Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements

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 The Divine Word or Reason; the creative principle of the universe. geometrizes: and we recall H. P. Blavatsky's Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831–1891), a co-founder of the Theosophical Society. statement that nature ever builds by form and number.

The method of examination employed was that of clairvoyance The supposed faculty of perceiving things or events in the future or beyond normal sensory contact.; there were only two observers—Mr. Leadbeater and myself—and it is very desirable that our results should be tested by others who can use the same extension of physical sight. The researches being carried on upon the physical plane—the forms examined being gaseous and etheric Relating to the "ether," a hypothesized medium formerly thought to fill all space and transmit light. only—a very slight intensification of ordinary vision is all that is necessary, and many should, therefore, be able to test our observations. They cannot be regarded as established by the outside world until others have corroborated them; and we put them forward in the hope of stimulating work along this line, and of thus bringing to science, when its instruments fail it, the old, old instrument of enlarged human vision.

The first difficulty that faced us was the identification of the forms seen on focusing the sight on gases. We could only proceed tentatively. Thus, a very common form in the air had a sort of dumb-bell shape (see Plate I); we examined this, comparing our rough sketches, and counted its atoms; 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 it was sodium. We then took various substances—common salt, etc.—in which we knew sodium was present, and found the dumb-bell form in all. In other cases, we took small fragments of metals, such as iron, tin, zinc, silver, gold; in others, again, pieces of ore, mineral waters, etc., and, for the rarest substances, Mr. Leadbeater visited a mineralogical museum a few miles away. In all, 57 chemical elements were examined, out of the 78 recognized by modern chemistry.

In addition to these, we found three chemical "waifs" Unidentified or stray substances.: an unrecognized stranger between hydrogen and helium which we named occultum Latin for "hidden." for purposes of reference, and two varieties of one element, which we named kalon Greek for "beautiful." and meta-kalon, between xenon and osmium; we also found four varieties of four recognized elements and prefixed "meta" to the name of each, and a second form of platinum, that we named