Poor Jean Kostka! They were all abased on their knees, which happens occasionally, even at seances, to pious people in Paris, and he concludes that he was kissed by Helena-Ennoia, _alias_ Lucifer, _alias_ Luciabel, who is also described on the charge-sheet of orthodox theology by other and more objectionable titles.

The shameful memory causes him to exclaim fervently:--"May he who purged the lips of Isaiah with a burning coal deign to purify mine by the sacred kiss of penitence and pardon: _in osculo sancto_." There is a touch of sublimity in that, and the _basia_ of Baal-Zeboub may well enough be more demoralising than those of Secundus.

At the time, however, he founded the Gnostic Church.
We become acquainted with ghosts after various manners, according to our psychic condition.

There is the spontaneous and accidental ghost who is seldom caught in the act; there is the able-bodied materialised ghost whom we catch in the act occasionally, and preserve our mental balance by clinging to his watch-chain and seals; they may be distinguished as the timeless ghost and the ghost who occasionally does time.

Over and above these two generic specimens there is the ghost that throws, who is separable from the ghost that _hurls_, as our French friends put it.