With the help of a dictionary which I stole from my uncle’s room, I deciphered this sort of cryptogram, in which, fortunately, the same expressions frequently recurred. Here is a translation of it--I give it for what it is worth, unfitted as I am for this task, and driven to haste as I was by the necessity of restoring the note-book as soon as possible: “Conclusions dated the 30th: Aim pursued: Exchange of personalities _without_ exchange of brains.... Basis of research: Ancient experiments have proved that everybody possesses a soul; for the soul and the life are inseparable, and all organisms, between their birth and death, enjoy a more or less developed soul according as they are higher or lower in the scale of existence. Thus, from man to moss, passing through the polypi, each living being has its own soul. Do not plants sleep, breathe and digest? Why should they not think? “This proves that there is a soul where there is no brain. “So the soul and the brain are independent of one another. “Consequently, souls can be exchanged with one another without the brains being exchanged.... “EXPERIMENTS IN TRANSMISSION. “Thought is the electricity of which our brains are the batteries or the accumulators--I do not know yet; but what is certain, is that the transmission of the mental fluid takes place in a manner analogous to that of the electric fluid. “The experiment of the 4th proves that thought is transmitted by conductors. That of the 10th, that it is transmitted without conductors, on the ether waves. “Subsequent experiments have shown a weak spot which I now set down. “A soul which is projected into an organism unknown to this latter, compresses, so to speak, a soul which is there, without being able to expel it; the projected soul--the soul which has broken loose from the body--is itself kept bound to its organism by a sort of inexplicable mental ‘attachment,’ which nothing up till now has been able to cut. “If the two beings are consenting, the reciprocal transmission fails for the same reason. The major part of each soul re-installs itself perfectly well in the organism of its partner, but the troublesome mental ‘attachment’ prevents each of them from completely quitting the body from which it is striving to detach itself. “The simpler the recipient organism is relatively to the transmitting organism, the more soul can this latter project into a receptacle, which contains so little of it in the beginning, and the thinner, so to speak, becomes the ‘attachment’ which keeps fast the mind in the transmitting body, but it always exists. “On the 20th I projected myself, mentally, inside Johann--on the 22nd I invaded a cat, on the 24th an ash tree. “Access has become easier and easier, and the invasion more and more complete, but the ‘attachment’ remains.