any tongue—when the “music of the spheres” is there for the asking—when beauty is everywhere—the world will be a good place to live in. Such benefits, as well as the conquest of gravity and fire, are enjoyed at this moment by Communities, whose existence the world in general has no suspicion! For this is no dream, but a concrete fact.

Those who are willing to accept these statement at their face value should not permit themselves to be misled by the erroneous deductions of modern psychical research. Spiritualism and the whole of the phenomena of the séance room have their uses, but they have nothing whatever to do with the unfoldment of the latent faculties of Man. They concern the circumstances of the contact point of a normally invisible world state which is but a cul-de-sac. For the Astral World is but the creation of the Physical World. It is a World of Effects only, whose sensual existence is merely a keener reproduction of our own here, a waiting-room for the Individual between successive births.

Of the true Astral World we are already a part. It leads to nowhere. I have written about it in previous articles. During the last phase of a glorious Humanity, such of it as survives to the close of physical evolutionary development, there is no longer an Astral World experience for it. Humanity by that time will have learnt the Great Secret and have long cut the dismal alternation of the physical-astral out of its path. The Astral World only retains an importance so long as we are automatically of it between death and birth. The part of our conscious existence at present confined to it can be translated to a Higher World State altogether, direct from incarnated experience. The latter, indeed, is the only road.