ody upon the further
side ever wanted to communicate with us at all since their own loved
ones had come over. She had been misled by the fact that when she first
passed over everyone she met was newly arrived like herself.

Thus the account we give may be partial, but still such as it is it is
very consistent and of 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 message being characteristic to those who knew the men in
life--or the way in which Professor Verrall and Professor Butcher, both
famous Greek scholars, collaborated to produce the Greek problem which
has been analysed by Mr. Gerald Balfour in The Ear of Dionysius, with
the result that that excellent authority testified that the effect
COULD have been attained by no other entities, save only Verrall and
Butcher. It may be remarked in passing that these and other examples
show clearly either that the spirits have the use of an excellent
reference lib