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| was wondering how they were propelled, which brought Orthon again close to my ear as he explained, ?By means of exactly the same energy as operates our space ships.? The streets were well laid out and beautifully bordered with flowers of many colors. Next, | was shown a beach on the shore of a lake. The sand was very white and fine. Long, low waves rolled in with an almost hypnotic quality. There were many people on the beach and in the water. | wondered what kind of material could be used for their bathing suits as they looked no wetter after a dip in the lake than a before. Kalna, who had come to sit beside me, cleared this up. ?The material is not only entirely waterproof but also has properties which repel certain injurious rays from the Sun. Even as on Earth,? she went on to explain, ?these rays are more powerful when reflected off water than inland.? We were now shown a tropical section of Venus. | was amazed to notice that, in a general sense, many of the trees somewhat resembled our weeping willow since the foliage tended to fall in a kind of cascade effect. The color, however, and details of the leaf were quite different. come ee Dee Dee ee Pete ee ee Ee a Rt ee tba 2 As you may imagine, | was very interested in the animal life that entered the various scenes. On the beach | had noticed a small, short-haired dog. Elsewhere, birds of various colors and sizes, little different from ours on Earth. One looked identical to our wild canary. | saw horses and cows in the country, both slightly smaller than those of Earth but otherwise very similar. This seemed to hold true of all animal life on Venus. The flowers, too, resembled those that grow on our Earth. | would say that the main difference between both animal and plant life on Venus as compared with ours lies in coloring and flesh texture. This, Kalna told me, is due to the ever- present moisture on their planet. 2As you have learned by now,? she said, ?our people rarely see the stars as you do on Earth. We know the beauties of the heavens beyond our firmament only Liem eee de ed need nae 9 from our travels and studies.? Last, they showed the picture of a very beautiful woman and her husband with their eighteen children, all but one of whom were fully grown. Yet the parents gave the impression of a young couple in their early thirties. This ended the showing and | was invited to ask questions. First, | asked what effect, if any, the constant cloudy condition over Venus has on its peoples. Orthon replied, ?In addition to living according to universal laws, our atmosphere is a contributing factor toward an average life span of one thousand years. When the Earth, too, had such an atmosphere, man?s years on your planet were correspondingly far greater than now. ?The cloudy formation surrounding our planet acts as a filter system to weaken the destructive rays which otherwise would enter its atmosphere. | call your attention to a record contained within your own Holy Writ. If you study it carefully, you will notice that the span of life on Earth began to decrease when the cloudy formation lessened and men there for the first time saw the stars out in space.