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Venus, v. 1, issue 1, June 1944
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-7- He appeared before me, took me by the hand and led me like a child to the crater wall, and touching the bare rock, opened a door leading into a long, dark passage. I was too paralized with amazement to protest or ask questions, but followed him down the passage to a large laboratory. He turned and faced me, his eyes met mine and a vast darkness whirled down upon me. When I regained my senses, I was seated in a chair and he stood before me. How can I describe him? There are no words in our language or thoughts in our minds. I only know that he was wisdom and knowledge, goodness and purity of thought. He smiled, and his mind reached out and spoke to me. "I am the Keeper of the Records. in order to be able to tell you what you must know, I have had to open your mind to mine." He gestured to the helmet that lay beside me, on a table. "When you return to Earth," he went on, "You will find yourself changed. You are a telepath, not like those being born on Earth now, for their ability is a gift of nature, and yours is a curse of knowledge. You will not be able to close your mind at will, as those to whom the faculty is born, but for as long as you shall live, all men's minds will be yours to know, and explore." Do you realize now, why I isolate myself from mankind? All thoughts are mine. When I am in a crowd, my brain is a mad babble of man's hopes and dreams, lusts and desires. But forgive me, I wander from the subject. The Keeper of the Records game me a smile, and I saw pity in his eyes. "Know then," he said softly, "The things that you, of all Earth men, are destined to know." The room was darkened suddenly, and upon one wall grew a glowing screen of light, which grew and dissolved into pictures. I saw the Force that Creates reach out and form the Sun, and the planets... saw them brought to life. Eleven of them there were, and I shall name them by the names you know. There was Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter, and the ninth was known as Avar, which was destroyed later, and whose fragments form the rings of Saturn and the asteroids. The tenth, I shall not name, for it is the invisible world, the world peopled by the horrors that man has made into gods, and it is guarded well, lest these nameless things break forth and conquer. You know the history of Earth. Thus was the history of each of the planets... man strove to conquer, to lay up great riches for himself. There were wars, disease, all of the evils that we have known. And then, the Eleventh Planet was born. It is strange that our Earth should be the product of hate and greed. A man who wanted to conquer all of the planets was exiled, stripped of his powers, and in his rage and hate, he plotted the death of the Solar System. His plan was to blow up the Sun, and he nearly succeeded. Man and civilizations fell, so great was the wrenching of space. But he did not destroy, he only tore a great mass from the Sun, and thus the Earth was born. As the ages passed, and our world was cool and able to support life, it became the battleground of the Solar System. Each planet sent their colonies. The men of Saturn came, and founded the colony of Lemuria. The men of Uranus built the great Pyramid. Then Jupiter, Avar and Pluto wanted their share. Can you imagine a whole solar system at war? Mars was ready to fight for her colonies in what was China, before our World Federation, Avar for her colonies in Central
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-7- He appeared before me, took me by the hand and led me like a child to the crater wall, and touching the bare rock, opened a door leading into a long, dark passage. I was too paralized with amazement to protest or ask questions, but followed him down the passage to a large laboratory. He turned and faced me, his eyes met mine and a vast darkness whirled down upon me. When I regained my senses, I was seated in a chair and he stood before me. How can I describe him? There are no words in our language or thoughts in our minds. I only know that he was wisdom and knowledge, goodness and purity of thought. He smiled, and his mind reached out and spoke to me. "I am the Keeper of the Records. in order to be able to tell you what you must know, I have had to open your mind to mine." He gestured to the helmet that lay beside me, on a table. "When you return to Earth," he went on, "You will find yourself changed. You are a telepath, not like those being born on Earth now, for their ability is a gift of nature, and yours is a curse of knowledge. You will not be able to close your mind at will, as those to whom the faculty is born, but for as long as you shall live, all men's minds will be yours to know, and explore." Do you realize now, why I isolate myself from mankind? All thoughts are mine. When I am in a crowd, my brain is a mad babble of man's hopes and dreams, lusts and desires. But forgive me, I wander from the subject. The Keeper of the Records game me a smile, and I saw pity in his eyes. "Know then," he said softly, "The things that you, of all Earth men, are destined to know." The room was darkened suddenly, and upon one wall grew a glowing screen of light, which grew and dissolved into pictures. I saw the Force that Creates reach out and form the Sun, and the planets... saw them brought to life. Eleven of them there were, and I shall name them by the names you know. There was Mercury, Venus, Mars, Neptune, Uranus, Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter, and the ninth was known as Avar, which was destroyed later, and whose fragments form the rings of Saturn and the asteroids. The tenth, I shall not name, for it is the invisible world, the world peopled by the horrors that man has made into gods, and it is guarded well, lest these nameless things break forth and conquer. You know the history of Earth. Thus was the history of each of the planets... man strove to conquer, to lay up great riches for himself. There were wars, disease, all of the evils that we have known. And then, the Eleventh Planet was born. It is strange that our Earth should be the product of hate and greed. A man who wanted to conquer all of the planets was exiled, stripped of his powers, and in his rage and hate, he plotted the death of the Solar System. His plan was to blow up the Sun, and he nearly succeeded. Man and civilizations fell, so great was the wrenching of space. But he did not destroy, he only tore a great mass from the Sun, and thus the Earth was born. As the ages passed, and our world was cool and able to support life, it became the battleground of the Solar System. Each planet sent their colonies. The men of Saturn came, and founded the colony of Lemuria. The men of Uranus built the great Pyramid. Then Jupiter, Avar and Pluto wanted their share. Can you imagine a whole solar system at war? Mars was ready to fight for her colonies in what was China, before our World Federation, Avar for her colonies in Central
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