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extend? This is our biggest mystery." "You have chosen a very important question, and I feel you are clever for doing so. Space or the great void has no end as far as we have been able to explore. As we explained previously, there is a large main body from which all the planets and their suns are formed by means of being cast off into this vast void we call space. This main body seems to grow in size and never diminish- es, despite the fact that it discards new bodies constantly. It is so hot a mass you could not go near it, even in terms of billions of your light years. All the bodies cast off are hot, burning balls of fire, and as they reach the cooler parts of space they explode and form smaller bodies that circle them. These smaller bodies become planets as they cool off, but the cooling-off period con- sumes many, many years. We have sent out spacecraft to explore the regions beyond the circling bodies where there is an area that is deep black and in which you are unable to see anything. This vast black area is waiting for bodies to fill it. We have lost many of our exploring craft that went too far into the deep black and never returned. | think it would be clearer if we showed a picture to you on one of our screens. If you will look upon this frame of light you will receive a better idea of what we have tried to explain." extend? This is our biggest mystery." make use of it in a peaceful way, without trying to destroy each "You have chosen a very important question, and I feel you are other with horrible weapons." clever for doing so. Space or the great void has no end as far as "Are there any other inhabited planets in our system?" we have been able to explore. As we explained previously, there "You are the sole planet with human life in your solar system." is a large main body from which all the planets and their suns are "Could a person from Earth survive on any of the other planets formed by means of being cast off into this vast void we call in our solar system?" space. This main body seems to grow in size and never diminish- "No, not without special equipment.” es, despite the fact that it discards new bodies constantly. It is so "Do you think we will ever reach our Moon or Mars or Venus?" hot a mass you could not go near it, even in terms of billions of "Yes, you will reach your Moon, but it holds great disappoint- your light years. All the bodies cast off are hot, burning balls of | ments for members of your races." fire, and as they reach the cooler parts of space they explode and "Is the Moon rich in minerals that we might use here on Earth?" form smaller bodies that circle them. These smaller bodies "Yes, it is very rich, and I might add that, unknown to many of become planets as they cool off, but the cooling-off period con- your people, there is moisture in many of the craters of the sumes many, many years. We have sent out spacecraft to explore = Moon." the regions beyond the circling bodies where there is an area that "What caused these craters?" is deep black and in which you are unable to see anything. This "Most of them were caused by a cooling-down process when vast black area is waiting for bodies to fill it. We have lost many the Moon was thrown from the Earth itself; but some of them of our exploring craft that went too far into the deep black and were caused by large meteors which hit the face of the Moon never returned. | think it would be clearer if we showed a picture — when another solar system was thrown from the central body at to you on one of our screens. If you will look upon this frame of about the same time your system was born." light you will receive a better idea of what we have tried to "Do you believe in God?" explain." "That is a creation of your people "Yours are a vulnerable people: on Earth. You have strange races and r Nhe dais revolved until we faced a colours in your people, and many lan- lighted screen. On it appeared a as long as somebody leads them, guages are spoken, but it seems that three-dimensional sky map, they feel safe. On our planet, all your peoples have had the desire to showing the large central body glowin, wot worship something during their evolu- a fiery ved. wwirling about and ‘Sending every person Is independent and tion. They. crowing like small chil- off balls of fire which seemed to take his own leader. Some may be dren, wanted to have an anthropomor- rts avant Many small eao" superior in intellect, but they are fi! ats cline. thoi pli body—so many that it was impossible merely respected and do not cles seem to have been created. These 10 cetermine some of em fom euners. become leaders." here writen down for ones to read ach body was a small speck of dust, ut these stories were told over ani and I suspected that many of them over until they are now considered to were thousands of times larger than Earth. be true." Circling the edge of the screen was a deep, inky black from "What about Jesus Christ here on Earth?" which not a speck of light shone. This was the outer void which "A great believer in the God, with miraculous attributes of great had no end, the region from which their people had not returned. exaggeration. He could not save himself from death, and even his This magnificent view vanished and I resumed my questions. own race did not believe in him, yet they worshipped the same "Since you have explored so much of space and the bodies that — God." are now about us, I would like to know if there is life on any of "Do you not have a god on your own planet, and do you wor- our other planets in our own solar system." ship anything?" "It was mentioned to you previously that at one time people "We do not worship anything, but we all know that the great existed on the planet you call the Red Planet, or Mars. They were central body created all of us and cast us off into space to form a destroyed by people from a passing planet similar to ours. They life or to remain a barren piece of matter floating about." were exploited and ravaged by these visitors. The other planet "What about Jesus Christ ascending into heaven, since they nearest you, called Venus, is covered in shroud because it is going could not find his body?" through a prehistoric stage similar to the one your planet experi- "We have studied all these things of your planet and have often enced so many years ago. Life is just developing there. Whether thought how primitive your people appear to be. They are easily it will be like that of your Earth we do not know, but it has similar convinced of anything. They can be led by anyone who can turn characteristics to life in your early evolution." their loves or hatreds in directions so desired by leaders. Yours "Are there any signs on Mars that life did exist there?" are a vulnerable people: as long as somebody leads them, they "Yes, there are ruined cities which were masterpieces of archi- feel safe. On our planet, every person is independent and his own tecture, and the remains of a vast system of waterways that were leader. Some may be superior in intellect, but they are merely used mainly for travel. When destroyed, the people there did not —_ respected and do not become leaders. In the case of your reli- employ air travel; neither had they developed a technology to gious leader, Jesus Christ, the wisest man of all was not the reli- equal your present state of progress." gious leader himself, but the person who devised the idea to hide "Many of these things you have told me are similar to what away or destroy his body so that for centuries afterward people some of our astronomers and scientists have surmised. Are they would benefit from the celebration of the birth and death of this correct in most of their assumptions?" prophet. It is best to leave many things unsaid in the area of your "You have many wise men and women on your planet, and they religions, for it is a topic which causes great upheaval on your could go to great lengths with their intelligence if they would planet." 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