fore
your progress forward is assured. God plays no favorites. His love is
showered upon all alike. His gifts are for all His children. It was
never the Divine intent that a favored few should bask in the sunshine
of His grace while the majority suffered want and deprivation. These
false ideas have been the procurers of darkness: of the Stygian gloom
now overshadowing your Earth.

Spiritual darkness has not always covered your Earth. In primitive
times--ages ago--eras whose history has been lost to you, man on your
Earth was in harmony with his Creator. This was in the Golden Age when
man and the angels of God walked hand in hand; when man communed with
God, and when the Christ spirit was abiding in the hearts of the
people. In this age man was spiritually developed to a degree almost
unbelievable by you.

Then the time came when man listened to the temptor (his baser self),
and through the workings of the law of Atavism man degenerated almost
to the level of his animal prototype.

This incident in your world's history is the source of the legend of
the "Fall of Man" in the "Garden of Eden." Man disobeyed God by
listening to self, by giving himself over to his selfish desires. He
slew his brother, figuratively speaking, when he abandoned himself to
selfish ends and took advantage of his fellowman. He has been guilty
of that sin ever since. IT IS NOW INHERENT IN HIS MAKE-UP; THIS
SELFISH INSTINCT MUST BE ELIMINATED BEFORE HE CAN AGAIN FIND THE
FATHER'S KINGDOM.

No fences or other evidences of individual ownership surround the
millions of homes on Mars. No lines of demarcation divide one plot of
land from another. The millions of beautiful homes--beautiful in their
simplicity, for over-ornamentation such as the dwellers of your Earth
practise, is not tolerated on our planet--belong to the Commonwealth.
The same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only.

The same custom prevails in the matter of personal property. Should a
Martian have use for a flying machine, also used by another, or other
kind of property for personal use, he does not ask the use of same in
the spirit that your Earth dwellers borrow from one another. Use of
the needed article is requested with the idea that it belongs to the
community: that all material possessions are the common property of the
entire race.

THE MILLIONS OF MARTIANS LIVE AS ONE FAMILY. IT IS THIS SOLIDARITY,
THIS FILIAL CONSIDERATION THAT ONE HOLDS