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warnings which are often referred to guardian angels and other disputable sources. Mr. Arthur J. Wills, of Chicago, whose projections are dealt with elsewhere, probably made contact with his aumakua when, describing how flesh-like arms were barring his progress, he continues: "I could not distinguish who it was, but tried to push those arms out of my way. My own arms seemed to merge into and become a part of those which were barring me, though at right angles." They doubtless were a part of him. To return to Mr. Muldoon. He has had, he says, hundreds of projections since that exodus of his boyhood; but, though they differed in many particulars, the movements of the Etheric Double when leaving and re-entering the physical body have always followed the lines of his earliest projection, of which illustrations were given in his initial volume. That, indeed, seems to be the experience of most projectors. Every Double has its own methods, the consequence, it may be, of its individual attachments; and these are largely affected by the state of the projector's health; indeed, many psychic manifestations seem to be incompatible with a condition of robust well-being. Nearly all projectors are conscious of the etheric cord which moors the Double to its abandoned body, the severance of which would set it adrift in the world of its own dimension, and Sylvan Muldoon studied it with some care. He calls it the "astral cable", believes it to be composed of the same material as the Double, and marvels at its almost inconceivable capacity for extension without sacrificing the least atom of its function as a communicating link. At close quarters it can dump the Double back into its sheath with electric vigour, and, from a thousand miles away,