Chapter IX
We are circling this beautiful city at one thousand feet. Our visit here has been so wonderful and everywhere there has been so much beauty that we surely do hope to be able to return here sometime in the future. In the meantime we are taking as much of it all with us as our memories can contain, so we are feasting our eyes on this beauty as our ship circles in air.
Now the ship is hooking onto Mars' light beam and the pilots have set the controls for full speed ahead.
We are now approaching the previous so-called dust cloud. On entering it we notice it is not as dense this time as it was when we were coming in. We are through it.
Again we are encountering a heavy meteoric shower, only now they seem to be much heavier than the shower we saw coming in on the way to Venus. It is amazing to sit here and watch them passing through space and especially now since we have seen them before and have a little more understanding of them than we previously had. We watch a little closer in relation to our ship, as by this time you no doubt know that the ship has its repulsing power in operation for protection.
When we watch them closely we notice what has been explained to us on our way in, that a meteor which is about to cross our path and would strike us, when it makes contact with this repulsing power at the five hundred mile distance, does take on a sudden drop effect instead of continuing in a straight line. It is quite exciting to watch this.
As we sit here watching the flight of the meteors and reviewing in mind the many things that have been told us, among which was the statement that the secret of the law using this repulsing power had not been revealed to us, we realized that neither have we been told about the air mixture which they can make suitable for any purpose instead of carrying oxygen tanks and so forth. As you know, previously we have been told a little about it, but not in detail of its technique.
Now one of the scientists has turned on a screen which has not been turned on before and he tells us to watch it. This screen is capable of being moved to any angle. Upon it, he tells us, he is going to focus other solar systems like ours which he will explain a little for our better understanding.
The first one we see coming into clear focus upon the screen he calls the 'Granitonia System'. And he continues, "This one is fifty trillion light years ahead of our solar system in advancement. It is far larger in size than our system for it has twelve planets within it, the smallest of which is far larger than any planet we have, and its sun is vast in size."
Now Granitonia is fading out of the picture and we see another one coming into view on the opposite side of the ship. This system is still larger in size than the Granitonia System but not larger in planetary number for it has within its orbit only eleven planets and its sun. This system's name is 'Sanafia'. All these systems are inhabited. The Sanafia solar system is the one that the inhabitants of our solar system enter next through progression.
Here we commented, "since all these other systems are named, what is the name of our system for it too must surely have one."
"Our system is known as the 'Antinoma System'. As for your planet which you call Earth, its name is 'Chinsia', planet Chinsia. To you men from there we have spoken of it as the Earth planet for that is what you call it, but in reality all planets are earth planets. Therefore for convenience of identity all are specifically named, as you know."
Then he tells us that, "You have been amazed with the advancement of life within our system upon these planets which you have been permitted to visit on this trip, but this advancement which you have seen is but a beginning and it is very crude. It might even be said to be very poor in the structure of its inhabitants. You have exclaimed that this is all so exquisite and beautiful in contrast with your planet. That is about the difference between this system of ours and the Sanafia System. To tell you some things about these systems, you could not begin to grasp what we were talking about for you have to live it before you can perceive it."
"These are only two of our great systems nearest to us among the trillions of them and this is all for the children of the Creator, which you and I and all inhabitants of space are. When they serve the Father by doing His will, this is their reward. A monotony by those serving unto the Father is unknown. The great Father of all creation knew that if there was not constant newness and constant everlasting growth towards the ultimate, which is the Father Himself, monotony would set in which would be the destroyer of men, who are His children. So this vastness has been created that His children may forever be going forward, each step toward greater realization, greater joy, and greater beauty without end. But they must become obedient unto His will and use their will only as a channel of obedience. For their will alone carries a monotonous nature which is unnatural to the Father and your Earthly brethren have not learned yet to do His Will. Instead, all are serving their own will. You call it your 'free will'. By doing so you have created much monotony of living that causes you to be dissatisfied, impatient. As a result you perpetrate more destruction than construction, all by trying to offset the monotonous conditions by which you are bound. In the end that monotony destroys you.
"But you, being a child of the Creator, as all the rest are, you are endowed with the birthright of our Father's Kingdom and that birthright is His Will, while your will is but an open channel of service unto Him acting as a passport, as you men would call it on the Earth, unto eternity and a life that has yet not been perceived by the greatest for its greatness."
Now he is turning the screen off, telling us that this was done only to prove to us that the Kingdom of the Infinite is vast and that we are someday to view it as a whole. He says he could show us many more through the same screen but by this time we are nearing Mars.
We are now circling over Mars. Here we are coming in for a landing to the same airport we have left. We have landed and are greeted by many people including the leaders of the planet who tells us that, "at the same time you were leaving Venus, a ship also left here for the Moon. The crew of this ship was instructed to see that your ship was as it should be for your return trip to the Earth, and they took a load of fuel with them to refuel your ship. Also they have installed a small instrument in the ship by which we will be able to keep track more distinctly of you as you travel towards the Earth."
He did not say what part of the ship this instrument was installed in or what kind of an instrument it was.
He did tell us, "the moment it enters the Earth atmosphere it will disintegrate. Do not look for it as you might find it and interfere with it. Its perfect operation might mean life or death to you. Should you encounter any trouble between the Moon and the Earth, by means of this instrument we can help you and pull you safely through any danger you might encounter."
From the airport we are now taken to the Temple of Science for dinner and an evening with the Martonian scientists.
During the dinner which was given in our honor by a group of Martonian scientists, one of them spoke up, telling us "your Earth planet is slightly off balance. It has been thrown off its natural axis by the exploding of powerful explosives and due to this there are going to be some atmospheric changes take place on the Earth within the next ten years definitely. These changes are now beginning to take place. You on Earth should be cautious in handling the new power called atomic power, since you have not yet found the element which goes into it which makes it serviceable but not dangerous, while if you harness the power of the cosmic ray and use it for transmission on your broadcasting stations you can reach us but you never will be able to contact us with the power you are using at present. We have reached you many times with this same power, but as we have told you before your scientists need much development. They have at present too many complications and too little simplicity, and as a result every time they encounter strange waves or noises as they call them, they try to class them everything but what they are. As a result they do not receive our communications as they should be receiving them by this time. We have explained that before."
"You have one man who promoted a strange thought which has not been understood by many of your people. This thought is that there is another dimension, known as the fourth dimension. Scientists called astronomers have taken some thought of this, but all forms of science should take it and should also coordinate with each other as they are not now coordinated. Then and then only will they succeed in getting the exact key to nature's laws, because only men of science can know what the fourth dimension actually is. They will then have another problem on their hands. For you see, you have been dealing all these ages in a three dimensional life or world. These three dimensions are effective dimensions. So you have been dealing with effects and not taking cause very much into consideration. As a result your sciences have become complicated and what you have found was by a chance and not by knowledge. The fourth dimension we have spoken of on your Earth now is really one cause dimension of one of the three effective dimensions. So to have all dimensions and live within them, as you understand the fourth, you will have the fifth and sixth to learn, for at present you say number one but you really have only half a number. Your number one is but an effect. You haven't got the cause in that one. Thus the one may be said is only half of one. In this way you only express half the life that you should be expressing upon the Earth, or within the effective field. And here again we may say that is why man's will is operating, the other is not, which is the Divine Will. The Divine Will is the cause will while man's will is the effective will. Once men of science have learned all of this, more than half of their present knowledge will have to be cast aside. That part will be the complicated part and it must be replaced by simplicity. Another thing that all men of science must do on Earth, and that is to become science, by living science and not merely for honors and rewards. All sciences should be coordinated to be as one, not divided as they are."
"Let me show you how foolish your present scientists are all because of divisions among the various types of sciences."
"Chemists in a chemical laboratory tell their pupils that a rock can only be a rock because of the elements which compose it and these elements are mostly moisture of one form or another, especially oxygen, hydrogen, and nitrogen. In some rocks these may be more abundant than in others but in each case these elements are present, for to dehydrate rocks of these elements they would become dust. That is what a pupil is told in his chemistry classroom."
"The same pupil now goes to an astronomy classroom. Here he is told that the Moon is a great mass of rocks, created mostly of rock formation and it is absolutely void of oxygen or air. Can you figure that one out?"
"In the chemistry department the pupil is told that a rock cannot be a rock without these elements, that when it is dehydrated it becomes dust, yet here in the next classroom he is told that here on the Moon the rocks are abundant yet the Moon is devoid of air or oxygen. Does that make any sense?"
"It is all due to the lack of coordination of sciences. Just like this one. In this one classroom you are told both of these things. You are told that the Moon is hot on the side exposed to the Earth, then you are told that the side that the Earth never sees is awfully cold. But they didn't tell you that where the cold and the hot meet there is more than likely to be a temperate zone, which you know since you have landed there. And who in the world has ever heard of a side that is cold, as they say it is in this schoolroom, and not have oxygen and nitrogen? Is it not the moisture of these elements that makes for the coldness of anything? And would there not be some leakage, as you Earth men would say, from the hot side to the cold side, or are there barriers or walls that keep it from passing from the hot side unto the cold side? It doesn't make sense."
"Here on our own planet Mars your instruments show the polar caps. These polar caps are far larger than any you have on Earth. Yet these men of knowledge tell your people that inhabitation here would be impossible due to the rarity of atmospheric conditions. Yet you know better now that you have been here. Then another thing they tell you, that this planet has been inhabited at one time but now it is not, due to the lack of water. And if it was true that there was a lack of water on this planet, do you suppose that the intelligence that the Great Father has given to us would not have guided us from the dry section to the polar section where water would be available? Even a lower animal would do that. And yet the way they give the news to the people, these learned men would make you believe that we had not sufficient intelligence to move towards the water, where water was, but stayed and perished when the water evaporated. It doesn't make sense, or at least doesn't give a human any credit for having any intelligence. Too, the way you picture the inhabitants of the various planets your imagination is badly distorted."
"Here is one more. You tell your people that there is no oxygen in space and in the same breath you tell them that the sun spots are active and throw flames half a million miles in space. You even have pictures of the sun with two widely separated craters shooting flames so far that they finally arched in space. Yet you tell your people that you can't have a fire in the absence of oxygen. Then what makes the flames shoot out half a million miles in space and keep burning if there is no oxygen there?"
"This is what we mean when we say your sciences need revising, coordinating and intelligently expressed, while at present they contradict themselves through their own complications."
"As for your astronomers who teach of the heavenly bodies, they need better, finer instruments to get correct answers to their findings. For at times there are what we call interference between the Earth planet and Mars or any other planet, of a gaseous formation which is so fine that it cannot be detected by any instrument you have at present, yet will give you distorted readings or distorted knowledge of your findings, and especially in your distance calculations and your color definitions, be it through the sight or be it through the spectrum. There is much to be altered in these findings before the absolute truth is known by your people on Earth."
Here Dr. Johnston interrupted saying, "but we have done well with what we have to work."
The acknowledgment came and the Martonian speaker said, "yes, but you also became egotistical over your findings, which are half truths, thinking you got it all. To have a complete success the law of relativity must be the foundation upon which any society or any truth be founded. And this is where the coordinating comes in of all branches of endeavor. No findings, it matters not how great, should be exalted over any other which might be much lesser, for it is one helping the other, and through a relative understanding a unit is realized. This is where the men of science on Earth are lacking."
"Again I repeat, you have done very well with what you have, but you could do much better if you depended a little more on your feelings, as we do, at least as much as you do on your mechanical devices. In that way you would be able to detect errors much quicker. It would also lessen the time on research which now you spend going into years in computation, looking for error. To be a full fledged scientist one must acknowledge all phases of manifestations, be they labeled spiritual or material, so long as they are natural. Therefore natural laws must be studied and understood before one can become a good scientist, because natural laws are causes of effects since natural laws are stable. And this means all the phases that can be realized by men, which includes all forms of science. For when one form of science operates independent of another and does not exchange its information with all others, many errors are made. We have found by working together as one, our findings are almost absolute, for when any one branch of science discovers something or comes upon a problem, he consults all other branches to solve it, while scientists on the Earth, astronomers as they are named, seldom consult other branches which are considered lower than theirs. Do not forget that this vastness is one system and takes in all branches of science."
"For example the sciences that study the variation of light and its manner of behaviorism is different from the sciences that study light from the stars through a spectrum. Yet both of these are dealing in light and should be consulting each other. For light in its variations does not always have the same behaviorism. It will vary a billion times in one hour at times, for it penetrates various layers, as you could call it, of atmospheric density from its source to its effects. And these densities vary from moment to moment. Also to be taken into consideration are the dust particles which give different effects by their anglings from moment to moment to the light that passes through them. So it is impossible to get definite readings of an absolute nature unless better mechanical devices capable of detecting the variations are used. We on Mars have such devices and yet they are not absolute. We have found through our instruments that the light under normal circumstances, when examined by the type of instruments that you have on Earth would show us that there is iron represented in this light. Yet it may not be iron at all. It can be any other mineral but iron, but a mass of dust particles angling at the moment, and sometimes remaining so for long periods of time depending upon the movement of atmosphere, would reflect the presence of iron, since each dust particle carries iron in a minute form, as well as all other minerals. When a magnetic pull is in a certain direction, and it does vary in its orbit, it will cause the sides of all particles to face the magnetic attraction, and iron is attracted by magnetism. Therefore the whole side would reflect the representation of iron while at other times it would be reflecting something else. It is impossible to get a correct reading of a planet on its mineral contents unless a different instrument is used by Earth man than he is now using, since space, it might be said, is solid with particles, more in some spots than in others but they are everywhere and they will carry great influence upon the researcher or the observer. This is why planet Mars, or any other planet, never had a true reading of its status by the Earth man. To the present day fifty percent of science on Earth is theory. This accounts for the sudden changes, that do happen often, of denial of one by the admission of another. You call this advancement, but it is only an error of past by a slightly better of present."
"In other words we want to say that if Earth man is to progress to catch up partially, if not totally, with other planets, he will have to adopt this system."
"Another instance, your scientists have in their mind that to have a reflector which reflects the images of the heavenly bodies, as they call it, the reflector has to be of one piece. Yet we have a reflector here on Mars that is made of hundreds of pieces, so synchronized that they reflect as one towards the one central point. Yet the Earthly scientists would say 'look at the mirrors or reflectors we would have to make to make up the one of the many. It would take lots of time.'
"In the first place, time is eternal. In the second place, it is much easier and quicker to make many small ones than one big one, for you are limited in the size of the big one, unlimited in the many small ones. This is one example of your thinking scientists in the Earth planet. They seem to focus their minds in one channel and by doing so they limit themselves. Yet you have the finest group of men which Earth is to know at the present time which are scientists and they are striving for the greater good, too, of all its people. If unity, happiness, greatness of civilization is ever to come, it will come through these men. For it is through these types of men that other sister planets have so far advanced. The only thing needed is a unification or coordination where division and differences of various branches will become non-existent, and instead all working towards a common center in behalf of one another and in turn for the good of its people."
Now we are given a toast by all the scientists that are gathered here in this magnificent Temple of Science in our honor. The toast is:
"May their sight, their vision, their hearts and their minds unite as one on the highway of eternal expectation of an endless expedition, that by their way all men shall be lifted up to see the light which shall reveal the wonders unto all men."
This meeting with the scientists has lasted far into the night but every moment has been filled with interest. Now we are going to our rooms for a few hours rest before being taken back to the airport.
We had a wonderful rest and it is already midday. We are at the airport and ready to start our journey in the Martonian ship back to the Moon where our ship is.
This ship is not the same one that brought us here. It is different in many ways. We are entering it, the doors have been closed and we are taking off. We are now circling the capital city of Mars. Looking back towards the ground we can see the scientists, the head of Mars and many others still looking up and waving.
Now we are hooking onto the Moon light and are flying at full speed towards the Moon.
We are not riding this ship in the so-called front, but rather we are in a compartment in mid-ship, a room by itself, yet we have a good view to the outside.
There are five scientists of Mars making this trip with us and they too are in this compartment. They are turning on a screen, different than any we have ever seen before, for the purpose of letting us see what invisible dust particles in space actually look like. These are highly magnified on this screen and we notice that they have a pattern to them similar to the snowflake type, each one slightly different but all in constant motion and reflecting light.
Now a spectrum screen is turned on and the scientists tell us that here we have true color definitions of the many minerals within each one of these tiny dust particles.
On another screen next to it is shown the magnetic currents of space. We see on this screen the intensity of the magnetic force as these dust particles are moved and rolled, much like waves in the ocean. The scientists tell us that in another three seconds the magnetic pull will be strong enough, so to speak, to turn this mass of particles over to such a degree that they will reflect the iron part of them, which is in a minute form in all dust particles, and this movement is constantly going on without end throughout all space. Through the vastness of infinity there is never absolute stillness.
We doubted this and we said so.
"Why do you doubt?" we were asked.
We said the speed of the ship itself would probably create such activity.
So the ship's pilot was instructed to hover in space, without moving either way. This he did. We have stood still in space for practically half an hour while the particles keep moving on, passing the screen, and the magnetic field on the magnetic screen does show an increase and a decrease in its influence. It turns the particles as the increase in its influence is strong enough to do so, and when it is not as strong, the particles change to some other reflection. There have been reflections of nitrogen, oxygen, hydrogen, minute in particle form as the dust particles are minute themselves. But a mass of them would reflect a large quantity. And so they have reflected all other minerals known to science, all contained in each particle of dust.
This is very much like standing within a room and looking through a window, watching snow fall outside. While all is apparently still the snowflakes fall straight down but let a current of air enter and their course changes. Should a whirling breeze start blowing, the flakes roll in a circling mass but when a strong wind blows, even some of those which have touched the ground are lifted again and blown around with those that are still falling.
This is what we are seeing take place among the invisible dust particles of space with the strength of the magnetic force acting much as the breeze or wind.
We have seen such a manifestation, as most people have, at one time or another in our own homes, when after we have given our rooms a thorough cleaning, dust would be impossible to detect yet a ray of sunshine coming in through some opening would illumine dust particles flying by the billions through space within the room. That is how the screen operates here. And if you watch these dust particles floating in the light of the sun in your own room, you would see that there is a law operating there as well, for one minute they seem to turn to one side and another minute to another side, and if you watch them closely, you can see the differences in reflections. One would be brighter, another duller and another would be shadowed, and so on, depending on which way your particles would be turning in unison and the way the light would strike them.
This is exactly what the screen is showing us here now except it is giving us the mineral contents in a color reflection.
And the scientist says here, "unless we had a filter system to filter out this effect between us and another body we could not get a correct reading of the other body's minerals, since space is just filled with these particles of dust, some in cloud formations others just travelling around through space.
"This is the major obstacle to be overcome by scientists of astronomy on Earth, for there is much now being said in reference to many bodies and the various other formations in space that is less than half true because of this type of interference that is being attracted by the various instruments that Earth men have. And since the magnifying system is largely used, it also magnifies the interference."
We asked them how this could be eliminated?
"Through instruments that serve more than one purpose," was the reply. And he continued, "when Earth man grows to the true purpose of his service, this will then be given unto him, to know the truth."
Dr. Johnston said this would take much time, probably, why could we not be given this by the Martonians now since they already have it?
He answered, "you must earn it as we have, and when you do alter your ways it will be given unto you, but we do want you to know that you are not getting the true understanding of the bodies that you daily observe through your instruments. By including all branches of science in any one branch, you can learn all these things quickly."
One thing we have learned is that these screens operate by the power known to us as atomic, plus something else that we have not been told. The mysterious part of all of this, in our total adventure from the Earth to Venus we have found that space is dark and the only light that can be seen is the dust that catches the days and reflects them as light for a split second. One moment they are light, the next moment they are dark. When the flat side of a particle is towards either reflected light or the direct light of the sun, it reflects light, but when the edge is towards either one, no light is reflected. You can imagine just how this really operates.
"Yet there are dust clouds which are pretty dense that reflect light quite steadily, you might say, due to their closer concentration, but if you watch it closely, especially with the aid of a good instrument, there will be times that you will see this reflection very bright while at other times quite dull," continued our friend. "The reason for this is that the particles keep moving, rolling, so to speak, sometimes a larger mass of them comes into a position to catch the light and reflect it, while at other times a lesser amount of them reflects it. The Milky Way is composed largely of such."
"Now again let us emphasize, each particle of dust either independent or composing a cloud, is composed of all minerals known to man on Earth and some minerals not known to him, in a very minute form. And they do reflect their own mineral contents, especially when they are quite well condensed in a massive formation, as we have said before. Being in space between two bodies, if these were to be ignored, they would cause much misunderstanding when it came to analyzing the contents of a planet, even so far as to it being inhabited."
"Right here we should try to prove something else as we are travelling towards the Moon. Now we will focus a screen towards the Earth. This is being done without the filtering system. Here is your Earth. It contains all minerals. We will read for you the various minerals which are showing here on the screen."
This they did.
"Yet here are five minerals showing that are not found on your Earth. Now we are going to put the filter system in to filter out the dust particles and get a pure reading of the Earth. Here is your exact number of minerals."
And that was true, less the five minerals that showed before. That reading was correct as far as Dr. Johnston was concerned.
"We shall show you something more. By a special device operated in conjunction with this screen we can detect and differentiate between all form-life, be it mineral, vegetable, animal, fowl, or human and even tell its degree of development."
"This is the way we measure intelligence of the inhabitants of the Earth or any of the planets. We will try to pick a non-intelligent spot on your Earth, as you would call it, without humans. Notice the color reflection upon the screen. See, this section is made up of all the various colors as you can see them in their bands, yet they are all very dull."
"Now we will switch from this to a group of scientists in one of your very large laboratories. You notice the colors are still there but they are very distinct and rich."
"This is the way we have, besides other delicate instruments, of finding out how far the inhabitants of any planet are advanced, as well as the type of other forms of life which may be on that planet. For everything, regardless how minute, has its own rate of life activity and throws off its own radiations or vibrations which include color. They differ in quantity and quality depending upon the purpose of the form and its development."
We will soon be landing on the Moon so our little lesson in the field of science is over and we have thanked the scientists for these marvelous revelations they have given us. While we have not understood everything as we should have, we nevertheless follow its relationship to one another and the logic upon which it is founded, if no more. We must say here and now that these boys really have something on the ball, as we would say on Earth. It makes us feel quite small to think that we have given them so little credit before this adventure, thinking they knew nothing, if there even were any human beings on these other planets and pictured them in ugly forms when they excel anything and everything that we know anything about on Earth.
We are now coming into view of the Moon and can almost see where our ship is. We are circling, ready to come down. The pilot has landed his ship alongside of ours and our Moonalite friends who were left in camp during our absence are running up to greet us. As we leave this ship to go to ours the natives are eager to show us what the other Martonian ship brought to them, various kinds of food and supplies.
Our host who has returned with us to the Moon is telling us that the head of Mars has decided to establish an airport here, that whenever and whoever comes to the Moon from the Earth again will find better facilities in every way to greet them than we had when we landed here, but it will always remain under the flag signifying our first experience of landing on this spot.
The flag which we brought has been replaced with a new flag and placed higher on the mountain. This new flag is the same as ours was except the Martonian insignia of a heart and a handshake across the heart, the same as the pilots have on their caps, is in it too. It is made of material that will not deteriorate as easily or quickly as our material would have done, and when it does deteriorate they will replace it.
We ask our host how long they are going to stay on this spot we are on right now?
He replies, "we will stay here about twenty-four hours before returning to Mars. During some of this time we all, including all the natives of both tribes, are going to enjoy a big feast. We have brought all the provisions for the feast with us in the ship."
The Moonalites who were here when we landed are unloading the ship and getting things ready for the feast. It is about midafternoon and we are told that the tribespeople of both groups have been notified in their villages that we will be here most any time.
While this is going on Johnny is trying to contact the Earth. He has succeeded and is now talking to a radar station in the northern part of California, telling them that we have just returned from Venus and Mars to the Moon on a Martonian ship. He tells them that all of us including the settlements of natives close by here are about to have a big feast given by the Martonians who brought us here.
From the Earth they are asking him what we have seen on both Venus and Mars.
He begins to tell them when they interrupt, asking him to wait and call them back in twenty minutes. During that time they would alert different stations so that all the people could listen in on what we have to say, as they did before.
We are now on the beam to Earth. Johnny is telling them just the highlights, no more, for it would take too long to tell in detail what we have seen on Venus and Mars and throughout the whole journey.
They are all rejoicing on Earth for the success of this adventure and tell us that they are awaiting our return, the quicker, the better.
Johnny tells them that probably the next day we will be taking off on our trip back to Earth.
They ask if we have enough fuel to return safely?
He assures them that we have plenty for the Martonians have furnished us with a full supply of fuel for our ship.
We asked our host who had accompanied us on our entire trip, if he would care to say a few words to the Earth people.
He was glad to.
So Johnny told the people on Earth that he is about to introduce the leading scientist of Mars who came from Mars with us and has been with us on the whole journey.
He spoke first in his native tongue, then he spoke the English tongue that his listeners might understand his words. This is what he is saying:
"We have been honored here on the Moon, on Mars, on Venus, in fact through the whole solar system by the presence of your Earth brethren who have so successfully made this journey to the nearest interstellar space body, known to you as the Moon. And more than that, that you have sent ablebodied men on such a journey. By ablebody, we mean that their mentalities were capable of perceiving our way of life and realizing the many advances which they found here on the Moon, Mars, my planet, and Venus. And especially the manner in which they have conducted themselves in relationship to the various groups of people they have met on this journey. They will never be erased from the records of Infinity, for as brothers we are one wherever we may be. For the vastness of our Divine Father is inconceivable by His children everywhere. May the day come when all of you Earth men will do as these who are about to return back to you. For if all men of Earth were as these are at present, in the state of mind which has somewhat been changed to what it was when they left the Earth for this journey, your struggles and heartaches which you have been enduring through your mistakes in the planet Earth would cease to be, replaced with joys, happiness in a brotherly state and doing the will of Him, the Father who has placed you in one of His Mansions, the planet Earth. Beyond all, let it now be firmly known that we will look forward to the day when such brethren as these from the Earth will come again. As your desire of Earth brothers is great for the return of these, so is ours for their safe return unto you. So we shall watch over them steadily until they have returned safely."
"Again I may say I have been honored by having this privilege to speak unto the brothers of my present brothers which are now before me, while the others I speak unto through space of our Eternal Father."
And with this the feeling of the people of the Earth reached to an almost paralyzed state for they have never dreamed that anything like this could happen in their day. But it did, where the head scientist of Mars spoke to all the people of Earth. They felt as though they were paralyzed for it was like a voice from Heaven.
The contact with the Earth has been cut. The tribespeople from both villages have arrived and the feast is on. It is very much the same kind that we had when we first landed on Mars.
Twenty hours have elapsed since we returned to the Moon and now after several hours of good rest we are starting the motors on our ship, giving it the once over, seeing that everything is in shape.
The two chieftains and all their people as well as the Martonians are gathered about the ship.
Everything is in order, the motors are warmed up and we are making a radar contact with the Earth telling them we are about ready to take off on our way home. The Martonians, the two chieftains, and all the people gathered here bid us farewell. These people are our friends and we are going to miss them with their joy and their way of living.
At last we are moving for the air. As we gain altitude and look down towards our friends on the ground we see that the Martonian ship is rising too. It is faster than we are. We are circling over this territory and straightening out to be headed for the Earth. The Martonian ship is alongside of us. At three thousand feet up the Martonian ship is still with us travelling towards the Earth. We are ten thousand miles from the Moon towards the Earth. The Martonian ship has escorted us thus far but it is now turning around and going back.
We are encountering some storm but not as bad as it was when we came in. We are now thirty thousand miles out. Things are no different than they were when coming in. We are fifty thousand miles out, now seventy thousand miles, just ten thousand miles away from the gap.
At seventy-two thousand miles we are encountering trouble, a very heavy meteoric shower. Our ship is out of control, at least we think it is for it seems to be zig-zagging between these meteors. There is one awfully big one headed towards us, if it hits us we are done for. We just missed it by going up over it and Bob said he had nothing to do with throwing the ship up and nothing to do with the zig-zagging. We can't figure it out and yet the ship is not in danger, as we can detect it.
We are now entering the gap. It may save us. We got through that shower all right, but how, we don't know. Something strange has taken place which we can't figure out.
After twenty thousand miles of the gap, we are leaving it. Through this neutral zone we have encountered pretty much the same conditions as we did coming to the Moon.
Now we are one hundred ten thousand miles away from the Moon and encountering more meteors. Our ship is missing them or they are missing us but there are more meteors now than we had seen on the way to the Moon. Also our ship is beginning to feel the gravitational pull towards the Earth. Our instruments are functioning perfectly. Here is a shower of big meteors coming right for us. If they strike us we are done for. Bob doesn't know what to do, but the ship is taking a dip, a four thousand foot dip and just passed beneath the meteors. The ship is now rising to where we were. That was really a close call that time. We are travelling smoothly now, very few meteors and they are at a great distance.
We are one hundred eighty thousand miles out from the Moon. Our contact with the Earth's radar has been broken each time we zig-zagged past, over or under the meteors, so the Earth lost track of us. Right now we are unable to contact them again. They surely realize we are having trouble.
Forty thousand miles above the Earth we are running into another heavy meteoric shower. The heat right in this spot is terrific. We did not experience this on the way going to the Moon. Our ship is being zig-zagged. It could easily be said it is out of control, yet the instruments are all functioning perfectly.
Now throughout our ship we hear a voice from a Martonian ship saying just to keep right on going, not to worry about our strange course and explaining that we are being protected by the little gadget they have placed in the ship. So now we know that our ship is being controlled by the Martonians through these perilous spots.
At twenty-eight thousand miles from Earth we have again established contact with the Earth through radar. We are beginning to feel the Earth's gravitational pull terrifically. The ship seems to want to plunge now, being pulled. The radar tells us that all the radio stations throughout the Earth are beamed to it and getting the information from them as they get it from us. They also tell us there are tens of thousands of people gathered at the base in the southern part of the state to see us come in.
Within ten thousand miles of the Earth we hit a very heavy cold wave and then we hit a hot one again, but not as hot as the previous one.
We are within three thousand miles of the Earth. Here is another cold wave and quite a number of meteors too, but they do not bother us this time. Our ship zig-zagged only once. The Earth's radio stations are coming in on our receiver quite definitely at this point.
At fifty miles from Earth the stations are coming stronger, more distinct.
We are fifteen thousand feet above our landing field in California from where we took off. Now we have lowered to one thousand feet and we see people like flies below us. We are coming in for a landing.
We have landed.
Everybody is trying to crowd towards the ship but are being kept away by soldiers. We are staying in the ship for a few minutes to get ourselves organized. While we are still here, before leaving the ship we want to say that whatever the fuel was that the Martonians supplied us with, it was more powerful than that which we had used when going to the Moon.
We have opened the door and are leaving the ship. A guard has been thrown around the ship to protect it until we return for we want to inspect it thoroughly as soon as we can.
Everyone is gathering around us trying to shake our hands and some of them are tearing our clothes off of us for souvenirs. We were almost blinded with the flash light bulbs from the different pictures they have taken. They are asking us to give a speech, to say something.
All we can say is that we are thankful for having landed safely.
A few government experts are accompanying us as we return to inspect our ship before leaving the field. A thorough inspection proves it to be in a first class condition and we also find that we have used less than half the amount of fuel on our return trip than we had used on our way to the Moon, proving that this Martonian fuel had the right punch in it. We have found, too, the spot where we believe was the strange instrument that the Martonians attached to our ship and by which they guided us through the perilous experiences which we have had on the way coming back to Earth. It must have been a repulsor or something of that kind which caused the ship to act as it did when coming in contact with the meteors. Because of the construction of our ship, through this instrument we were able to dodge the meteors but not able to divert their course as the ships of other planets are able to do. But whatever this instrument was, there is not a sign of it now. It really did disintegrate as they said it would. However, if it had not been for the instrument we would never have reached the Earth as we did. We had zig-zagged and the dips downward and up were done with great ease. We never knew that our ship could perform like that. Regardless what it was, we are thankful for it, for it brought us through safely.
Now the inspection is completed. The heavy guard is remaining around the ship to keep everybody away from it and we are being taken in two cars to the Administration Building while the people are cheering at the top of their voices. At the Administration Building we are giving details of our trip for government records, as well as what improvements could be made on the ship, if any. We will not be able to make a complete report at this time since it will take days for us to give all of this knowledge but it will be given.
Our instruments have been checked by government experts and everything checked out perfectly.
The government has requested us to give a world-wide broadcast in the next few days and tell the world what we have actually seen and done.
This will be done.