Now the machine has been switched on and on the screen we are viewing
the picture of the Triton race. They were very tall, handsome people.
We would judge the average was six feet tall or a little better and
well built in proportion to their height; almost like one. Most of them
were brunette but here and there we could see one who was more of a
blonde. By their expressions we could see they were very intelligent.
They did very little work, what we would call labor of any kind. They
had machines to do everything for them. We might say that all the work
they did each day, which the machines could not do, at best was two
hours. The machines did the rest of the work.
Their buildings, homes, and cities in general seemed to possess
something that a man can dream of but seldom at any time realize.
They really were masters over nature, as we could easily see. We could
almost write a volume telling what we have seen on the screen.
As we watched this picture and its full import dawned upon us, we
wanted to know how they can reproduce these happenings of millions of
years in the past.
The reply was, "past is present, and present is also past. Nothing
that ever was, is, or will be, can ever be erased from the archives
of eternity. It is always present and whenever the proper conditions
prevail, reproduction can take place. This machine is a proper
condition that can reproduce things as you are seeing them, so that
by studying the reproduction we can know what happened in the past
and why it happened. This way mistakes can be detected. Since all
forms and all things are nothing but various rates of actions, which
are sometimes called vibrations, they remain in the vastness of space
forever."
"For an example," and here he switched to another scene, the Earth, the
recent war which we have gone through and the conditions we are going
through now, "this is picked right out of space. Once it is picked, an
indelible picture is made of it by this machine. This can be done not
only of the Earth, but by this same method we scan all interstellar
space, which includes all actions within it, involving trillions upon
trillions of systems of planets as well, and the activities upon them."
Again he referred to our book of guidance in which is the promise that
the Book of Remembrance shall be opened unto everyone.
"Someday," he said, "a race will rise upon the Earth that will live as
people should live, and in time they probably will get such a machine
as this one, which reveals all the past; or, should they be worthy of
it, they will be given one by the Martonians who already have them."
Engrossed in the workings and revelations given by this apparatus,
George wanted to know if the other planets have machines like this one.
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