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inevitably repelled. If clairvoyance exists and is to be of real use to its possessor and his fellows, it must be capable of being developed into a positively controlled faculty and become as readily available as are any other of the five existing senses. It is unfortunate, therefore, that, with the exception of the records of the Society for Psychical Research, most of the available accounts of the possession and employment of supernormal faculties, both by ancient and modern psychics, refer to sporadic and uncontrolled psychism, and are frequently related in a manner which renders them practically useless for purposes of scientific inquiry. There does, however, seem to be a substratum of evidence, a persistence of belief, and a recurrence of phenomenal incidents which justify at least an inquiry into the subject. The ancient peoples of India, for example, are shown, by their scriptures and their highly developed systems of Yoga,1 to have been familiar with the manifestations of supernormal faculties, and even with laws which were supposed to govern their development and use. The ancient Chaldeans and Babylonians had their institutions for the instruction of astrologers, soothsayers, dream readers, who were maintained in their offices as public officials. The Jewish peoples, according to the Old Testament, had their schools of prophets, designed to give special methods of training for those who would undertake the priestly offices, with which was associated a very definite power of seership, and communion with God. King Saul is stated to have belonged to such a school. The peoples of Egypt and Greece also had their seers, as well as their mysteries, the greater and the lesser, where such as desired to tread the path of swift unfoldment could obtain die necessary instruction. The story of the Christian religion, both at its inception and during its later development, contains many accounts of the possession and use of supernormal faculties by its followers, many of whom have since been elevated to the rank of Sainthood. In our own day there would seem to be an emergence of a large number of people who possess some form of peculiar and unusual powers of cognition. The following account from The Medical World for May 10th, 1929, is of especial interest in this connection.