On the other hand, if men’s earth-lives have been low and brutal, selfish and sensual, j;hey will, like the suicides, be conscious to the fullest extent in this undesirable region; and they are liable to develope into terribly evil entities. 1 nflamed with all kinds of horrible appetites which they can no longer satisfy directly now they are without a physical body, they gratify their loathsome passions vicariously through a medium or any sensitive person whom they can obsess; and they take a devilisTi delight in using all the arts of delusion which the astral plane puts in 'their power in order to lead others into the same excesses wj^ch have proved s^ fatal to themselves.