Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to EntoWeiss, Sara
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Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento
Weiss, Sara
Mars (Planet) -- Miscellanea; Spirit writings
Man is in one, angel and animal, and ever as the angel strives
for ascendency, the animal snarls and shows its teeth, and you may
believe me that, were it not that Spirits of highest Realms control
illumined minds of Earth, who serve as restraining influences in the
consciousness of the masses, a chaotic state of society quickly would
ensue. Apparently, it is a provision of Divine Law that the wise and
strong shall aid the unwise and weak; that the higher shall reach down
to uplift the lowly, and those who fail to fulfill this righteous
law thereby so lessen their Spiritual estate that, in the world of
equitable adjustments, they find themselves in a state of poverty
undreamed of by mortal man.
Yes, even as the peoples of Earth agonize in the throes of evolution,
so in past ages have the Entoans agonized; so, to a degree, do they yet
agonize, for though they are more highly evolved than are the peoples
of our planet, they, as I have once said, are yet in their swaddling
clothes.
Yes, ages elapsed ere they evolved from savagery to a civilization
which made it possible for their ideals to assume form and expression
in the construction of this wonderful and beautiful city. Wonderful not
only in its architecture, but in its many fine expressions of science,
of art, of social amenities and usages, and other admirable features of
an advanced evolution, which has carried from the past into the living
present such lessons of wisdom as have been learned in the school of
experience. The school whose pupils never play truant and who ever are
learning their lessons well or ill, and who, perforce of natural law,
_must_ advance onward toward clearer, higher views of the meaning of
life, of love, of God in humanity.
Now again look southward. Is not it a vision to enrapture the soul
of an artist or a lover of the beautiful? See how temples, domes and
light towers lose themselves in the cloudlike, luminous haze which
the slanting sun rays glorify into an indescribable loveliness. Toward
the lovely valley Ins[a:]lû the shadows of declining day are falling
over the whiteness of the city and over domed temples and light towers.
Afar, gray and empurpled mist wreaths are rising and veiling the pallid
beauty of fountain groups, whose silvery treasures, thrown high into
the quiet air, are tinted by the glory of the setting sun, which gleams
athwart T[a:]imon, over which, like dream phantoms, vessels great and
small are noiselessly gliding. Lower, lower sinks the red disk of the
solar king, and fleecy clouds, catching the reflection of his last
beams, put on their robes of crimson and gold, and like angels in
flight, drift across the deepening azure of the sky.
George, we now will ascend, but not to a great height, for soon the
light towers will be ablaze, and you, Gentol[a:] and Bernard, will
witness a spectacle you will not soon forget.
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