This picture of the complete happenings during an acoustic event enables us to understand how such a process can be the vehicle for conveying certain astral impulses in such a way that, when met by them, we grow aware of them in the form of a direct sensation. Taking as a model the expression ‘transparent’ for the perviousness of a substance to light, we may say that the air, when in a state of acoustic vibration, becomes ‘trans-audient’ for astral impulses, and that the nature of these vibrations determines which particular impulses are let through.