167. Yes, you do. What are the three languages of which the word is composed? A. Greek, Egyptian, Syriac first syllable (_correctly given_), rest unknown. 168. Write the syllable which is Syriac. A. (First syllable correctly written.) 169. Write the syllable which is Egyptian. A. Second. 170. Can you not write the syllable itself? A. Third Greek. 174. Write down the word itself. A. First three and last two letters were written correctly, but four incorrect letters, _partly borrowed from another word of the same degree_, came in the middle. 176. Why do you write a word of which I know nothing? A. Wife tried hard to tell the word, but could not quite catch it. 177. Catch it from whom? A. Not quite sure. 178. Not quite sure of what? A. I know nothing. Wife doesn't quite know. 182. Write out the prayer used at the advancement of a Mark Master Mason. A. Almighty Ruler of the Universe and Architect of all worlds, we beseech Thee to accept this, our brother, whom we have this day received into our most honourable Company of Mark Master Masons. Grant him to be a worthy member of our brotherhood; and may he be in his own person a perfect mirror of all Masonic virtues. Grant that all our doings may be to Thy honour and glory, and to the welfare of all mankind. This prayer was written off instantaneously and very rapidly. It is a very remarkable production indeed. For the benefit of those who are not members of the craft, I may say that no prayer in the slightest degree resembling it is made use of in the Ritual of any Masonic degree; and yet it contains more than one strictly accurate technicality connected with the degree of Mark Mason. My wife has never seen any Masonic prayers, whether in "Carlile," or any other real or spurious Ritual of the Masonic Order. 183. I do not know this prayer. Where is it to be found? A. Old American Ritual. 184. Where can I get one? A. Most likely none in England. 185. Can you not write the prayer that I make use of in my own Lodge? A. No, I don't know it. We have to remark here not merely the exhibition of a will and an intelligence differing from the writer's normal self, but the display of a yet more alien disingenuousness. Similar evasions and inventions occur more than once in the course of these experiments. Indeed, a certain degree of moral perversity is a frequent and notorious characteristic of automatic expression. Some interesting experiments of the same kind were conducted, in the winter of 1892-93, by Mr. R. H. Buttemer, of Emanuel College, Cambridge, and Mr. H. T. Green. Throughout the series the questions were, as in the preceding case, written down, so that the percipient was completely ignorant of their purport. The following is the record of the last experiments of the series. No. 25.--By MR. R. H. BUTTEMER.