III. The nature, extent, function, and power of man’s inner Astral

organs and faculties included in the terms Astral body and _Kama_. That these are not hindered from action by trance or sleep, but are increased in the medium when entranced; at the same time their action is not free, but governed by the mass chord of thought among the sitters, or by a predominating will, or by the presiding devil behind the scenes; if a sceptical scientific investigator be present, his mental attitude may totally inhibit the action of the medium’s powers by what we might call a freezing process which no English terms will adequately describe.