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accustomed to control. There were certain traits of lovableness and innate refinement, which were the results of the efforts of the ego to correct the onesided development. In a fit of anger in a past life he severely injured one of his companions by pushing him over the edge of a clift. He, in his turn, was severely maltreated, in accordance with the primitive ideas of justice of the time, and in that life he passed through very great suffering, both before and after he died His present vehicles in this life, especially the physical, bore the impress of this maltreatment, although the ego has made a great effort to adjust and harmonize the whole nature. Degeneration of tissue took place in the brain and spinal cord. This condition was progressive, and, from a clairvoyant point of view, the case appeared to be quite hopeless. This view was confirmed by the death of the patient within one year of the time at which the investigation was made; his after-death life was then examined, and the record included in Chapter VI of this work. Case D. Male, aged 13. One of five children. First admitted to hospital for chorea re-admitted one year later for post encephalitis lethargica. Exceedingly destructive and unmanageable. Clairvoyant Diagnosis. Clairvoyant investigation shows that sleepy sickness is an etheric disease. The physical causative poison lodges largely in the head, because it has a chemical affinity with certain of the constituents of the brain. With these it enters into combinations which at the solid level cause deterioration of certain of the brain centres. These constituents are chiefly situated in that portion of the brain behind a plane passing through the vertex and the external auditory meatus. The emanations from the poisonous matter produce a gradual corrosion of the etheric double of the brain, shutting off the play of higher intelligence in those regions through which the higher consciousness functions. This results in a lack of moral consciousness. In the case under consideration the etheric brain is partly, though not entirely, insulated from the rest of the etheric double by the effect of the emanations; therefore only a very limited supply of prana reaches the physical brain. The