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He had, in his earliest efforts, tried to progress by malcing the movements of swimming, first with the breast- and then with the side-stroke, and finally floating on his back. Yram concludes his volume with the story of his "astral romance". "I had used my ability to travel in the fourth dimension," he tells us, "in order to pay periodical visits to a young woman who, later on, became my wife. After we had met three or four times on the physical plane, circumstances intervened to separate us, one from the other, by several hundreds of miles. It was then that, without knowing either the town or the house where she was living, I used to go to her every night by means of self-projection, and it was whilst in this state that we became engaged.... My fiancee was able to confirm by letter the exactness of the details about which I wrote.... She would feel my presence and speak to me, mentally, without being able to see me. "Whatever might be the place where she happened to be, whatever she might be doing, she would immediately have the very definite feeling that I was near her, and, if her attention was engaged, she would ask me to come again a little later.... She had the sensation of finding herself near a focus of energy from which she constantly received waves of great intensity. She was able to perceive my thoughts as easily as I could receive hers "One day, when I was projected in the astral and standing beside her, she said: 'Stay near me I' 'Instead of that,' I rejoined, 'you come with me.' Immediately, freeing herself from her physical body, she joined me. Later on, after we were married, it often happened that we would travel together in space, with a sweetness of sensation impossible to describe.