GLASS HOUSES
By means of switches set in walls, these walls become opaque, colored, or clear as crystal glass, giving a view of outside, with one-way or two-way vision as desired. Here, too, even as found in the houses, the kitchens have vibratory type heaters and cookers. All refrigeration either box or cabinet type, as well as room cooling, is also vibratory in nature. There is no. fluctuation in temperatures in the refrigerators as compared with our modern-day types.
Here, too, there are no locks on the doors, such as those with which we are familiar. The Ruler apartment doors are operated by a code word and pressing on a certain section of the door. The carpets, rugs, hangings, furniture, robes, bed covers are all of the plastic. Cleaning them is very simple for there is a special container in each apartment similar to those in the houses in the city. These special containers have a vibratory flame activated by a push-button. Throw anything into it and leave the flame on for a short time; shut the flame off and when the item is cooled take it out.
It is cleaned of all impurities by vibratory flame and sterilized; this is an ideal laundry system.
THE CITY
On all sides of the Temple are avenues and all buildings in the vicinity are two-and-a-half stories high, then two stories high; and as one goes farther from the Temple, one story high.
Close in near the Temple there are buildings stocked full of all things, similar to our present-day retail stores. Here in this city, there are no apartment houses or tenements, no crowding, each house has a spacious lot for flower gardens and lawns. Each house, even as the Temple apartments, is completely furnished with everything that any of them may need, with the stores as additional supply as needed.
Some of the lower levels of the Temple have vegetable vats for the growing of produce by chemical means, and re-conversion laboratories, At another section of the Temple on the first level below, are the storage garages for the wheeled vehicles for those living in the Temple, here too are shops for minor repairs.
All of the heavy industry of the city is carried on in the underground of five levels surrounding the Temple basement, below and extending for miles underground far beyond the reaches of the surface city. There are houses., stores and gardens, workshops of all types and kinds in these levels. Sunlight is simulated by special ray lamp lighting, and the air is fresh and pure even as found in the Temple. There are large parks and playgrounds for the children. Here too flowers grow blooms as large as those in the Temple gardens and here too the great butterflies float as on ‘silent wings of the night’ from flower to flower.
The saying often referred to in history that there were giants in those days could well have applied here; for everything is of larger than to us normal size, as though the average man height in those days was about 75 feet tall. Within the corridor entrance to the ground level floor of the Temple, close to the back end, are three massive pillars supporting the ceiling at this spot. Almost directly behind these pillars and on the corridor’s end wall, are pictures of three beings, two males, one on either side of a female figure.
These pictures seem to be of a human cast in face and figure, but still have a haunting reptilian touch as well, as if of a smooth blending of the two types.
SNAKES IN THE GLASS
Immediately below this area on the first and second levels are rooms in a central position relative to the Temple basement, and below these rooms are the third and fourth levels of a section. This section from the first level to the fifth level inclusive was hermetically sealed off from the upper structure, as well as from the rest of the Temple basement levels.
In this upper room were found three humanoid serpentine bodies, in upright transparent containers, and behind these, three more of the same type, evidently consorts of the other three. The first three were the originals of the three pictures above on the corridor’s end wall. In the area of the second level immediately below this room, were found great numbers of similar humanoid serpentine bodies, and in the areas beneath this second level, the third and fourth, reposing on beds stacked in tiers four high, lay vast numbers of these same types of figures. On the fifth level were animals and vegetation.
This sealed up section contained a strange mist-like gas, the purpose of which was to hold in suspended sleep of preservation all life this area contained. Through research efforts, our scientists discovered that these humanoid serpentine bodies were reconstructed robot containers made from the flesh substance of the original bodies, which long ago had been serpent bodies with arms. The types of animals and vegetation held in suspended animation in this area were such as should ever seen on this planet, Earth. They don’t belong!
In the human Ruler’s apartments on the fifth level or floor above ground, well concealed in the wall of the living room of each compartment, is a small closet-like room. By a strange assortment of coils of• odd shapes and other strange appearing apparatus concealed in the walls, very strange and exceedingly interesting things occur. A television screen is at one end, and levers, a dial, and green colored lens crystal are arranged at a control panel in one sidewall.
By following the book of instructions as found in a concealed drawer at the control panel, the mechanism became operative, and here was the key to most of the research that followed.