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world I have been assisted by the
spirits of many former wise children of your Earth.
The purpose of the information which I am about to impart to your people is mainly to
stimulate and hasten into material expression the reign of God's kingdom on your Earth.
Many will reject this information, but it is God's truth nevertheless. But on the other hand,
many of God's children now functioning on your planet will accept the statements as true,
and they will be helped and encouraged in their hard struggle for material existence. This
struggle, unequal as it is, is the result of darkness engendered by the loss of faith in God.
Man's faith in his Creator, in the ages preceding your present era of darkness, was
sublime. Man's attitude towards, and his confidence in the promises of God was as the
faith of a child to its parents, whom it has always trusted. But selfishness has gained the
upper hand, and is now man's master on your Earth. To break the chains now binding
man to self is the purpose of God's holy emissaries, who have descended from high
spiritual spheres to your Earth to teach and show men the way out of bondage. They will
succeed, for Omniscience has commanded it. It is under their direction that I am now
contributing my little part in this movement.
I am only too glad to have been able to give the information contained in this book, and I

also appreciate the assistance of all those on your Earth plane who so willingly assisted;
but of course we are all obeying the Father's command.
As life is an attribute of the entire universe, the material aspect of all God's creations are
the same. That is, life on another planet must be thought of as being no different from
what experience teaches you.
All inspiration comes from the Father. Hence, the degree of a race's advancement in point
of civilization is in proportion to its spiritual enfoldment. Therefore the material aspect of
life, which includes God's evolutionary and non-evolutionary creatures, is the same on
every habitable globe in limitless space.
In telling the story of Mars you must be prepared to believe that, from a physical point of
view, the Martians are just human beings, differing little from the people of your Earth.
The same may be said concerning the activities of life enjoyed by all of God's creatures.
Martians work and have their recreations. They enjoy the fruits of their earth just as you
do the fruits of yours. They have invented labor-saving machinery, and indulge in a
multitude of industrial pursuits, but with this difference: their economic system is such
that the life of the Martian is not the struggle for existence you have created on your
Earth. On the contrary it is a pleasurable life in which work is as much enjoyed as is
recreation. This condition is due to two causes. First, Mars is much farther advanced as a
world in its evolutionary career. Second, the Spiritual enfoldment of its inhabitants is
proportionately advanced.
As the Divine Plan is universal in its scope the physical characteristics of Mars,
compared to your Earth are, in a general way, the same, with the exceptions shown later
in this book.
The inhabitants of Mars enjoy a blue sky, mountains, hills, rocks and dells, clouds,
beautiful sunsets, and in fact most of the physical phenomena witnessed by the dwellers
of your Earth.
The Martians live and have their being just as your people do, but they are surrounded by
a different spiritual and a modified physical environment. They take pleasure in music,
art and the study of physical science, but with this difference: the spiritual growth and
enfoldment of the individual is considered as most important, and all material
advancement as only an aid to ultimate ends.
With main points in view the reader can now readily comprehend the real Martian
character, although it may be a disappointment to some who have imagined the
inhabitants of Mars as physically different from themselves; or perhaps, as semi-spiritual
entities, who have possibly been transplanted from other worlds to undergo a sort of
probationary life amid a Paradise of beautiful surroundings and things.

CHAPTER II.

POPULATION CENTERS, TEMPERATURE, CLIMATE
Although Mars is little more than half as large as your Earth, its diameter being 4,200
miles, it contains a larger area of habitable land than the latter, its surface area being
approximately 212,000,000 square miles as against 51,000,000 miles for your Earth.
Hence our globe supports a larger population about 13,160,000,000 people. Your
population is in the neighborhood of 1,645,000,000. Your land area is 161,000,000
square miles less than the land area of Mars. This is for the reason that your oceans
occupy a vast surface of