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one works for profit. The products of
the toil of all the inhabitants are for the public larder and other necessities and even
luxuries.
As a result of this system of public economy and industrialism, sweat-shops, child labor,
poor houses, public reformatories, and the long list of pernicious and iniquitous customs
in vogue on your Earth are unknown on our planet.
No worries mar the life of the people of Mars. Worry has no place in the Martian mind.
The wants of all are supplied by the Commonwealth, and each one contributes his best
efforts to the common good, and in return each individual is supplied his every want.
This is in accordance with Christ's message: "Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you."

CHAPTER V.
PROPERTY AND PROPERTY RIGHTS
On Mars all property is considered as belonging to God, its Creator, who provided it for
the enfoldment and comfort of His creatures. No individual lays claim to property in the
sense that you Earth dwellers do.
Through God's love does man inhabit a portion of the material universe, but only for a
season. Man comes into material being to express life and acquire an individuality, after
which he passes out of material bondage, when his place is taken by another.
At man's transition he takes with him only character, nothing else. If the things he has
striven for during his material life have been but chimeras: the material things of life: the
fruits of the Earth, then in that case he will find himself poor indeed. The only real wealth,
the only thing worth striving for, is a knowledge of God and His Kingdom. And with us
Martians a knowledge of God is the ultimate goal sought for. Hence all material things to
the Martian are but expedients, soon to be forgotten.
Material wealth is an abstraction. Its usual evidence is the possession of property, which
may be money, land, goods or chattels, as the case may be. In final analysis this concrete
evidence of wealth is not real.
Money is nothing more or less than a stamped token entitling the possessor to so much
human effort, for the real value behind money, after all, is but so much human energy or
force, varying according to its quality and its worth.
Other forms of property such as goods and chattels, are the result of human endeavor and
may be secured by the exchange of money, or it may be produced by the owner.
Wealth represented by lands, which were created by God for the benefit of all humankind.
and not for the individual, is the so-called right-secured by barter, exchange or
inheritance, to use or withhold from use, at the caprice of the owner--of a certain piece or
portion of the planet. Under a legal fiction the title to land extends to the center of the
Earth and to infinity in an opposite direction!
The text: "Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow" has a deep significance to
one who has come into a knowledge of Truth. Drones have no place in the Divine Plan. It
is not only essential but mandatory, that each one do his part for the common good. The
non-producing rich man is as much a drone as is the vagabond who neither toils nor spins.
The Biblical test concerning the difficulty of the rich man getting into Heaven means that
it is impossible for a drone or parasite to get into harmony with God.
The possession of wealth is not in itself sinful, but the possession of wealth is a corollary
to selfishness. He who is unselfish will spurn wealth. The individual who accumulates
beyond his needs sins against Heaven when he locks up his goods in strong boxes. The

act of hoarding deprives some creature of his just portion, for God has planned there
should be sufficient for all who make the effort, and a system that permits an unequal
distribution of God's gifts is in opposition to the Divine Plan, and doubly pernicious is a
church organization that permits it.
Only after Christ has taken up His abode in the hearts of the people of your Earth will
surcease come to the suffering millions on your planet.
Happiness and selfishness are so diametrically opposed that the former is impossible
unless the latter is eliminated from your world, for only real happiness comes after
complete surrender to God. Surrender to God means subordination to His will. His will
on Earth must be done as it is in Heaven. All must be self- conscious of this. If God's will
was adhered to on your Earth what a different place it would be! Instead of a shambles it
would be a paradise,