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Apparitions at the time of death are by no means uncommon, and ^e very often really visits paid by the astral form of the dying man just Ap P^ r t '*i i ons before t what we elect to call tjie moment of Dying 6 dissolution ; though here again they are quite likely t <5 be thougbt-forms called into being by his earnest wish to see some frfend once more before he passes into an unfamiliar condition. There are some instances in which the visit is paid just after the moment of death instead of just before; ancl in such a case the visitor is really a ghost; but for various causes this form of apparition is far less frequent than the other.
Apparitions at the spot where some crime was committed are usually thought-forms projected by the criminal, wfio, whether living or dead, but most L o?aiitfes. especially when dead, is perpetually thinking over again and again the circumstafices of his action. Since these thoughts are naturally specially vivid in his mind on the anniversary of the original crime, it is often only on that occasion that the artificial elementals which he creates are strong enough to materialize themselves to ordinary sight a fact which accounts for the periodicity of some manifestations of this class. Another point in reference iu r . wherever any tremendous mental disturbance has taken place, wherever overwhelming terror, pain, sorrow, hatred, or indeed