easing evanescence.

The statue is cold and dead as the mineral of which it is composed and has
attractions for but few though its _form is_ a tangible reality.

The forms upon a painting are illusory yet they express _life_, on account
of the _color_ which has come from a region where nothing is inert and
lifeless. Therefore the painting is enjoyed by many.

Music is intangible and ephemeral, but it comes from the home world of the
spirit and though so fleeting it is recognized by the spirit as a
_soul-speech_ fresh from the celestial realms, an echo from the home
whence we are now exiled, and therefore it touches a cord in our being,
regardless of whether we realize the true cause or not.

Thus we see that there are various grades of spiritual sight, each suited
to the superphysical realm which it opens to our perception: Etheric
vision, color vision and tonal vision.

The occult investigator finds that ether is of four kinds, or grades of
density:

The Chemical Ether,
The Life Ether,
The Light Ether,
The Reflecting Ether.

_The Chemical Ether_ is the avenue of expression for forces promoting
assimilation, growth and the maintenance of form.

_The Life Ether_ is the vantage ground of forces active in propagation, or
the building of new forms.

_The Light Ether_ transmits the motive power of the sun along the various
nerves of _living_ bodies and makes motion possible.

_The Reflecting Ether_ receives an impression of all that is, lives and
moves. It also records each change, in a similar manner as the film upon a
moving picture machine. In this record mediums and psychometrists may read
the past, upon the same principle as, under proper conditions, moving
pictures are reproduced time and again.

We have been speaking of ether as an avenue of _forces_, a word which
conveys no meaning to the average mind, because force is invisible. But to
an occult investigator the forces are not merely names such as steam,
electricity, etc. He finds them to be intelligent beings of varying
grades, both sub and superhuman. What we call "laws of nature," are great
intelligences which guide more elemental beings in accordance with certain
rules designed to further their evolution.

In the Middle Ages, when many people were still endowed with a remnant of
_negative_ clairvoyance, they spoke of Gnomes and Elves or Fairies, which
roamed about the mountains and forests. These were the _earth_ spirits.
They also told of the Un