From the wonderful delicacy with which the essence responds to the faintest action of our minds or desires, it seems jdtiar that this elemental kingdom as a whole is very much what the collective thought of humanity makes it. Any one who wifi ‘think for a moment how far from elevating the action of that collective thought is likely to be at the present time, will see little Yeason to wonder that we ‘ reap as we have sown, and that this essence, which has no power of perception#but only blindly receives and reflects what is projected upon it, should usually exhibit unfriendly characteristics. There can be- no doubt that in later races or rounds, when mankind as a whole has evolved to a much higher • level, the elemental kingdoms will be influenced by the changed thought which continually impinges upon them, and we shall find them