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Now that stone had been brought from the pile at the top of the hill, and it had rested on a mantelpiece beside another piece of stone brought from Cader Idris. This was a piece of white quartz of unusual beauty, and some time after the event described above, another clairvoyant was examining it with some interest. “What do you get with that?” he was asked, and, after a few moments, he proceeded to describe precisely the game scales as those described by the first friend from the Druid stone destroyed in the fire some months previously. He also sensed the unpleasant conditions, and advised the destroyal of the Cader Idris stone. This was evidently a case of impregnation. The white stone was probably virgin as far as any powerful human influence was concerned, and had become charged with the radiations from the other one, which had been influenced by contact with magical ceremonial. In this case the clairvoyant was psychometrizing, not the white Cader Idris stone, but the magnetism with which it was charged. Technically, it was false vision, and the seer was misled. Probably a more highly trained clairvoyant would have been aware of the conditions, and have avoided the error. We are now faced with two questions. Does the object serve as a medium for transmitting vibrations which are conducted from it along the hand and arm of the psychometrist and to his consciousness; or does the object merely serve as a link to place the seer en rapport with the akashic records, when he then reads without further reference to the object itself? If the former question be answered in the affirmative, we must admit a process of flow, during the time of reading, of the vibratory currents of the Akashic records. If the latter, however, the actual aura or emanation of the object itself plays little or no part when once contact has been obtained. The incident of the impregnated stone might be considered to shake this latter conclusion, because it was the aura of the stone, rather than the stone itself, which was read. This incident would also lead us to conclude that the physical object is not the means of producing the result in psychometry, but rather that the magnetic