In this little valley over which we are flying there are eight such
communities. In other valleys there are communities much larger than
these. They are all closely concentrated yet not crowded. The purpose
is that they may all enjoy life equally. And we learn that not only
on Venus but pretty much the same system operates on Mars and other
planets, some a little more in advancement than others as they are each
ahead of the other.
We are now flying over a section of very level land not far out from
the city. Here there are twenty-five such units operating.
We have asked the question now in reference to the population of planet
Venus. There are two and a half billion people, including all races,
while Saturn has four and a half billion and Jupiter has five billion.
Now we are swinging out a little farther over the mountains. This is in
the southern part of Venus. Here are some majestic mountains covered
with beautiful foliage and much timber. We see a large waterfall coming
out of one of the crevices where two mountains join in a V-like shape.
At the widest part of the V is a very nice settlement. We are told it
is an outing place, what we would call on Earth, a resort. It seems to
be made up of materials gathered from these mountains, very artistic.
In the distance not far from this resort, we would say about half a
mile, there is a beautiful blue lake. There seem to be some people
around, a good many of them and they seem to be fishing.
As we swing back towards the city, from this height we see another
settlement. It looks like a city but we are told it is what we would
call a small town in the Earth language, and there is a river close by.
We are now over the city again travelling over a very large and
beautiful park. We are returning to the airport and are about to come
in for a landing. We have landed.
We haven't spoken all this time in reference to the time we have been
in Venus. We have been so taken up with the beautiful things here that
we forgot to mention this. We have been here three days and three
nights but now it is the morning of the fourth day and we are leaving
soon on our return trip to Mars.
The first night we rested very peacefully.
The second night we were entertained at a big banquet with a dance
afterward. Here all such entertainment is open to the citizenry as a
whole, so many of the citizens were enjoying themselves at what we
would call a dance, except the dancing on this planet is of an art
nature. Each movement of the dance has a meaning of life in it and it
is very graceful. If such were to take place on Earth it could be seen
only in amusement houses like theatres.
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