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resembling severed human heads, might appropriately
be considered as representing the swelled heads of glutton- ous city fathers or boodling aldermen, that have ultimately
received their meed in an oceanic shipwreck and now go
prowling about, bristling, gloating, glaring to see whom
they may devour, still intent upon a grab in their piscatorial, punitive existence, as the theosophical theory
might suggest, living out their "liarma," until the period
of passing on to a higher plane has arrived? I never see any of those bloated looking piscine physiognomies, but,
grinaly smiling, I say to myself: "Might not that be some
cruel uncle, or defrauding trustee, or the pugnacious
villain of some human melodrama?" And if everything
has an astral body or counterpart, which the frostflowers
led us to speculate upon and assert, what will the astral bodies of the slimy monsters of the deep be like? It makes the blood curdle and the nerves shudder to speculate thereon. Some of those curious creatures go about
with their own electric lamps stuck up before their eyes on a horny bracket, and some have eyes that emit their own electric light. A most wonderful world, that sub- marine realm, but what position, if any, does it occupy in the evolution of "Karma," or transit of astral life? we may ask, since astral or spiritual consciousness does not detach itself until final decomposition is arrived at, necessarily retarded by the saline aquatic element.
It has several times been asserted during the last thirty years that the fishermen at the mouth of the river Porto in Portugal are able to restore a drowned person to
life still after twenty-four hours immersion in the water,
which seems to bear out later scientific assertions that it takes from three to thirty-six hours for life to quit the
body, that is, the vital force to exude, that no one dies
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