This book records the result of certain clairvoyant investigations carried out by Mr Geoffrey Hodson on effects produced by music upon the adjacent matter of the superphysical worlds.

Eight compositions, including Handel, Bach, Mozart, Haydn and Wagner were studied and the results are recorded here in words and colour.

Mr Hodson's  observations arising from his clairvoyant research were carefully taken down while each performance was proceeding, and to  these descriptions  pictures were produced by artists later. 

'If you desire you can quite definitely set your feet on the way to discipleship... You can dedicate yourself to Them and to their representative in the outer world...If you will take every opportunity, make every effort, you will soon come to know Them...'

'If an individual can intensify in himself the spirit of service, he is well on the road to discipleship, for service is a great  characteristic of those who desire to attain.'

'If you desire you can quite definitely set your feet on the way to discipleship... You can dedicate yourself to Them and to their representative in the outer world...If you will take every opportunity, make every effort, you will soon come to know Them...'

'If an individual can intensify in himself the spirit of service, he is well on the road to discipleship, for service is a great  characteristic of those who desire to attain.'

'It is a matter of exceeding difficulty to express the elation of the personality to the ego...I think that on the whole the best way to put it is to say that the former is a fragment of the latter, a tiny part of him expressing itself under serious difficulties.  We meet a person on the physical plane; we speak to him; and we think and say that we know him.

This Book suggests, according to the author, 'that the basis of life is in timeless and universal Being, which becomes projected for evolutionary purposes into the space-time world of existence. Existence can only be significant when seen against its root in pure Being. Birth, growth, decay, death and, if tradition be true, rebirth, are part of a single process. They are moreover, not separate parts, but each one co-exists all the time with the others, even when one aspect predominates'.

The Mental body is the vehicle of thought and is one of the subtle bodies of a human being. To plant our feet firmly on the thought-world, and reach upwards to the very abstractions of thought will surely bring us to the threshold of a world higher and purer, not only in degree, but also in kind. Through those abstractions we shall rise to the world of the spirit, and draw appreciably nearer to the God-consciousness from which we now feel and know ourselves to be temporarily exiled. 

A quotation a day to meditate upon! This charming little book contains thematic selections- a theme for every month - from the voluminous writings of Annie Besant.

For more than seventy-five years, it has been of immense help to aspirants in developing the qualities needed to tread the Path to divine union.  A book that could well become a constant companion.