IONS OF MARS

In connection with the revelation contained in this book concerning the
physical characteristics of Mars, the compiler of this volume, as well
also as the medium, was given much information concerning this advanced
planet by means of clairvoyant visions. These pictures were given the
writer at different times, commencing early in 1920, and continuing
until the book was finished.

As has been explained by the controls who have been instrumental in
giving the information about Mars, the purpose of these clairvoyant
pictures was to give the compiler of this book real visual evidence as
to life on Mars; and in particular, real pictures setting forth its
topography, which could be elucidated in no other way.

Written descriptions of scenery and of human activities necessarily
fall short of the reality, especially when an attempt is made to record
a series of events or a point of view outside the realm of our
experience.

The first picture realized by the writer, and for that matter the most
important one, was the view given him of Urid the Beautiful, one of the
most Important centers of population on the planet Mars.

It was while lying in bed one morning the writer was contemplating the
many messages being received from the Martian, who is the dictator of
the subject matter of this book, that he found himself at a strange
place, suspended as it were in the air over a beautiful lake of blue
water, whose surface was broken by gentle ripples, due to the soft,
balmy breeze blowing over the surface of the water. The writer was
facing what seemed to be a westerly direction; and at a distance of
about five miles there arose a series of small mountains about 2,500
feet in altitude. These mountains skirted the shores of the lake. The
sky was a beautiful blue, bluer than the sapphire-tinted skies of our
own desert lands. The mountains were tinted red from base to top,
except where the moisture near the shores of the lake had stimulated a
vegetal growth, whose green contrasted most harmoniously with the red
of the soil. Two white clouds floated majestically near the peaks of
the highest mountains.

The atmosphere was impressively clear and all objects seemed to stand
out in sharp definition, a condition seldom seen by dwellers on our
Earth except in extremely dry and arid regions.

On top of a small plateau, forming the crown of a low-lying hill at the
base of one of the highest mountains, and about 1,500 f