I 1 A theosophist 11 his string ideas is to the separation of soul from body coll air r journal in conversation the other day a known in circles inborn aed the writer with n sincerity of conviction quite unmistakable that he had himself frequently succeed ip in his astral body for so he called it to places thousands of miles dis taut thou gh com ila rati vely speak ing an amate ur in this mysterious art lie had on ane occasion recent ir sent his spook ical representative oil board of a ship leagues from isad to kieft a friend concerning whose safety on the ocean he was ua but this was A practical in the science be dispatch his spiritual entity for such the astral body seem to be rather than a mere pliant asni to the confines of the infinite could travel on the wings of thought from planet to planet and view with incorporeal eye the awful in mechanism echan ism of the universe but why should not even you employ thi power you possess for some useful purpose I 1 asked why no t project your astral body as you term it flinto the bowels of the earth and discover a few mines of gold and diamonds compared w ith the riches you inight so readily grasp the wealth of a three card critto is its nothing A gentle smile overspread the countenance of my ac quain fancee my dear air lie re plied 11 you little understand the irions under which the we speak of is acquired only through the cultivation ofa purity of mind untouched by m a aerial ambitions may the would be disciple of tire divine hope to grasp at length I 1 the iri effs ble secret should I 1 apply the limited power I 1 ei jofto such base uses aty auld leave me nay more I 1 should myself bd exposed to the utmost danger I 1 have reason to be lieve that fatal accidents not indre occur to rush explorers in ill e mysterious realm of the beyond bly own astral body let us say is absent in south africa while on its travels it is tempted and not being as tet entirely cleansed froidl the earthly it rubs sub it seeks to reenter re enter MY corporeal frame but cannot by rea SO 0 f u and in bouss quence of this misfortune I 1 perish physically but what becomes of your spiritual entity I 1 inquired much ested 1 I would rather not go more deeply into the subject lie respond ed and there the matter dropped I 1 huo been wondering ever since however what would happen if a couple of wandering wand eting shooks spooks abound change places upon returning to their owners what remarkable complications such an error would occasion to be sure the case of dr jekyll and infer hyde would be lot hi I 1 og to it