It may be objected by some readers that no such complexities as these are described by most of the psychics*who occasionally get glimpses of the astral world, nor are they reported at seances by the entities that manifest there; but this is readily Accounted for. hew untrained persons on that plane, whether living or dead, see things as they really are until after very long experience ; even those who do see fully are often too dazed and confused to understand or remember ; and among the very small minority who both see and remember there are hardly any who can translate the recollection into language on our lower plane. Many untrained psychics‘never examine their visions scientifically at all : they simply obtain an impression which may be quite correct, but may also be half false, or even wholly misleading. Albtflfe more probable does the latter hypothesis become when we take into consideration the frequent tricks played by sportive denizens of the other world, against which the