extraordinary interest, since it refers to our own
destiny and that of those we love. All agree that life
beyond is for a limited period, after which they pass
on to yet other phases, but apparently there is more
communication between these phases than there is
between us and Spiritland. The lower cannot ascend,
but the higher can descend at will. The life has a
close analogy to that of this world at it its best. It
is pre-eminently a life of the mind, as this is of the
body. Preoccupations of food, money, lust, pain,
etc., are of the body and are gone. Music, the Arts,
intellectual and spiritual knowledge, and progress have
increased. The people are clothed, as one would
expect, since there is no reason why modesty should
disappear with our new forms. These new forms are the
absolute reproduction of the old ones at their best,
the young growing up and the old reverting until all
come to the normal. People live in communities, as one
would expect if like attracts like, and the male spirit
still finds his true mate though there is no sexuality
in the grosser sense and no childbirth. Since
connections still endure, and those in the same state
of development keep abreast, one would expect that
nations are still roughly divided from each other,
though language is no longer a bar, since thought has
become a medium of conversation. How close is the
connection between kindred souls over there is shown by
the way in which Myers, Gurney and Roden Noel, all
friends and co-workers on earth, sent messages together
through Mrs. Holland, who knew none of them, each