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 interpreters of the Law: for if the spirit of
the Law had been kept there would have been no misunderstanding
or juggling of the letter.

Soon there was so much of this turning and twisting to suit man's
growing selfishness, that there was need for someone in authority
over all the interpreters, whose word should be final. So your