The Venetian pilots are telling us that this is a cargo ship. It has brought in the cargo they have been waiting for. They are going to load their ship with it and take it to Venus. They also said they would introduce us to the pilots from Saturn as soon as they completed their reports.
So here come the Saturn men out of the tower and heading straight for our group. Our Venetian friends are greeting them, and now they are introducing us. The Saturn men give us a hearty laugh, saying that they knew who we were long before they landed. And they said it was about time for the Earth people to explore their solar system.
We immediately answered that they didn't do any too well either, since they haven't visited the Earth themselves.
They said right away, "we knew you were going to give us that reply. That is why we said what we did, so that we could give you a reason why we haven't. There is really nothing to learn by going to the Earth. We surely do not want to learn how to fight one another or to become greedy, as the Earth people are, and that is about all you have to offer. Do not forget, we know what is going on on your Earth planet all of the time, for we have so developed our Creator's given talents that we cannot be parted from any distance or any place. We can and do know what is going on in any part of the vastness of the Creator's system. We had an expedition at one time that wanted to come to Earth, but all the people of Saturn forbade them on these grounds, that they might accumulate some of the Earthly habits and then cause trouble among our people after they returned."
They told us that we are considered among our neighbors as savage people. We live off the miseries of each other. And it was a lot better for us to venture out and learn something than it was for them to come to Earth. Until the Earth's people could learn to live for each other, instead of off of one another, by having pure faith in their Creator, that no one of the other planets would care to come to visit them.
They said, "right now the Earth man is so insane that he is no longer the man the Creator meant him to be. He hasn't room enough to fight his own world, thereby destroying it bit by bit, along with the labors of its people, but he is even now trying to get high enough above the Earth to destroy it faster. In this he is not going to succeed, not at least to the degree he expects."
"And you ask us to visit such insane people! We ourselves would have to be insane to do that. We love our brothers wherever they may be and whoever they may be, but we cannot support criminals against the Creator, even though they have forgotten that they are all the children of one Creator."
Here we interrupted, saying, "we do realize we are children of a Creator. We know there is one God and we on the Earth are all born because of Him."
The answer came immediately, and sharp, "you may acknowledge it in words, but not in deeds. By your deeds you deny it, for you destroy your brothers. Whatever a man takes up against his fellow beings, he takes against his Creator, for the life that flows through any form is not the life of the form, but the life of the Creator Himself. So the present civilization of the Earth is hypocritical and blasphemers, for by words they glorify Him but by their deeds they deny Him."
With this they turned and left us. They did not even invite us to look through their ship as others have done.