an matters on the part
of the inhabitants of your Earth is evidence of a slow but sure
disintegration of a system that has held your people in mental and
spiritual bondage for centuries, and presages the dawn of a better day
for humanity on your Earth.

CHAPTER IX.

MARS HAS NO POLITICAL SYSTEM

When Love rules a community of people there is no need of
administrative bureaus for the regulation of the lives of the
inhabitants who make up the population of a planet. For the same
reason Mars has no gubernatorial or political administrative center.

This announcement may, in a measure, be a disappointment to many
readers who have imagined that no considerable number of human beings
could live and prosper without the aid and guidance of a complex
administrative system such as you have on your Earth.

Bureaucracy and autocracy are evils resulting from an undeveloped
civilization, and have no place in a community where selfishness has
been eliminated.

When each individual of a vast population, such as that of Mars, is
actuated and guided by the Light Within there is no need for a horde of
political parasites to direct the destinies of the race.

This lack of an administrative system on Mars also applies to its
industrial and economic side. The law of supply and demand determines
just how many factories there should be, and just what output is
necessary for a given period. But it must be remembered that the law
of supply and demand on our planet has no relation to a competitive
system such as yours, for we have no competitor, a fact that will be
impressed elsewhere in this book.

It is true that certain of our people who have been specially singled
out by the dominating influence of the Invisible World are occasionally
appealed to by those in doubt as to what is best for their individual
welfare, or the welfare of the community at large, to act in advisory
capacities. These are the Spiritual Advisers of the planet, and are
really God's prophets. There was a time when your race was guided by
similar individuals, as is evidenced from mention of them in your
sacred Scriptures. But their usefulness was lost when man on your
Earth forgot God.

It was then that man mistrusted the Light Within, and disregarded the
unwritten laws graven in the soul by the Creator. He clamored for a
Code of Laws and received them (through Moses). His next downward step
was taken when he admitted it was necessary to have interpre