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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    projections, above and below, are severally contained in shadowy funnels, impossible to reproduce in the drawing ; the central globe contains three globes, and the connecting portion has swollen out into an egg, with a very complicated central arrangement. The dumb- bell appears also in chlorine, bromine and iodine, but there is no trace of it in hydrogen, the head of the group. We have not met it elsewhere. It may be remarked that, in Sir William Crookes ’ scheme, in which they are all classed as monads, these two groups are the nearest to the neutral line, on the ingoing and outgoing series, and are respectively positive and negative. II & II.cz, The tetrahedron. The characteristics of this form are four funnels, containing ovoid bodies, opening on the face of a tetrahedron. The funnels generally, but not always, radiate from a central globe. We give beryllium (glucinum) as the simplest example (2 on Plate III.), and to this group belong calcium and strontium. The tetrahedron is the form of chromium and molyb- denum, but not that of the head of their group, oxygen, which is, like hydrogen, sui generis. These two groups are marked in orthodox chemistry as respectively positive and negative, and are closely allied. Another pair of groups show the same tetrahedral form : magnesium, zinc and cadmium, positive ; sulphur, selenium and tellurium, negative. Selenium is a peculiarly beauti- ful element, with a star floating across the mouth of each funnel ; this star is extremely sensitive to light, and its rays tremble violently and bend if a beam of light falls on it. All these are duads. The tetrahedron is not confined to the external form of the above atoms ; it seems to be one of the favorite forms of nature, and repeatedly appears in the internal arrangements. There is one tetrahedron within the unknown element occultum ; two appear in helium (3 on Plate III.) ; yttrium has also two within its cube, as has germanium ; five, intersecting, are found in neon, meta- neon, argon, metargon. krypton, meta-krypton, xenon, meta-xenon, kalon, meta-kalon, tin, titanium and zirconium. Gold contains no less than twenty tetrahedra. III .The cube. The cube appears to be the form of triads. It has six funnels, containing ovoids, and opening on the faces of the cube. Boron is chosen as an example (4 on Plate III.). Its