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consciousness out of the body before he died, and was quite accustomed to the conditions of the emotional plane. He has gravitated to the higher levels of that plane, and is already free of almost all the difficulties which the first few years of life there usually present. His nature is singularly pure and idealistic. He has entered a level of consciousness where he is in touch with the soul of music. He might be said to have entered the kingdom of music and to be living therein. He is surrounded by the ideations of music rather than by sound, and as a result is building up great musical knowledge for future lives. His consciousness is at present saturated with music he is living in and with the very essence of music, surrounded by divine harmonics and choirs of angels singing and playing on celestial instruments. He is in the centre or a world of music in which his aspirations as a composer, conductor, and artist are satisfied to the full. Occasionally he leaves that world to enjoy the beauties of Nature as displayed at the higher levels of the emotional plane. Here he meets his wife during her sleep, and together they enjoy the world which he has entered. He tries to draw her into the same intimate contact with the soul of music he has himself attained. Probably he is on the threshold of Devachan,27 and occasionally enters it, but has not yet permanently withdrawn from objective consciousness. The link between husband and wife is very close; he frequently accompanies her to church, and is close beside her in the home. He has a distinctly dual personality. In one he is the composer and musical idealist, living in the kingdom of music, in the other he is a very kindly, homely husband with an intense love for his wife and for the beautiful things of life. He tends to live now more and more in the consciousness of the first of these. He is quite an advanced ego with distinct links with the leaders of the human race, though as an artist he would tend to take the mystical rather than the occult path to union. Death caused him little or no suffering, and he has in no sense lost the companionship of his wife. He sees her at will in the daytime, and they share each other’s lives at night. All is indeed well with him. (3) A Quaker. A Communication received from a devout Quaker a few weeks after his death from heart failure; one who was also an advanced student of and worker for Theosophy.—May 14th, 1922.