but which were as truly forms of energy as the individual energy that was being liberated. They were made unchanging, permanent, for a time, and so were unable to progress or retrograde; they were to retain their energy in latency for a period long or short; but at last they too, when their immediate purpose of remembrance of the vanished was served, would be set free to take other forms. Their creational music was intended, if there was any intention in so spontaneous a thing, to keep before their minds the progressive and evolutionary nature of death, and to quell the old and barbarous attitude of grief which might attempt to show itself when they were bidding the final farewell to a comrade. It was meant to bring into prominence the joy of the spirit freed from the bondage to lower forms of energy, and the delight of all who remained in the progress of the cosmos, even though the immediate act should imply a separation of a loved spirit from them. It helped them to repress any sadness at the thought that they might never recognise the energy of their lost comrade again as an individual and personal thing. Enough for them that the sum of existence should be enriched by the change which was occurring to him. But was it not a grief to them that the parting was perhaps eternal, as far as personal recognition went? The question rose spontaneously in my mind; and I was answered almost before I had thought it. The doubt was still unsolved whether as impersonal energy they developed into something new at death and for ever ceased to bear marks and memories of the phase of existence they had just left, or whether they sallied forth from the bonds of a lower and inert energy into the freer scope of infinity, an individual and complete unity. This doubt, they were certain, would be solved some day by scientific experiment. Meantime there were compensating advantages, whichever alternative was true. If they continued the personality they had already developed on earth without break in consciousness or memory, then would they recognise their old comrades and partners in Limanoran life, and make further progress through existence together.