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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    There are thus six clearly defined forms, typical of classes, with two—lithium and fluorine - of doubtful affinities. It is worthy of notice that in diatomic elements four funnels open on the faces of tetrahedra ; in triatomic, six funnels on the faces of cubes ; in tetratomic, eight funnels on the faces of octahedra. Thus we have a regular sequence of the platonic solids, and the question suggests itself, will further evolution develop elements shaped to the dodecahedron and the icosahedron ? III. We now pass from the consideration of the outer forms of the chemical elements to a study of their internal structure, the arrangement within the element of more or less complicated groups—proto-elements—-capable of separate, independent, existence ; these are susceptible of further dissociation into simpler groups— meta-proto-elements—equally capable of separate, independent, existence ; these, once more, may be dissociated into yet simpler groups—hyper-meta-proto-elements—also capable of separate, in- dependent existence, and resolvable into single ultimate physical atoms, the irreducible substratum of the physical world (see ante, pp. 354-356). We shall have to study the general infernal structure, and then the breaking up of each element, and the admirable diagrams, patiently worked out by Mr. Jinarajadasa, will make the study comparatively easy to carry on. The diagrams, of course, can only give a very general idea of the facts they represent; they give groupings and show relations, but much effort of the imagination is needed to transform the two-dimensional diagram into the three-dimensional object. The wise student will try to visualise the figure from the diagram Thus the two triangles of hydrogen are not in one plane ; the circles are spheres, and the atoms within them, while preserving to each other their relative positions, are in swift movement in three-dimensional space. Where five atoms are seen, as in bromine and iodine, they are generally arranged with the central atom above the four, and their motion indicates lines which erect four plane triangles—meeting at their apices—on a square base, forming a square-based four-sided pyramid. Each dot rep-