s is also shown by the regularity of the arrangement of the colours
and the definiteness of the lines of demarcation between them.

The comparison between the two illustrations shown in this plate is
surely a very impressive testimony to the value of the knowledge given
by the theosophical teaching. Undoubtedly this knowledge of the truth
takes away all fear of death, and makes life easier to live because we
understand its object and its end, and we realise that death is a
perfectly natural incident in its course, a necessary step in our
evolution. This ought to be universally known among Christian nations,
but it is not, and therefore on this point, as on so many others,
Theosophy has a gospel for the Western world. It has to announce that
there is no gloomy impenetrable abyss beyond the grave, but instead of
that a world of life and light which may be known to us as clearly and
fully and accurately as this physical world in which we live now. We
have created the gloom and the horror for ourselves, like children who
frighten themselves with ghastly stories, and we have only to study the
facts of the case, and all these artificial clouds will roll away at
once. We have an evil heredity behind us in this matter, for we have
inherited all kinds of funereal horrors from our forefathers, and so we
are used to them, and we do not see the absurdity and the monstrosity of
them. The ancients were in this respect wiser than we, for they did not
associate all this phantasmagoria of gloom with the death of the
body--partly perhaps because they had a much more rational method of
disposing of the body--a method which was not only infinitely better for
the dead man and more healthy for the living, but was also free from the
gruesome suggestions connected with slow decay. They knew much more
about death in those days, and because they knew more they mourned less.

_On Meeting a Friend._--Fig. 35 gives us an example of a good,
clearly-defined and expressive thought-form, with each colour well
marked off from the others. It represents the feeling of a man upon
meeting a friend from whom he has been long separated. The convex
surface of the crescent is nearest to the thinker, and its two arms
stretch out towards the approaching friend as if to embrace him. The
rose colour naturally betokens the affection felt, the light green shows
the depth of the sympathy which exists, and the clear yellow is a sign
of the intellectual pleasure with wh