The pencil was verbose every time general subjects were broached. Whenever the sensitive pressed the personification on some given point, the latter was silent—he disappeared. The questions were written as well as the replies. There are some amusing conversations, where the ‘spirit’ plays a rôle other than that of simple interlocutor. By way of specimen, I note the following dialogue:— Q. Do you see me? A. Yes, but badly; we do not see matter clearly; a long apprenticeship is necessary, and we have not been working long with matter. Q. Is it long since you left your sphere? A. Eight years. Q. Who are you? A. Monsieur A. Q. And? A. And Mamie Beaupuyat. Q. You have known me? A. Yes, I was one of your college friends. Q. Where? A. At N. Q. What college? A. Z. College. Q. Will you write your name again? A. Maurice B. (here the name of a street). Q. I do not remember having known you my friend. Remark this, you have given me two different names, Beaupuyat and B. A. Many details are forgotten in Paradise (_sic_). Q. Ah! strange ambassador! You come to see me without letters of credit! A. Good-bye. Q. Good-night. * * * * * The subconscious excuse for the contradiction pointed out is not wanting in humour. Here is another example:— Q. Are my guides here? A. We are always at hand to help you, always. Q. Will you show yourselves to me? A. Ought you to ask us for anything before giving us tokens? * * * * * Q. Is it X. who is influencing me? A. Yes. Q. But he is dead? A. Yes. Q. But you forbid me to evoke the dead? A. We are the spirits of dead people. Q. But you told me you were Mahatmas? A. We are _Mahatmas_, but _Mahatmas_ are not living. Q. Is it again a trick of my subliminal? A. Yes, your subliminal is the will. Q. Yes, it is true, but the will is chiefly superliminal. A. You are right. Q. Why do you always make fun of me? A. We do so to please the Lord. Q. This is cruel. I am in earnest, and your lord, if he be just, will punish you severely for your farces. A. Yes, he will give us the whip. Q. I do not like this joking, leave me. A. Always ... (illegible). Q. What? A. Magician. Q. Am I a magician? A. Yes. Q. I did not know it. A. Always do good, and you will be happy. Q. Happiness is not so easy to obtain. A. Good-bye. Q. Who are you? A. A friend. * * * * * This is simply nonsense. I have quoted these three examples in order to show the growing analogy found therein with the delirium of dream. It is scarcely visible in the first quotation, which is coherent, logical and of fairly elegant form. But the ideas which are expressed have their sources in subconscious souvenirs: they will be found in _Spirit Teachings_, _Higher Aspects of Spiritualism_, _Occult World_, and _Esoteric Buddhism_.