centrate very hard on
being on the other side. It may take weeks before you get a result,
but if you persevere, you will eventually succeed in leaving your
physical form and passing through the door, or wall, into the space
beyond. Now watch me! I shall concentrate on projecting my immaterial
body, and of walking in it, three times round my material body."

Mr. Curtis closed his eyes, and for some seconds appeared to be
thinking very hard. Then the audience witnessed a remarkable
phenomenon--a figure, the exact counterpart of Mr. Curtis, stepped
out, as it were, from his body, and slowly walking round it three
times, deliberately glided into it, and apparently amalgamated with
it. The twelve members from the audience who were within a few feet of
the alleged ethereal body, as it walked past them, declared they saw
it most vividly, and that feature for feature, detail for detail, it
was the exact counterpart of Mr. Curtis, whose material body remained
standing, upright and motionless, with its eyes tightly closed. Our
representative questioned several of these eye-witnesses very closely,
and they were all most emphatic in their belief that what they had
seen was a _bona-fide_ case of spiritual projection. At the request of
a large part of the audience, Mr. Curtis repeated his demonstration, a
further complement of men from the stalls joining those already on the
stage to witness the operation.

Several tests were now applied to the ethereal body of Mr. Curtis, as
it walked round his material body. One man, clutching at its sleeve,
tried to detain it, but his hand passed through the sleeve, and
held--nothing. Another man put out an arm to act as a barrier, and the
projection, without swerving from its course, passed right through it;
and, on the completion of the third round, disappeared as before.

In answer to inquiries, Mr. Curtis stated that the phenomenon might be
taken as a good illustration of projections; and that he was prepared
to project himself once again, in order to prove that it was erroneous
to suppose that phantasms could not do all manner of physical actions.
A deal table (upon which stood a tumbler and jug of water), a
grandfather clock, and a piano were brought on to the stage, and Mr.
Curtis once again projected his spirit form. The latter at once walked
to the table, and, taking up the tumbler, filled it with water from
the jug; after which it wound up the clock, and, sitting down on a
seat in fro