One of the crew-men remained by the ship, and we asked him, "why did they leave us?"
He answered that they would not show us any of their ship because they knew the minds of Earthly men. That this ship could travel anywhere in space with great ease, and if Earthly men got any ideas from the ship's construction, he would use them for destruction, and might be even Satan turned loose through space. That all the people on planet Saturn knew this well, and they were guarding their secrets from such men as Earth men. But once the Earth men have righted themselves and become as their neighbors, they would be glad to reveal everything that might be to the advancement of civilization.
And with this the crew man left us.
Now we were stunned. For the first time on this Moon plane, rebuked, and we could not blame them when we realized what was what.
The Venetian pilots looked with sort of a smile upon us and said, "the Saturn people are very just. They do know the mind of total universe and do have the greatest advancement in such things as ships and utilities in our whole solar system. We on Venus are of a very artistic nature, while they are very mechanical, yet they use mechanics only for the purpose of good for all inhabitants. And they are great worshippers of Deity. While we are too, but we are from the art side. Everything with us, and with them, must comply with the Creator's purpose, and not against it. We here in this system have not one slightest thought of evil, as you Earth men have, towards anything nor anyone, nor have we any slightest thought towards anything or anyone of great good, but rather, we live in the mind of eternal nature where every day serves everyone, governed by the great Creator of all space. In Earthly expression, we live in the absolute state of confidence called faith, that we all will be taken care of at all time by Him who put us here, and that He, and He alone is the only judge, if there be a judge, that ever was or ever will be. Living this way, with that knowledge, we know nothing of any crime of any nature except what we see through the universal eyes upon Earth, which is criminal in all of its acts, because it usurps the Creator's powers by pretension that it knows better than the Creator, capable of judging when the Creator judges not; finding fault with creation, which is finding fault with the Creator who created that creation."
"There have been many great souls sent to Earth to teach the way of life we live here, but each one of these has been destroyed by the criminals which they came to save. You called them messiahs, masters, and all sorts of names, but they have come from higher planes of life to start the people of Earth on the right path of life. But they were slain."
"Many centuries ago, after the last of our messengers, whom you call Jesus, was crucified, we established this trade center here on your Moon, and as you see, planes from many planets in our solar system travel to and from here regularly. This was done with the hope that some day men on Earth would so develop that they could see these ships coming in and out from their own Moon and come here to investigate, out of curiosity. Your race of people have developed machines through which they have seen our ships flying, but they do not understand and for the most part do not even believe what they are seeing. Knowing all this, we can see no good that could be accomplished by one of our ships going there."
"You can understand, too," they told us, "why the Saturn pilots would not allow you to inspect their ship."
Before they left us, we asked, "how is it that you do not care to look our ship over?" for we have noticed that the Martonians did not inspect our ship either.
This is the answer we got.