important, for a correct answer may go far to reconcile the two theories, which, be it remembered, claim both to be supported by experiment and by observation.  I cannot conceive that a one-sided position is a natural one for man, and thus leave two alternatives.  Is the proper position in sleep lying on the back or on the stomach?  Not one word has been said as to the position in which experiments were tried on either side.

Now the one thing which seems clear in all this is, that positive should be toward negative and negative toward positive.  Let us then draw a diagram and these positions will follow with these results—­taking the north as positive and south as negative, east as negative and west as positive.

Position I.—­Lying on the Back.

A. Head to East ............  Accord in all
B. Head to North ..........   Discord--Head and feet
Accord—­Hands. 
C. Head to South ...........  Accord--Head and feet. 
Discord—­Hands. 
D. Head to West ............  Discord in all.

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[[Diagram here]]

Position II.—­Lying on Stomach

A’.  Head to East ........  Accord--in Head and feet
Discord—­in Hands
B’.  Head to North .......  Discord in all
C’.  Head to South .......  Accord in all
D’.  Head to West ........  Discord--Head and feet
Accord—­Hands

Now, from this will come some light, I think on the apparently contradictory theories, if we could ascertain:  (1) Which position did the renowned Garga and Markandeya contemplate as the proper position for men to sleep in? (2) In which position did those on whom Baron von Reichenbach experimented lie?

This is a most important question for all who value the gift of health, as well as for those who would be wise.  In my sojourn in southern countries I have noticed that the natives of the lower classes at least always sleep on their stomachs, with their back turned to the sun, and all animals do the same, while sleeping on the back is most dangerous, at least in the sun.  Is not this a guide or hint as to the true position?

Transmigration of the Life-Atoms

It is said that “for three thousand years at least the ‘mummy,’ not withstanding all the chemical preparations, goes on throwing off to the last invisible atoms, which, from the hour of death, reentering the various vortices of being, go indeed through every variety of organized life-forms.  But it is not the soul, the fifth, least of all the sixth principle, but the life-atoms of the Jiva, the second principle.  At the end of the 3,000 years, sometimes more, and sometimes less, after endless transmigrations, all these atoms are once more drawn together, and are made to form the new outer clothing or the body of the same monad (the real soul) which they had already clothed two or three thousand years before.  Even in the worst case, that of the annihilation of the conscious personal principle, the monad or individual soul is ever the same, as are also the atoms of the lower principles, which, regenerated and renewed in this ever-flowing river of being, are magnetically drawn together owing to their affinity, and are once more reincarnated together.”