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fourteen miles away, and had just finished breakfasting with his wife. There was therefore nothing in the way of real mental stress to account for his appearance. Neither Mr. Mouat nor Mr. R. had ever had a similar experience. This case forms a link with the far more numerous varieties of the Etheric Double which are to follow; but it and those already given are in a class by themselves. Dealing with this problem, The Hon. Ralph Shirley says in his admirable volume, The Mystery of the Human Double: "There are, in short, I would suggest, several categories of phenomena that appear similar but are actually different, and we must beware of our love of uniformity misleading us in such a case." He asks, moreover: "Are all these Doubles, phantasms, etheric or astral bodies, genuine phenomena compounded of some etheric substance, and not merely appearances conjured up by the brain? Or are they collective hallucinations, thought forms, and nothing more? In using the word 'hallucinations'," he continues, I do not wish to suggest pure illusion, but rather mental pictures visually projected" It will be well at the outset to deal with this word "hallucination", because it is used by various writers on the subject to express a meaning agreeable to their own requirements. If you do not believe in spirit forms, you describe the people who see them as suffering from hallucination; which means that they see something which isn't there; because you decline to admit that anything that cannot be seen by everyone can possibly be objective. Here, for example, is a case, to be quoted in full later on,