“First of all there would come callousness to pain, and indifference to the rights of others. Then the soul would turn savage, not from passionate human causes, or with enthusiasm, but by deadening down into a kind of cold, primitive, emotionless savagery⁠—by turning, like the landscape, soulless.”

“And a man with strong desires, you say, might change?”

“Without being aware of it, yes; he might turn savage, his instincts and desires turn animal. And if”⁠—he lowered his voice and turned for a moment towards the bows, and then continued in his most weighty manner⁠—“owing to delicate health or other predisposing causes, his Double⁠—you know what I mean, of course⁠—his etheric Body of Desire, or astral body, as some term it⁠—that part in which the emotions, passions and desires reside⁠—if this, I say, were for some constitutional reason loosely joined to his physical organism, there might well take place an occasional projection⁠—”