Lehal Library

"Can you read them, or tell me the name of the author?" She read, pronouncing slowly, "W.L.W." (giving the full surname of the author). She answered several minor questions as to the furniture in the room, and then, to the question: "Is it any effort or trouble for you to travel in this way?" said, "Yes, a little; I have to think." Her father returned nearly a week later, and was astounded when told by his wife and family what he had been doing on that particular evening. He also informed them that the book in question was a new one which he had purchased after leaving home, so that there was no possibility of his daughter guessing what book he had before him. Mr. Dobbie adds that the letter in due course appeared in the newspaper and that he saw and handled the book. He tells us, moreover, to cut out telepathy as an explanation. "I have scores of times tried my level best to cause clairvoyants to see pictures and visions by conjuring up in my own mind the most vivid pictures imaginable, but up to the present moment I have never succeeded in making my clairvoyants think one thought, or say or see anything I have tried to make them see in that way." He added that, when psychometrizing an article, his clairvoyants were often entirely wrong, "even when I am fully aware of the nature or history of the specimen I place in their hands, of which the visitors also are cognisant". Five hundred miles does not, of course, represent the Etheric limit. Far from it! Indeed, the time-table for Etheric travel seems based on a space-time unit. Two or three thousand miles are no more of an obstacle than is the length of a street; and the Atlantic is as easily crossed as the village brook. Here is an Atlantic crossing to illustrate the third type of