They said, "right now the Earth man is so insane that he is no longer
the man the Creator meant him to be. He hasn't room enough to fight
his own world, thereby destroying it bit by bit, along with the labors
of its people, but he is even now trying to get high enough above the
Earth to destroy it faster. In this he is not going to succeed, not at
least to the degree he expects."
"And you ask us to visit such insane people! We ourselves would have
to be insane to do that. We love our brothers wherever they may be
and whoever they may be, but we cannot support criminals against the
Creator, even though they have forgotten that they are all the children
of one Creator."
Here we interrupted, saying, "we do realize we are children of a
Creator. We know there is one God and we on the Earth are all born
because of Him."
The answer came immediately, and sharp, "you may acknowledge it in
words, but not in deeds. By your deeds you deny it, for you destroy
your brothers. Whatever a man takes up against his fellow beings, he
takes against his Creator, for the life that flows through any form is
not the life of the form, but the life of the Creator Himself. So the
present civilization of the Earth is hypocritical and blasphemers, for
by words they glorify Him but by their deeds they deny Him."
With this they turned and left us. They did not even invite us to look
through their ship as others have done.
One of the crew-men remained by the ship, and we asked him, "why did
they leave us?"
He answered that they would not show us any of their ship because they
knew the minds of Earthly men. That this ship could travel anywhere in
space with great ease, and if Earthly men got any ideas from the ship's
construction, he would use them for destruction, and might be even
Satan turned loose through space. That all the people on planet Saturn
knew this well, and they were guarding their secrets from such men as
Earth men. But once the Earth men have righted themselves and become as
their neighbors, they would be glad to reveal everything that might be
to the advancement of civilization.
And with this the crew man left us.
Now we were stunned. For the first time on this Moon plane, rebuked,
and we could not blame them when we realized what was what.
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