Here and there throughout the park are various sizes and types of
statues of great immortals whom the children are taught to honor and
imitate. The lawns, flower gardens and shrubbery are beautiful and well
cared for. Here, too, are large towering trees with flexible limbs,
looking very much like the weeping willows of Earth; yet they are not.
They appear to be festooned with a moss-like or feathery lace, a
natural growth. We really know we are in another world.
There are beautiful water lanes, or pools, where children play. These
have a purple bluish cast to them and the water in them, we are told,
never chills below sixty-five degrees for it is automatically heated by
the utilization of light.
Light seems to be the power used for all purposes, illumination,
heating, refrigeration, motivation, or energy of any sort, in the home
and in business.
Their temples of worship are many and these also are beyond the
imagination or description by men, at least Earthly men. Noticing the
number and beauty of these temples, George asked about their spiritual
beings, how many forms of religion and denominations they have.
The head of Mars answered, saying, "We have but one, the Father of
all, whom we honor, obey and live purely to please by doing His will,
not ours. Our spiritual quality is to respect each man as if he is the
Deity Himself, knowing that no form can be a form without the support
of the Deity. Thus doing against a form would be doing against Deity.
This is our firm belief by which we live."
Remembering that the temples on the Moon are used also as their
schools, Johnny asked if this same system is used here and what is
their method of teaching.
"Yes, our temples are where the fundamental laws of living are taught
to the little ones from the very time of their birth," our host
replied. "All are taught our ways of living. But they also are given
freedom to express their abilities with which they have been endowed by
the great Infinite Father. Ofttimes a great soul brings forth great
things in that way. Sometimes, that soul as a form is very young, yet
all look up to it for the greatness and the guidance it may have for
others, enabling them to rise still higher to greater beings. On one
occasion there was a great soul in the form of a child of seven years
of age who brought to our people such enlightenment that it transformed
their way of thought and their way of living to a greater way of
living. Not only do the people accept such as a leader, but even the
leaders, like the head of the state, will bow to such an enlightened
soul when bestowed upon them. Our belief is firm that it is not the age
that counts, but the wisdom, the understanding that might even come
through a new born babe who has been granted to us by the grace of the
Great Creator."
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