This ectoplasm has been proved to be composed of organic substance drawn from the medium and the circle of sitters. At first it is plastic and without structure, but may materialize into a form of actual flesh and blood."

The caterpillar in its trance condition is no less amazing.

"The caterpillar in its trance condition, not only dissolves into a structureless plastic fluid, but this fluid is reconstructed along almost entirely different lines. It is constructed into a creature having almost no resemblance to its former self.

Undoubtedly the ectoplasm from a human medium is organized by an intelligent agent employing the medium's astral body through which to exercise psychokinetic power.(i.e. the power of thought energy to affect changes in substance and conditions).

It is equally certain that the soul of the insect acts through its astral form in which its own, and inherited experiences reside in a similar manner.

Physical life has ascended from a single-celled ancestor. One may observe closely the steps by which all present-day plant structures are but the result of leaf modification.

And a detailed study of the functions of present-day animals is convincing that the animals now on earth developed from a single primitive cell."