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conditions, with which it is surrounded and impregnated, set up a corresponding rate of vibration in the aura of the seer, through which the consciousness becomes aware of them, decodes them, and sends them down to the brain. This conclusion might satisfy us if it were accepted that actual contact with an object were a sine qua non in psychometry; so that, given this conclusion, it follows that in clairvoyance, without contact, a different form of seership is being employed. The discovery of a lost article, for instance, may be attributed to psychometry, whilst, in fact, it may be due to another form of psychism, e.g., a psychic may discover the whereabouts of a right-hand glove by being placed in contact with its left-hand counterpart, in which case the left-hand glove serves to place the seer en rapport with the owner, whilst any further super-physical knowledge of the right-hand glove will be gained by the exercise of another kind of clairvoyance. Our information upon these subjects is as yet so scanty that it is difficult to form conclusions; but it may be that we are now better able to appreciate the remark referred to in the first paragraph. In what we know as physical consciousness, vibrational contact is essential. For example, we see an object, because vibrations radiating from it enter the eye, and affect the retina, according to colour, size and form. These vibrations travel via the optic nerve to the brain, where they arrive merely as vibrations. From the physical brain they are conveyed to the consciousness. Here they are recorded and translated, as a result of previous experience, into objects, shades of colour, etc., and are flashed into brain consciousness in the form in which they are presumed to exist. Physically we only receive vibrations. We may speculate, therefore, upon the question of what an object really is. If this knowledge is withheld from us, we do not know of what the apparently familiar physical plane really consists; our knowledge of it is limited by the vibrations to which we are able to respond through the senses, these being our only avenues of contact with the world around us. This is, however, quite outside the range of our present subject, but might possibly find a place in speculations upon the elusive subject of Maya18. On occasion, endeavours have been made to follow in detail the actual