Hence, the “Proceedings” may be better described as the fluctuating and occasional records of a society bent upon giving the lie to its own name. For “Psychical” research is surely a misnomer, besides being a delusion and a snare for the unwary. LUCIFER would suggest as a truer title, “Society for Hylo-_Pseumatical_ Research.” This would give the S.P.R. the benefit of an open connection with Dr. Lewins’ unparalleled “Hylo-Idealism”[17]—while it would enable it to sail under its _true_ colours. Whether LUCIFER’S advice be accepted or not, the profound philosophy of the phenomenon baptized “telepathy” and telepathic impact can only be studied scientifically, in our spasmodic contemporary. This new Greek stranger is the crowning work of the Psychic Fathers of our century. It is their “first” and “only” offspring, and is a _genuine_ discovery as far as its Hellenic name goes. For, bereft of its Greek appellation, it becomes like America. The genius who _discovered_ the phenomenon, is like Columbus on whom the Northmen, and even the Chinamen, had stolen a march centuries before. This phenomenon can only seem _new_ when thus disguised under a name solemn and scientific—because incomprehensible to the average profane. Its plain description in English—as transference of thought or sensation from a distance—could never hope to have the same ring of classical learning in it. Nevertheless, the “Proceedings” with the two additional gigantic volumes of the psychic “Leviathan,” called “Phantasms of the Living,” are strongly recommended to invalids. They are priceless in cases of obstinate _insomnia_, as the best soporific known. _Directions_: The reader must be careful not to light a match in too close proximity to the said works. “THE ADVERSARY.” ----- Footnote 17: ύλη “_matter_ as opposed to mind”; therefore _Material-Idealism_—a contradiction in terms exactly parallel to the name “Psychic” and the very “anti-psychic” work of the Society referred to. _Pseuma_ should replace _Psyche_, as it seeks for _frauds_ and not _soul-action_. ----- ------------------ The following books have been received and will be noticed in early numbers of LUCIFER:— THE HISTORY OF THE ROSICRUCIANS, by Arthur E. Waite, and THE QUABALAH UNVEILED, by S.L. Mac-Gregor Mathers, from Mr. Redway; EARTH’S EARLIEST AGES, by G. H. Pember, from Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton: THE MYSTERY OF THE AGES, by the Countess of Caithness, from Mr. C. L. H. Wallace; AN ADVENTURE AMONG THE ROSICRUCIANS, by Dr. F. Hartmann, from the Occult Publishing Company, Boston; and NINETEENTH CENTURY COMMON SENSE, from the T. B. Lippincott Company, Boston, U.S.A. =CORRESPONDENCE= INTERESTING TO ASTROLOGERS. ASTROLOGICAL NOTES—No. 1. _To the Editor of_ LUCIFER.