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space utilized for the comfort and conven.
ience of the passengers, save for the small con.
troll room where was stationed the conductor
of the craft before a set of keys. There were
no parachutes nor their equivalent; they were
not needed. The valix were safe The Posedians
experienced no danger from engine troubles
Their knowledge of the subtle forces of Nature
SO transcribed our understanding in this age
that the idea of failure of a ship to respond
to the directing key was undreamed
Long journeys were taken both for pleasure
and profit Business was carried on with other
nations through the transportation facilities of
the Valix Exploration jaunts were facilitated
by the use of this ship requiring neither water
nor fuel, yet answering every demand or wtim
OF the user. Posedians sent out colonization
parties to other lands, as do our moderns: the
colonists were in constant touch with their
parent land through the aerial mode of travel.
BECAUSE of the perfect syncronization that
- could be obtained through the regulating
keys. and the vibrationless movement of the
valix, passage from one ship to the other was ac-
complished without difficulty. This fact is clearly
evidenced when Phylos speaks of a friend ioin
ing him and his party for few hours: the
personal valix of the friend followed When the
visit was ended a. call through the Nain
prought the smaller vessel alongside; the two
waikiki were brought into position the doors open
eo' forming passage over which one might
walk as comfortably from one room to an.
other at home.
In short the airships of the ancients were
perfected
In this era one looks with awe upon the
auto-gyroscope that can be settled straight
from the sky onto a highway the gyroscopic
apparatus folded down, wheels released and the
Vessel rolls along as an automobile. When de
sired, the gyroscopic apparatus is unfolded the
vessel takes to the air, with wheels retracted
and 1t is an airshp again. Besides the vax
the gyroscope is cumbersome In Posedia the
Vallx were not employed for street transpor-
tatlon Their system of street conveyances
driven by Navaz or the Night-Forces were per-
fected along different lines. Valix were strictly
equipage of the air.
Although they were known earlier during the
evolution of this civilization, both steam and
sallng ships were obsolete when Phylos die
tated his message. He spoke of the docks, used
then only for the smaller sailing craft. for
pleasure, as yachts are utilized today
Beng both aerial and submarine craft valix
couio nave been used in warfare had they been
needed However the Posedians employed odic
forces in fighting. Call it death rays" or con-
troll of "cosmic rays or what one will there
was destructive force known to them as well
as a constructive force; such an energy as is
being barely touched upon by the chemists and
physicists of today
Yet with all their vast knowledge with their
control or the secrets of the universe termed
for lack of better words Natures Forces these
people had not attained wisdom They permitted
human passions to sway them. Their desire for
power, their acquistiveness, their loves and
mates dominated them. They set in motion Ger.
tain causes that effected disastrous results
Even the Gods cannot stay the immutable law
OF cause and effect True there were excen
tions among them, there are in all ages. but
the great mass of the inhabitants of Atlantis
had not learned the greatest lesson ever taught
that OF self control They succumbed to tempta
tion thus destroying themselves because thev
could not or would not rise to the majesty OF
directing the Energy-Force that actvates
humanity
Ihus the story of Posedia! Proud Posedia
that sank beneath the waves! Learned Posed.
ians, wise beyond our wisdom, living in a elor,
and glamour of which we know nothing todav
Who knows but that they were contemporaneons
with the pre-Incas, the pre-Mayans, or the race
that carved from the living rock the rose red citv
of Petra" that so intrigued T. E. Lawrence of
Arabian fame. Coming the pages of the olden
annals one thrills to the culture and civza
ton that fourished thousands of years ago. an
age of attainment that we are entering, that
Will take us, who knows where?