"From what you have seen and explored, are all planets of all systems outside of our own system, as well as within it, inhabited?" broke in George.
"Yes," was the prompt reply, "of trillions upon trillions of planets known to us now, we know of no planet anywhere that is not partially, if not densely inhabited. In our own system, planet Venus is fifty thousand years ahead of Earth and twenty thousand years ahead of Mars in advancement. Your Earth, being the third nearest planet to the sun, is one of the oldest planets in our system."
"If that is true and the Earth is so old, why haven't we got the things that the Martonians have?" queried Bob, still fascinated by what he had seen of their space ships.
"You did have them at one time," was the amazing reply, "for there have been many civilizations on the Earth. The present civilization is beginning to realize the possibilities of a better life than they now have, and are striving to bring these possibilities into fulfillment, yet the people are going about it in the wrong way. There is no segment of society upon the Earth planet at present who lives according to the primal purpose of its Creator by which all inhabitants of other planets have learned to live thereby advancing towards greater perfection. No group of humanity can ever attain the heights through a destructive procedure, that it is possible to attain, for destruction finally leads to annihilation of all humanity."
"If the Earth planet could talk, it could tell an amazing story about the Atlanteans, the Lemurians, as you know them on Earth and other civilizations that preceded them. They all attained great heights of development, some greater than others. But in the end they wound up in annihilation. For after attaining certain heights they all resorted to using their knowledge and their wonderful machinery towards destroying one another. It seemed as though they could not keep from being selfish and greedy for power. When these traits once became rooted in the family life of the planet, that civilization was on the way to annihilation."
"This instrument will bring back the past of millions of years and show you what has been," he continued as he switched on an entirely different instrument.
Sure enough, he showed us for a fleeting minute what Lemuria looked like in her highest attainment, also Atlantea and the Roman Empire.
"There were others that preceded these, all with still higher attainments than these you have seen, but to be able to show you just what did take place we will have to go to another building where we have different instruments than we have here."
"This is known as 'The House of Records'," our guide remarked as we approached another building located just a short distance from the observatory. "It too belongs to planet Mars, and the purpose of its being on the Moon is, that in case the big telescope which we have just left, runs across something not known before, it could be checked to this building to get a correct answer. This is more like a branch building on the Moon, since the Martonians have a vaster building, of vaster records of a total system, as well as other systems, which they keep on their planet. The Earth men tried to do the same thing, but only in the field of literature. They did have a marvelous record at one time in the Library of Alexandria, but selfishness and dogmatic minds destroyed it. Even now, because of the force of such characteristics, the Earth man is walking the path of civilizations that have preceded him and have gone into oblivion."
Within the House of Records is a large machine that looks similar to a moving picture machine. Before starting the machine in operation our host explained, "through this machine you will be shown what man should do. On the screen you will see a picture of a race of civilization that preceded all these other civilizations on the Earth, but did not go through the channel of destruction as the others have. This race is known as the Triterian race. The only symbol that you have on Earth today of this civilization is a deity called Triton, worshipped by one of your tribes who picture the deity half man and half fish, symbolizing master men over all elements of nature. This race transported itself from Earth to other planets in space ships at a time when they knew the Earth would have to be evacuated, since the section of land which they dwelled upon would be flooded and that way put to rest, while other new lands would come up from beneath the waters. Being masters of nature's elements, and knowing what was about to happen, instead of staying and being destroyed on the Earth, they evacuated themselves to other planets."