made; but it is hoped that even this little will cause some to think before joining the chorus of our so-wise critics.

There being no space for details, we must be content with the empirical statement that the age-long “war in heaven,” the ceaseless battle between the forces of Evil and the forces of Light, has been won. That is to say, it has been won so far as the ultimate issues for humanity are concerned, just as victory in the late war was decided (so tacticians tell us) by the battles of the Marne and the Aisne.

The result of this is that the Celestial Plan of Campaign has quite recently undergone a complete change, and the position, so far as the forces of Light are concerned, is analogous to that of the British at Waterloo when the order was given, “Let the whole line advance.”

The physical body of the planet is surrounded by a region of astral matter, which forms an aura completely enveloping the Earth, thus cutting it off from direct solar or planetary influences. This region is called the astral plane in Theosophical terminology, and it is also the “borderland” of the Spiritualists. For the most part, it is inhabited by entities who are now highly inimical to humanity; and this inimicality is due to certain well-known facts. First; what is for denizens of the astral plane a normal and right condition, constitutes for humanity a state which we generally describe as “evil.” Not necessarily evil for them, but evil for man, because he has made it so.

The second reason is that every denizen of the astral world is, by its nature, a consciously four-dimensional being. Man is also a four-dimensional being, but not consciously, as he possesses only a three-dimensional brain,