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When the current was put on a sudden state of tension was noticed, and all movement in the interspace appeared to cease. The heart-shaped particles immediately placed themselves laterally in lines along the wire, the point of one being attracted towards the hollow of the next. Along the line of the locked heart-shaped particles there was a continuous passage of very much smaller astral particles. On switching off the current the previous condition was regained. This suggests that the current consists of these astral particles, and that the E1 atoms (electrons) are not electricity themselves, but are necessary for the transference of the current. It should always be remembered that a force which manifests itself as a homogeneous fluid at one level will always be found to be granular in its constitution, when examined with a sufficiently high power of magnification. We are here inevitably reminded of the discovery of the apparently granular nature of electricity, in some aspects, in the electron, and of the recent recognition of the probable granular nature of energy itself as postulated in the quantum theory. That the quantum of energy may be the astral ultimate atom is a theory which has previously” Been put forward by one of us, and it seems at least to be a possible explanation of certain physical facts; especially if we remember that the astral, as one of the “life’ planes of nature, should be specially connected with the manifestation of energy. Summarizing what has been so far achieved, we find that: 1. The nature and direction of the current has been observed, i.e., That an electric current consists of a flow of astral ultimate particles along lines of locked E1 atoms (physical ultimate particles) from the negative to the positive pole of the battery. 2. The discovery of the role of the copper. It is seen that in the case of this metal at least the copper acts as a road or pipe within which the other phenomena take place, and the very good electrical conductivity of the copper may be due to the special arrangement of the atoms which affords no friction or opposition to the passage of such current between the “columns”. Thus a considerable advance has been made in the study of the electric current