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of ground seen from the air. The crown of the head is chiefly affected. The result of this condition is that prana12 only reaches the brain with difficulty, and the supply is very much diminished. The cause, in this case, appears to be purely etheric, as if the action of the law of karma took place directly on to that “principle”, the physical symptoms following when its action had reached a certain stage. The etheric double began to grow thin in an area which has the anterior fontanelle as its centre. Then small “pock-marks” appeared, and the thin area began to spread. Prana began to flow round this area rather than through it, and the brain cells, being thus deprived of “life”, functioned with difficulty and began to degenerate. The ego, noticing this, began to withdraw his attention from the body, so that the brain was deprived of the vitalizing properties of the super-physical pranas. The result is that complete withdrawal of egoic control, i.e., imbecility, is only a question of time. The ego has deliberately chosen this quick method of settling a karmic claim, and is withdrawing himself, from the personality, rarely turning his attention to it. As time passes, this absence will become more and more noticeable at the physical level, and there is reason for the hope, which the ego entertains, that death will follow within five years, as the etheric double of the whole brain is disintegrating. In a previous life the ego appears to have committed horrible cruelties, torturing his victims by means of spikes or needles pressed into the top of the head. He occupied the official position of torturer in some Oriental country, amongst a brown-skinned people. It is a curious fact that his own etheric double to-day is affected by the presence of small depressions in it corresponding to the imprints of the needlepoints of the instrument of torture he used upon his victims. Later information confirms the progressive nature of the disease. Case C. Subnormal Mentality. Male, aged 12. To quote an extract from a letter written by the patient’s father: “As regards the boy, he was a crypt-orchid until he was operated upon in December, 1923, at the London Hospital.... Since then he has developed very