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that individual is about to die, his Evestrum may indi- 

 cate the approach of his death by raps or knocks, audible 

 to all, or by some other unusual noise, by the movement 

 of furniture, the stopping of clocks, the breaking of a 

 picture, the fall of a mirror, or any other omen ; but fre- 

 quently such omens are neither recognised nor noticed, and 

 not understood. The Trarames produces manifestations 

 of a more subjective character, and may speak to a person 

 in a way that is audible to him but inaudible to others." ^ 



" The Evestrum of man is born with him, and after 

 the death of the latter it remains in the earth- sphere,^ 

 and there is still some sympathetic connection between 

 the Evestrum and the eternal and immortal part of man, 

 and it will indicate the state of happiness or misery in 

 which the soul of the person to whom it belongs exists. 

 Such Evestra are not the souls of the dead walking 

 upon the earth, but they are the ethereal duplicates of 

 the persons to whom they belonged, remaining until the 

 last particle of the matter composing the physical bodies 

 of the latter has been consumed." 



"All Evestra originate in the Turha magna, the col- 



1 The Evestrum appears to be identical with the Linga shariram, or 

 Astral body of the Eastern occultists. The Trarames is the power which 

 acts on the open sense of hearing of the astral man. 



^ They have often been seen and described as the spirits of the dead 

 by mediums and clairvoyants. The "Evestra" are merely states of 

 mind, or thoughts, having become endowed with a certain amount of will, 

 80 as to render them more or less self-conscious, and, as it were, inde- 

 pendent of the person from whom they originate, as is shown in cases 

 where a man would be glad to get rid of some idea by which he is pos- 

 sessed, but cannot drive it away from his mind. Such thoughts will 

 remain impressed on the astral light of a room which that person in- 

 habited, and such an image may even become visible and objective. A 

 case is known where a man became insane and was sent to an insane 

 asylum, where he was kept for over a year. He suddenly became well 

 and went home ; but afterward he heard that his "ghost" was still haunt- 

 ing the cell which he had occupied in the asylum, and that it was there 

 raving, overthrowing the furniture, &c. He became curious to see his 

 own " ghost," and in spite of all the warnings of his friends, he went back 

 to that cell, saw his "ghost," and was again observed by it, so that he 

 died insane. 



