Content summary: The Nature of Matter; The Hydrogen Spike, Dumb-bell, Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron, Bars, and Star Groups; Compounds; Catalysis, Crystallization; Conclusion; Analysis of the Structure of the Elements; Table of Atomic Weights; Extracts from Stenographic Notes; Reports of Certain of the Investigations; Index.
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| Introduction to the Third Edition |
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The Nature of Matter |
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The Hydrogen Group |
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The Spike Group |
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The Dumb-bell Group |
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The Tetrahedron Group A |
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The Tetrahedron Group B |
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The Cube Group A |
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The Cube Group B |
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The Octahedron Group A |
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The Octahedron Group B |
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The Bars Group |
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The Star Group |
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Compounds |
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Catalysis, Crystallization |
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| Conclusion |
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| Appendices |
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THIS work contains a record of clairvoyant investigations into the structure of matter. The observations were carried out at intervals over a period of nearly forty years, the first in August 1895 and the last in October 1933. The two investigators, Annie Besant (1847-1933) and C. W. Leadbeater (1847-1934) were trained clairvoyants and well equipped to check and supplement each other's work.
Method of Investigation: The method is unique and difficult to explain. Many have heard of the word "clairvoyance" (clear-seeing), connoting the cognition of sights and sounds not perceived by ordinary people. In India the term Yoga is sometimes related to faculties that are beyond ordinary cognition. It is stated in Indian Yoga that one who has trained himself "can make himself infinitesimally small at will". This does not mean that he undergoes a diminution in bodily size, but only that, relatively, his conception of himself can be so minimized that objects which normally are small appear to him as large. The two investigators had been trained by their Eastern Gurus or Teachers to exercise this unique faculty of Yoga, so that when they observed a chemical atom it appeared to their vision as highly magnified.
When using this method the investigator is awake and not in any form of trance. He employs his usual faculties for recording what he observes; he maps out on a piece of paper a sketch of what he sees and may describe his impressions so that a stenographer can take down his remarks. Just as a microscopist, looking into the microscope and without removing his eyes from the slide, can describe what he observes so that it can be recorded, so the clairvoyant investigator watching an atom or molecule can describe what he sees in front of him. What he sees is not subjective. in the sense that it is a creation of the imagination; it is as objective as is the paper on which I am writing this and the pen which I use.
The object examined, whether an atom or a compound, is seen exactly as it exists normally, that is to say, it is not under any stress caused by an electric or magnetic field. As each object is in rapid motion, the only force brought to bear on it is a special form of will-power, so as to make its movement slow enough to observe the details.
The earliest investigations were made, in England in 1895. The first atoms observed were four gases in the air. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and a fourth gas (atomic weight = 3) so far not discovered by chemists. The atoms do not carry their own labels and the first problem was that of identification. Most active of the four gases was one which the investigators considered wax probably Oxygen. A somewhat lethargic gas was thought to be Nitrogen. The lightest of all four was taken to be Hydrogen. But it was only after the fullest examination of the constituent parts of each gas (for each so-called "atom," the "un-cut-able;" was found to be composed of smaller units) that finality was achieved regarding the identity of the gases. Hydrogen was found to be composed of 18 units; Nitrogen of 261; Oxygen of 290; and the fourth gas of 54. The weight of Hydrogen, composed of 18 units, was taken as atomic weight 1 (one), and the number of units in Oxygen and Nitrogen was divided by 18. The results agreed closely with the atomic weights given in textbooks and hence the gases were accepted as Hydrogen, Nitrogen and Oxygen. The atoms of these elements were never observed to move in pairs except in Deuterium. The fourth gas with atomic weight 3 was thought to be Helium, of which much had been said in the newspapers of 1894, following its discovery by Ramsay. It was only when the atomic weight of Helium was finally announced as 4, that the gas observed with weight 3 was realized as obviously a different gas. Later it was given the name of Occultum.
Diagrams and detailed descriptions of the internal structure of the atoms of Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen and of the ultimate atoms, or Anu, of which all the elements are composed, were first published in Lucifer, London, November 1895.
Work was resumed in 1907 when 59 more elements were observed.
When the element to be examined exists in a pure, easily obtainable state, as for example the elements Sulphur, Iron and Mercury, there was no difficulty as to the identification, even before mapping its structure. But a difficulty arose in the case of Lithium and other elements. A request for specimens of these elements was made to Sir William Crookes, a friend of both the investigators, and a member for some years of the Theosophical Society. He replied on July 18, 1907 to the mutual friend in London who contacted him. "Leadbeater's requirements constitute a large order. Of the list of requirements he sends I can give metallic Lithium, Chromium, Selenium, Titanium, Vanadium and Boron. Beryllium I can give him as an oxide. But Scandium, Gallium, Rubidium and Germanium are almost impossible to get, except perhaps in a very impure state."
It was then found by the investigators that it was not essential for the purpose of investigation to have an element unmixed or combined with any other element. In many compounds, the constituent atoms do not exist in juxtaposition, each retaining its atomic individuality, as is the theory in chemistry. Each atom breaks up into smaller parts and unites its parts with similar broken-up parts of the other atom or atoms, as the fingers of the right and left hands can interlock. In salt, Sodium and Chlorine are interblended in such a manner as to give to the compound the outline of a cube. By the exercise of will-power, the force holding the parts together as a molecule can be nullified; in such a case, the separated parts of each atom instantly group themselves as the atom was before combination. When, therefore, a salt molecule was "broken up," the parts composing Sodium came together, as the atom of Sodium, similarly the parts of Chlorine united to form a Chlorine atom.
As the investigations developed, many atoms were thus examined. The two investigators were spending a summer holiday at Weisser-Hirsch, near Dresden in Germany. My task was to record and draw diagrams of the elements as they were mapped out. There was in the city of Dresden an excellent museum, one section being devoted to minerals. I made a list of the wanted elements as they existed as compounds; this could be obtained by consulting an encyclopaedia. I went with the list to the Dresden Museum, and noted down in which of the show-cases the elements needed existed as compounds. Soon after my return, C. W. Leadbeater and I went to Dresden and I showed him the minerals I had noted. He examined them quickly and obtained a picture of the complex configuration of the mineral in which existed the element he needed. After returning to Weisser-Hirsch he was able at leisure to evoke by clairvoyance the picture he had seen at Dresden. Exercising, then, his will-power on a mineral molecule, he dissolved the complex structure. On so doing, the separated parts of each atom united and formed an individual unit. Thus the pure element which he desired was before him for examination and for drawing. As each element was mapped and drawn the rough diagram of it was passed on to me, to draw carefully the essential parts of the element (for final half-tone line block), to count the units in it, divide the number by 18 (the number of units in Hydrogen), and to see how near our weights came to the weights given in the latest book on Chemistry.
During the investigations at Weisser-Hirsch in 1907, 59 elements (not courting several isotopes observed) were drawn by me. These were printed month by month in the magazine The Theosophist, published at Adyar, a suburb of Madras, beginning with the issue of January 1908.
In 1907 three unrecorded elements were described, to which the provisional names Occultum, Kalon and Platinum B were given, also a new group of three inter-periodics labelled X, Y and Z. Observations of Radium, with a diagram, were made at Adyar in 1908. The diagram was sent to me when I was in the United States, and there I drew the diagram which appeared in The Theosophist for December 1908.
The diagrams of all these elements were drawn by me and appeared in the first edition of Occult Chemistry published in 1909, which also included the article on The Ether of Space.
In 1909, the work was resumed by Mr. Leadbeater at the Headquarters of the Theosophical Society at Adyar, Madras. Twenty more elements were mapped out. The rough drafts of drawings were made but they were not published, though a general description was given in The Theosophist of July 1909. Three more unrecorded elements and an isotope of Mercury are described there.
In 1919 in Sydney, Australia, the first compounds, salt and water, were investigated and very rough models made.
A second edition of Occult Chemistry was issued in 1919, but it contained no additional matter and gave no record of any work after 1907. Mr. A. P. Sinnett, who edited this second edition, merely wrote an introduction.
In 1922 the work was again resumed in Sydney and descriptions of compounds were then given for the first time. Water and salt had been examined in 1919, but no diagrams drawn. Then in 1922 they were examined again and diagrams drawn, and several other compounds were examined, all of which were published in The Theosophist, March, April, August 1924; March, April, August, September, October 1925; July 1926. Some Carbon compounds of the chain and ring series were among those examined. A complicated structure investigated was the diamond, composed of 594 Carbon atoms. A model was made in Sydney and sent to me in India. A description of the structure and a photograph of the model appeared in The Theosophist, September 1925. Hafnium was described in 1928 and Rhenium in 1931.
After C. W. Leadbeater came to Adyar in 1930 such remaining elements of the Periodic Table, which had not been previously investigated, were mapped out by him.
In 1932 and 1933 more material was published in The Theosophist. This included a description of elements 85, 87 and 91 and a list of atomic weights. An element of atomic weight 2 was reported in 1932, and given the name Adyarium, as the discovery was made at Adyar, Madras. '
In this Third Edition the results of the later researches have been incorporated. All the material has been carefully revised and checked with the original drawings at Adyar. New diagrams have been made where necessary and the whole has been rearranged so as to display the facts more clearly.
In any scientific work progress continues and a tent book needs amendments to bring it up to date in accordance with later discoveries. This third edition contains such necessary additions and corrections and represents as accurately as possible the material at present available.
Diagrams and descriptions, hitherto unpublished, of thirty compounds, are here included, as well as all the material published in The Theosophist.
This third edition is in three parts, Part I being the general introduction, Part II a detailed study of all the elements, and Part III containing all the information available concerning the combination of the elements into compounds.
From the material the following facts emerge:
The unit of matter. It was noted in 1895 that Hydrogen, the lightest atom, was not a unity, but was composed of 18 smaller units. Each such unit was then called an "ultimate physical atom". Some thirty years later it seemed simpler to use the Sanskrit term for this ultimate particle of matter; the word is "Anu," pronounced as in Italian, or in English as "ahnoo." The word Anu does not add "s" to make the plural but remains unchanged. The investigators knew no way of measuring the size of an Anu. The only difference found was that the Anu existed in two varieties, positive and negative, and that in their formation the spirals wound themselves in opposite directions. Thus, each negative Anu was a looking-glass image of the positive Anu. There was no investigation made as to the nature of positive and negative.
There are at least 100 chemical elements, not counting isotopes. Clairvoyant research in 1907 described a neutral gas, Kalon, heavier than Xenon and lighter than Radon. Two elements, called here Adyarium and Occultum, have their place in the Periodic Table between Hydrogen and Helium. The diagram of Occultum had been drawn in 1896; it was drawn again in 1909. There is among the rare earths a group of three minerals forming a new inter-periodic group. These were found in 1909 in pitchblende, which I sent from USA to Mr. Leadbeater, and their weights published. In 1907 a fourth member of the Platinum group was found and called Platinum B. Elements "87" and "91" were described.
Isotopes were seen and described as early as 1907. Some elements have a variety which is not a true isotope, since it differs in internal arrangement only, and not in weight. It was in 1913 that Soddy coined the term "isotope"; he had suggested in 1910 that atoms of the same chemical element might possess different mass. In 1907, during the clairvoyant investigations at Weisser-Hirsch, some isotopes were found; the investigators used the term "meta" to denote the second variety of the element. The first noted was the inert gas Neon, with atomic weight 20 (H=1); the second variety of Neon, labelled Meta-Neon, had the weight 22.33 (H=1). Then it was found that Argon, Krypton, and Xenon each had an isotope. At the same time a still heavier inert gas was found, for which the label Kalon was coined, and an Isotope, Meta-Kalon. Each meta variety or isotope of the inert gases has 42 Anu more than the element which bears the name. A variety of Argon lighter than that recorded in chemistry was found and named Proto-Argon.
There was found in the third interperiodic group a second variety or isotope of Platinum. We labelled the normal variety Platinum A, and the isotope Platinum B. The diagrams of both varieties were drawn by me in Weisser-Hirsch and published in The Theosophist. In the issue of July 1909, an isotope of Mercury is mentioned, especially notable for the fact that it is solid.
External Shapes. The elements have definite shapes. With a few exceptions all the elements fall into 7 groups or forms: the groups were named Spikes, Dumb-bell, Tetrahedron, Cube, Octahedron. Crossed-bars, Star.
Valency can be subdivided, that is to say an atom with valency 1 can divide itself into two halves each exercising ½ valency. Hydrogen divides itself into 2 or 6 parts each with ½ or 1/6 valency, when it enters into combinations. Similarly, elements having valencies 2, 3 or 4 can subdivide. The valency has some connection with the shape. Divalent elements are predominently tetrahedra, trivalent elements cubes, and quadrivalent octahedra.
When one element combines with another the atoms almost always break up. The combination is not of one atom with another as a whole, but the component parts are re-arranged to form a complex structure.
Periodic Law. Of all the diagrams stating the Periodic Law, we have found that of Sir William Crookes the simplest and the most descriptive of the facts observed. His reasons for a diagram depicting a pendulum swing were given by him in a lecture at the Royal Institution, London, on February 18, 1887 and published by him later. We use a slightly amended form of this pendulum diagram.
The ultimate physical atom. All the elements are found to be built up from units called in the early editions the ultimate physical atom, and to which the name Anu has since been given.
Weights. The weights given in the tables are all in terms of Hydrogen. We take Hydrogen = 18 Anu as our standard and equal to 1. The relation between our weights and that of the International Tables can be found by adjusting our weights to the standard of H=1.0078,
Of course it was seen at once that the investigations made into the structure of the chemical elements and into a few molecular compounds were nothing more than the scratching of the surface of an enormous sphere. The number of problems that arose and the questions that might be asked are innumerable, but the two investigators led very busy lives, as lecturers and authors, and the researches into Occult Chemistry were only incidental in their very heavy, labours in the field of Theosophy. While both were willing, when time permitted, to do further investigations, it was impossible to get the time and isolation necessary for concentration for clairvoyant magnification. The two investigators and the recorder were frequently in different countries of the world, busy at their work of Theosophical propaganda, and it was rarely that all three met together for any considerable period.
Throughout the investigations, from the beginning to the end, my role was that of recorder.
It has often been asked whether the Anu is the electron. The answer is definitely, No. What it is remains to be determined.
A further question raised has been regarding the relation which these investigations have to the discoveries of physicists. At the moment, no relation can be found. I am reminded here of what happens when a new tunnel is to be pierced through a mountain. Two sets of engineers, with carefully triangulated plans, begin, one at either side of the mountain range, to cut through the mountain. Slowly they come nearer and nearer, till the partition separating them is so thin that the hammering from one side can be heard by the other. In the case of one tunnel that was built, the displacement between the two tunnels at the meeting point was only about one foot. Similarly, the occult investigators and the physicists are working from two sides of a great range. I feel sure that some day in the future they will meet. It must be remembered that the results of the physicists' researches have been from reading of spectroscopic records. The work that has been done is so wonderful in technique that out of the lines of the spectrum new elements can be located and their atomic weight deduced. Work such as Aston's mass spectroscopy, requires magnetic forces to be brought to bear upon the atom. As already mentioned no force except that of will-power is used by the occult investigator.
The recording of the two methods is not dissimilar to two photographs which night have been taken of Piccadilly Circus in London during the war. From five chief avenues of traffic vehicles are passing in various directions. If a photograph were to be taken there would not only be the picture of crowds of vehicles but also of pedestrians. This would be the state of Piccadilly Circus in normal times. But when an air raid alert is sounded, immediately everybody takes shelter and the only objects that might be found to be photographed would be fire engines, ambulances, the police and fire fighters. The second photograph would not be Piccadilly Circus in a normal condition. Similarly, the photographs of electrically excited atoms are not photographs of atoms under normal conditions. Nevertheless, the constituents of the atoms behave in such a regular fashion that the lines of the spectrum can be disentangled as characteristic of one atom, rather than that of another.
During the course of the many long years that I have been connected with Occult Chemistry as recorder, as I studied each new atom as it was mapped out, I have been profoundly impressed by two ideas: one, ingenuity, and the second, beauty. I have been strongly reminded of the maxim of the Platonic School: "God geometrizes ". If, as they propounded, the universe is the result of the action of a Demiurge, "the Fashioner," then it is obvious that the Demiurge is not only a Great Architect of the Universe, but also a Grand Geometrician. For in some manner or other, whether obvious or hidden, there seems to be a geometric basis to every object in the universe.
It is apparent from the diagrams in this work that the main thesis of Crookes of a "Genesis of the Elements" is borne out, since in a particular family the heavier element is built after what might be termed a pre-fixed model. It is in this slow building up that there appears what we can only term the working of a Divine Mind that introduces some incalculable factor for a heavier element. After I had drawn the diagrams of Iron. Cobalt and Nickel; Ruthenium. Rhodium and Palladium; Osmium. Iridium and Platinum; I could not help feeling that in the gap between the second and third groups in the Periodic Table there must exist another inter-periodic Group among what are known as the "rare earths". Working from the diagrams before me. I reconstructed theoretical diagrams for the missing group. This was in 1908. Later when I sent some minerals to Mr. Leadbeater from Montana, U. S. A., he found the missing inter-periodic Group. In my theorizing I gave for the new groups the weight of each "bar" as 185, 187 and 189. When the missing group was found, the weights were found to be 189, 191 and 193. In my diagram I had not calculated for something unexpected, which the Demiurge would do in constructing the new elements. All throughout it is this sudden emergence of a new idea from the mind of the Demiurge that is of the utmost fascination.
I have long desired complete leisure to construct a large circular room, on the walls of which would be placed enormously amplified diagrams of each element. Then, sitting in the middle on a revolving seat, I should like to meditate upon the diagrams before me, for I would then come into touch with the operations of the Divine Mind, which the Greeks postulated as not only Truth, but also Goodness and Beauty.
As a result of fifty-five years of pondering over the diagrams in Occult Chemistry, my mind has sought correlations with other natural objects. I have minerals showing the five Platonic solids in their structure. Why should a mineral, composed of diverse atoms, crystallizing under heat and pressure perhaps two thousand millions of years ago, crystallize into tetrahedra, cubes, octahedra, dodecahedra or icosahedra? Was it because in some unexplainable way the "form" or root-base of the mineral-to-be was influenced by the Platonic solids structure inherent in all the elements, with the exception of very few? When we see a dandelion in flower, the blossom is flat, when the flower has been fertilized and produces its seeds, why are the seeds arranged as a sphere? Many a time when noting such spherical seed-balls, my mind has pictured the sphere at the centre of Radium. There is a weed growing on Adyar Beach, which helps to hold the sand from drifting; it creeps to long lengths, and presently produces a seed-cluster like a stiff brush. We can separate the seeds and count their number, over one hundred. But why that particular number? Throughout the vegetable kingdom, geometrical forms appear in one form or another. But why? Of course, it is not for the strictly "scientific" mind to ask these questions. Yet did not Jeans say, "from the intrinsic evidence of His creation, the Great Architect of the Universe now begins to appear as a pure mathematician". And again, "the motions of electrons and atoms do not resemble those of the parts of a locomotive so much as those of the dancers in a cotillion".
When all is said and done. "Occult Chemistry," with its geometrical basic structures, is the source of all substances, and of all organisms built of those substances. A day will come when a great synthesizer endowed with high mathematical and imaginative gifts will link physics and chemistry to the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and so to the human. Shall we then have a far-away glimpse of the Demiurge, the Fashioner, who builds in Beauty for everlasting?
C. JINARAJADASA
November 17, 1950.
NOTE
Nearly all the diagrams have been redrawn during the last three years, under the supervision of Miss Elizabeth W. Preston, who has been in touch with the work of Occult Chemistry for the last twenty years. I have put her in complete charge of the shaping of this Third Edition, and I desire to express to her my deepest obligation, since I am unable, with my heavy tasks as President of the Theosophical Society, to give adequate attention to supervision of the work myself.
C. J.
AN article, bearing the title Occult Chemistry, appeared in Lucifer, November 1895, and was reprinted as a separate pamphlet in 1905. In that article three chemical elements, Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, were clairvoyantly examined, and their analyses were presented tentatively to the public. The work was done by Mr. Leadbeater and myself. The pressing nature of our other labours prevented further investigation at the time, but we have, however, lately (1907) had the opportunity of pursuing these researches further, and as a considerable amount of work has been done, it seems worth while, still tentatively, to report the observations made. Certain principles seem to emerge from the mass of details, and it is possible that readers, who are better versed in chemistry than ourselves, may see suggestions to which we are blind. An observer's duty is to state clearly his observations; it is for others to judge of their value, and to decide whether they indicate lines of research that may be profitably followed up by scientists.
The drawings of the elements (in the first edition) were done by two Theosophical artists, Herr Hecker and Mrs. M. L. Kirby, whom we sincerely thank, the diagrams, showing the details of the construction of each element, we owe to the most painstaking labour of Mr. Jinarājadāsa, without whose aid it would have been impossible for us to have presented clearly and definitely the complicated arrangements by which the chemical elements are built up. We have also to thank him for a number of most useful notes, implying much careful research, which are incorporated in the present series. and without which we could not have written these papers. Lastly, we have to thank Sir William Crookes for kindly lending his diagram of the grouping of the elements, showing them as arranged on successive "figures of eight," a grouping which, as will be seen, receives much support from clairvoyant observations.
As we study these complex arrangements, we realize the truth of the old Platonic idea that the LOGOS geometrizes; and we recall H. P. Blavatsky's statement that nature ever builds by form and number.
The physical world is regarded (1895) as being composed of between sixty and seventy chemical elements, aggregated into an infinite variety of combinations. These combinations fall under the three main heads of solids, liquids and gases, the recognized substates of physical matter, with the theoretical ether (Aether of space) scarcely admitted as material. It would not be allowed (by scientists) that gold could be raised to the etheric condition as it might be to the liquid and gaseous. The clairvoyant finds that the gaseous is succeeded by the etheric state, as the solid is succeeded by the liquid. The etheric state is found to cover four substates, as distinct from each other as are solids, liquids and gases. All chemical elements have their four etheric substates, which, with the solid, liquid, and gaseous, give us seven substates of matter in the physical world.
The method by which these four etheric substates were studied consisted in taking what is called by chemists an atom of an element and breaking it up, time after time, until what proved to be the ultimate physical unit was reached.
The first chemical atom selected for examination was an atom of Hydrogen (H). On looking carefully at it, it was seen to consist of six small bodies, contained in an egg-like form, Fig. 1. It rotated with great rapidity on it own axis, vibrating at the same time; the internal bodies performing similar gyrations. The whole atom spins and quivers and has to be steadied before exact observation is possible. The six little bodies are arranged in two sets of three, forming two triangles that are not interchangeable. The lines in the diagram of the atom on the gaseous sub-plane, Fig. 1, are not lines of force, but show the two triangles; on a plane surface the interpenetration of the triangles cannot be clearly indicated. The six bodies are not all alike; they each contain three smaller bodies -- each of these being an ultimate physical atom or Anu. In two of them the three Anu are arranged in a line, while in the remaining four they are arranged in a triangle.
The first thing that happens on removing a gaseous atom from its hole 'or encircling wall,' is that the contained bodies are set free, and, evidently released from tremendous pressure, assume spherical or ovoid forms, the Anu within each re-arranging themselves, more or less, within the new 'hole' or 'wall'. The figures are, of course, three-dimensional, and often remind one of crystals; tetrahedra, octahedra, and other like forms being of constant occurrence.
It is, of course, impossible to convey in words the clear conceptions that are gained by direct vision of the objects of study, and Fig. 2 is offered as a substitute, however poor, for the lacking vision of the readers. The horizontal lines separate from each other the seven substates of matter; solid, liquid, gas, ether 4, ether 3, ether 2, ether 1. The successive changes undergone by the Hydrogen atom are shown in the compartments vertically above it. It must be remembered that the bodies shown diagrammatically in no way indicate relative size; as a body is raised from one substate to the one immediately above it, it is enormously magnified for the purpose of investigation.
When the gaseous atom of Hydrogen is raised to the E4 level the wall of the limiting spheroid in which the bodies are enclosed, being composed of the matter of the gaseous kind, drops away and the six bodies are set free. They at once re-arrange themselves in two triangles, each enclosed by a limiting sphere; one sphere having a positive character, the ocher being negative. These form the Hydrogen particles of the lowest etheric plane, marked E4 (ether 4) in Fig. 2.
On raising to E3, they undergo another disintegration, losing their
limiting walls. The positive sphere becomes two bodies, one consisting of
the two groups distinguishable by the linear arrangement of the contained
Anu, enclosed in a wall, and the other being the third body enclosed on the
E4 level and now set free. The negative sphere also becomes two bodies, one
consisting of the two groups of three Anu, and the second, the remaining
body, being set free. These free bodies do not remain on the E3 level but
pass immediately to E2 leaving the positive and negative groups, each
containing two groups of three Anu, as the representatives of Hydrogen on E3.
On taking these bodies a step higher to E2 in their turn, their wall
disappears, and the internal triads are set free, those containing the Anu
arranged lineally being positive, and those with the triangular arrangement
being negative.
On again raising these bodies a step further, the falling away of the
walls sets the contained Anu free and we reach the ultimate physical atom,
the matter of E1, the Anu. The disintegration of this sets free particles of
astral matter, so that we have thus reached the limit of physical matter.
The building up of a gaseous atom of Hydrogen may also be traced downwards
from the E1 level. Every combination begins by a welling up of force at a
centre, which is to form the centre of the combination. In the first positive
Hydrogen combination on the E2 level an Anu revolving at right angles to the
plane of the paper and also revolving on its own axis, forms the Centre, and
force, rushing out at its lower point, rushes in at the depressions of two
other Anu, which then set themselves with their points to the Centre. As this
triad whirls round, it clears itself a space, pressing back the
undifferentiated matter of the plane, and making to itself a whirling wall of
this matter, thus taking the first step towards building up the chemical
Hydrogen atom. A negative triad is similarly formed, the three Anu being
symmetrically arranged round the Centre of out-welling force.
These triads then combine, two of the linear arrangement being attracted to each over and two of the triangular, force again welling up and forming a Centre and acting on the triads as on a single Anu, and a limiting wall being again formed as the combination revolves round its Centre.
The next stage, the E4 level, is produced by each of these combinations advancing to itself a third triad of the triangular type by the setting up of a new Centre of up-welling force. Two of these uniting, and their triangles interpenetrating, the chemical atom is formed and we find it to contain all eighteen Anu.
Further derails and diagrams concerning Hydrogen, based on later researches are given in Chapter 2.
As we have seen, a chemical atom may be dissociated into less complicated bodies; these, again, into still less complicated; these, again, into yet still less complicated. After the third dissociation but one more is possible; the fourth dissociation gives the ultimate physical atom on the atomic sub-plane, the Anu. This may vanish from the plane, but it can undergo no further dissociation on it. In this ultimate state of physical matter two types of units, or Anu, have been observed; they are alike in everything save the direction of their whorls and of the force which pours through them. In the one case force pours in from the "outside," from fourth-dimensional space, the Astral plane, and passing through the Anu, pours into the physical world. In the second, it pours in from the physical world, and out through the Anu into the "outside" again, i.e., vanishes from the physical world. The one is like a spring, from which water bubbles out; the other is like a hole, into which water disappears. We call the Anu from which force comes out positive or male; those through which it disappears, negative or female. All Anu, so far observed are from one or other of these two forms. Fig. 3.
It will be seen that the Anu is a sphere, slightly flattened, and there is a depression at the point where the force flows in, causing a heart-like form. Each is surrounded by a field.
The Anu can scarcely be said to be a "thing," though it is the material out of which all things physical are composed. It is formed by the flow of the life-force and vanishes with its ebb. The life-force is known to Theosophists as Fohat, the force of which all the physical plane forces are differentiations. When this force arises in "space," that is when Fohat "digs holes in space," -- the apparent void which must be filled with substance of some kind, of inconceivable tenuity -- Anu appear; if this be artificially stopped for a single Anu, the Anu disappears: there is nothing left. Presumably, were that flow checked but for an instant, the whole physical world would vanish as a cloud melts away in the empyrean. It is only the persistence of that flow (the first life-wave, the work of the third Logos) which maintains the physical basis of the universe.
In order to examine the construction of the Anu, a space is artificially made. (By a certain action of the will known to students, it is possible to make such a space by pressing back and walling off the matter of space.) Then, if an opening be made in the wall thus constructed, the surrounding force flows in, and three whorls immediately appear surrounding the "hole" with their triple spiral of two and a half coils, and returning to their origin by a spiral within the Anu; these are at once followed by seven finer whorls, which, following the spiral of the first three on the outer surface, and returning to their origin by a spiral within that, flowing in the opposite direction -- form a caduceus with the first three. Each of the three coarser whorls flattened out, makes a closed circle; each of the seven finer ones, similarly flattened out, makes a closed circle. The forces which flow in them again come from "outside," from a fourth-dimensional space. Each of the finer whorls is formed of seven yet finer ones, set successively at right angles to each other, each finer than its predecessor; these we call spirillae. (Each spirilla is animated by the life-force of a plane, and four are at present normally active, one for each Round. Their activity in an individual may be prematurely forced by yoga practice.)
In the three whorls flow currents of different electricities; the seven whorls vibrate in response to etheric waves of all kinds -- to sound, light, heat, etc.; they show the seven colours of the spectrum; give out the seven sounds of the natural scale; respond in a variety of ways to physical vibration -- flashing, singing, pulsing bodies, they move incessantly, inconceivably beautiful and brilliant.
The Anu is a sun in miniature in its own universe of the inconceivably minute. Each of the seven whorls is connected with one of the Planetary Logoi so that each Planetary Logos has a direct influence playing on the very matter of which all things are constructed. It may be supposed that the three conveying electricity, a differentiation of Fohat, are related to the Solar Logos.
Force pours into the heart-shaped depression at the top of the Anu, and issues from the point, and is changed in character by its passage; further, force rushes through every spiral and every spirilla, and the changing shades of colour that flash out from the rapidly revolving and vibrating Anu depend on the several activities of the spirals; sometimes one, sometimes another, is thrown into more energetic action, and with the change of activity from one spiral to another the colour changes.
The Anu has -- as observed so far -- three proper motions, i.e., motions of its own, independent of any imposed upon it from outside. It turns incessantly upon its own axis. spinning like a top; it describes a small circle with its axis, as though the axis of the spinning top moved in a small circle; it has a regular pulsation, a contraction and expansion, like the pulsation of the heart. When a force is brought to bear upon it, it dances up and down, flings itself wildly from side to side, performs the most astonishing and rapid gyrations, but the three fundamental motions incessantly persist. If it be made to vibrate, as a whole, at the rate which gives any one of the seven colours, the whorl belonging to that colour glows out brilliantly.
An electric current brought to bear upon the Anu checks their proper motions, i.e., renders them slower; the Anu exposed to it arrange themselves in parallel lines, and in each line the heart-shaped depression receives the flow, which passes out through the apex into the depression of the next, and so on. The Anu always set themselves to the current. Fig. 4. In all the diagrams the heart-shaped body, exaggerated to show the depression caused by the inflow and the point caused by the outflow, is a single Anu.
The action of electricity opens up ground of large extent, and cannot be dealt with here. Does it act on the Anu themselves, or on molecules, or sometimes on one and sometimes on the other? In soft iron, for instance, are the internal arrangements of the chemical atom forcibly distorted, and do they elastically return to their original relations when released? In steel is the distortion permanent?
It will be understood from the foregoing, that the Anu cannot be said to have a wall of its own, unless these whorls of force can be so designated; its "wall" is the pressed back "space." As said in 1895, of the chemical atom, the force "clears itself a space, pressing back the undifferentiated matter of the plane, and making to itself a whirling wall of this matter." The wall belongs to space, not to the atom.
NOTE BY C. JINARĀJADĀRA
The sphere-wall of the Anu. Each Anu, as each group of Anu, whether few in number or making a large configuration as in Radium, has round it what has been termed a "sphere-wall". This enclosing sphere is at a great distance from the central group and is generally a sphere; there are a few exceptions as in Nitrogen, an ovoid. When writing out for publication the structure of the Anu, Annie Besant stated that the sphere-wall of the Anu was composed of the "undifferentiated matter of the plane". From the beginning this has created difficulties for me, since the term used by her to describe the sphere-wall could only be composed of Anu. It was only later that a special investigation was made to examine the nature of the sphere-wall of the Anu. Though there were no final conclusions on the matter, it appeared to the investigator as if the sphere-wall was composed of forces radiating from the centre, which after travelling a certain distance, returned to the Centre. The nature of this radiating force was not analyzed. Therefore, though the sphere-wall appears as a part of the Anu, it is only a temporary phenomenon. It was later discovered that the sphere-walls of Anu within the solar system were all compressed by the attraction of the sun. When so compressed the sphere-wall did not, as expected, have the shape of the dodecahedron, but that of the rhombic dodecahedron.
The following account was written by C. W. Leadbeater in 1907. It is reproduced here as giving further essential details concerning the relation between the planes of nature and the structure of the Anu:
The scientific hypothesis is that all space is filled with a substance called aether, as to the constitution of which many apparently contradictory statements are made. It is thought to be infinitely thinner than the thinnest gas, absolutely frictionless and without weight, and yet from another point of view far denser than the densest solid. In this substance the ultimate atoms of matter are thought to float as motes may be seen to float in the air, and light, heat and electricity are supposed to be its vibrations.
Theosophical investigators, using methods not yet at the disposal of physical science, have found that this hypothesis includes under one head two entirely different and widely separated sets of phenomena. They have been able to deal with states of matter higher than the gaseous, and have observed that it is by means of vibrations of this finer matter that light, heat and electricity manifest themselves to us. Seeing that matter in these higher states thus performs the functions attributed to the aether of science, they have (perhaps unadvisedly) called these states etheric, and have thus left themselves without a convenient name for that substance which fulfills the other part of the scientific requirements.
Let us for the moment name this substance koilon1, since it fills what we are in the habit of calling empty space. What Mūlaprakriti or "mother-matter" is to the inconceivable totality of universes, koilon is to our particular universe - not to our solar system merely, but to the vast unit which includes all visible suns. Between koilon and Mūlaprakriti there must be very many stages, but we have at present no means of estimating their number or of knowing anything whatever about them.
(fn 1 - Greek word meaning "hollow" - C. J.)
To any power of sight which we can bring to bear upon it this koilon appears homogeneous, though it is not probable that it is so in reality. It answers to scientific demands in so far that it is out of all proportion denser than any substance known to us -- quite infinitely denser -- belonging to another order and type of density altogether. For the very kernel and nexus of the whole conception is that what we call matter is not koilon, but the absence of koilon. So that to comprehend the real conditions we must modify our ideas of matter and space - modify them almost to the extent of reversing our terminology. Emptiness has become solidity and solidity emptiness.
To help us to understand more clearly let us examine the ultimate atom of the physical plane. (See Figs. 3 and 6.) It is composed of ten rings or wires, which lie side by side, but never touch one another. If one of these wires be taken away from the atom, and as it were untwisted from its peculiar spiral shape and laid out on a flat surface, it will be seen that it is a complete circle -- a tightly twisted endless coil. This coil is itself a spiral containing 1,680 turns; it can be unwound, and it will then make a much larger circle. There are in each wire seven sets of such coils or spirillae, each finer than the preceding coil to which its axis lies at right angles. The process of unwinding them in succession may be continued until we have nothing but an enormous circle of the tiniest imaginable dots lying like pearls upon an invisible string. These dots are so inconceivably small that many millions of them are needed to make one ultimate physical atom. They appear to be the basis of all matter of which we at present know anything; astral, mental and buddhic atoms also are built of them, so we may regard them as the fundamental units of which all material atoms on any plane yet attainable are composed.
These units are all alike, spherical and absolutely simple in construction. Though they are the basis of all matter, they are not themselves matter; they are not blocks but bubbles. They do not resemble bubbles floating in the air, which consist of a thin film of water separating the air within them from the air outside, so that the film has both an outer and an inner surface. Their analogy is rather with the bubbles that we see rising in water, bubbles which may be said to have only one surface -- that of the water which is pushed back by the confined air. Just as the bubbles are not water, but are precisely the spots from which water is absent, so these units are not koilon but the absence of koilon -- the only spots where it is not -- specks of nothingness floating in it, so to speak, for the interior of these space-bubbles is an absolute void to the highest power of vision that we can turn upon them.
What then is their real content -- the tremendous force that can blow bubbles in a material of infinite density? What but the creative power of the Logos, the Breath which He breathes into the waters of space when He wills that manifestation shall commence? These infinitesimal bubbles are the "holes" which "Fohat digs in space"; the Logos Himself fills them, and holds them in existence against the pressure of the koilon because He Himself is in them. These units of force are the bricks which He uses in the building of His universe, and everything that we call matter, on however high or low a place it may be, is composed of these and so is divine in its very essence.
The Outbreathing which makes these bubbles is quite distinct from and long antecedent to the Three Outpourings which have been so frequently discussed in Theosophical literature; it is not even certain whether it is the work of the Solar Logos or of One a stage higher still. The later Outpourings whirl the bubbles into the various arrangements which we call the atoms of the several planes, and then aggregate those atoms into the molecules of the chemical elements.
Thus the worlds are gradually built up, but always out of this selfsame material which to us seems nothingness, and yet is divine power. It is indeed a veritable creation, a building of something out of nothing -- of what we call matter out of a privation of matter.
The exact number of these bubbles included in an ultimate physical atom is not readily ascertainable, but several different lines of calculation agree in indicating it as closely approximating to the almost incredible total of fourteen thousand millions. Where figures are so huge direct counting is obviously impossible, but fortunately the different parts of the atom are sufficiently alike to enable us to make an estimate whose margin of error is not likely to be very great. The atom consists of ten wires, which divide themselves naturally into two groups -- the three which are thicker and more prominent, and the seven thinner ones which correspond to the colours and planets. These latter appear to be identical in constitution, though the forces flowing through them must differ, since each responds most readily to its own special set of vibrations. By actual counting it has been discovered that the numbers of coils or spirillae of the first order in each wire is 1,680; and the proportion of the different order of spirillae to one another is equal in all cases that have been examined, and corresponds with the number of bubbles in the ultimate spirilla of the lowest order. The ordinary sevenfold rule works quite accurately with the thinner coils, but there is a very curious variation with regard to the set of three. As may be seen from the drawings, these are obviously thicker and more prominent, and this increase of size is produced by an augmentation (so slight as to be barely perceptible) in the proportion to one another of the different orders of spirillae and in the number of bubbles in the lowest. This augmentation, amounting at present to not more than ·00571428 of the whole in each case, suggests the unexpected possibility that this portion of the atom may be somehow actually undergoing a change -- may in fact be in process of growth, as there is reason to suppose that these three thicker spirals originally resembled the others.
Since observation shows us that each physical atom is represented by forty-nine astral atoms, each astral atom by forty-nine mental atoms and each mental atom by forty-nine of those on the buddhic plane, we have here evidently several terms of a regular progressive series, and the natural presumption is that the series continues where we are no longer able to observe it. Further probability is lent to this assumption by the remarkable fact that -- if we assume one bubble to be what corresponds to an atom on the seventh or highest of our planes and then suppose the law of multiplication to begin its operation. so that 49 bubbles shall form the atom of the next or sixth plane, 2,401 that of the fifth, and so once find that the number indicated for the physical atom (496) corresponds almost exactly with the calculation based upon the actual counting of the coils. Indeed, it seems probable that but for the slight growth of the three thicker wires of the atom the correspondence would have been perfect.
It must be noted that an ultimate physical atom cannot be directly broken up into astral atoms. If the unit of force which whirls those millions of bubbles into the complicated shape of a physical atom be pressed back by an effort of will over the threshold of the astral plane, the atom disappears instantly, for the bubbles are released. But the same unit of force, working now upon a higher level expresses itself not through one astral atom, but through a group of 49. If the process of pressing back the unit of force is repeated, so that it energizes upon the mental plane, we find the group there enlarged to the number of 2,401 of those higher atoms. Upon the buddhic plane the number of atoms formed by the same amount of force is very much greater still -- probably the cube of 49 instead of the square, though they have not been actually counted. It is also probable, though not certainly known, that the number of bubbles utilized by that unit of force is the same on all these planes, though grouped on the physical as one atom, on the astral as 49 atoms, on the mental as 2,401. Therefore one physical atom is not composed of forty-nine astral or 2,401 mental atoms, but corresponds to them in the sense that the force which manifests through it would show itself on those higher planes by energizing respectively those numbers of atoms.
The koilon in which all these bubbles are formed undoubtedly represents a part, and perhaps the principal part, of what science describes as the luminiferous aether. Whether it is actually the bearer of the vibrations of light and heat through interplanetary space is as yet undetermined. It is certain that these vibrations impinge upon and are perceptible to our bodily senses only through the etheric matter of the physical plane. But this by no means proves that they are conveyed through space in the same manner, for we know very little of the extent to which the physical etheric matter exists in interplanetary and interstellar space, though the examination of meteoric matter and cosmic dust shows that at least some of it is scattered there.
The scientific theory is that the aether has some quality which enables it to transmit at a certain definite velocity transverse waves of all lengths and intensities -- that velocity being what is commonly called the speed of light. Quite probably this may be true of koilon, and if so it must also be capable of communicating those waves to bubbles or aggregations of bubbles, and before the light can reach our eyes there must be a downward transference from plane to plane similar to that which takes place when a thought awakens emotion or causes action.
In a recent pamphlet on The Density of Aether Sir Oliver Lodge remarks "Just as the ratio of mass to volume is small in the case of a solar system or a nebula or a cobweb. I have been driven to think that the observed mechanical density of matter is probably an excessively small fraction of the total density of the substance, or aether, contained in the space which it thus partially occupies -- the substance, of which it may hypothetically be held to be composed.
"Thus for instance, consider a mass of platinum, and assume that its atoms are composed of electrons, or of some structures not wholly dissimilar: the space which these bodies actually fill, as compared with the whole space which in a sense they 'occupy,' is comparable to one ten-millionth of the whole, even inside each atom; and the fraction is still smaller if it refers to the visible mass. So that a kind of minimum estimate of aetherial density, on this basis, would be something like ten thousand million times that of platinum." And further on he adds that this density may well turn out to be fifty thousand million times that of platinum. "The densest matter known" he says, "is trivial and gossamer-like compared with the unmodified Ether in the same space."
Incredible as this seems to our ordinary ideas, it is undoubtedly an understatement rather than an exaggeration of the true proportion as observed in the case of koilon. We shall understand how this can be so if we remember that koilon seems absolutely homogeneous and solid even when examined by a power of magnification which makes physical atoms appear in size and arrangement like cottages scattered over a lonely moor, and when we further add to this the recollection that the bubbles of which these atoms in turn are composed are themselves what may be not inaptly called fragments of nothingness.
In the same pamphlet Sir Oliver Lodge makes a very striking estimate of the intrinsic energy of the aether. He says "The total output of a million-kilowatt power station for thirty million years exists permanently, and at present inaccessibly, in every cubic millimetre of space." Here again he is probably underestimating rather than overestimating the stupendous truth.
It may be asked how it is possible, if all this be so, that we can be so utterly unaware of the facts -- how we can pass through and move amongst so dense a solid as this koilon without seeing or feeling it in any way. The answer is that consciousness can recognize only consciousness -- that since we are of the nature of the Logos we can sense only those things which are also of His nature. These bubbles are of His essence, and therefore we, who are also part of Him, can see matter which is built of them, for they represent to us vehicles or manifestations of Him. But the koilon in which they move is of some other and as yet unknown nature, and therefore it is to us non-manifestation, and so imperceptible. We pass through it just as easily and unconsciously as a gnome passes through a rock or as the wind blows through a network of iron wire. We live in it as mites live in a cheese or microbes in a body. The world built up of fragments of nothingness is to us the visible reality, just as to a miner his mine is an objective reality even though it consists of empty galleries hollowed out of the solid rock.
As none of our investigators can raise his consciousness to the seventh plane, it will be of interest to explain how it is possible for them to see what may very probably be the atom of that plane That this may be understood it is essential to remember that the power of magnification by means of which these experiments are conducted is quite apart from the faculty of functioning upon one or other of the planes. The latter is the result of a slow and gradual unfoldment of the self, while the former is merely a special development of one of the many powers latent in man. All the planes are round us here, just as much as at any other point in space, and if a man sharpens his sight until he can see their tiniest atoms he can make a study of them, even though he may as yet be far from the level necessary to enable him to understand and function upon the higher planes as a whole or to come into touch with the glorious Intelligences who gather those atoms into vehicles for Themselves.
A partial analogy may be found in the position of the astronomer with regard to the stellar universe, or let us say the Milky Way. He can observe its constituent parts and learn a good deal about them along various lines, but it is absolutely impossible for him to see it as a whole from outside, or form any certain conception of its true shape and to know what it really is. Suppose that the universe is, as many of the ancients thought, some inconceivably vast Being; it is utterly impossible for us, here in the midst of it, to know what that Being is or is doing, for that would mean raising ourselves to a height comparable with His; but we may make extensive and detailed examination of such particles of His body as happen to be within our reach, for that means only the patient use of powers and machinery already at our command.
Let it not be supposed that, in thus unfolding a little more of the wonders of Divine truth by pushing our investigations to the very furthest point at present possible to us, we in any way alter or modify all that has been written in Theosophical books of the shape and constitution of the physical atom, and of the wonderful and orderly arrangements by which it is grouped into the various chemical molecules; all this remains entirely unaffected.
Nor is any change introduced as regards the Three Outpourings from the Logos, and the marvellous facility with which the matter of the various planes is by them moulded into forms for the service of the evolving life. But if we wish to have a right view of the realities underlying manifestation in this universe we must to a considerable extent reverse the ordinary conception as to what this matter essentially is. Instead of thinking of its ultimate constituents as solid specks floating in a void, we must realize that it is the apparent void itself which is solid, and that the specks are but bubbles in it. That fact once grasped, all the rest remains as before. The relative position of what we have hitherto called matter and force is still for us the same as ever; it is only that on closer examination both of these conceptions of ours prove to be in reality variants of force, the one ensouling combinations of the other, and the real matter (koilon) is seen to be something which has hitherto been outside our scheme of thought altogether.
How vividly, how unmistakably this knowledge brings home to us the great doctrine of Maya, the transitoriness and unreality of earthly things, the utterly deceptive nature of appearances! When the candidate for initiation sees (not merely believes, remember, but actually sees ) that what has always before seemed to him empty space is in reality a solid mass of inconceivable density, and that the matter which has appeared to be the one tangible and certain basis of things is not only by comparison tenuous as gossamer (the "web" spun by "Father-Mother"), but is actually composed of emptiness and nothingness -- is itself the very negation of matter -- then for the first tune he thoroughly appreciates the valuelessness of the physical senses as guides to the truth. Yet even more clearly still stands out the glorious certainty of the immanence of the Divine; not only is everything ensouled by the Logos, but even its visible manifestation is literally part of Him, is bulk of His very substance, so that matter as well as spirit becomes sacred to the student who really understands.
Perhaps the consideration of these two factors may help us to comprehend many statements in The Secret Doctrine, such as (to select two references at random) that matter is nothing but an aggregation of atomic forces" (iii, 398) and that "Buddha taught that the primitive substance is eternal and unchangeable. Its vehicle is the pure luminous ether, the boundless infinite space, not a void resulting from the absence of the forms, but on the contrary the foundation of all forms." (iii, 402)
It has been suggested (though this is merely a matter of reverent speculation) that in successive universes there may be a progressive diminution in the size of the bubbles -- that it may be the very glory of a Logos that He can sacrifice Himself to the uttermost by thus thoroughly permeating and making Himself one with that portion of koilon which He selects as the field of His universe.
What is the actual nature of koilon, what is its origin, whether it is itself in any way changed by the Divine Breath which is poured into it -- these are questions the answers to which investigation cannot as yet give, though they may perchance be found by an intelligent study of the great scriptures of the world.
NOTE BY C. W. LEADBEATER
There is a sentence in the article on "Koilon". It runs as follows:
"By actual counting it has been discovered that the number of coils or spirillae of the first order in each wire is 1,680; and the proportion of the different orders of spirillae to one another is equal in all cases that have been examined, and corresponds with the number of bubbles in the ultimate spirilla of the lowest order."
I counted all those 1,680 turns in the wire of the Anu, not once, but many times. I tried altogether 135 different specimens, taken from all sorts of substances.
If we remove one wire from the Anu it can of course be straightened out into a circle. Really, however, it is not a single wire but a spiral spring, as in Fig. 6, and I called each of these little rings a coil, or a spirilla of the first order," " a," and I meant to explain that there were 1,680 of these rings or turns or coils in each wire. But each of those coils is itself a spiral spring made up of finer coils (which we might call "b") and I
called those " spirillae of the second order." and so on down to "spirillae of the lowest order". In the seven thinner wires of the atom which correspond to the seven colours I find that each "spirilla of the first order," "a," is composed of seven "spirillae of the second order". "b", each "b" in turn is composed of seven "c"s, each "c" of seven "d"s, and so on down to the "spirilla of the lowest order" which is composed of exactly seven bubbles.
But in the three thicker wires of the atom there is a very slight difference. The seven bubbles no longer fit exactly under one another, as it were, if one looks along or through the wire endwise; in 100 "spirillae of the lowest order" there ought to be just 700 bubbles; so there are in the seven thinner, coloured wires, but in the three thicker wires there are 704. So the increase is at present 1 in 175. And the same curious little increase holds good in the relation of the different orders of spirillae, In the thinner wires exactly 7 spirillae of one order make 1 of the next higher order, so that 700 "b"s make exactly 100 "a"s and so on; but in the thicker wires 704 "b"s go to 100 "a"s, and the same curious proportion all through. That is what I meant when I said that "the proportion of the different orders of spirillae to one another is equal and corresponds with the number of bubbles in the ultimate spirilla of the lowest order."
The first etheric subplane E1 is formed, as has been previously explained, by single Anu. More or less complex combinations of these Anu form successively the second, E2, third, E3, and fourth. E4, etheric subplanes.
The second subplane E2 -- The simplest union of Anu, apparently never consisting of more than seven, form the second etheric subplane. In Fig. 7 are shown some characteristic combinations of the E2 state; the Anu is conventional, with the depression emphasized. The lines, always entering at the depression and coming out at the apex, show the resultants of lines of force. Where no line appears entering the depression, the force wells up from four-dimensional space; where no line appears leaving the apex, the force disappears into four-dimensional space; where the point of entry and departure is outside the Anu, it is indicated by a dot. It must be remembered that the diagrams represent three-dimensional objects, and that the Anu are not necessarily all on one plane.
The third Etheric Subplane E3. The E3 state, in some of its combinations, appears at first sight to repeat those of the E2 state; the only obvious way of distinguishing to which some of the groups of less complexity belong is to pull them out of the "cell-wall": if they are E2 groups they at once fly off as separate Anu; if they are E3 groups they break up into two or more groups containing a smaller number of Anu. Thus one of the E2 groups of iron, containing seven Anu, is identical in appearance with an E3 heptad, but the former dissociates into seven Anu, the latter into two triads and a single Anu. Long-continued research into the detailed play of forces and their results is necessary; we are here only able to give preliminary facts and details, are opening up the way.
The fourth etheric subplane E4. -- The E4 state preserves may of the forms in the elements, modified by release from the pressure to which they are subjected in the chemical atom. In this state various groups are thus recognizable which are characteristic of allied elements.
These groups are taken from the products of the first disintegration of the chemical atom, by forcibly removing it from its hole. The groups fly apart, assuming a great variety of forms often more or less geometrical; the lines between the constituents of the groups, where indicated, no longer represent lines of force, but are intended to represent the impression of form, i.e., of the relative position and motion of the constituents, made on the mind of the observer. They are elusive, for there are no lines. 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 Anu, within the elements. Fig. 9.
Two Anu, positive and negative, brought near to each other, attract each other, and then commence to revolve round each other, forming a relatively stable duality; such a molecule is neutral. Combinations of three or more Anu are positive, negative or neutral, according to the internal molecular arrangement; the neutral are relatively stable, the positive and negative are continually in search of their respective opposites, with a view to establishing a relatively permanent union.
Speaking generally, positive groups are marked by the points of Anu being turned outward and negative groups by the points being turned inward towards each other and the centre of the group.
The groups show all kinds of possible combinations; the combinations spin, turn head over heels, and gyrate in endless ways. Each aggregation is surrounded with an apparent cell-wall, a circle or oval, due to the pressure on the surrounding matter caused by its whirling motion. The surrounding fields strike on each other and the groups and rebound, dart hither and thither, for reasons we have not distinguished.
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. The main types are not very numerous, and we found that, when we arranged the atoms we had observed according to their external forms, with a few exceptions they fell into seven natural classes. Fig. 10.
1. The Spike Group
2. The Dumb-bell Group
3. The Tetrahedron Group
4. The Cube Group
5. The Octahedron Group
6. The Crossed Bars Group
7. The Star Group
Each atom has a spherical or oval wall, within which the various groups of Anu move. That wall is drawn as an ovoid in the case of Hydrogen; it must be imagined in the case of every other element. A sphere-wall is a temporary effect, caused by one or more Anu in rotation. Just as a stream of air under pressure will make a hole on the surface of water, by pushing back that water, so is it with the groups. As they revolve, the force of their motion drives back the circumambient medium. That medium thus driven back by the atom element as it moves round its axis is the space around it which is filled with millions of loose Anu; it also drives back denser parts of what is called astral matter. For instance the medium driven back by each separate funnel in Sodium is astral atomic matter.
In the seven clearly defined forms it is worthy of notice that in divalent element four funnels open on the faces of a tetrahedron, in trivalent, six funnels on the faces of a cube; in tetravalent, eight funnels on the faces of an octahedron. Here 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?
Fig. 11 shows the five Platonic Solids. It was seen during the investigations at Weisser-Hirsch that all the chemical elements, with the exception of Hydrogen, Oxygen and Nitrogen, appeared to be constructed in a way which suggested the well-known Platonic solids -- tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. No element suggesting the dodecahedron was found, but bodies which made the central nucleus in several elements had groups of six Anu at the twenty corners of the dodecahedron.
A most interesting fact was the discovery by a Spanish Theosophist, Senor Arturo Soria Y Mata, of the relation that exists between the tetrahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. He constructed models of five regularly interlaced tetrahedra, and the twenty points of these five tetrahedra, when joined, gave the surface of the twelve-sided dodecahedron, while the intersecting points of the tetrahedron and dodecahedron gave the corners of the icosahedron. He published a monograph, "Genesis," in Madrid in 1913 giving the diagrams and showing how to cut paper to make the various solids. There has never been any difficulty concerning the five solids, but it was he who for the first time gave the diagrams describing how to cut the twenty corners of five tetrahedra and join them together. It was only in 1922, when investigating the structure of Benzene, that the figure of the dodecahedron was found as the central uniting nucleus of Benzene.
One difficulty that faced the investigators was the identification of the forms seen on focusing the sight on gases. It was only possible to proceed tentatively. Thus, a very common form in the air had a sort of Dumb-bell shape. We examined this, comparing our rough sketches, and counted its Anu; these, divided by 18 -- the number of ultimate atoms in Hydrogen -- gave us 23.22 as the atomic weight, and this offered the presumption that the atom observed was Sodium. We then took various substances such as common salt, in which we knew sodium was present, and found the Dumb-bell form in all. In other cases, we took small fragments of metals, as Iron, Tin, Zinc, Silver, Gold; in others, again, pieces of ore, or mineral waters. For the rarest substances, Mr. Leadbeater visited a mineralogical museum.
In counting the number of Anu in a chemical atom, we did not count them throughout, one by one; when, for instance, we counted up the Anu in Sodium, we dictated the number in each convenient group to Mr. Jinarājadāsa, and he multiplied out the total, divided by 18, and announced the result. Thus: Sodium is composed of an upper part, divisible into a globe and 12 funnels; a lower part, similarly divided; and a connecting rod. We counted the number in the upper part: globe - 10; the number in two or three of the funnels - each 16; the number of funnels - 12; the same for the lower part; in the connecting rod - 14. Mr. Jinarājadāsa reckoned: 10 + (16 x 12) = 202; hence: 202 + 202 + 14 = 418: divided by 18 = 23.22 recurring. By this method we guarded our counting from any prepossession, as it was impossible for us to know how the various numbers would result on addition, multiplication and division, and the exciting moment came when we waited to see if our results endorsed or approached any accepted weight. In the heavier elements, such as gold, with 3,546 Anu, it would have been impossible to count each Anu without quite unnecessary waste of time, when making a preliminary investigation. Later, it may be worth while to count each division separately, as in some we noticed that two groups, at first sight alike, differed by 1 or 2 Anu.
The groups into which the elements fall when arranged according to their external forms prove to be very similar to those indicated in Sir William Crookes' classification. The simplest form of presentation of this periodic law is that described by Crookes in a lecture which he gave to the Royal Institution in London on February 18, 1887. Crookes visualizes a cosmic energy at work on cosmic substance which lie terms "protyle ". We can imagine this energy as of two kinds, one tending as if downwards, from above below, the other as if swinging pendulum-wise from right to left, left to right. The swing of the pendulum slowly narrows. Both forces are rhythmic, and they meet and cross at set places or periods. Where that happens, then "protyle" is affected, and an element is generated.
In considering the heavier elements, especially those belonging to the radio-active group, we find a certain variation from the orderly progress. All the way down we have been in the presence of an evolutionary force steadily pressing downward into matter along a spiral line. At certain points this force encounters the perpendicular lines which represent the various types or tendencies. We can imagine a group of nature spirits, marshalled under the orders of some higher Power, building these atoms according to the plan of the line to which they belong, and then scheming how to introduce the additional atoms which have been gathered since last the force crossed their line. while still retaining the main characteristics of their original plan.
Among the heavier elements it would seem that the power of the distinctive type is becoming less in proportion than that of the evolutionary force, for this latter is beginning to carry on with it certain characteristics from one type into another. Elements show affinity not only with those above it but also with those next before it on the spiral. The results seem in some ways to suggest the idea that an effort is being made to evolve certain features which shall when perfected be imposed upon all types. When we find two different attempts to build the same element it suggests two attempts one of which may be more suitable and therefore ultimately become permanent.
We find the central sphere of the chemical atom always increasing in size and importance until in the Radium group it seems to be the soul of the atom and the reason for which it exists -- an active intensely living object rotating with wonderful rapidity, ever drawing in and throwing out streams of matter, and actually maintaining by its exertion a temperature higher than that of surrounding objects.
The process of making the elements is not even now concluded; Uranium is the latest and heaviest element so far as we know (1912), but others still more complicated may perhaps be produced in the future.
A list of all the elements with the number of Anu in each, their weights and their characteristic shapes, is given later.
In the line depicting a pendulum swinging backwards and forwards, all the elements are marked in their order of weight; the lightest, Hydrogen, beginning the pendulum swing, and the heaviest, Uranium, (and possibly one or more heavier, yet to be discovered) closing the swing. Among the upright lines is a middle one, and there are four on either side. If the middle perpendicular line represents no valency, and also interperiodicity, and if the four lines on either side of this median line represent Valency 1, Valency 2, Valency 3, and Valency 4; then, it is found, as the elements are mapped out in the order of their atomic weights, at the intersecting points of the pendulum line and the nine upright lines, that the element appear in order of Valency.
With a few exceptions, elements with similar external forms fall on the same vertical line. This may be seen on reference to Figure 12.
First come 4 elements which are formed before the swing of the pendulum begins. These are ovoids.
NOTE BY C. JINARAJADASA
In the address presented by Crookes to the Royal Institution in London, on February 18, 1887, he gave a diagram of the pendulum swing, marking the place of each element at certain points in his diagram. Later he made a model of the pendulum swing in three dimensions, with two lemniscates, Fig. 13. It occurred to me that it was possible to make a model of the Periodic Law with four lemniscates. This I did, carefully planning that each rod in the illustration should be pasted with millimetre paper so as to map accurately the elements according to their weights, Fig. 14. My object with this model of four lemniscates is that some day, by careful study of the diagrams of the elements in Occult Chemistry, future students would be able to make cross-lines joining one element with another, since the heavier elements particularly have many groups in common. In this model the interperiodic groups and the rare gases appear on the central line. The elements of the octahedron group appear on the four outermost lines. The other groups fall into their places between.
WE come now to the more detailed study of the elements, and shall consider the atoms in their groups according to the Periodic classification, using the pendulum diagram.
As has already been pointed out, the Anu group themselves into seven definite forms or types, though each chemical atom is surrounded by a sphere wall of the surrounding material, forming a sphere of influence. There are a few exceptions which are ovoid in shape.
Into the seven types the Anu are packed in a beautiful and ingenious fashion., On examining the internal structure of the atoms we find more or less complicated groups capable of separate, independent existence on the E4 level. These may be dissociated into yet simpler groups on the E3 level and again into groups at the E2 level until we arrive at the single ultimate physical atom or Anu.
The diagrams can give only a very general idea of the facts they represent. They give groupings and show relationships, but much effort of the imagination is needed to transform the two-dimensional diagram into the three dimensional object. The student should try to visualize the figure from the diagram. Thus the two triangles of Hydrogen are not in one plane; the circles are spheres and the Anu within them, while preserving to each other their relative positions, are in swift movement in three dimensional space.
Where five Anu are seen they are generally arranged with the central Anu 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.
It is found that many of the groups in which the Anu are arranged constantly recur and are therefore common to many atoms, forming, as it were, the bricks or fundamental patterns from which their structures are built. The composition of each atom, therefore, can be expressed in terms of these constituent groups.
By this means the relationships between the elements in a given main group, and their similarities with other groups, is brought out. A method has been devised by which all the elements can be expressed in an algebraic formula by which the reader may realize the structure of the atoms as they are built up out of their constituent groups. Each constituent group is named after the first element in which it occurs. The letters indicating the element are followed by a number indicating the number of Anu in the group. Thus the Nitrogen 'balloon' becomes N 110 and the Lithium spike is represented by Li63.
When the elements are analyzed in this way we can see how they are built up. In some cases alternative nomenclature is possible. We have endeavoured to select those constituent groups which best bring out the relationships. The method is used, too, in the large condensed diagrams and where the heavier elements would require too large a diagram if drawn in full.
From the list of all the elements, given at the end of the book, it can be seen that Hydrogen. Oxygen, Nitrogen and Fluorine, which appeared to be so different from the rest in their external forms, contain characteristic groups which form part of many other elements. From this list, too, we can follow the changes as the elements succeed one another in weight.
Each dot in a diagram represents a single Anu. The enclosing lines indicate the impression of form made on the observer and the groupings of the Anu. The groups will divide along these lines when the element is broken up, so that the lines have significance but they do not exist as stable walls or enclosing films but rather mark limits, not lines, of vibration.
It should be specially noted that the diagrams are not drawn to scale, as such drawings would be impossible in the given space. The dot representing the Anu is enormously too large compared with the enclosures, which are absurdly too small; a scale drawing would mean as almost invisible dot on a sheet of many yards square.
So far as a chemical atom is concerned it does not matter whether it be drawn for investigation from a solid, a liquid or a gas; the atom does not alter its constitution by changing its state.
The internal arrangements of the atoms become much more complicated as they become heavier, as can be seen, for instance, is the complex arrangement necessitated by the presence of the 3,546 Anu contained in the chemical atom of Gold, as compared with the simple arrangement of the 18 Anu is Hydrogen.
Before the pendulum begins its swing we find four elements; Hydrogen, Adyarium, Occultum and Helium. Hydrogen is the lightest element known to science. Adyarium and Occultum were first observed by clairvoyance. Helium is one of the rare gases and is usually associated with Argon. It does not conform to the shape of the inert gases, however, though it has some constituents in common. It is therefore grouped with the earlier, lighter elements. All four of these are ovoid in external shape.
| ATOMIC | |||
| No. | Number of Anu | Element | Analysis |
| 1. | 18 | Hydrogen | (2H3' + H3) + (3H3) |
| 1a | 36 | Adyarium | 4H3 + 4 Ad6 |
| 1b | 54 | Occultum | 2H3 + Ad24 + Oc15 + Oc9 |
| 2 | 72 | Helium | 2H3 + (2H3' + H3) + (3H3) + 2Ad24 |
Deuterium. During observations on the electrolysis of water a very few examples of two Hydrogen atoms united in a temporary alliance were seen. These two atoms were of varieties 1 and 2 and placed themselves at right angles to each other as in Fig. 18. This group of two Hydrogen atoms would have double the weight of ordinary Hydrogen, as is required for Deuterium.
ALL the eleven elements in this group occur on the left-hand swing of the pendulum. They are all of the spike type, somewhat similar to the diagram in Fig. 21, which is that of Lithium. In most cases, however, there are a number of spikes of equal size, instead of one large spike and a number of smaller petals as in Lithium. Fluorine does not conform to the type since its spikes are reversed.
From Potassium onwards the constituent group N 110 appears as the centre from which the spikes radiate. The most striking component in all the elements of this groups is that termed the Lithium spike. Li63.
How, with this Li63 and N 110 as units, the elements of this family are generated can be studied from the diagrams. Of course, additional smaller bodies are brought in but a wonderful symmetry appears, as if a Grand Geometrician were indeed the Builder.
| ATOMIC | |||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | SPIKES | |
| 3 | 127 | Lithium | 4 Li4 | Li63 + Petals: 8Ad6 | |
| 9 | 340 | Fluorine | 2 N110 | 8 (2 Be4 + H3' + Li4) | |
| 19 | 701 | Potassium | (N110 + 6 Li4) | 9(Li63) | |
| 25 | 992 | Manganese | N110 | 14(Li63) | |
| 37 | 1530 | Rubidium | 3 N110 | 16 (Li63 + Rb12) | |
| 43 | 1802 | Masurium | 3 N110 | 16 [Li63 + Ma29 (a or b)] | |
| 55 | 2376 | Caesium | 4 N110 | 16 (Li63 + 2 Ma29a) | |
| 61 | 2640 | Illinium | 4 N110 | 8 (2Li63 + Il.9) + 8 [2Li63 + Il.14] | |
| 61 | 2736 | Il. Isotope | 4 N110 | 16 (2 Li63 + Il.17 or Il.18) | |
| 69 | 3096 | Thulium | 4 N110 | 16 (2 Li63 + Tm40) | |
| 75 | 3368 | Rhenium | 4 N110 | 16 (2 Li63 + Re57) | |
| 87 | 4006 | 87 | 5 N110 | 16 (3 Li63 + 87.27) | |
Figure 29 shows in a condensed form all the elements of the spike group. The relationships and the way each atom is built up from a few constituents can be easily observed.
THE ten elements in this group are all of one type. What the type is will be seen from Fig. 30; the general shape was called a dumb-bell, as the best word to describe these elements. Each dumb-bell is composed of
Each element is surrounded by a sphere wall. These elements occur to the right of the central line in the pendulum diagram. Their characteristic valence is one.
In the diagrams we give the connecting rod, the globe and one funnel. It will be seen that here, as in the spike group, we find certain characteristic groups which are built into many of the elements.
The connecting rod in five elements is the same, and to this group we have given the distinguishing name of Cl.19. The rod in the last four elements steadily increases in size. The constituents of the Occultum atom appear frequently in Samarium, Erbium, Gold and 85. In the connecting rod, whenever there are two columns, as in Samarium they revolve perpendicularly round a common centre. When there are three columns, as in Erbium, they revolve round a centre which is the connecting rod Cl.19, the three columns being at the corners of a triangle. When there are four columns, as in 85, they revolve round a common centre, being at the corners of a square. The connecting rod of Gold is exceptional as it does not contain columns.
The globes increase steadily in size as the weight increases. The analysis shows how these are built up.
The funnels also increase in size. One very important group, Cl.25, occurs in all the elements of this group from chlorine onwards.
One isotope, that of chlorine was observed.
| ATOMIC | |||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRAL ROD | GLOBES | FUNNELS |
| 11 | 418 | Sodium | Na14 | 2 Na10 | 24 Na16 |
| 17 | 639 | Chlorine | Cl.19 | 2 Na10 | 24 Cl.25 |
| 17 | 667 | Chlorine A | Cl.19 | 2 (Na10 + 2) | 24 Cl.26 |
| 29 | 1139 | Copper | Cl.19 | 2 (2Be4 + 2Ad6) | 24 (Cl.25 + 2B5 + Cu10) |
| 35 | 1439 | Bromine | Cl.19 | 2 (Be4 + 2H3 + 2N2) | 24 (Cl.25 + 3 Ge.11) |
| 47 | 1945 | Silver | Cl.19 | 2 (mNe5 + 2H3 + 2N2) | 24 (Cl.25 + 3 Ge.11 + Ag21) |
| 53 | 2287 | Iodine | Cl.19 | 2 (3Be4 + 2H3) | 24 (Cl.25 + 3 Ge.11 + 5.I.7) |
| 62 | 2794 | Samarium | (2Sm84 + 4Sm66) | 2 Sm101 | 24 (Cl.25 + 4 Ge.11 + Ag21) |
| 68 | 3029 | Erbium | (Cl.19 + 3Sm84 + 6Sm66) | 2 Sm101 | 24 (Cl.25 + 4 Ge.11 + Ag21) |
| 79 | 3546 | Gold | (4Sm84 + 16Au33) | 2 (Sm101 + 2 Au38) | 24 (Cl.25 + 4 Ge.11 + Fe28) |
| 85 | 3978 | 85 | Au864 | 2 (Sm101 + 2 Au38) | 24 (Cl.25 + 2 + 4(85.15) + Fe28) |
Fig. 41 shows the Dumb-bell group in a condensed form, from which the relationships in this group may be studied
THE twelve elements in this group occur on the swing of the pendulum to the left of the central line.
They are all tetrahedrons in shape, with the exception of Oxygen, which is ovoid. Their characteristic valence is 2. Each element has four funnels of which two are positive and two negative. The last two elements add 4 spikes directed to the corners of the tetrahedron. Fig. 42.
As we proceed with this study we shall find how continual are the repetitions, and how Nature, with a limited number of fundamental methods, creates by varied combinations her infinite variety of forms.
| ATOMIC | ||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | 4 FUNNELS |
| 4 | 164 | Beryllium | Be4 | 4 (Be10) |
| 8 | 290 | Oxygen v1 | (55N2 + 5.O.7) + (55N2 + 5.O.7') (spheres + discs) | |
| 8 | 310 | Oxygen v2 | (55N2 + 5.O.7) + (55N2 + 5.O.7') + 4 | |
| 8 | 348 | Oxygen v3 | (66N2 + 6.O.7) + (66N2 + 6.O.7') | |
| 20 | 720 | Calcium | (8Li4 + 8Ad6) | 4 (Ca45 + Ca70 + Ca45) |
| 24 | 936 | Chromium | (8N6 + 8Ad6) | 4 (Ca160 + 2Cr25) |
| 38 | 1568 | Strontium | (8B5 + 8.I.7) | 4 (2Ca160 + 2Sr24) |
| 42 | 1746 | Molybdenum | (N2 + Sr96) | 4 (2Ca160 + 2Mo46) |
| 56 | 2455 | Barium | (I.7 + Sr96) | 4 (2Ca160 + 2Mo46 + Ba33 + Li63b + Ba80) |
| 60 | 2575 | Neodymium | (Ce667) | 4 (2Ca160 + 2Mo46 + Nd65) |
| 70 | 3131 | Ytterbium | (Yb651) | 4 (2Ca160 + 2Mo46 + Ca160 + Yb48) = 4Yb620 |
| 74 | 3299 | Tungsten | (Lu819) | 4 (Yb620 = [2Ca160+2Mo46+Ca160+Yb48]) |
| 88 | 4087 | Radium | (Lu819) | 4 (3Ca160 + 3Mo46) + spikes: 4 (3Li63 + Cu10) |
| 92 | 4267 | Uranium | (Lu819) | 4 (3Ca160 + 3Mo46) + spikes: 4 (3Li63 + Ur36 + Ur19) |
Fig. 58 shows the Tetrahedron Group A in a condensed form, from which the relationships in this group can be studied.
THESE ten elements occur on the right hand swing of the pendulum, on the outgoing and on the return swing. They are tetrahedrons in form, and their characteristic valence is four, although some of them are found to develop a higher valence of six. Fig. 59.
Although their fundamental form is the same as that of the Tetrahedron Group A, yet we find a distinctly different type of arrangement of the Anu in the funnels.
The same plan of four funnels opening on the faces of a tetrahedron is found in all these elements, but Magnesium and Sulphur have no central globe, and in Cadmium and Tellurium the globe becomes a cross.
| ATOMIC | ||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | 4 FUNNELS |
| 12 | 432 | Magnesium | nil | 4 [3 (3Mg12)] |
| 16 | 576 | Sulphur | nil | 4 [3 (3S16)] |
| 30 | 1170 | Zinc | Zn18 | 4 [3 (3S16)] + Spikes: 4 [4Zn20 + 3Zn18' + Cu10] |
| 34 | 1422 | Selenium | Zn18 | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Se10 + 3N2) + star Se153] |
| 48 | 2016 | Cadmium | Cd48 | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Zn18' + 4Zn20)] |
| 52 | 2223 | Tellurium | (Cd48 + 3) | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Te21 + 4Te22)] |
| 63 | 2843 | Europium | Eu59 | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Eu26 + 4Eu31)] |
| 67 | 3004 | Holmium | Ho220 | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Eu26 + 4Eu31)] |
| 80 | 3576 | Mercury | Au864 | 4 [3 (3Se10 + 3Cl.19 + 4Te22) + Se153] |
| 84 | 3789 | Polonium | Po405 | 4 [3 (3Po17 + 3Po33 + 4Po33')] |
Fig. 75 shows the Tetrahedron Group B in a condensed form, from which the relations between the elements in the group may be studied.
ALL the members of this group, with the exception of Nitrogen, have the external form of a cube. Fig. 76. They occur on the left hand swing of the pendulum. Their characteristic valence is three, but higher valencies are developed. They all have six funnels opening on the six faces of a cube, and in two cases there are also spikes pointing to the eight corners of the cube. At first sight it would appear that Nitrogen should not be placed in this group but, as we shall see, the constituents of Nitrogen occur constantly in the components making up the funnels of the elements in this group.
| ATOMIC | ||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | 6 FUNNELS |
| 5 | 200 | Boron | (4 B5) | 6 [4 (2H3) + Ad6] |
| 7 | 261 | Nitrogen | Balloon: N110 Oval: N63 + 2N24 + 2N20 | |
| 21 | 792 | Scandium | (4 B5 + Be4) | 3 [N110 + 4 (2H3) + Ad6] + 3 [N63 + 2N24 + B5] |
| 23 | 918 | Vanadium | (4 B5 + I.7) | 3 [N110 + N20 + 4 (2H3) + Ad6] + 3 [N63 + 2N24 + N20 + N6] |
| 39 | 1606 | Yttrium | (Ad24 + Yt16) | 6 [N63 + N110 + Yt44 + (4Yt8 + 2Ad6)] |
| 41 | 1719 | Niobium | (2Ad24 + N9) | 6 [N63 + N110 + Yt44 + Nb60] |
| 57 | 2482 | Lanthanum | (Ne120 + I.7) | 3 [N63 + N110 + Mo46 + Ca70 + Yt44 + Nb60] + 3 [N63 + N110 + Ca45 + Ca70 + Yt44 + Nb60] |
| 59 | 2527 | Praeseodymium | (Ce27 + 20 Ce32) | 6 [Pr33 + N63 + N110 + Yt44 + Nb60] |
| 71 | 3171 | Lutecium | (Ce27 + 24 Ba33) | 6 [N63 + N110 + Lu53 + Ca70 + Lu36 + Nb60] |
| 73 | 3279 | Tantalum | Lu819 | 6 [N63 + N110 + Ta63 + Ca70 + Yt44 + Nb60] |
| 89 | 4140 | Actinium | Lu819 | 3 [N63 + N110 + Mo46 + Ca160 + Yt44 + Nb60] + 3 [Zr212 + Sb128 + Ac116] + 8 Li63 Spikes |
| 91 | 4227 | Proto-Actinium | Lu819 | 3 [N63 + N110 + Mo46 + Ca160 + Yt44 + Nb60] + 3 [Zr212 + Sb128 + Ac116 + Pa29] + 8 Li63 Spikes |
Fig. 96 shows the Cube Group A in a condensed form, from which the relationships in the group may be studied.
THE members of this group are all cubes. They occur on the right hand swing of the pendulum. Their characteristic valence is three but they often show higher valencies. They all have six funnels, as in Cube Group A, but they show quite a different design in the arrangement of the Anu.
| ATOMIC | ||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | 6 FUNNELS |
| 13 | 486 | Aluminium | - | 6 [Al.9' + 8 Al.9] |
| 15 | 558 | Phosphorus | - | 6 [(B5 + 3N6 + 3P9) + (Li4 + 3Be4 + 3P9)] |
| 31 | 1260 | Gallium | - | 6 [(Ga7 + 3Ga15 + 3Ga20) + (B5 + 3Ga13 + 3Ga18)] |
| 33 | 1350 | Arsenic | - | 6 [Al.9' + 8 (2N9 + Al.9)] |
| 49 | 2052 | Indium | - | 3 [2 (In16 + 3Ga15 + 3Ga20) + (In14 + 3Ga13 + 3Ga18)] + 3 [(In16 + 3Ga15 + 3Ga20) + 2(In14 + 3Ga13 + 3Ga18)] |
| 51 | 2169 | Antimony | - | 3 [2Sb128 + Sb113] + 3 [Sb128 + 2Sb113] |
| 64 | 2880 | Gadolinium | Ne120 | 3 [2Sb128 + Sb113 + (Ca45 + 2N24)] + 3 [Sb128 + 2Sb113 + (Ca45 + Mo11 + 2N24)] |
| 66 | 2979 | Dysprosium | Ne120 | 3 [2Sb128 + Sb113 + (Ca45 + 2Mo11 + 2N24)] 3 [Sb128 + 2Sb113 + (Ca45 + 2Mo11 + 2N24)] |
| 81 | 3678 | Thallium | Tl.687 | 3 [2Sb128 + Sb113 + (Ca45 + Ti.44 + 2N24)] + 3 [Sb128 + 2Sb113 + (Ca45 + Ti.44 + 2N24)] |
| 83 | 3753 | Bismuth | Tl.687 | 3 [2Sb128 + Sb113 + (Ca45 + Mo46 + 2N24)] + 3 [Sb128 + 2Sb113 + {Ti88 + (Ga20 + 4Zr13)}] |
Fig. 116 shows the Cube Group B in a condensed form, from which the relationships in the group can be studied.
This group is a very interesting one, containing as it does the element Carbon. so important in organic chemistry. The members of the group occur at the extreme limits of the left-hand swing of the pendulum. Their characteristic form is that of an octahedron, rounded at the angles and a little depressed between the faces in consequence of the rounding. In fact, it was not at first recognized as an octahedron, and was called the "corded bale ".
All these elements are tetravalent and have eight funnels opening on the eight faces of the octahedron. Here, as usual, we find that the number of funnels is twice the valence.
The conception of the four valencies of Carbon pointing to the four corners of a tetrahedron, so much used in organic chemistry, at once comes to the mind. It is obvious that if four of the eight funnels are used, these would give forces pointing in the required directions in space. This subject is further illustrated in the descriptions of the Carbon compounds in Chapter XIII.
| ATOMIC | ||||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | RING | ARMS | FUNNELS |
| 6 | 216 | Carbon | 4 | - | - | 4 C27 + 4 C26 |
| 22 | 864 | Titanium | (Ne120 + 8) | 12Ti14 | 4 Ti88 | 4 (C27 + C26 + 1) |
| 40 | 1624 | Zirconium | (Ne120 + 8) | 12Zr36 | 4 Zr212 | 4 (C27 + C26 + 1) |
| 58 | 2511 | Cerium | Ce667 | - | - | 4 (Zr212) + 4 (Ca160 + Ce36 + C27 + C26) |
| 72 | 3211 | Hafnium | Hf747 | - | - | 4 (Zr212 + 4Hf36) + 4 (Ca160 + Ce36 + C27 + C26 + Ge.11) |
| 90 | 4187 | Thorium | Lu819 | - | - | 4 (Zr212 + Sb128 + Ac116) + 4 (Ca160 + Mo46 + 2Li63 + C27 + C26 + 1) |
Fig. 129 shows the Octahedron Group A in a condensed form, from which the relationships in this group may be studied.
THESE elements occur at the extreme left-hand swing of the pendulum. Their characteristic valence is four. They all have eight funnels opening on the faces of an octahedron and two of them add spikes pointing to the six corners.
| ATOMIC | |||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | FUNNELS | SPIKES |
| 14 | 520 | Silicon | - | 8 (B5 + 4Si15) | - |
| 32 | 1300 | Germanium | Be4 + 2Ad24 | 8 (4Ge39) | - |
| 50 | 2124 | Tin | Ne120 | 8 (4Ge39) | 6 Sn126 |
| 65 | 2916 | Terbium | Ne120 | 8 (4Ge39 + 2Mo46 + I.7) | 6 Sn126 |
| 82 | 3727 | Lead | Tl.687 | 4 (Ca160 + Mo46 + 4Sn35 + Pb31) | 4 (Ca160 + 4Ge39 + Mo46 + Pb21) |
Fig. 139 shows the Octahedron Group B in a condensed form, from which the relationships in the group may be studied.
THIS group comprises those elements sometimes known as the Interperiodics. They occur in the pendulum diagram on the central line, alternately with the inert gases of the Star Group. They are all metals and have a maximum valence of eight.
When examined these elements were seen to have a striking configuration. Their general appearance is shown in Fig. 140. They consist of seven equal rods piercing a cube, three through the six middle points of its surfaces and four through its corners. There are therefore seven crossed bars whose directions in space are fixed by the cube. They may also be considered as consisting of fourteen half bars, all the half bars being identical. It should be clearly noted that there is no cube, nor outline of a cube to be seen in the element itself. The half-bars interlock in the centre of a sphere. The cube has been drawn simply to indicate the directions in space of the half-bars.
The elements in this group occur as closely associated sets of three. Three of these groups of three are known to science and a fourth group has been observed by clairvoyance and is here described. Within a group of three the difference between one member and its successor is 28 Anu, that is to say two extra Anu in each half-bar.
| ATOMIC | |||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | 14 BARS |
| 26 | 1008 | Iron | 14 (2Fe14 + Fe16 + Fe28) |
| 27 | 1036 | Cobalt | 14 (2Fe14 + Fe16 + 2Co11 + Co8) |
| 28 | 1064 | Nickel | 14 (2Fe14 + Fe16 + 2Co11 + Ni.10) |
| 44 | 1848 | Ruthenium | 14 (2Fe16 + 2Fe14 + 2Ru17 + 2Ru19) |
| 45 | 1876 | Rhodium | 14 (2Fe16 + 2Fe14 + 2Rh20 + 2Rh17) |
| 46 | 1904 | Palladium | 14 (2Rh17 + 2Pd15 + 2Pd17 + 2Pd19) |
| - | 2646 | X | 14 (3X30 + 3X28 + X15) |
| - | 2674 | Y | 14 (3X30 + 2Y29 + X28 + X15) |
| - | 2702 | Z | 14 (3X30 + 3Z31 + Cu10) |
| 76 | 3430 | Osmium | 14 (4X30 + 3Z31 + Os32) |
| 77 | 3458 | Iridium | 14 (4X30 + 2Ir26 + 2Ir27 + Ag21) |
| 78 | 3486 | Platinum | 14 (4X30 + 2Ir26 + 2X28 + Ag21) |
| 78 | 3514 | Pt isotope | 14 (4X30 + 2Ir27 + 2X28 + Ag21) |
Fig. 146 shows the Bars Group in a condensed form, from which the relationships can be studied.
THIS group comprises those elements known as the inert gases. Their characteristic valence is 0. In the Pendulum diagram they appear on the middle line, alternately with the Bars Group.
Each inert gas has the appearance of a flat six-armed star. All the six arms within one element are the same. Fig. 147.
The arms radiate from a central sphere made of five intersecting tetrahedrons. This sphere first occurs in Neon and is the group Ne120 with which we are familiar. Helium, which is classed by chemists with the inert gases, has a different configuration and has been considered in the Hydrogen Group.
Each member of the Star Group has its meta variety or isotope. On examination of the diagrams it will be seen that in each meta variety each of the six arms has seven more Anu. Therefore the difference between Neon and Meta-Neon is exactly forty-two Anu; and so with all the other elements and their isotopes in the group.
One gas was discovered in the clairvoyant investigations of 1907, for which there is no place in the list of atomic numbers. Its rarity was then described by saying that there might be one in the atmosphere of an ordinary-sized room. It was named by us "Kalon," the "beautiful." and its diagram was published, with that of its meta variety.
| ATOMIC | ||||
| No. | ANU | ELEMENT | CENTRE | 6 ARMS |
| 10 | 360 | Neon | Ne120 | 6 [Ne22 + (3Li4) + (2H3)] |
| 10 | 402 | meta-Neon | Ne120 | 6 [Ne22 + mNe15 + I.7 + H3] |
| 18 | 672 | proto-Argon | Ne120 | 6 [N63 + Ne22 + I.7] |
| 18 | 714 | Argon | Ne120 | 6 [N63 + Ne22 + Ar14] |
| 18 | 756 | meta-Argon | Ne120 | 6 [N63 + Ne22 + mNe15 + mAr6] |
| 36 | 1464 | Krypton | Ne120 | 6 [N63 + N110 + Ne22 + mNe15 + Ar14] |
| 36 | 1506 | meta-Krypton | Ne120 | 6 [N63 + N110 + Ne22 + Ne22 + Ar14] |
| 54 | 2298 | Xenon | Ne120 | 6 [Xe15 + Xe14 + N63 + 2N110 + Ne22 + mNe15 + Ar14] |
| 54 | 2340 | meta-Xenon | Ne120 | 6 [2mXe18 + N63 + 2N110 + Ne22 + mNe15 + Ar14] |
| na | 3054 | Kalon | Ne120 | 6 [Xe15 + Xe14 + 2N63 + 2N110 + 2Ne22 + 2mNe15 + 2Ar14 + Ka12] |
| na | 3096 | meta-Kalon | Ne120 | 6 [2mXe18 + 2N63 + 2N110 + 2Ne22 + 2mNe15 + 2Ar14 + Ka12] |
| 86 | 3990 | Radon | Ne120 | 6 [Xe15 + Xe14 + 2N63 + 3N110 + 3mNe22 + 3mNe15 + 3Ar14 + I.7] |
| 86 | 4032 | meta-Radon | Ne120 | 6 [Xe15 + Xe14 + 2N63 + 3N110 + 3mNe22 + 3mNe15 + 3Ar14 + I.7 + mRd7] |
Fig. 156 shows the elements of the Star Group in a condensed form, from which their relationships can be studied.
A CHEMICAL compound is formed when two or more different atoms unite to form a new substance. When a compound is observed by clairvoyance it is seen that the atoms do not usually remain separate but that a mingling of the component parts of the constituent atoms takes place. Sometimes the atoms maintain their individuality and sometimes they are very much broken up, but their characteristic groups can easily be traced by reference to the diagrams of the atoms previously given.
The compounds which have been examined are here arranged as far as possible in related groups, first inorganic and then organic compounds.
As with the elements, the diagrams, though sometimes taken from photographs of actual models, are inadequate, and the reader must use his imagination to reconstruct the true molecule.
WATER H2O
Each molecule of water is composed of two Hydrogen atoms and one Oxygen.. Fig. 157 shows what happens when these atoms combine. The Oxygen double snake retains its individuality, as indeed it usually does, while the two Hydrogen atoms arrange themselves round it. Fig. 157a shows the Hydrogen atoms as forming with the Oxygen a sphere. Fig. 157b, another photograph of the same model taken from a different point of view, shows that each Hydrogen atom keeps its separate individuality.
THE HYDROXYL GROUP OH
This group is one of a number of distinct groups which keep their form and can be distinguished in many compounds. In the centre we find the double Oxygen snake. The Hydrogen atom divides into its two triangles and floats above and below the Oxygen. It will be noticed that when forming compounds the atoms often break up into the groups which they form when they disintegrate to the E4 level. This shows the importance of a study of the disintegration of the elements. It would seem that the E4 level is connected with chemical change. The appearance of the group is shown in Fig. 158. The upper triangle is positive, and the lower negative. Though these two triangles of Hydrogen are separated, with Oxygen in between, they are still bound to each other, and a linking force goes through the middle of the Oxygen snake. Each triangle rotates flat, and while rotating, sways a little up and down, as the lid of a pot rotates before it finally settles down.
HYDROGEN PEROXIDE H2O2
This substance appears to be related to the Hydroxyl group rather than to Water. The appearance of Hydrogen Peroxide is shown in Fig. 159. In drawing each Oxygen atom, the artist has purposely left out the small bodies of two Anu in one of the snakes, in order to make the Oxygen more graphic. Here we have two OH side by side, except that in the second OH the polarity is reversed, and the upper triangle of Hydrogen is negative and the lower positive. The two OH groups do not give the impression of being attracted to each other. But, under certain conditions, one Oxygen atom flies off, and then the two Hydrogen triangles associated with it are attracted to the triangles of the neighbouring OH, and form H2O. Water, as in Fig 157.
An interesting question is why H2O2 should be unstable. Investigation shows that there is some kind of a radiation from the earth; whether this force of radiation is due to the sun or not was not investigated. But the earth is steadily pouring out this radiation, and it rushes upwards. As the radiation rushes upwards, it hits the upper Hydrogen triangles which are rotating. Usually the impact makes no difference, as the upper and lower triangles are united by the bond which goes through the Oxygen atom, and the impact of the radiating force is not strong enough to break the link. But it happens that as the triangle rotates, it gets tilted sideways and, if the force from the earth hits it at its moment of greatest tilt, the triangle may be thrown off its balance. thus breaking the link with the lower triangle. Just as a metal disc can be kept revolving at the end of a jet of steam so long as the jet is directly underneath, so is the Hydrogen triangle as it rotates. But just as if the steam hits the disc when it is aslant, the disc flies off, so it is with the upper triangle when the force from the earth hits it. When it is so thrown off its balance, and the Oxygen atom is released and flies off, that triangle at once flies to the positive Hydrogen triangle nearest to it. The positive Hydrogen triangle below then flies to its neighbour, the negative Hydrogen triangle of the neighbouring OH. The result is a molecule of Water.
SODIUM HYDROXIDE NaOH
The arrangement of Oxygen and Hydrogen to make the Hydroxyl group OH was shown in Fig. 158. Sodium has been already described as dumb-bell. The combination Sodium Hydroxide NaOH is as in Fig. 160.
The central rod of Sodium enters inside the Oxygen atom, retaining at either end its floating funnels. The rod has plenty of space for its movement without touching the Oxygen atom, because the latter has become much fatter and shorter.
The two triangles which make up Hydrogen are separated, as in Hydroxyl, and float above and below Sodium. In Hydroxyl these two triangles are united by a bond which goes through the Oxygen atom. That bond still persists in NaOH, though Sodium has come in the way. We shall see later in Hydrochloric Acid HCI, where there takes place a similar disruption of Hydrogen, the reason for the intense activity of NaOH, when seen clairvoyantly, and probably also for its burning quality.
It is here noteworthy that the chemical combinations examined clairvoyantly produce effects which are not solely mechanical. They radiate a quality of feeling which, however rudimentary, causes a reaction in the observer. Thus the observer, even without any chemical knowledge, would note that NaOH is not a pleasant thing, and that it feels as though it would burn.
HYDROCHLORIC ACID HCI
One atom of Hydrogen and one of Chlorine combine to make a molecule of Hydrochloric Acid. Chlorine is a dumb-bell of the same shape as Sodium. The combination of Hydrogen and Chlorine is as shown in Fig. 161.
The first noticeable change in Chlorine is that its central rod is shorter and fatter than usual, as if compressed. The second change is in the two spheres, of ten Anu each, from which, as the centre, the funnels at either end of the Chlorine atom radiate normally; these two spheres are pulled out of place. All this distortion is due fundamentally to the two triangles of Hydrogen. These two, in their normal state when making the unit of Hydrogen, are linked in a special way, one going through the other. They are separated in Hydroxyl but the linking bond goes through the Oxygen in between. In HCl the bond still remains, though Chlorine comes in between.
In Chlorine each sphere of ten Anu, at top and at bottom, is linked to the little sphere of five Anu in the centre of the rod. This sphere of five is the grand centre of Chlorine. The two spheres of ten are normally held bound to it, and remain at a definite distance from it. But when one half of Hydrogen floats over the Na10 at the top, and the second half floats similarly under the Na10 at the bottom the spheres are displaced, owing to the strong pull exercised over them by the two halves of Hydrogen. But just as they are being displaced towards the Hydrogen, they are pulled back into place by the grand centre of Chlorine, the little sphere of five Anu. The result is like a spring coiled up and compressed; the spring strives to get back to its normal condition. This condition of tension may account for the power of Hydrochloric Acid to eat into things, for as it eats into things probably the spring strain diminishes.
There is only a slight change in the funnels which radiate from each Na10 forming the top and bottom of Chlorine. The twelve funnels in each group still radiate, pointing alternately up and down, but they are nearer to one another than is the case when Chlorine is by itself.
COMMON SALT, NaCl, Sodium Chloride
The molecule of common Salt, NaCl, is composed of one atom of Sodium and one atom of Chlorine. Both are of the dumb-bell type. Each consists of a central rod, at each end of which is a sphere, and from each of the two spheres revolve twelve funnels. Detailed descriptions of both have already been given. Fig. 162 shows the salient points of the two elements, a diagram being given of the central rod, of a sphere and of a funnel.
In the central rod of Sodium, there appears a body of six Anu. This body is positive, and appears to act as the centre of the whole atom.
When Sodium and Chlorine combine to make a molecule of Salt, the constituent bodies arrange themselves so as to make a cube. Fig. 165. The 24 Chlorine funnels radiate from the centre of the cube, in groups of three, to the eight corners of the cube; the shorter Sodium funnels radiate, in groups of two, to the 12 middle points of the twelve edges of the cube. A rearrangement takes place in the bodies composing the two rods and in the spheres at each end of the dumb-bell. From the two rods, six groups are made to radiate from the centre to the six middle points of the six faces of the cube. Each of these six groups is as in Fig. 163.
Counting up the individual Anu in Sodium and Chlorine, all are accounted for in the molecule of salt.
CARBON MONOXIDE CO
Carbon Monoxide is a simple combination of Carbon and Oxygen. Carbon is a group of eight funnels pointing to the eight faces of an octahedron. Four of its funnels are positive and four negative, with a single Anu linking each pair. In Carbon the grand centre is composed of four positive Anu, not linked to each other.
When combined with Oxygen, the Carbon is broken up. The appearance of the combination is shown in Fig. 166.
The Oxygen atom, unchanged, remains upright, and round its centre but outside there revolve like four moons the four Anu of the Carbon centre. The eight funnels arrange themselves as two groups of four each, and float at the top and bottom of the Oxygen atom. The four funnels, two of which are positive and two negative, revolve on a horizontal plane. They are however flattened, truncated, more pear-shaped than funnel-like.
It should here be mentioned that the particular particle of Carbon Monoxide which was examined was made occultly, that is, nut by a laboratory process. The clairvoyant investigator made a molecule of Carbon Monoxide by taking Carbon Dioxide CO, and removing from it one Oxygen atom. The resultant CO was then examined. But the Carbon Monoxide made in a laboratory may show some differences from the CO molecule described above.
CARBON DIOXIDE CO2
In this combination we have one Carbon and two Oxygen atom. Their appearance is as in Fig. 167.
The two Oxygen atoms revolve round a common centre which is composed of the four loose Anu which form the Carbon centre. The four Anu are not at the corners of a tetrahedron; while one of them is in the middle, the remaining three are arranged askew round it.
At either end of each Oxygen atom, there float two funnels from the Carbon atom. They do not revolve flat as in Carbon Monoxide, but stick out more upright, pointing slightly outwards.
SODIUM CARBONATE Na2CO3
Having examined the combination of Carbon with one Oxygen atom and with two Oxygen atoms, the investigation was extended to the configuration of Carbon with three Oxygen atoms. CO, does not exist by itself, but only in combination, so Sodium Carbonate Na2CO3, as easily procurable, was taken for examination. In this there are two atoms of Sodium, one of Carbon and three of Oxygen. The appearance of the molecule is as in Fig. 168.
The grand centre of the whole combination is still the four loose Anu from the Carbon centre. Round this there whirl upright three Oxygen atoms, at the three corners of a triangle. The two Sodium atoms have placed themselves inside two Oxygen atoms, as in Fig. 160, and the eight Carbon funnels float over the ends of the third Oxygen atom.
It is interesting to note that this triangular arrangement of O, has been deduced by Bragg from his X-ray analysis of Calcite and Aragonite, in which the group CO, occurs.
CALCIUM HYDROXIDE Ca(OH)2
Calcium is a di-valent element, and when investigated by clairvoyant magnification is seen to be composed of four funnels which radiate from a centre to the four faces of a tetrahedron. The centre of Calcium is a sphere of 80 Anu, and each of the four funnels contains 160 Anu.
The appearance of the Hydroxyl group OH is given in Fig. 158.
We can follow the arrangement of Calcium Hydroxide Ca (OH), in Fig. 169. Each Hydroxyl group lies at right angles to two funnels of Calcium. The arrangement will be clear if one holds in one's hand a tetrahedron. In Fig. 169 one Oxygen atom with half-Hydrogen triangles attached to its ends, is shown lying horizontally across at right angles to two Calcium funnels. The second Oxygen atom and its half-Hydrogens will not be seen from the angle of vision selected by the illustrator, as they will be hidden. They are, however, suggested by dotted lines. Calcium has a sphere as its centre. This of course persists in Ca(OH)2, but it is not shown in our figure.
CALCIUM CARBIDE CaC2
In Calcium Carbide we have one Calcium and two Carbon atoms. In the compound, each Carbon atom divides into four segments, each segment being composed of one positive and one negative Carbon funnel, with their linking Anu.
Calcium has four funnels, directed to the faces of a tetrahedron, and a centre In the combination CaC2, the Calcium centre remains unchanged, but each Calcium funnel swells out to make room for two segments (each of two funnels) of Carbon, as in Fig. 170 which shows one of the funnels.
CALCIUM CARBONATE. CaCO3
In CaCO3 the central globe of Calcium is not broken up and takes the central position. The general arrangement is like that of Sodium Carbonate where the three Oxygen atoms form pillars at the corners of a triangle. In the Sodium Carbonate Na2CO2, where we have the same CO, group, it will be seen that two of the Oxygen atoms are wound round the Sodium bar. In the case of Calcium Carbonate we again have the three Oxygen pillars but each of the pillars is associated with part of the Calcium or of the Carbon. Fig. 171.
The central globe of the Calcium, Ca80, is in the middle of the molecule, and the four Anu from the Carbon atom revolve round it like satellites. One of the Oxygen pillars has four Carbon funnels at the top and four at the bottom, and the other two Oxygen atoms each have a funnel of Calcium, Ca160, at top and bottom. Thus they divide the Calcium between them. The three Oxygen atoms are at the points of a triangle and move round in a circle. Because of the heavy centre Ca80, there is a slight curvature inward of the Oxygen pillars which is not shown in the diagram.
CALCITE AND ARAGONITE CaCO3
Both Calcite and Aragonite are crystalline forms of Calcium Carbonate. In the form given in Fig. 172, the three Oxygen atoms radiate horizontally. The Calcium centre, Ca80, with the four Anu from the Carbon atom forms the centre as before. The four Calcium funnels break up. Each funnel, Ca160, contains three spheres, so we have 12 spheres in all. These are accounted for by the 12 spheres, four round each Oxygen atom. The eight funnels of the Carbon are placed symmetrically round the centre.
COPPER HYDROXIDE Cu(OH)2
Copper Hydroxide is somewhat like a flat mango. Fig. 173. The Copper atom, which is dumb-bell in shape, stands in the middle. Its central rod is thin and elongated and from its ends the twelve funnels radiate from the globes, Cu20. As the funnels are fairly heavy they are long and extend to some distance. Under the radiating funnels there appears on either side of the dumb-bell bar, a Hydroxyl group, just as if when an umbrella is opened there is the central stick but under the cover of the umbrella two groups. The whole makes a very beautiful form.
SULPHURIC ACID H2SO4
The Sulphur atom is a tetrahedron having four funnels each containing nine S.16 in a ring. In the compound H2SO4 the Oxygen atoms seem to have acted in their usual manner and broken up the Sulphur atom to some extent. They have pushed themselves into the centre and pushed out the funnels. Each of the four Oxygen atoms radiates from the face of a tetrahedron. At the end of each Oxygen snake is a funnel of Sulphur, and over the mouth of the funnel floats half a Hydrogen atom.
In Fig. 174 only three sides of the tetrahedron are shown, the fourth being concealed. This must be imagined at the back, making up the constituents of H2SO4
COPPER SULPHATE CuSO4
The general appearance of Copper Sulphate is as in the diagram of Sulphuric Acid. As in Sulphuric Acid, the fourth group which completes the tetrahedron in each case is not shown. The tetrahedral form is indicated, but this is not intended to represent an actual boundary. Fig. 175.
In the tetrahedron there appears a grand centre. In the middle of this centre is a body of five Anu from the central bar of the Copper atom. Round these five there radiate to the four corners of a tetrahedron the four groups Ad6, from the two globes of Copper. Then, pointing to the faces of the tetrahedron, appear four balls of four Anu. These four balls come also from the two globes of Copper. The whole centre-piece acts as a unit though not enclosed in a sphere wall.
There remain the two bodies of three Anu and two groups of four Anu from the bar of Copper. These are at the corners of the tetrahedron but have a peculiar motion like that of a fly round the corners of the tetrahedron, first one corner and then the next, waltzing round by themselves. The observer wonders whether they are not somehow trying to get back to the others, but cannot. An experiment was tried of releasing the whole thing, and it was then found that these groups jumped back into their places in the bar with great avidity.
From this centre radiate the Oxygen atoms through the four faces of the tetrahedron, and at the end of each Oxygen atom is a funnel of Sulphur, as in Sulphuric Acid. Round each funnel of Sulphur are placed six funnels of Copper, in two groups of three, all pointing to the centre.
It will be seen that, allowing for the fourth group which is not shown in the diagram, all the constituents of the elements in the compound are accounted for.
MAGNESIUM CHLORIDE MgCl2
Magnesium is a tetrahedron. It has no centre but has four rather wide funnels, each containing three segments.
Chlorine has a dumb-bell shape. The centre of a Chlorine atom is the group of five Anu in the central bar or rod. This body of five Anu is described as hard and positive. Positive bodies are hard. and negative softer and more spongy. When the Chlorine breaks up each body of five Anu takes one end of a Chlorine atom with it and floats over a negative funnel of Magnesium. The remaining four bodies from the central rod, two of four Anu and two of three Anu, go with the second end of a Chlorine atom and float over a positive funnel. These four bodies revolve round a common centre of gravity. not in a perfectly flat surface. The 12 funnels at the ends of the Chlorine atoms arrange themselves in a flower shape round their own central globe. As has been said, only three funnels ran be shown. Two Magnesium funnels have the flower and a group of four bodies, while two Magnesium funnels have the flower and the group of five Anu. One of these latter groups is not shown. Thus all the constituents of the Magnesium and the Chlorine atoms are accounted for.
FERRIC CHLORIDE FeCl3
There are to be accounted for in Iron, fourteen bars radiating from a cube, as in the diagram of the Bars group, then three Chlorine atoms giving three rods, three C1.19 groups forming the centre of the dumb-bell of Chlorine and six flowers, each with a centre Na10 and 12 funnels, making 72 funnels in all.
In the molecule FeCl3, the three rods of Chlorine make three spheres and place themselves at the centre of the cube. Round these, but still inside the bars of Iron, rotate the six Na10 balls, each at the corner of an octahedron. These make a grand centre inside the Iron atom. The bars of Iron stick out from the cube on to the surface of a sphere. Fig. 177.
In the diagram it is not possible to show all the funnels, so 36 only are shown. They are in groups of three and are intended to be thought of as sticking out like spikes.
ANTIMONY TRIBROMIDE SbBr3
Antimony is a cube. It has six funnels and no centre.
Bromine is a dumb-bell with its rod or bar like that of Chlorine, C1.19, and having a globe and twelve funnels at each end.
In Antimony Bromide the Antimony is not much changed save that parts of the Bromine atoms enter into the centre of the cube and form a grand centre. Fig. 178.
The Bromine atoms break up. Over each Antimony funnel there floats one flower of 12 funnels and a globe. The six funnels and flowers point to the faces of a cube. In the diagram the cube is indicated but only four of the six funnels and flowers are drawn.
The three rods break up and rearrange themselves as a grand centre within the cube of the Antimony. Each rod consists of a group of five Anu, two groups of four Anu and two groups of three Anu.
In the very centre there come the three groups of five Anu, one from each of the rods. These five Anu are themselves at the corners of a tetrahedron (a five-sided figure, not a regular tetrahedron but a pyramid.) These three groups of five Anu arrange themselves in a special formation. One stands at the top and another at the bottom of a vertical line. The third runs round in a ring, like the edge of a disc, which cuts horizontally the vertical line drawn between the other two. The ends of the vertical line move but comparatively slowly, while the middle group of five Anu moves very fast. The whole arrangement then goes head over heels, having a curious double motion.
Round this central group the other bodies, six groups of four Anu and six groups of three Anu, are arranged as follows
Take a cube and place inside it, at the centre, the set of three fives as already described. Then take the central points of the sides or faces of the cube and at each of these is a body of four Anu. This gives the position of the six fours. Then take a second cube and set it a little corner-wise cutting the first cube; then take the middle points of the faces of this cube. At the middle points are the six bodies of three Anu. It will be seen that these middle points of the faces of a cube are really at the points of an octahedron; if we place the groups of one four and one three fairly near together and at the corners of an octahedron we get the idea of the arrangement. The diagram attempts to indicate this. The whole of these threes and fours are said to be in placed in a sphere which forms the grand centre of the Antimony Bromide molecule. This has been indicated in the diagram.
STANNOUS OXIDE SnO
Tin is a member of the Octahedron Group. It consists of a central globe, Ne120, eight funnels opening on the faces of the octahedron and six spikes pointing to the six corners. Fig. 179.
In Stannous Oxide the Oxygen enters into the middle of the central sphere. This sphere, Ne120, consists of five interlaced tetrahedrons at each corner of which is a group of six Anu. The centre of this tetrahedral arrangement is hollow and the Oxygen gets inside it and stands upright. Before the Oxygen enters the 20 Ad6 groups are held together at a certain distance apart. The Oxygen drives them further apart and the central sphere increases its size without altering its general character. The 20 Ad6 groups, however, which previously lay horizontally at the tetrahedron corners, now stick out vertically, all pointing to the middle.
When the Stannous Oxide is heated Oxygen is expelled and the Tin returns to its normal condition and shrinks again.
In the diagram only four faces of the octahedron are shown. Thus we show four funnels only and four spikes out of the six. Four funnels and two spikes are not shown. Similarly the inner sphere cannot be properly represented and the reader must imagine the 20 Ad6 groups sticking out all pointing to the centre.
STANNIC OXIDE SnO2
As in Stannous Oxide, SnO, we have an atom of Tin which consists of a central globe, Ne123, eight funnels opening on the faces of an octahedron and six spikes pointing to the corners of the octahedron.
In SnO, the two Oxygen atoms enter inside the central globe, which is hollow. They stand nearly upright but inclined slightly to each other. Fig. 180. The 20 Ad6 groups in the Ne120 stand upright, as in SnO, but instead of pointing to the centre those at one side aim at one Oxygen pillar and those of the other side aim at the second pillar.
When the molecule is made to spin very slowly so that it can be observed, the Oxygen atoms are found to spin by themselves. As they spin past, the Ad6 nearest to one Oxygen atom points to it and then to the next Oxygen, thus making the Ad6 move in a waggling, or oscillating back and forth movement, as the two columns come round.
Attempts were made to add more Oxygen atoms. If a third Oxygen atom is added the A36 groups loose their cohesion and the whole thing disintegrates.
Four Oxygens will not stick at all. If four Hydroxyl OH groups are tried we get Sn(OH)4 but this is unstable and remains only so long as the will holds them. If the will is released SnO, is formed and the remaining Oxygen atoms go off with the Hydrogen forming 2H,0.
The diagram of SnO, is seen to be the same as that of SnO in essentials. Two Oxygen atoms are shown inside the Ne120 sphere and the whole is a little larger.
Only one side of the octahedron is drawn and therefore four funnels and two spikes are not shown.
PHOSPHORIC ACID H3PO4
The Phosphate Group PO4 and Phosphite PO3
The Phosphate group consists of a Phosphorus atom with four Oxygen atoms. Although Phosphorus is a cube it is suggested that the method used in the SO, group, see H2SO4, is used. Reference to Fig. 174 will show that the four Oxygen atoms are directed towards the faces of a tetrahedron and the four funnels of Sulphur come at the ends of the Oxygen atoms, with the components of Hydrogen floating over the funnels.
In the case of the Phosphate PO, group we have again four Oxygen atoms and these enter the molecule and arrange themselves so that they point to the four directions of a tetrahedron, as before. The Oxygen atoms are revolving much more rapidly than the funnels. The Phosphorus is however, a cube. This cube is placed round the Oxygen atom and the six funnels point to the six faces of the cube.
Phosphoric Acid H3PO4
In this we have the Phosphate group. The phosphate group does not stand alone. If three Hydrogens are added they break up into their two halves and float over funnels as they do in H2SO4 Fig. 181.
There are various kinds of Phosphorus acids. H3PO3 seems to be like H3PO4 except that as there are only three Oxygen atoms they are in a three dimensional triangle inside the cube instead of towards the faces of a tetrahedron.
It was also observed that there is a second form of Phosphoric acid in which the funnels actually break up. Each funnel of Phosphorus contains two constituent bodies, making twelve in all. These arrange themselves in groups of three and float over the four Oxygen atoms. The Hydrogen atoms divide as before more like the H2SO4 diagram.
Another Phosphoric acid was observed which has only two Hydrogen atoms. In this case the Hydrogen atoms are broken up on to a higher sub-plane, i.e. the two Hydrogen atoms give 6 groups of 2 balls. over the six funnels.
AMMONIA NH3 TYPE A
The complete Nitrogen atom remains unbroken in the centre of the molecule, while the components of the three Hydrogen atoms circle round like planets round the sun. The Hydrogen atoms break up into the six triangles and these arrange themselves into three groups of two. Instead of the two half-Hydrogens of the atom remaining together as one would expect, however, there is a re-arrangement. The three groups circle on three planes; the first and topmost plane has two negative half-Hydrogens; the middle layer has one positive and one negative; and the bottom layer two positive half-Hydrogens.
AMMONIA NH3 TYPE B
This molecule also has the whole of the Nitrogen atom in the centre but round it revolve, on two planes, the six half-Hydrogens. Three negative half-Hydrogen atoms whirl round the upper part of the Nitrogen and three positive half-Hydrogen atoms round the lower half.
AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE NH4OH
The arrangement of the NH4 part of the molecule follows the design of Ammonia Type A. In NH_ however, we have four planes, on each of which circle two half-Hydrogen atoms. The topmost plane has two negative half-Hydrogens, the second, one negative and one positive, the third, two positive and the lowest, one positive and one negative.
The OH group remains together and is placed near the NH,. Fig. 184.
UREA (NH2)2CO
Here again the Nitrogen and Hydrogen atoms remain together, following the general pattern of NH, Type A, except that here we have only two planes. Two of these NH, groups whirl round one CO group, which is arranged as already met with in other compounds. The Oxygen atom is in the centre forming a column. Round this column circle the four Anu from the Carbon centre and the eight funnels of the Carbon arrange themselves at the top and bottom of the Oxygen column.
NITRIC ACID HNO3
In these nitrate compounds it is the Nitrogen which seems to suffer and not the Oxygen. The three Oxygens stand round the remains of the Nitrogen which is broken up considerably.
The centre piece of Nitric acid, HNO3, is formed by N110. The ovoid at the centre of the N110 is upright and the six globes N14 arrange themselves at the points of a hexagon. Round this centre piece we find the six groups from the Hydrogen atom, also arranged in hexagonal form. They are marked with a - and +. Round these again come the seven N9 globes which form the N63 group of Nitrogen. These seven N9 globes are at the points of a heptagon. The other four groups from Nitrogen, two N20 and two N24, stand round at the corners like sentinels.
The three Oxygen atoms are at the points of a triangle, probably in the third dimension at right angles to the paper.
SODIUM NITRATE NaNO3
Sodium Nitrate is somewhat similar to HNO3 and KNO3. Each has the NO, group. In Sodium Nitrate we have the Sodium dumb-bell instead of the Potassium spike. Sodium consists of a central rod, Na14, and two spheres, Na10, from each of which radiates a flower of 12 funnels, making 24 in all.
The Nitrogen atom acts as in the other nitrates, forming a central group with the N110 and N63 round it and the four sentinels, two N20 and two N24, at the corners. The three Oxygen atoms are also placed in Sodium Nitrate as they are in HNO3 or KNO3, that is, at the corners of a triangle, probably upright at right angles to the paper with the N110 group in the centre. Fig. 187.
It remains to account for the Sodium atom. It is broken up. The funnels are no longer in the usual groups (flowers) but are in rows like a brush coming down between the Oxygen atoms. There are eight funnels in a line coming out from the centre and sticking out. The Na10 are inside in the space from which the funnels start. The larger ovoid, the Na14, is shown below the N110 group. It will be seen that three groups of eight make up the 24 funnels. Four come from one set of 12 and four from another to make the third set. These are shown at the corners of a triangle between the Oxygen atoms and are drawn as pointing to the centre but making a brush. All revolve in the same direction.
POTASSIUM NITRATE KNO3
Here we have a Potassium atom instead of Sodium. The Potassium consists of 9Li63 spikes, 6Li4 globes and one N110.
The Potassium atom as well as the Nitrogen is split up. The Oxygen is very active and appears to act as the agent causing this splitting up. Fig. 188.
If we could put a tetrahedron over the head of this molecule, that would partly represent the way the components are arranged, but the two tetrahedrons are not placed one on top of the other but lie between one another. It is difficult to explain the perspective.
First there are two N110 groups revolving round a common centre. Then come the six Li4 at the points of a hexagon and taking the place of the Hydrogen units in HNO3 Round these again come the seven N9 from the N63. The four globes, two N20 and two N24, appear at the corners as before.
The nine spikes from the Potassium, 9Li63, come between the Oxygen atoms and are indicated as arranged in groups of three. The diagram gives a suggested position for them as the original is not clear. These may perhaps be also at the points of a triangle in a plane perpendicular to the paper, making a three-dimensional figure. The Oxygen atoms are placed at the points of a triangle as in HNO3
POTASSIUM CHLORATE. KClO3
The arrangement in this molecule is somewhat like that in Potassium Nitrate.
Potassium is a spike element having a globe consisting of N110 surrounded by six Li4 balls. Above this come nine Li63 spikes.
The Chlorine atom is a dumb-bell, having a rod C1.19 and two flowers, one at each end, each consisting of twelve funnels and a centre sphere.
The Oxygen atoms have the usual spiral form.
The molecule KClO3 has a dumb-bell in the middle and the three Oxygen atoms round it at the points of an equilateral triangle. These are probably on a plane at right angles to the paper as in Nitric acid and Potassium Nitrate.
The centre of the whole molecule and of the rod of the dumb-bell, is the N110 with six Li4 round it. This comes from the Potassium and seems to push its way into the rod. The middle group of the rod, which is a ball of five Anu, forms a ring round the large group. The rest of the rod, two groups of four Amu and two groups of three Amu, are placed as shown, and complete the enlarged rod of the dumb-bell. The remainder of the Chlorine atom, consisting of the two flowers, appears in the normal position, at the top and bottom of the rod.
The nine spikes from the Potassium atom are at the corners of a triangle and the Oxygen atoms outside these.
POTASSIUM CYANIDE KCN
This compound was investigated in 1922. The following extract from a letter written by Mr. Leadbeater on September 9th, 1922, illustrates the way in which he approached this work and the patience with which he repeated his observations in order to be quite sure of the facts. The compound KCN is a fairly complex one, and all the component parts of the three elements have to be fitted in.
"I have spent several hours over KCN, and by patiently taking it section by section, disturbing its groupings and then watching them flow back again, I have at last been able to draw some sort of plan of its arrangements. It is very roughly done, I fear, for I have no skill in such matters, and it is of course only a two-dimensional diagram of something which really exists in three or four dimensions, but it may give you some idea of this uncomfortably complex substance.
The molecule is not symmetrical, but it has a strongly-marked tendency to float in a particular position with the group of three bars pointing upwards, so I have marked that 'top'. The actual centre consists of four Carbon Anu, next come two Nitrogen balloons, revolving violently round that centre, and apparently paying no attention whatever to the groups of spikes and funnels which surround them, all of which are moving very much more slowly.
Each of the sub-sections has become to some extent a separate entity, rotating on its own axis at right angles to the general scheme, like a pencil rolled between finger and thumb, but always pointing to the vigorously-active centre. It would seem that each Potassium spike and each pair of Carbon funnels have annexed one of the smaller bodies from Nitrogen, and decline to be separated from it."
It will be seen from the diagram that the grand centre is formed by four Anu. These obviously come from the centre of the Carbon atom, and are the four Carbon Anu referred to by Mr. Leadbeater.
The four sets of funnels from the Carbon atom are situated as shown and each pair adds a group from Nitrogen, either N24 or N20. It may be that these are really placed at the corners of a tetrahedron, so making the three-dimensional form as suggested by Mr. Leadbeater.
The remainder of the Nitrogen atom is split up. The seven N9 groups from the larger group N63, attach themselves to Li63 spikes from the Potassium, while the 'balloon,' now identified as N110, revolves round the grand centre.
The other N110 which revolves round the grand centre comes from the Potassium, as do the nine Li63 spikes and the six little Li4 spheres.
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
Carbon is an octahedron composed of eight funnels, four of which are positive and four negative Fig. 191 gives two of the funnels, one positive and one negative, spread out flat, with the single loose Anu which binds them.
It is interesting to note that chemists have tried to conceive of the
quadrivalence of the Carbon atom, represented diagrammatically as
as four valencies radiating from the centre of a tetrahedron to its four
corners. No chemist has, so far, conceived of the Carbon atom as consisting
of eight half valencies, in the eight directions represented by the eight
faces of an octahedron. This, however, is what is seen by clairvoyance.
METHANE CH4
Methane is the simplest of the Carbon open-chain series, being composed of one Carbon and four Hydrogen atoms.
The combination of four Hydrogen atoms with one Carbon atom is seen in Fig. 192. The four Hydrogen atoms break up into eight triangular groups, four of which are positive and four negative. Each positive group floats at the mouth of a negative Carbon funnel and each negative group at the mouth of a positive funnel.
METHYL CHLORIDE CH3Cl
The first Carbon compound of the chain series. Methane CH4 was
shown in Fig. 192. Methane is represented as
Methyl Chloride is made by the substitution of a Chlorine atom for one
Hydrogen.
Chlorine, which is a dumb-bell, undergoes disruption. Its two ends, each of
which consists of a central sphere whence radiate twelve funnels, separate
from the central rod. This central rod itself breaks up. The result is
shown in Fig. 193.
It was mentioned earlier that in the central rod of Sodium there appears a body of six Anu. This body is positive, and appears to act as the centre of the whole atom of Sodium. Similarly in Chlorine, the centre of it all is a body of five Anu in its central rod. This body of five Anu is positive. When Chlorine breaks up, this body of five Anu takes one end of Chlorine with it, and floats over a negative funnel of Carbon. The remaining bodies of the central rod, two of four and two of three Anu, go with the second end of Chlorine and float over a positive funnel of Carbon. Over each of the six remaining funnels of Carbon, there floats a half-Hydrogen triangle, as in Methane.
ISOMER OF METHYL CHLORIDE CH3Cl
A variant of Methyl Chloride was observed, which is slightly different in the distribution of the five bodies of the central rod. This distribution is as in Fig. 194. Over the mouth of the two Carbon funnels, and under the bodies from the central rod, as in Fig. 193, there float the two ends of Chlorine.
TRICHLORO METHANE CHCl3
When examined clairvoyantly, the appearance of CHCl3 is as in Fig. 195.
In the previous combination, Methyl Chloride, CH3Cl the atom of Chlorine was broken up into two parts. Here, however, the three Chlorine atoms are not so broken up, but each attaches itself as a whole to a Carbon funnel. The Chlorine is partly sucked into the funnel. The central rod buckles up and bends in the process. The two flower ends of Chlorine, however, remain outside. One end of the atom of Hydrogen also gets partly sucked into a funnel.
METHYL ALCOHOL CH3OH
Methyl Alcohol differs from Methane in having one Hydrogen atom replaced
by the Hydroxyl group, thus
We have seen the appearance of the OH group in Fig. 158. Fig. 196 gives that
of CH3OH The Oxygen stands upright to two Carbon funnels, and the
two Hydrogen triangles at its top and bottom are sucked partly into the
funnels.
It was noted in the course of the investigations that Oxygen has a great quality of force, and does not break up when combining so as to accommodate itself to other atoms. In the present figure, the investigator described its behaviour as being "stiff as a poker".
ETHYL ALCOHOL C2H3OH
In this and the following compounds we have two Carbon atoms linked together in a chain. Fig. 197 shows how this occurs. A positive funnel of one Carbon atom selects a negative funnel of the other Carbon, for the purpose of linking. The linked funnels cannot of course lie on one plane, and therefore the forces which link are curved.
When, therefore, Ethyl Alcohol is examined, Figures 196 and 197 enable us to see how it is constructed.
ACETIC ACID CH3COOH
When it is realized that a valency of Carbon is distributed into two half-valencies, one positive and the other negative, the structure of Acetic Acid becomes simple. Stated in the usual form, but taking each valency of Carbon to consist of two half-valencies, it is as in Fig. 198.
This odd-looking formula is perfectly clear, if one holds in one's hands two octahedrons, placed side by side as in Fig. 197. The first Carbon with its three Hydrogens is similar to Methane, Fig. 192, so far as the three Hydrogens are concerned. In the second Carbon, the position of each Oxygen is as in Methyl Alcohol, Fig. 196, that is, upright and at right angles to two funnels. In the formula, to suggest this, the symbol for Oxygen, O, is placed horizontally. The Hydrogen floats, as two half-Hydrogen triangles, over the two remaining funnels. Though these two half-Hydrogens float over two Carbon funnels, and are so to say satisfied, yet owing to the proximity of an Oxygen atom to each of them, they are pulled towards the Oxygens and so are restless.
ACETYLENE C2H2
Acetylene can be produced by dropping water on Calcium Carbide. When this change is looked at clairvoyantly, the Oxygen is seen to fly to the Calcium funnels, releasing the Carbon segments. These Carbon segments arrange themselves in the formation represented by Fig. 199.
The mode of linking C-C is shown in Fig. 197. Four Carbon funnels are thus used up by this linking. The two Hydrogens, broken up into their twelve constituent charge units, each of which contains three Anu, then fly to the remaining twelve funnels of the two Carbon atoms. There is apparently no double bond between the Carbons in Acetylene.
TARTARIC ACID COOH CHOH CHOH COOH
In Tartaric acid we have a symmetrical molecule, the two halves being similar. Fig. 200. The two Carbon atoms are joined by using two funnels from each Carbon. The two Hydroxyl (OH) groups place themselves over two funnels as usual, the Oxygen being drawn down into the funnels as in Methyl Alcohol. The well-known Carboxyl group. COOH, is shown here in the form in which it appears in other acids. It will be seen that the four central Anu of the Carbon make a grand centre for the group, and the eight funnels of the Carbon atom place themselves at the ends of the Oxygen atoms. The triplets of the Hydrogen atom come between the two Oxygen atoms and push them apart. These two triplets are over the two funnels of a central Carbon atom. The remaining four triplets of the Hydrogen atom float over the funnels of the Carbon atoms which are attached to the Oxygen, but the description is not clear as to the exact distribution of these four triplets.
MALEIC ACID C2H2(COOH)3
This compound has a double bond in the centre, which means that four of the funnels of each central Carbon are engaged in making this bond. Fig. 201. The octahedrons may be visualized as standing parallel with one complete side used in these bonds. The remaining valencies point to two corners of a tetrahedron. One pair of funnels in each central Carbon is used in holding a Hydrogen atom, this Hydrogen dividing into its two triangles as usual. The other pair of funnels, completing the four valencies, is used to hold a Carboxyl group. This Carboxyl group is arranged just as is the Carboxyl group in Tartaric acid. It is shown making an angle with the Hydrogen to indicate that the whole is in three dimensions and that the valencies point to the corners of a tetrahedron.
DI-ETHYL ETHER (C2H5)2O
In the Ethers a group of the ethyl type is attached to another by means of an Oxygen atom. The example given here is Di-ethyl ether, but the other Ethers are on the same plan.
In Fig. 202 the molecule is shown lying on its side like a fallen column, the two groups of C2H5 being linked by the Oxygen atom. In the case where two Carbon atoms are joined together four funnels take part, the negative funnel of one Carbon being linked by lines of force to the positive of another.
In the Ethers the tail ends of the double Oxygen snake open out and point to a negative and a positive funnel respectively. The Oxygen atom is thicker and shorter than usual, and the two parts of the molecule hold together because the snakes are pulled in opposite ways because one is negative and the other positive. Four funnels of Carbon are occupied by the Oxygen.
In their natural free state there is a normal position for the atom and its parts. The Carbon atom, for instance, naturally points up and down as in an octahedron. Here the Oxygen pulls the Carbon atoms askew so that they are leaning a little forward. If it were not held strongly the molecule would fall apart.
In the diagram an attempt has been made to show the octahedron as if we were looking direct at one face. Four funnels are shown and the other four indicated.
The Hydrogen atoms break up into half-Hydrogens, as in Methane, and float over the funnels not occupied by the Oxygen, or are used to link the Carbons together.
BENZENE C6H6
Benzene is the first member of the closed chain, or ring, series. It consists of six Carbon and six Hydrogen atoms and can be represented diagrammatically as a single ring. Fig. 203.
Of the four valencies, three are satisfied, what becomes of the fourth valence?
Clairvoyance finds that this valence goes inward. In Benzene one pair of funnels from each of the six Carbons passes into the ring. These twelve funnels then form a dodecahedron at the centre of the ring. It should be noted that this, ring is not a flat hexagon but that the six Carbons are placed at the six corners of an octahedron. The remaining six funnels in each Carbon form themselves into a fan-shape, with the six triplets from each Hydrogen floating over the mouths of the funnels.
The appearance of the Benzene molecule is shown in Fig. 204, which is a photograph from a model. We must remember that no model can ever adequately represent the reality, since first the distances between Anu and between groups of them, and their relative sizes. cannot b= correctly represented in any model, and secondly each funnel which looks solid is not solid at all but is only a whirlpool of force created by the Anu as they revolve.
PHENOL C6H5(OH)
This compound is a simple derivative of Benzene. Fig. 205. The diagram of Benzene should be studied first in perspective, showing the central dodecahedron and the rest of the Carbon atoms distributed at the corners of an octahedron. Fig. 205 shows the six Carbon atoms in Phenol as at the corners of a flat hexagon. This is merely for convenience in the diagrams. The true form is as in Benzene. Phenol is Benzene with the Hydroxyl (OH) group at one corner, and not at the top, as might have been expected. The molecule is not straight but asymmetric. The difference in these things is not in the atoms but in the way in which they lie in reference to the currents. The Phenol is distorted and wobbly. When the Oxygen is lost the Phenol becomes straight again and there is a sense of relief - here there is a distinct rudiment of sensation.
the Hydroxyl Group.Here we have two Hydroxyl groups attached to the Benzene ring. They are
attached at the top and bottom. The whole is really an octahedron, as in
Benzene, but slightly elongated. The two Oxygens seem to elongate the
molecule a little but the whole is stable.
This is a ring compound derived from Benzene. It has an aldehyde group (CHO) attached to one corner. It is described as the usual hexagonal ring with a wart at one corner.
This corner is composed as follows. Usually the six funnels of the corner Carbon (two funnels of which are used in the dodecahedron) point outward with the six small H3 groups floating over them. In this case there is no corner Carbon but the six funnels and the Hydrogen atom form part of a complex body. The centre-piece of this body is the Oxygen. The eight funnels from the Carbon of the CHO divide into two groups of four and lie flat at each end of the Oxygen. The four central Carbon Anu circle round the Oxygen.
Above the four flat Carbon funnels there are three more Carbon funnels pointing outward. These are from the original six. Three of these six are shown at each end of the wart, sticking out but one at each angle of a triangle. The six balls of H3 do not float over the six funnels as before but are pulled down in some way and are not so definitely attached to their funnels. They are described as restless and dodging in sad out They are shown between these three funnels,
the Hydroxyl Group.Two varieties of this compound have been observed. Fig 208 In Type A the COOH and OH groups coalesce. Saliclic acid is fundamentally a Benzene ring. In type A we have an arrangement very much resembling Benzaldehyde.The five Carbon atoms in the ring are as in Benzaldehyde but the 'wart' has become larger as three Oxygen atoms are attached to the sixth Carbon, or rather take the place of the sixth Carbon. The three Oxygen atoms are side by side, with the four Anu from the Carbon circling round the central one. At the ends of the Oxygen atoms appear the four flat funnels from the Carbon atom of the Carboxyl group, while six funnels of the Carbon atoms belonging to the ring radiate out as in Benzaldehyde. In between these funnels, not still, but moving in and out, are the six balls from the Hydrogen of the COOH.
Type B. In this arrangement the OH group remains at one corner as in Phenol, while the COOH group forms a "wart" on the sixth corner as in Type A except that there are only two Oxygen atoms instead of three.
There appeared to be a mixture of these two tpes within the specimen examined.
PYRIDINE C5H6N
There are only five Carbon atoms in this compound, so the Nitrogen atom enters the ring and plays the part of the sixth Carbon. As there are only five Carbons, which provide ten funnels and not twelve, the dodecahedron in the centre would be incomplete. However, two groups from the Nitrogen, the two N24 groups, are given away by the Nitrogen and take the places of the two missing funnels. This produces an awkward looking, asymmetric centre, somewhat dented in. Also there are only five Anu from the five Carbon atoms to provide the grand centre of the dodecahedron. Fig. 209.
The remainder of the Nitrogen atom takes the place of the sixth Carbon atom. The arrangement is stable and the whole is a very sluggish creature. The pear-shaped Nitrogen balloon N110 is in its usual place with the ' dish ' N63 below it It is not possible to say how the valencies work The two N20 groups remain in their usual places.
NAPHTHALENE C10H8
The chemical formula for Naphthalene is C10H8 Chemists have long postulated that the arrangement of the atoms of Carbon and Hydrogen in it can be represented in a flat space diagram only in some such form as follows
When Naphthalene is examined clairvoyantly, its appearance is as in Fig. 204. We find a symmetrically balanced molecule, which has a close resemblance to two molecules of Benzene placed in juxtaposition. Fig. 210. The difference, however, is that out of the six arms of each Benzene, two have disappeared. But in the new combination, the symmetry is brought about by a new object between the two truncated Benzene molecules. This new object is composed of eight funnels of Carbon. These funnels become spheres, and the eight spheres make one whirling group. The arrangement of the spheres show that they are on the eight faces of an octahedron. The student will at once follow the arrangement of Naphthalene, after examining that of Benzene. Fig. 204.
ANTHRACENE C14H10
The chemical formula for Anthracene may be represented by Fig. 211.
Anthracene has not yet been examined clairvoyantly but we give a suggested model of it. Fig. 204.
ALPHA AND BETA NAPHTHOL C10H7OH
These compounds are derivatives of the double ring compound, Naphthalene. In alpha and beta naphthol we have hydroxyl OH groups attached at one corner of the molecule, the only difference being that in alpha naphthol the OH is at the top and in the beta compound at one side. Fig. 212.
In the description given by Mr. Leadbeater he says that the six funnels where the Oxygen are attached seem to flatten and make a cushion on which the Oxygen rests as on a brush. The Oxygen seems to be pulled down by the funnels.
In the alpha variety the two rings are distorted a little. They are pulled sideways and the second one, that with the Oxygen attached, is a little elongated. In the beta form the second ring is pulled still more to the side and bent upward. The whole thing is revolving, but in the beta form is more wobbly as if it had a double axis.
These molecules give an uncomfortable feeling of strain. They are not symmetrical and seem unnatural. Each of the angles of the hexagon ring may have a magnetism of its own and this may account for the OH attaching itself to one corner rather than another.
There is an interesting note here by Mr. Jinarajadasa, who says that speaking from memory he placed the OH of beta naphthol at one corner of the molecule but that Mr. Leadbeater said that it was at another corner. This proved to be in accordance with scientific theory.
INDIGO (C6H4NH.C0.C)2
Indigo is a complex molecule. Fig. 213. It consists of four rings but they are not true Benzene rings. The molecule is double or symmetrical, and each side has a Benzene ring and a second ring attached where Nitrogen, or the NH group, and the CO groups form the connecting links. The two halves of the molecule are connected through a double bond Carbon. Only one half of the molecule is given in Fig. 213.
A particularly interesting point about this diagram is that it illustrates how the valencies of Nitrogen act. The N110 is distorted, having projections at the top and bottom. The two N20 groups circle round the top projection and the two N24 groups circle round the bottom projection, which is pulled down by the N63. The two side projections are directed towards the valency forces from the Carbon atoms. The Hydrogen atom floats above the Nitrogen.
The CO group is arranged as in Carbon Monoxide. The Oxygen is in the centre, as a pillar, and the Carbon funnels flat at the top and the four Carbon Anu circle round it. The Carbon funnels provide the valency forces as usual, but the Carbon in the ring to which the CO is attached has its funnels bunched together like petals closing. The central valence is as in Maleic acid.
JUST a glimpse was gained into the mysterious process of Catalysis. Two examples were observed.
This was the first observation on catalysis, and Mr. Leadbeater notes the appearance of a totally new force, hitherto not noticed in any previous observation.
The easily performed experiment in catalysis of heating a mixture of Potassium Chlorate and Manganese Dioxide was made. The catalytic changes observed were as follows (representing by O and O the Oxygen atoms belonging respectively to Potassium Chlorate and Manganese Dioxide)
The Oxygen O, is liberated, while the catalyst remains unchanged. The action proceeds through the formation of intermediate compounds and is violent.
In this case there is little chemical evidence of the formation of intermediate compounds. The action is represented 2H,+O, -2 H,O.
The Platinum seems to act as an agent to produce the right conditions rather than to take much part in the action itself.
This is borne out in the occult investigation, where the change of the energy conditions is described by Mr. Leadbeater as a compression. The substances taking part in the reaction become denser or are compressed together, and in this condition the union of the two gases, Hydrogen and Oxygen, takes place.
It will be seen that in the notes the 'compression' is mentioned, but it is further stated that "The platinum does not do more than draw the Hydrogen atoms round it". To the chemist this suggests the surface film produced on the surface of metals.
The following notes were taken by Mr. Jinarajadasa during the course of the above observations. They illustrate the method of recording.
SILVER NITRATE AgNO3
Observation showed that the Silver Nitrate compound existed first in groups of 1,296 molecules, which then broke up into groups of 432 when subject to light
Fig. 214 shows the crystal of Silver Nitrate, its shape being that of a double cube tapering at both ends. When light impinges on it, it is broken up into three blocks, each of 432 molecules. In these smaller blocks, also the ends are pushed out so that the blocks taper at each end
Fig. 215 illustrates the effect produced by light on the arrangement of the molecules. In the normal crystal the molecules are in rows. Light alters their position so that they are as in the diagram. The alternate molecules step back. Evidently the light is absorbed and not reflected.
CALCITE AND ARAGONITE
The constitution of these two forms of CaCO3 appears identical, but in one the three Oxygen atoms stand upright at right angles to the paper, and in the other they radiate horizontally as drawn in Figure 172, page 276.
THE DIAMOND
When examined clairvoyantly it was seen that the structure of the Diamond was somewhat difficult to grasp. There was clearly a unit of Diamond, and its shape was a triakis octahedron. Fig. 216. But how was the large mass of Carbon atoms built up to make the Diamond? Each Carbon atom is an octahedron in outline; each is composed of eight funnels, four positive and four negative. Obviously in any form of packing, funnels of like electrical quality must not come mouth to mouth, as they will then repel each other.
One especial difficulty in mapping out the structure of the Diamond was due to the fact that in reality there is no rigid octahedral shape visible in the outline of a Carbon atom. Certainly its eight funnels radiate to the eight surfaces of an octahedron; but the octahedral shape is more an appearance than a reality. Fig. 217 shows four of these funnels. The funnel is a temporary effect, being in fact the rotational field made as groups of Anu revolve. In their revolutions, they push back the circumambient matter of the plane next above, making thus a temporary shell or field of activity.
In the packing of Carbon to make the Diamond, any two funnels of opposite electrical quality, from two adjacent Carbon atoms, interlock. The two rotational fields overlap, and the cigar-shaped bodies of one funnel enter among the interstices of the similar bodies in the funnel opposite to it. Fig. 218 is an attempt to show this interlocking. This unusual interlocking may perhaps be the reason why the Diamond crystal is so very hard.
The simplest way to describe the Diamond, whose general appearance is shown by Fig. 219, is to narrate how the octahedrons are assembled, in the making of the model First, five Carbon atoms are grouped, as in Fig. 220. Funnels of opposite electrical quality hold each other rigidly. These five Carbon atoms, in this formation, form the Carbon molecular unit for the building of the Diamond Fig. 221 shows the same unit, with its Maltese cross, as seen from the back.
Taking now 25 of these units, we place them in rows of five, making thus a square. Similarly we assemble 16 units to make a smaller square, 9 more to make a square smaller still, and finally 4 to make the smallest square. We now make a pyramid of four sides; its base will be of 25 units, then next above 16, 9 and 4. The top of the pyramid is one unit of five Carbon atoms.
Here we quote the words of the investigator as he describes what he sees.
"Now build in imagination another pyramid exactly like the first, and one would expect, by putting them together base to base, to have the complete molecule. But it is not so simple as that. They are applied base to base, but they are, as it were, bolted together by the insertion of additional Carbon atoms. Turn the pyramid upside down, and you will see quite a pretty pattern of 25 Maltese crosses. Fig. 222. Take any four of these crosses, and you will see in the middle of the group of four a depression, a square hole. In the reversed base of 25 units there are 16 of these holes, and before we set the bases together we must put a single carbon atom in each of the 16 holes of one of the bases. The 16 atoms will project like spikes, but when we apply the two bases, we shall find that these projections will exactly fit into the depressions which come opposite to them, and will lock the two pyramids together most efficiently. Is this also part of the explanation of the extreme hardness of the diamond?
"There is yet another peculiarity. The 16 blue and black holes (in the diagram) are arranged in four lines of four. Produce those lines in each case to the edge of the base of the reversed pyramid, and we find another additional Carbon atom fixed there as a bolt; also, one extra at each corner of the base. We will mark the holes for these (they are really only half-holes) green in our diagram, and there will be twenty of them altogether. The Carbon atoms which fill these green exterior holes project at the sides of the base of the pyramid, and make a serrated edge. Has this anything to do with the remarkable cutting power of the diamond?
"It seems noteworthy that the molecule stands always on the point of one of its pyramids, like a buoy floating in the water. In building the two pyramids, the units (of five Carbon atoms) always stand upright on their crosses; consequently it follows that when we reverse one of those pyramids to apply their bases, all the units in both of them are pointing away from the centre of the molecule. The little grey lozenges on the diagram are orifices, through which the background can be seen.
"I find it extraordinarily difficult to describe the thing so that there can be no mistake about it; I feel as though there must be some other way of looking at it which would make it all perfectly simple, but I cannot just get that point of view; perhaps someone else will. You have probably no idea of the trouble it has cost to analyze this molecule; it seems different from anything I have tackled before.
"There is still one more peculiarity, which however is not represented in the model The whole molecule is, as I have said, a flattened octahedron, and of course its eight sides are triangles. But in the middle of each of these eight sides - or rather aver the middle of it - hovers a single floating Carbon atom, floating out at right angles to the face of the triangle, pointing straight away from its centre. Its bottom point is almost touching the central point of the side, but not quite. I suppose that we could make it appear to float in its place by some ingenious attachment of thin wire, or possibly a long pin. Tiny as this Carbon atom is, it produces a curious effect We know how each chemical atom makes a shape for itself by pushing back surrounding matter - a shape which is really illusory, like the octahedron for the Carbon atom, whose sides are actually the mouths of funnels. Without those eight floaters, the shape of this Diamond molecule would be a flattened octahedron; but each of them raises the centre of its triangle very slightly, so that lines run from that centre to each angle of the triangle, dividing it into three very flat triangles, and so making the molecule a twenty-four sided figure, the triakis octahedron. The lines, of course, run from the apex of the floating atom."
When we count the number of Carbon atoms in the unit of Diamond, we find
GRAPHITE
It is well known that Graphite, which is dark grey and lustrous, is also composed of Carbon atoms. While the Diamond is hard, Graphite is soft and friable. Obviously the packing in Graphite must be quite different. Each octahedron in the figure is a Carbon atom of eight funnels; the difference in the electrical quality of the funnels is shown by light faces of the octahedron for positive, and dark faces for negative funnels.
The arrangement of the octahedrons in Graphite is such that, in each ring of six, a positive funnel is linked to a negative, and vice versa. Two layers of Carbon atoms in this formation can exist linked one over another, as the under surface of each layer is exactly the reverse electrically of the upper surface, and so two contacting surfaces readily link. .
This open-work lace-pattern arrangement of Carbon atoms accounts for the peculiarities in Graphite of darkness and of lustre. When light falls from the top, most of it enters in, and therefore when looked at from that particular angle, Graphite is dark. When light falls from the side, the absorbing spaces are much smaller in comparison, and a great deal of the light is thrown back, but not all of it, as in the case of the Diamond The friability of Graphite is easily understood when we note its arrangement into layers, as described above.
WITH the information revealed in Occult Chemistry a great expansion of our knowledge of Chemistry lies in front of us. It is just because this expansion is inevitable, that our clairvoyant investigators have toiled patiently for thirty years. They have claimed no recognition from chemists and physicists, because truth accepted or rejected is truth still, and any fact of nature seen and stated dearly will sooner or later be woven into the whole fabric of truth. The fact that this generation of scientists hardly knows anything at all of an extraordinary work of research extending for thirty years matters little, when we contemplate the long vistas of scientific investigation which the imagination sees awaiting mankind.
I desire to express my deep sense of obligation to the following members of the Theosophical Society, who gave their voluntary services in drawing various diagrams
I must express my hearty thanks also to Mr. V. John, owner and manager of Klein and Peyerl, who for thirty years have provided me with the necessary blocks for this and other works. This firm has put at my disposal all their talent in the way of draughtsmen, etc. and for Occult Chemistry, Mr. John has himself given much advice and assistance for the blocks.
| Appendix 1 Analysis of the Structure of the Elements |
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| Appendix 3 Notes and Reports of certain of the Investigations |
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| ATOMIC No. | ELEMENT | ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTS | No. of ANU |
| 1 | Hydrogen | (2H3'+H3)+(3H3) | 18 |
| 1a | Adyarium | 4H3+4Ad6 or Ad12+Ad24 | 36 |
| 1b | Occultism | 2H3+Ad24+Oc15+Oc9 | 54 |
| 2 | Helium | 2H3+(2H3'+H3)+(3H3)+2Ad24 | 72 |
| 3 | Lithium | (4Li4)+Li63+8Ad6 | 127 |
| 4 | Beryllium | Be4+4 (4Be10) | 164 |
| 5 | Boron | (4B5)+6 [4(2H3)+Ad6] | 200 |
| 6 | Carbon | 4+4 (C27+C26) | 216 |
| 7 | Nitrogen | N110+N63+2N24+2N20 | 261 |
| 8 | Oxygen | (55N2+5.O.7)+(55N2+5.O.7') | 290 |
| 9 | Fluorine | 2N110+8 (2Be4+H3'+Li4) | 340 |
| 10 | Neon | Ne120+6 [Ne22+(3Li4)+(2H3)] | 360 |
| 10 | Meta-Neon | Ne120+6 [Ne22+mNe15+I.7+H3] | 402 |
| 11 | Sodium | Na14+2Na10+24Na16 | 418 |
| 12 | Magnesium | 4 [3 (3Mg12)] | 432 |
| 13 | Aluminium | 6 [Al.9'+8Al.9] | 486 |
| 14 | Silicon | 8 [B5+4Si15] | 520 |
| 15 | Phosphorus | 6 [(B5+3N6+3P9)+(Li4+3Be4+3P9)] | 558 |
| 16 | Sulphur | 4 [3 (3S16)] | 576 |
| 17 | Chlorine | Cl.19 + 2Na10 + 24Cl.25 | 639 |
| 17 | Chlorine A | Cl.19 + 2(Na10 + 2) + 24Cl.26 | 667 |
| 18 | Proto-Argon | Nel20+6 [N63+Ne22+I.7] | 672 |
| 18 | Argon | Ne120+6 [N63+Ne22+Ar14] | 714 |
| 18 | Meta-Argon | Ne120+6 [N63+Ne22+mNe15+mAr6] | 756 |
| 19 | Potassium | (N110 +6Li4)+9Li63 | 701 |
| 20 | Calcium | Ca80+4Ca160 or Ca80+4[Ca45+Ca70+Ca45] | 720 |
| 21 | Scandium | (4B5 + Be4)+3 [N110+4(2H3)+Ad6]+3 [N63 +2N24+B5] | 792 |
| 22 | Titanium | (Ne120+8) + 12Ti14+4 (Ti88+C27+C26+1) | 864 |
| 23 | Vanadium | (I.7+4B5)+3 [N110+N20+4(2H3)+Ad6]+3 [N63+2N24+N20+N6] | 918 |
| 24 | Chromium | (8N6+8Ad6)+4 (Ca160+2Cr25) | 936 |
| 25 | Manganese | N110+ 14Li63 | 992 |
| 26 | Iron | 14 [2Fe14+Fe16+Fe28] | 1008 |
| 27 | Cobalt | 14 [2Fe14+Fe16+2Co11+Co8] | 1036 |
| 28 | Nickel | 14 [2Fe14+Fe16+2Co11+Ni.10] | 1064 |
| 29 | Copper | Cl.19+2 [2Be4+2Ad6]+24[Cl.25+2B5+Cu10] | 1139 |
| 30 | Zinc | (Zn18)+4 [3(3S16)]+4[4Zn20+3Zn18'+Cu10] | 1170 |
| 31 | Gallium | 6 [(Ga7+3Ga15+3Ga20)+(B5+3Ga13+3Ga18)] | 1260 |
| 32 | Germanium | (Be4+2Ad24)+8 [4Ge39] | 1300 |
| 33 | Arsenic | 6 [Al.9'+8 (2N9+Al.9)] | 1350 |
| 34 | Selenium | Zn18 +4 [3 (3Se10+3Se10+3N2)+Se153] | 1422 |
| ATOMIC No. | ELEMENT | ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTS | No. of ANU |
| 35 | Bromine | Cl.19 +2 (Be4 +2H3 +2N2) +24(Cl.25 +3Ge.11) | 1439 |
| 36 | Krypton | Ne120 +6 [N63 +N110 +Ne22 +mNe15 +Ar14] | 1464 |
| 36 | Meta-Krypton | Ne120 +6 [N63 +N1I0 +Ne22 +Ne22 +Ar14] | 1506 |
| 37 | Rubidium | (3N110) +16 [Li63 +RbI2] | 1530 |
| 38 | Strontium | (Sr96) +4 (2Ca160 +2Sr24) | 1568 |
| 39 | Yttrium | (Ad24 +Yt16) +6 [N63 +N110 +Yt44 +(4Yt8 +2Ad6)] | 1606 |
| 40 | Zirconium | (Ne120 +8) +12Zr36 +4(Zr212 +C27 +C26 +1) | 1624 |
| 41 | Niobium | (2Ad24 +N9) +6 [N63 +N110 +Yt44 +Nb60] | 1719 |
| 42 | Molybdenum | (N2 + Sr96) +4 (2CaI60 +2Mo46) | 1746 |
| 43 | Masurium | (3N110) +16 [Li63 + Ma29 (a or b)] | 1802 |
| 44 | Ruthenium | 14 [2Fe16 +2Fe14 +2Ru17 +2Ru19] | 1$48 |
| 45 | Rhodium | 14 [2Fe16 +2Fe14 +2Rh20 +2Rh17] | 1876 |
| 46 | Palladium | 14 [2Rh17 +2Pd15 +2Pd17 +2Pd19] | 1904 |
| 47 | Silver | Cl.19 +2(mNe5 +2H3 +2N2) +24(Cl.25 +3Ge.11 +Ag21) | 1945 |
| 48 | Cadmium | Cd48 +4[3 (3Se10 +3Zn18' +4Zn20)] | 2016 |
| 49 | Indium | 3 [2 (In16 +3Ga15 +3Ga20) +(In14 +3Ga13 +3Ga18)] + 3 [(InI6 +3Ga15 +3Ga20) +2(In14 +3Ga13 +3Ga18)] | 2052 |
| 50 | Tin | Ne120 +8 (4Ge39) +6Sn126 | 2124 |
| 51 | Antimony | 3 [2Sb128 +Sb113] +3[2Sb113 +Sbl28] | 2169 |
| 52 | Tellurium | (Cd48 +3) +4 [3 (3Se10 +3Te21 +4Te22)] | 2223 |
| 53 | Iodine | Cl.19 +2 (3Be4 +2H3) +24(Cl.25 +3Ge.11 +5.I.7) | 2287 |
| 54 | Xenon | Ne120 +6 [Xe15 +Xe14 +N63 +2N110 +Ne22 + mNe15 +Ar14] | 2298 |
| 54 | Meta-Xenon | Ne120 +6 [2mXe18 +N63 +2N110 +Ne22 +mNe15 +Ar14] | 2340 |
| 55 | Caesium | (4N110) + 16 [Li63 + 2Ma29a] | 2376 |
| 56 | Barium | (I.7 +Sr96) +4[2 Ca160 +2Mo46 +Ba33 +Li63b +Ba80] | 2455 |
| 57 | Lanthanum | (Ne120 +I.7) +3 [N63 +N110 +Mo46 +Ca70 + Yt44 +Nb60] +3 [N63 +N110 +Ca45 +Ca70 +Yt44 +Nb60] | 2482 |
| 58 | Cerium | Ce667 +4Zr212 +4 [Ca160 +Ce36 +C27 +C26] | 2511 |
| 59 | Praeseodymium | Ce667 +6 [Pr33 +N63 +N110 +Yt44 +Nb60] | 2527 |
| 60 | Neodymium | Ce667 +4 [2Ca160 +2Mo46 +Nd65] | 2575 |
| 61 | Illinium | (4N110) +8 (2Li63 +Il.9) +8[2Li63 +Il.14] | 2640 |
| - | X | 14 [3X30 +3X28 +X15] | 2646 |
| - | Y | 14 [3X30 +2Y29 +X28 +X15] | 2674 |
| - | Z | 14 [3X30 +3Z31 +Cu10] | 2702 |
| 61 | Illinium isotp | (4N110) +8 (2Li63 +Il.17) +8[2Li63 +Il.18] | 2736 |
| 62 | Samarium | (2Sm84 +4Sm66) +2Sm101 +24(Cl.25 +4Ge.11 +Ag21) | 2794 |
| 63 | Europium | Eu59 +4 [3 (3Se10 +3Eu26 +4Eu31)] | 2843 |
| 64 | Gadolinium | Ne120 +3 [2Sb128 +Sb113 +(Ca45 +2NZ4)] + 3 [Sb128 +2Sb113 +(Ca45 +Mo11 +2N24)] | 2880 |
| ATOMIC No. | ELEMENT | ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTS | No. of ANU |
| 65 | Terbium | Ne120 +8 (4Ge39 +2Mo46 +I.7) +6Sn126 | 2916 |
| 66 | Dysprosium | Ne120 +3 [2Sb128 +Sb113 +(Ca45 +2Mo11 +2N24)] +3 [Sb128 +2Sb113 +(Ca45 +2Mo11 +2N24)] | 2979 |
| 67 | Holmium | Ho220 +4 [3 (3Se10 +3Eu26 +4Eu31)] | 3004 |
| 68 | Erbium | (Cl.19 +3Sm84 +6Sm66) +2Sm101 +24[Cl.25 +4Ge.11 +Ag21] | 3029 |
| - | Kalon | Ne120 +6 [Xe15 +Xe14 +2N63 +2N110 +2Ne22 +2mNe15 +2Ar14 +Ka12] | 3054 |
| 68 | Meta-Kalon | Ne120 +6 [2mXe18 +2N63 +2N110 +2Ne22 +2mNe15 +2Ar14 +Ka12] | 3096 |
| 69 | Thulium | (4N110) +16 [2Li63 +Tm40] | 3096 |
| 70 | Ytterbium | Yb651 +4 [2Ca160 +2Mo46 +(Ca160 +Yb48)] | 3131 |
| 71 | Lutetium | Lu819 +6 [N63 +N110 +Lu53 +Ca70 +Lu36 +Nb60] | 3171 |
| 72 | Hafnium | Hf747 +4 [Zr212 +4Hf36] +4[Ca160 +Ce36 +C27 +C26 +Ge.11] | 3211 |
| 73 | Tantalum | Lu819 +6 [N63 +N110 +Ta63 +Ca70 +Yt44 +Nb60] | 3279 |
| 74 | Tungsten | Lu819 +4 [2Ca160 +2Mo46 +Ca160 +Yb48] | 3299 |
| 75 | Rhenium | (4N110) +16 [2Li63 +Re57] | 3368 |
| 76 | Osmium | 14 [4X30 + 3Z31 + Os32] | 3430 |
| 77 | Iridium | 14 [4X30 +2Ir27 +2Ir26 +Ag21] | 3458 |
| 78 | Platinum | 14 [4X30 +2Ir26 +2X28 +Ag21] | 3486 |
| 78 | Pt Isotope | 14 [4X30 + 2Ir27 +2X28 + Ag21] | 3514 |
| 79 | Gold | Au864 +2 (Sm101 +2Au38) +24[Cl.25 +4Ge.11 +Fe28] | 3546 |
| 80 | Mercury | Au864 +4 [3 (3Se10 +3Cl.19 +4Te22) +Se153] | 3576 |
| 81 | Thallium | Tl.687 +3 [2Sb128 +Sb113 +(Ca45 +Ti.44 +2N24)] +3 [Sb128 +2Sb113 +(Ca45 +Ti.44 +2N24)] | 3678 |
| 82 | Lead | Tl.687 +4 [Ca160 +Mo46 +4Sn35 +Pb31] +4 [Ca160 +Mo46 +4Ge39 +Pb21] | 3727 |
| 83 | Bismuth | Tl.687 +3 [2Sb128 +Sb113 +(Ca45 +Mo46 +2N24)] +3 [Sb128 +2Sb113 +Ti88 +(Ga20 +4Zr13)] | 3753 |
| 84 | Polonium | Po405 +4 [3 (3Po17 +3Po33 +4Po33')] | 3789 |
| 85 | 85 | Au864 +2 (Sm101 +2Au38) +24[Cl.25 +2 +4.85.15 +Fe28] | 3978 |
| 86 | Radon | Ne120 +6 [Xe15 +Xe14 +2N63 +3N110 +3mNe22 +3mNe15 +3Ar14 +I.7] | 3990 |
| 86 | Meta-Radon | Ne120 +6 [Xe15 +Xe14 +2N63 +3N110 +3mNe22 + 3mNe15 +3Ar14 +I.7 +mRd7] | 4032 |
| 87 | 87 | (5N110) +16 [3Li63 +87.27] | 4006 |
| 88 | Radium | Lu819 +4 [3Ca160 +3Mo46] +4[3Li63 +Cu10] | 4087 |
| 89 | Actinium | Lu819 +3 [N63 +N110 +Mo46 +Ca160 +Yt44 +Nb60] + 3 [Zr212 +Sb128 +Ac116] +8Li63 | 4140 |
| ATOMIC No. | ELEMENT | ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTS | No. of ANU |
| 90 | Thorium | Lu819+4 [Zr212+Sb128+Ac116]+4 [Ca160+ Mo46+2Li63+C27+C26+1] | 4187 |
| 91 | Proto-Actinium | Lu819+3 [N63+N110+Mo46+Ca160+Yt44+Nb60]+3 [Zr212+Sb128+Ac116+Pa29] + 8Li63 | 4227 |
| 92 | Uranium | Lu819+4 [3Ca160+3Mo46]+4[3Li63+Ur36+Ur19] | 4267 |
This Table includes a comparison between the scientific and the occult atomic weights. The scientific atomic weights were calculated from the International list of atomic weights 1949, where O = 16.00 and H = 1.008. The final decision as to the names of elements Nos. 43, 61, 85 and 87 was made too late to be used in this book.
| Number | ATOMIC WEIGHT | EXTERNAL | ||||
| No. | Name | Symbol | of Anu | Occult | Scientific | Form |
| 1 | Hydrogen | H | 18 | 1.00 | 1.00 | Ovoid |
| - | Adyarium | Ad | 36 | 2.00 | - | Ovoid |
| - | Occultum | Oc | 54 | 3.00 | - | Ovoid |
| 2 | Helium | He | 72 | 4.00 | 3.97 | Star |
| 3 | Lithium | Li | 127 | 7.06 | 6.89 | Spikes |
| 4 | Beryllium | Be | 164 | 9.11 | 8.94 | Tetrahedron |
| 5 | Boron | B | 200 | 11.11 | 10.73 | Cube |
| 6 | Carbon | C | 216 | 12.00 | 11.91 | Octahedron |
| 7 | Nitrogen | N | 261 | 14.50 | 13.90 | Ovoid |
| 8 | Oxygen v1 | O | 290 | 16.11 | 15.87 | Ovoid |
| 8 | Oxygen v2 | O | 310 | 17.22 | - | Ovoid |
| 8 | Oxygen v3 | O | 348 | 19.33 | - | Ovoid |
| 9 | Fluorine | F | 340 | 18.88 | 18.85 | Spikes |
| 10 | Neon | Ne | 360 | 20.00 | 20.02 | Star |
| - | Meta-Neon | mNe | 402 | 22.33 | - | |
| Il | Sodium | Na | 418 | 23.22 | 22.81 | Dumb-bell |
| 12 | Magnesium | Mg | 432 | 24.00 | 24.13 | Tetrahedron |
| 13 | Aluminium | A1 | 486 | 27.00 | 26.76 | Cube |
| 14 | Silicon | Si | 520 | 28.88 | 27.84 | Octahedron |
| 15 | Phosphorus | P | 558 | 31.00 | 30.73 | Cube |
| 16 | Sulphur | S | 576 | 32.00 | 31.81 | Tetrahedron |
| 17 | Chlorine | Cl | 639 | 35.50 | 35.17 | Dumb-bell |
| - | Meta-Chlorine | mCl | 667 | 37.06 | - | |
| 18 | Argon | Ar | 714 | 39.66 | 39.68 | Star |
| - | Meta-Argon | mAr | 756 | 42.00 | - | |
| - | Proto-Argon | pAr | 672 | 37.33 | - | |
| 19 | Potassium | K | 701 | 38.94 | 38.79 | Spikes |
| 20 | Calcium | Ca | 720 | 40.00 | 39.76 | Tetrahedron |
| 21 | Scandium | Sc | 792 | 44.00 | 44.74 | Cube |
| 22 | Titanium | Ti | 864 | 48.00 | 47.52 | Octahedron |
| 23 | Vanadium | V | 918 | 51.00 | 50.55 | Cube |
| 24 | Chromium | Cr | 936 | 52.00 | 51.60 | Tetrahedron |
| 25 | Manganese | Mn | 992 | 55.11 | 54.50 | Spikes |
| 26 | Iron | Fe | 1008 | 56.00 | 55.41 | Bars |
| 27 | Cobalt | Co | 1036 | 57.55 | 58.47 | Bars |
| 28 | Nickel | Ni | 1064 | 59.11 | 58.52 | Bars |
| Number | ATOMIC WEIGHT | EXTERNAL | ||||
| No. | Name | Symbol | of Anu | Occult | Scientific | Form |
| 29 | Copper | Cu | 1139 | 63.277 | 63.04 | Dumb-bell |
| 30 | Zinc | Zn | 1170 | 65.00 | 64.86 | Tetrahedron |
| 31 | Gallium | Ga | 1260 | 70.00 | 69.17 | Cube |
| 32 | Germanium | Ge | 1300 | 72.22 | 72.02 | Octahedron |
| 33 | Arsenic | As | 1350 | 75.00 | 74.12 | Cube |
| 34 | Selenium | Se | 1422 | 79.00 | 78.33 | Tetrahedron |
| 35 | Bromine | Br | 1439 | 79.94 | 79.38 | Dumb-bell |
| 36 | Krypton | Kr | 1464 | 81.33 | 83.04 | Star |
| - | Meta-Krypton | mKr | 1506 | 83.66 | - | |
| 37 | Rubidium | Rb | 1530 | 85.00 | 84.80 | Spikes |
| 38 | Strontium | Sr | 1568 | 87.11 | 86.93 | Tetrahedron |
| 39 | Yttrium | Yt | 1606 | 89.22 | 88.21 | Cube |
| 40 | Zirconium | Zr | 1624 | 90.22 | 90.50 | Octahedron |
| 41 | Niobium | Nb | 1719 | 95.50 | 92.17 | Cube |
| 42 | Molybdenum | Mo | 1746 | 97.00 | 95.19 | Tetrahedron |
| 43 | Masurium | Ma | 1802 | 100.11 | 98.21 | Spikes |
| 44 | Ruthenium | Ru | 1848 | 102.66 | 100.90 | Bars |
| 45 | Rhodium | Rh | 1876 | 104.22 | 102.1 | Bars |
| 46 | Palladium | Pd | 1904 | 105.77 | 105.9 | Bars |
| 47 | Silver | Ag | 1945 | 108.06 | 107.0 | Dumb-bell |
| 48 | Cadmium | Cd | 2016 | 112.00 | 111.5 | Tetrahedron |
| 49 | Indium | In | 2052 | 114.00 | 113 q | Cube |
| 50 | Tin | Sn | 2124 | 118.00 | 117.8 | Octahedron |
| 51 | Antimony | Sb | 2169 | 120.50 | 120.8 | Cube |
| 52 | Tellurium | Te | 2223 | 123.50 | 126.6 | Tetrahedron |
| 53 | Iodine | I | 2287 | 127.06 | 125.9 | Dumb-bell |
| 54 | Xenon | Xe | 2298 | 127.66 | 130.3 | Star |
| - | Meta-Xenon | MXe | 2340 | 130.00 | - | ,. |
| 55 | Caesium | Cs | 2376 | 132.00 | 131.9 | Spikes |
| 56 | Barium | Ba | 2455 | 136.39 | 136.3 | Tetrahedron |
| 57 | Lanthanum | La | 2482 | 137.88 | 137.8 | Cube |
| 58 | Cerium | Ce | 2511 | 139.50 | 139.0 | Octahedron |
| 59 | Praeseodymium | Pr | 2527 | 140.39 | 139.8 | Cube |
| 60 | Neodymium | Nd | 2575 | 143.06 | 143.1 | Tetrahedron |
| 61 | Illinium | Il | 2640 | 146.66 | 145.8 | Spikes |
| - | Meta-Illinium | - | 2736 | 152.00 | - | ., |
| - | X Interperiodic | - | 2646 | 147.00 | - | Bars - |
| - | Y Interperiodic | - | 2674 | 148.55 | - | Bars - |
| - | Z Interperiodic | - | 2702 | 150.22 | - | Bars |
| Number | ATOMIC WEIGHT | EXTERNAL | ||||
| No. | Name | Symbol | of Anu | Occult | Scientific | Form |
| - | Isotope Z | - | 2716 | 150.88 | Bars | |
| 62 | Samarium | Sm | 2794 | 155.22 | 149.2 | Dumb-bell |
| 63 | Europium | Eu | 2843 | 157.94 | 150.8 | Tetrahedron |
| 64 | Gadolinium | Gd | 2880 | 160.00 | 155.7 | Cube |
| 65 | Terbium | Tb | 2916 | 162.00 | 158.0 | Octahedron |
| 66 | Dysprosium | Ds | 2979 | 165.55 | 161.2 | Cube |
| 67 | Holmium | Ho | 3004 | 166.88 | 163.6 | Tetrahedron |
| 68 | Erbium | Er | 3029 | 168.27 | 165.9 | Dumb-bell |
| - | Kalon | - | 3054 | 169.66 | Star | |
| - | Meta-Kalon | - | 3096 | 172.00 | Star | |
| 69 | Thulium | TM | 3096 | 172.00 | 168.1 | Spikes |
| 70 | Ytterbium | Yb | 3131 | 173.94 | 171.7 | Tetrahedron |
| 71 | Lutetium | Lu | 3171 | 176.17 | 173.6 | Cube |
| 72 | Hafnium | Hf | 3211 | 178.38 | 177.2 | Octahedron |
| 73 | Tantalum | Ta | 3279 | 182.17 | 179.5 | Cube |
| 74 | Tungsten | W | 3299 | 183.28 | 182.5 | Tetrahedron |
| 75 | Rhenium | Re | 3368 | 187.11 | 184.8 | Spikes |
| 76 | Osmium | Os | 3430 | 190.55 | 188.7 | Bars |
| 77 | Iridium | Ir | 3458 | 192.11 | 191.6 | Bars |
| 78 | Platinum A | Pt | 3486 | 193.66 | 193.7 | Bars |
| - | Platinum B | - | 3514 | 195.22 | Bars | |
| 79 | Gold | Au | 3546 | 197.00 | 195.6 | Dumb-bell |
| 80 | Mercury A | Hg | 3576 | 198.66 | 199.1 | Tetrahedron |
| - | Mercury B | - | 3600 | 200.00 | - | Tetrahedron |
| 81 | Thallium | Tl | 3678 | 204.33 | 202.8 | Cube |
| 82 | Lead | Pb | 3727 | 207.06 | 205.6 | Octahedron |
| 83 | Bismuth | Bi | 3753 | 208.50 | 207.6 | Cube |
| 84 | Polonium | Po | 3789 | 210.50 | 208.3 | Tetrahedron |
| 85 | Astatine | At | 3978 | 221.00 | 208.3 | Dumb-bell |
| 86 | Radon | Rn | 3990 | 221.66 | 220.2 | Star |
| - | Meta-Radon | - | 4032 | 224.00 | - | Star |
| 87 | Francium | Fr | 4006 | 222.55 | 221.2 | Spikes |
| 88 | Radium | Ra | 4087 | 227.06 | 224.3 | Tetrahedron |
| 89 | Actinium | Ac | 4140 | 230.00 | 225.2 | Cube |
| 90 | Thorium | Th | 4187 | 232.61 | 230.3 | Octahedron |
| 91 | Proto-actinium | Pa | 4227 | 234.83 | 229.2 | Cube |
| 92 | Uranium | U | 4267 | 237.06 | 236.2 | Tetrahedron |
THE purpose of publishing these extracts is to show the technique and conditions under which the work was done. The reader should study these side by side with the diagrams given earlier. In order to facilitate this the extracts are arranged in the order in which the subjects and diagrams appear in the book and page references given. The objective nature of Mr. Leadbeater's clairvoyance appears very evident.
The observations were made by Mr. C. W. Leadbeater and the questioner was Mr. C. Jinarajadasa. All were made between 1922 and 1933 and took place in Australia or at Adyar. Madras. Miss K V. Maddox was the stenographer in Australia.
Heavy Hydrogen-Deuterium, p41
Observation at a distance. Masurium, p53
Isotopes
Search for an Isotope of Chlorine, p66
Artificial and Natural Erbium, p70. Help from Nature
Spirits
An Artificial Element created from Gold and Sulphur,
p72
Ozone, p96
Sodium Hydroxide NaOH, p268
Hydrochloric Acid, HCI, p269
Carbon Dioxide, CO2, p271
Carbon Monoxide, p271
Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3, p274-6
Sulphuric Acid H2SO 4, p281
Ferric Chloride, FeCl3, p286
Phosphoric Acid, H3PO4, p294
Ammonia. NH3, p297
Ammonium Hydroxide. NH4OH, p298
Urea (NH2)2CO, p301
Nitric Acid, HNO3, p302
Sodium Nitrate. NaNO3, p304
Potassium Nitrate, KNO3, p306
Potassium Cyanide. KCN, p310
Methyl Chloride, CH3CL, p313
Chloroform, CHCl3, p314
Methyl Alcohol, CH3OH, p314
Calcium Carbide, CaC2, p273
Acetic Acid. CH3COOH, p315
Tartaric Acid, (COOH.CHOH)2, p317
Maleic Acid, C2H2(COOH) p319
Phenol, C6H5OH, p323
Hydroquinone. C6H4(OH)2,
p324
Benzaldehyde, C6H5CHO, p325
Salicylic Acid, C4H5COOH.OH,
p327
Pyridine. C5H5N, p329
A and B Napthol, C, off r OH, p331
Indigo (C6H4NH.CO.C)2,
p332
The disintegration of the Elements
procedure to produce Invisibility
Smell
Sal volatile was examined
The Cancer cell
The Smallpox germ
Arthritis
Neuritis
Rheumatic Fever
Paralysis
Epilepsy
Electricity and Prana
The Flow of Forces Adyar 18th October. 1932.
The Electron: The Last Investigation
INDEX
ADDENDA
Fluorine
Radium
Carbon
ERRATA
Heavy Hydrogen-Deuterium, p41
The following observation of the electrolysis of water was performed at Adyar. Vessels con taining distilled and tap water were used and two copper terminals attached to the house mains were placed in the water. The current was D. C. At 2-30 p.m. Mr. Leadbeater sat by a window with the two receptacles before him. (The current is turned on.)
Observation at a distance. Masurium, p53
Mr. Leadbeater soon found that it was not necessary for him to have an element before him for investigation, provided he knew where that element was to be located. Thus, for instance, in connection with the investigations at Adyar in 1933. one element hunted for was Masurium. It seemed likely that this new element might be found among Rubidium salts, but I had no Rubidium salts, and at the moment of investigation I could not procure any in Madras. It was therefore necessary to look for it elsewhere. I had with me several chemicals procured from Hilger and Co. Their address was on the samples, in Rochester Place, Camden Road, London. Mr. Leadbeater could find this street easily, and from Adyar he located the laboratory of Hilger and Co. He then saw where all the chemicals were stored in bottles on shelves. The next thing was to find out where were the bottles containing Rubidium salts, and for this he had to tap the mind of one of the assistants who was working among the bottles; he then located the salts, but Masurium was not among them. He promised to take up the investigation at night during sleep. Meanwhile I found that Masurium was discovered in certain oxides. These oxides were among the rare earths that I had procured from Hilger and Co.
Another instance of the way that an examination could be carried on at a distance was in the case of the Radium emanations. We had not Radium at Adyar but some was kept at the Madras Hospital. I went to the hospital and saw where the needles of Radium were kept in a lead cabinet. When I got back the picture in my mind of the room and the cabinet was sufficient and he then watched the Radium emanations.
Isotopes
One noteworthy fact recorded in these investigations was the existence of isotopes. It was in 1913 that isotopes were discovered by chemists. But already, in 1907, isotopes were recorded, and diagrams given, of the isotopes of the inert gases, Neon, Argon, Xenon and Krypton. One was noted of Platinum and another in 1909 of Mercury.
Isotopes were not specially sought for by the clairvoyant investigators but some were found and catalogued though no special names were given to them except to use the term "meta" before the name of an element or to speak of a Platinum B or Mercury B.
In April 1908 Mr. Leadbeater wrote to Dr. Besant, "It is quite possible that Radium being a heavy element there may be two or three forms of it differing only by a few Anu in each spike or funnel." He also sensed the possibility, which has now become an accepted fact, that the speed of a particle can change its mass. For in the same letter he writes "As to the matter of atomic weight, it occurs to me that that may not always depend entirely on the number of Anu. May it not conceivably be affected by their arrangement and the direction and rapidity of their motion"?
Search for an Isotope of Chlorine, p66
Artificial and Natural Erbium, p70. Help from Nature Spirits
Mr. Leadbeater could investigate at any time, provided his brain was not tired. Several of the investigations in 1933 took place in the evening while he was lying on a sofa and a masseur was working on his legs and feet. One particular evening while the old masseur was pounding him, we were trying to locate Erbium. Erbium is of the same family as Samarium and Iodine which had already been described.
C. W. L. thought he would make an experiment as we had no Erbium at the moment. He put together the parts that appeared in the central rod of Samarium, this time three of them instead of two, to see if they would cohere. They would not; but when the connecting rod of Silver, of 19 Anu, was placed in the middle of the three, there was not only perfect cohesion but also a very great vitality. Then the funnels of Samarium were stuck on; everything held. This seemed to show that the experiment was a success and that what was put together was really an atom of Erbium.
But obviously this was not enough, and so the search continued. What was to be done next? We knew that Iodine exists in the sea. Immediately it occurred to him to look into the sea for Erbium. He got into touch with a sea nature spirit, a Triton, who, he knew, lived in the sea near Adyar beach. He asked the Triton if he knew anything of the kind in the sea, and showed him the alchemically constructed Erbium. The creature answered, "Yes, we will bring it," and quickly brought a handful of natural Erbium. The atoms of Erbium which the Triton brought were like spiculae, or a handful of tiny pencils held in the hand.
Another case when nature spirits were used by Mr. Leadbeater was when he investigated Polonium in August 1933. Polonium exists in pitchblende and pitchblende is found in some mines in Ceylon, in the district of Sabaragamuwa. Mr. Leadbeater had been in that district in the early years of his work in Ceylon; so that night, while asleep, he went to Ceylon and located the mines. He arranged for some nature spirits to act as scouts and look for the element. This was a kind of game for the creatures. At last they found three Polonium atoms.
An Artificial Element created from Gold and Sulphur, p72
Mr. Jinarajadasa once took, as a tonic, a particular preparation made according to the Ayurvedic or Indian system of medicine, a compound of Gold and Sulphur. After the many processes of fractionation according to the Ayurvedic compounding, the Gold ceases to be colloidal and exists in some other form. When this compound entered the body, the life forces in the body were discovered to have made a new combination. The funnels in Gold had disappeared, leaving only the central "solar system" made from Occultum. The funnels of Sulphur bad been separated, and two funnels floated above the top of the system and two funnels at its base. This was a new artificial element, which circulated in the blood stream. No investigation was made as to what happened afterwards to the artificial combination.
Ozone, p96
Sodium Hydroxide NaOH, p268
Hydrochloric Acid, HCI, p269
Carbon Dioxide, CO2, p271
Carbon Monoxide, p271
Calcium Carbonate, CaCO3, p274-6