EDUCATION AND TRAINING OF THE INDIVIDUAL, VOCATIONAL DETERMINATION,
SCHOOL AGE, MARRIAGE AND SCIENCE (Continued)
Everyone goes to school until the age of 16, that is, the length of
time on Mars would correspond to 32 years on your Earth. The Martian
year is nearly twice as long as on your globe.
There are many universities on Mars where students enter direct from
their homes, where the primary and preparatory education is first
inculcated in their minds. Wonderful teachers have charge of the
students, and many truths not yet known on your Earth are taught.
Special and particular attention is given to the subject of the
development of Spiritual gifts to the end that all may come into man's
Divine Heritage, the PEACE, POWER AND PLENTY of the KINGDOM OF GOD.
Each student is selected for his or her proper vocation, and this
vocation is determined scientifically and accurately, for what benefits
the individual also benefits the entire community.
Each individual is trained to perform his part in a manner that will
ensure the unity and harmony of the entire industrial system of the
planet, and each unit understands the dignity and importance of his
position, no matter what that position may be, for on Mars no activity
of human endeavor is considered menial; no one position in life is less
important than the rest: all is God's work.
And so each gravitates to his special liking in the realm of physical
activity, for God has created each individual for some particular work.
Six hours is a day's work, the remainder of the time is devoted to
recreation, music, lectures, and those general activities that best
develop the highest spiritualities with the individual. For the
Martians realize that life on the material plane is but temporary the
isolation of the individual Divine Spark from the Infinite whole to the
end that the personality may become for all Eternity self-conscious and
in harmony with God, which means the inheritance of God's Kingdom for
all time.
Failure to come into harmony with God is destruction of the
individuality, but not of the Divine in man, for that is
indestructible: it always was and always will be.
Education on Mars is inculcated with a view principally of developing
the individual spiritually in order to prepare one for the spiritual
progress after the completion of the material probationary period as
well as having life in greatest abundance during that period, and with
this main end in view the subject of marriage, the rearing of children,
receives special consideration and attention.
The pivotal idea is that when the time for mating arrives the selection
of a wife by the prospective husband must be in accordance with true
conjugal harmony, and this is not possible in the absence of Spiritual
development. Hence, divorces are unknown with us, and to that end is
special care taken in the matter of teaching the truth concerning the
marital relation, the rearing of children and their Spiritual growth.
The marriage age for both sexes is about 35 years, in terms of your
time measurements. The result of this early training is that the young
couple just embarked on the "Sea of Matrimony," are true mates and go
through life without the usual occurrence of domestic turmoil so
characteristic of your Earth's people.
Marriage on your Earth, with but few exceptions, has degenerated from
God's holiest of institutions to a happy convenience for the
gratification of the animal passions; and the rearing of children is an
accident rather than a preconceived reality. Such marriages are unholy
and destructive, and unless your people respond to a Spiritual
awakening such as God's workers are now trying to inaugurate on your
Earth the growing degeneracy will be augmented rather than diminished
and the extinction of the race will be inevitable.
The curriculum of our schools embraces all branches of Domestic
Science, as well as all the sciences, with the difference from your
system that Spiritual development must be the principal task of those
having supervision over the studies of the young.
One of the subdivisions of Domestic Science receiving particular
attention on Mars is the PREPARATION OF FOODS. With an atmospheric
pressure of only eight pounds to the square inch, water boils at 175
degrees on our planet. This temperature is inadequate for cooking
foods properly, especially the coarser varieties. But recourse is had
to the cooking of food in vacuum or under pressure, as the exigencies
of the occasion demand.
Electrical energy is used most generally for producing heat, and the
variety of foods, both animal and vegetal, are as extensive as on your
planet, for the flora and fauna of Mars differs little from yours.
Martians are not excessive eaters, as their bodies do not require the
gross foods so characteristic of your Earth. There are two reasons for
this. In the first place the difference in the gravitational pull on
Mars being thirty-eight one-hundredths to that of your Earth, obviates
the necessity of supplying as much fuel to the human body as your
physical make-up demands. In the second place the Martians partake of
food to keep the body alive, and not for the vulgar pleasure afforded
by the consumption of victuals. We eat to live: whereas most of your
Earth tenants live to eat.
Although each individual has his particular place in the universe where
he will excel in some kind of activity, there being no two persons in
all Creation exactly alike, the student on Mars is given an opportunity
to obtain a broad and comprehensive knowledge relating to all subjects,
both material and spiritual.
The study of matter, divided as it is into a number of elements, offers
an interesting field for study and research work, as does also its
concomitant Cosmic Energy.
Compared to your Earth, industry on Mars, by the aid of labor-saving
devices is perfect: and as a consequence the use of energy is
considerable, especially so in the realm of Synthetic Chemistry. But
it must be understood that the individual is taught that dependence
must be placed rather on one's own dexterity, born of that God-given
faculty of Intuition, than on the perfectness of a man-made machine,
the creation of finite mind.
For it has so happened to races on other planets that complete
degeneration and final extinction has come about by the entire
dependence of the individual and afterwards of the entire race, on
machinery to do the work required of the individual by the Creator,
such dependence finally terminating in almost complete atrophy of the
worker's intuitional faculties.
This calamity will surely overtake your future generations if a halt is
not called on the over-zealous adoption of automatic machines for most
every line of industrial activity. You are now getting to the stage
where the most simple and elementary mathematical problems are solved
by merely pressing a few buttons or turning a crank, the operator
understanding little or nothing of the fundamentals underlying the
solution of the problems in hand. This means, in the near future,
brain atrophy through disuse.
And so with other lines of industrial activity. Not one among a
thousand workers engaged in making shoes can do other than make a heel
or perform some simple operation, one of hundreds of units in the
completion of a pair of shoes. And perhaps it would be impossible to
find one individual whose intuitional faculties were developed to the
extent that he could turn out the perfect, completed article.
In order to explain how far we have succeeded on Mars in harnessing a
mighty universal force to the end of utilizing the same in turning our
factory wheels, lighting our domiciles and giving warmth to our homes
in winter, it might not be amiss to state a few facts concerning our
knowledge of matter and energy.
We have learned that material life simply amounts to functioning in an
Effect world. The Cause world is the Reality which is invisible to all
while hampered with a physical body; that all forms of matter are but
the manifestation of the same ultimate Essence; that this Essence is
but a Divine Impulse--a thrust, as it were, in the Ether. That
although we observe with our sensory organs many different kinds of
matter, consisting of elements and compounds of elements: if we were
able to resolve any of the different forms of matter before us into
their ultimate units, these ultimate particles would all turn out to be
the same thing, the "Divine Impulses" just mentioned.
Now you can best grasp the idea by imagining yourselves immersed in an
Infinite sea of such Divine Impulses, just as a fish is immersed in an
ocean of water. Everywhere, all about us, is a teeming maelstrom of
motion. There is not a cubic centimeter of space that you can call at
rest. All is eternal motion. All is Energy.
And out of this inexhaustible Cosmic Reservoir do we Martians draw our
energy. And as the Divine Impulse is the ultimate essence of all
matter and all energy, therefore you might imagine matter in its
different aspects as Electrical in origin. As Electricity is a
manifestation of the Divine Impulse, then the only Reality in the
Universe is GOD.
We have learned to utilize this Cosmic Energy by getting into harmony
with its origin--GOD--for only through God can true knowledge be
obtained.
On your Earth you have devised a very crude method for utilizing
Electrical Energy. You expend more energy by burning coal or using
water power than you derive from your electrical pump: for a dynamo is
nothing more than a pump. Your machines do not generate electrical
power for, as stated before you are immersed in an Infinite sea of
energy.
On Mars we have learned to draw directly on this Infinite reservoir of
energy. We have learned the law as you some day must.
Located at convenient points on our planet are high towers, capped with
suitable receiving apparatus. In turn this energy is transmitted to
different parts of our globe where it is used. We do not require wires
to transmit energy. Our landscape is neither disfigured with unsightly
wires, nor is it covered with a pall of black smoke. We devised a more
perfect method of power production and transmission.
The relativity of time, space, motion and matter is an actuality
brought to the attention of advanced students on Mars. An
understanding of this truth exemplifies the unreality of the world of
gross matter and the importance of gaining knowledge concerning
Spiritual truths; for the latter are the only real tangible treasures
worthy of one's efforts in their acquisition. Already a knowledge of
these truths is beginning to be sought for by some of the more
spiritually enlightened inhabitants of your Earth; but so immersed in
the unreal things of life is the vast majority of your Earth people
that it will take a long time before the present seed-sowing toward
this end will bear fruit.
The seed-sowing referred to is the work of enlightenment now going on
by a mighty group of Spiritual intelligences who, at the present day,
have in hand the task of Spiritual reformation on your Earth. Only
Truth can stand in the end. All that is unreal or false must
ultimately give way to truth, and Omniscience has willed that the day
when error shall be no more shall be hastened.
There are other planes of existence for the Spirit: many of them.
But they are simply extensions beyond your limited vision; for as long
as you function in a world of unreality and error your Spiritual vision
is incapable of discerning what lies beyond your present horizon, and
must remain dormant. Material eyes are but the windows of the Soul,
and your environment has so beclouded your vision that you grasp but
little of the real things beyond.