The content of chapters 1 and 2 was a necessary preliminary to what follows. What could so far only partially be put up as axiomatic, will now be proved as far as at all possible.

I will first consider some events concerning other members of my family, which may possibly in some way be related to the presumed soul murder, these are all more or less mysterious, and can hardly be explained in the light of usual human experience.

(The further content of this chapter is omitted as unfit to publication)