Chapter VII: Mars (2)

"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.

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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.