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plane as is possible to it. In fact, the lower planes of the Astral inhabited by this class of souls is so little removed from the material plane that it may be spoken of as almost a transition stage between the material and the astral plane --- a blending of the two. It is as if a very thin veil were placed between this plane and the scenes of material life --- a tantalizingly thin veil it is to these low souls --- so that while these souls may not actually participate in the earthly affairs, they may yet be dimly conscious of them.

These low earth-bound souls, as a rule confine their earth visitations and brooding to the actual scenes which have attracted them in earth-life. And these souls take a fiendish delight in trying to influence those of their own kind still in the flesh, when in a muddled condition, urging them to fresh infamies and often to actual crimes. In some extreme case's these low souls have been known actually to seek their own discarded Astral shell, or even that of another of their kind, and by a great effort cause it to materialize for a short time in objective form as a "ghost." The nature of these entities changes but little by their transition to the