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considerable time passed before he began to discover the technique of this form of clairvoyance. He first described an ovoid shape round which was a spiral flow of force; at first these ovoids appeared to move about in associations of two and four, but, as will be seen later, investigations modified this conception. Within the ovoid is a pillar, occupying about one-fifth of the diameter, and, outside this, a double spiral made by the rapid spiral revolution of small globes about one-sixtieth of the diameter of the ovoid round the pillar. Within the centre pillar appears a golden sun-like focus through which an incalculable supply of energy is welling up—he thought from the fourth dimension—into the atom. Focusing his consciousness within the atom, he experiences a sensation similar to that of gazing outwards into the solar system from a planet, and is struck with the similarity of construction and the relativity of magnitude; he finds that the change of consciousness, resulting from the very high magnification, produces the illusion that when the atom is examined in this way from a point within it, it is as immeasurably large as is a solar system. Comparing this and the observations which follow, it will be seen that Mr.Hodson correctly described the oxygen atom as given in “Occult Chemistry”. (2) Mr. Hodson was handed a tube of chlorine, without knowledge of its contents. He described greenish atoms of a bent dumb-bell shape, with radiating ends, which oscillate together in pairs as if linked together, their movements reminding him, he says, of dancers. Again this description corresponds with that given in ‘‘Occult Chemistry”, where the chlorine atom is described as belonging to the dumb-bell group. On other occasions, these experiments were repeated, and Mr. Hudson now says that he finds his previous observation largely verified, and adds that the appearance of a spiral flow on the outside of the oxygen atom appears to be due to corrugations, of which there were five or six, on the surface of the outer wall; he finds this outer wall to be, relatively, thick and rigid. When an astral view is taken of the atom, its central form is much diminished in size, relatively to the outpouring force, which increases in prominence and size and spreads out like a flower; much of the force rushing up the centre is