_Ahrinziman_, by Anita Silvani, shows lurid pictures of the world to come. In the Inferno of the Dark Star the soul sees the attendant genii of his life, each symbolizing some passion of his nature. There are horrible astral birds and beasts and combinations unknown to mortal biology, while vultures hover overhead and a foul astral odor fills the air. The spirits are of peculiar substance, for they fight and slay each other, some being torn to pieces. The soul is supposed to progress toward the Silver and later the Golden Star. Marie Corelli's _Romance of Two Worlds_ is a queer production, preaching the doctrine of psychical electricity, which is to be a sort of wonder-working magician, and in other novels she gives theories of radio-activity, a theosophical cure-all for this world and the next. _A Vision of Judgment_, by H. G. Wells, is a satire on man's judgment of sin and character and of destiny after death, showing the pettiness and folly of Ahab, proud of his sins, and the hypocrisy of a so-called saint, conceited over his self-torture. "At last the two sat side by side, stark of all illusions, in the shadow of the robe of God's charity, like brothers." The picture of God and the throne vanish and they behold a land austere and beautiful, with the enlightened souls of men in clean bodies all about him. This symbolic allegory setting forth the shallowness of human judgment as set against God's clarity of vision and charity of wisdom is like Oscar Wilde's _The House of Judgment_, a terrible piece of symbolism expressed in a few words. A soul who has been altogether evil comes at last before God to be judged. God speaks to him of his vileness, his cruelty, his selfishness, to all of which the soul makes confession of guilt. And God, closing the book of the man's Life, said, "Surely I will send thee into Hell. Even unto Hell will I send thee." And the man cried out, "Thou canst not!" And God said to the man, "Wherefore can I not send thee to Hell, and for what reason?" "Because in Hell I have always lived," answered the man. And there was silence in the house of judgment. And after a space God spake and said to the man, "Seeing that I may not send thee into Hell, I will send thee into Heaven. Surely unto Heaven I will send thee." And the man cried out, "Thou canst not!" And God said to the man, "Wherefore can I not send thee unto Heaven, and for what reason?" "Because, never, and in no place, have I been able to imagine it!" answered the man. And there was silence in the house of judgment.