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returns to the physical body feeling overcharged with vital energy. Yram joins with Mr. Fox in extolling the "super-clarity, the super-lightness, the super-consciousness" experienced in Etheric flight, which so transcends all terrestrial cognizance that its reality cannot be doubted. "At each experiment," he says, "the same joys come again. The main impression we receive is one of returning to a well-loved home after a long absence... . It is only after having returned to the normal state that the difference can be appreciated. It seems as if all our faculties are shut up in a box, while thought only filters painfully through the molecules." Yram seems to have achieved an advance on most projectionists by producing at will a Double of varying density. "Time and again," he says, speaking of his earlier efforts, "I have tried to pass through walls in this state and have only managed to give myself a headache, just as if I had banged my physical head against a wall. Much later on I was successful. At first the walls felt soft, and then I went through them as if they were not there at all. But that was only because I exteriorized a less material double far more radio-active than the previous ones." How that is done he does not tell us, beyond a hint that projecting the spiritual essence of man calls for a very special training in order to free the Higher Consciousness from its ties with lower forms of matter. And there is this about Yram as a projector; he stresses the need for developing our higher qualities, for the avoidance of every sort of excess, for leading a peaceful life coupled with meditation and prayer. "Remember," he urges, "that a higher Love-Principle, chosen as an Ideal, forwards the work to an incredible degree,