Occult chemistry : a series of clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements / by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater.

  • Besant, Annie, 1847-1933.
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[1908]
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Credit: Occult chemistry : a series of clairvoyant observations on the chemical elements / by Annie Besant and Charles W. Leadbeater. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are illusive, for there are no lines, but the appearance of lines is caused by the rapid motion of the constituents up and down, or along them backwards and forwards. The dots represent atoms, or groups of atoms, within the proto elements. 1 is found in C ; 2 and 3 in He ; 4 in FI; 5 in Li; 6 in N ; 7 in Ru ; 8 in Na ; 9 and 10 in Co ; 11 in Fe ; 12 in Se. We shall return to these when analysing the elements, and shall meet many other proto-elemental groupings. II. The first thing which is noticed by the observer, when he turns his attention to the chemical atoms, is that they show certain definite forms, and that within these forms, modified in various ways, sub-groupings are observable which recur in connexion with the same modified form. The main types are not very numerous, and we found that, when we arranged the atoms we had observed, according to their external forms, they fell into natural classes ; when these, in turn, were compared with Sir William Crookes’ classification, they proved to be singularly alike. Here is his arrangement of the elements, as it appeared in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, in a paper read on June 9th, 1898.* * Our indebtedness to Sir William Crookes for his courtesy in lending us the above picture was acknowledged last month.