The Venetian pilots looked with sort of a smile upon us and said, "the
Saturn people are very just. They do know the mind of total universe
and do have the greatest advancement in such things as ships and
utilities in our whole solar system. We on Venus are of a very artistic
nature, while they are very mechanical, yet they use mechanics only for
the purpose of good for all inhabitants. And they are great worshippers
of Deity. While we are too, but we are from the art side. Everything
with us, and with them, must comply with the Creator's purpose, and
not against it. We here in this system have not one slightest thought
of evil, as you Earth men have, towards anything nor anyone, nor have
we any slightest thought towards anything or anyone of great good,
but rather, we live in the mind of eternal nature where every day
serves everyone, governed by the great Creator of all space. In Earthly
expression, we live in the absolute state of confidence called faith,
that we all will be taken care of at all time by Him who put us here,
and that He, and He alone is the only judge, if there be a judge,
that ever was or ever will be. Living this way, with that knowledge,
we know nothing of any crime of any nature except what we see through
the universal eyes upon Earth, which is criminal in all of its acts,
because it usurps the Creator's powers by pretension that it knows
better than the Creator, capable of judging when the Creator judges
not; finding fault with creation, which is finding fault with the
Creator who created that creation."
"There have been many great souls sent to Earth to teach the way of
life we live here, but each one of these has been destroyed by the
criminals which they came to save. You called them messiahs, masters,
and all sorts of names, but they have come from higher planes of life
to start the people of Earth on the right path of life. But they were
slain."
"Many centuries ago, after the last of our messengers, whom you call
Jesus, was crucified, we established this trade center here on your
Moon, and as you see, planes from many planets in our solar system
travel to and from here regularly. This was done with the hope that
some day men on Earth would so develop that they could see these ships
coming in and out from their own Moon and come here to investigate,
out of curiosity. Your race of people have developed machines through
which they have seen our ships flying, but they do not understand and
for the most part do not even believe what they are seeing. Knowing all
this, we can see no good that could be accomplished by one of our ships
going there."
"You can understand, too," they told us, "why the Saturn pilots would
not allow you to inspect their ship."
Before they left us, we asked, "how is it that you do not care to look
our ship over?" for we have noticed that the Martonians did not inspect
our ship either.
This is the answer we got.
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