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It is, however, more frequently temporarily vitalized in quite another manner, which will be described under the next head. It ha^also the quality of being still blindly responsive to such vibrations—usually of the lowest order— as were frequently set up'in it during its last stage of existence as a shade, and consequently persons in whom evil desires or passions are predominant will be very likely, if they attend physical seances , to find these intensified and as it were thrown bacl^ upon them by the unconscious shells.
There is also another variety of corpse which it is necessary to mention under this t head, though it belongs to a much earlier stage of man’s post-mortem history. It has been sta'ted above that after the death of the physical body the astral vehicle if? comparatively quickly rearranged, and the etheric double cast off—this latter body being destined to slow disintegration, precisely as is the astral shell at a later stage of the proceedings.
This etheric shell, however, is not to be met with drifting aimlessly about, as is the variety with which we have hitherto been dealing ; on the contrary, it remains within a few yards of the decaying physical body, and since it is readily visible to any one even slightly sensitive, it is accountable for many of