[18] From Journal of Proceedings of Theosophical Society.

[19] Fragments of Forgotten History.

[20] Fragments of Forgotten History.

[21] By which it is doubtless meant that the full individuality is not present; the higher principles, the true spirit, having ascended to its appropriate house, from which there is no attraction to earth. That which materializes would be an elemental, or elementals molding their fluidic forms in the likeness of the departed human being; or, on the other hand, considering and revivifying the atomic remnants of the sidereal encasement, or astral body, still left undissipated in the soul-world.

[22] Sir Astley Paston Cooper was perhaps the most famous and influential surgeon of his time in England.