is accomplished by screening off the gravitational
pull when interposed between the Earth and the matter sought to be made
immune from the attraction, just as you would insulate against the flow
of electricity by interposing a non-conductor between two conducting
metals.
The knowledge and use of this element on Mars has been utilized in the
solution of our transportation problem. Instead of cumbersome
railroads consuming energy at a great loss, we use an almost perfect
flying or floating ship. It is made buoyant by being screened from the
gravitational pull of the planet.[3]
Another subject of importance, that takes no little time to understand
by the Martian student is the part played by the planet's satellites in
the generation of Electro-Magnetic energy. The sun together with its
circulating family of planets is a huge Electric motor, so a planet and
its satellites are minor generators of Electric energy. Satellites
have a higher importance and necessity than the mere creation of
moonshine.
All the planets have their satellites, although your astronomers have
not yet discovered any in the case of Mercury and Venus. The latter
planet has a satellite whose distance is so close to its primary that
its presence is lost in the intense reflection of light caused by
Venus' cloudy atmosphere, which is much denser than that of your Earth.
In the case of Mercury, owing to its extremely close proximity to the
sun, its satellite probably never will be seen by observers on your
Earth, as it is lost in the intense brilliance cast by the Solar Orb on
this planet.
[2] The Popular Science Monthly, May, 1920, printed the following--"Sir
Oliver Lodge thinks that man is not yet civilized enough to use the
energy hidden in ordinary matter. The time will come when atomic
energy will take the place of coal as a source of power." The man who
spoke thus before the Royal Society of Arts in London was Sir Oliver
Lodge--one of the towering figures in modern science, a man who has
devoted the better part of his life to the study and interpretation of
the atom. This new form of energy, which our great-grandchildren may
utilize instead of oil and coal, has possibilities so appalling that
Sir Oliver almost rejoices that we do not know how to release it. I
hope that the human race will not discover how to use this energy, he
says, until it has brains and morality enough to use it properly,
because if the discovery is made by the wrong people this planet would
be unsafe. A force utterly disproportionate to the present source of
Power would be placed at the disposal Or the world.
NOTE (By the Editor in 1920)--This article was published more than two
months after the revelation above was received, but is another striking
confirmation of the truth of these revelations.
[3] In the February issue of the "Electrical Experimenter," (1920)
which was published about a month after this information was received
by revelation, the following article appeared--another startling
confirmation of the truth contained herein, and points to the
possibility that whatever is possible on one planet, is also possible
on another, depending upon that planet's type of civilization and real
knowledge, not superficial theory:
"Recently a cable dispatch from Rome brought the announcement that
Prof. Maiorana discovered that lead balls swimming on a pool of mercury
lost a certain amount of weight. It was explained that the weight was
lost due to a screening effect which the mercury produced on the lead
balls. In other words, mercury acts as a sort of insulator against the
earth's gravitational waves. For gravitation certainly is propagated
the same as other forms of energy, i.e., in wave form. Prof. T. J.
See, famous investigator of Mare Island, California, in an address
before the California Academy of Sciences, announced recently that his
researches on gravitation in 1917 and his latest researches on
molecular forces confirmed Maiorana's claim that the screening of
gravitation has been shown to exist. In 1917, says Professor See, 'I
explained the fluctuation of the Moon's main motion by the circular
refraction of the sun's gravitation waves, as they are propagated
through the solid body of our earth at the time of lunar eclipses.'
"'I found also from dealings with capillary forces that quicksilver is
indeed very resistant to the waves which produce molecular action, and
this developed a new theory of the depression of the mercury in
capillary tubes. This would tend to confirm Maiorana's claim that a
basin of mercury beneath a suspended mass of lead may decrease the
gravitation of the lead by a small amount. My researches on ether show
conclusively that gravitation is due to waves in the ether, and certain
very resistant bodies in the line of action may thus introduce a slight
screening effect.'
"This reasoning opens up new avenues of thought of what may be
accomplished in the future when we have found a perfect screen against
gravitation."