Occult Chemistry

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OCCULT CHEMISTRY
Clairvoyant Observations on the
Chemical Elements

BY
ANNIE BESANT, p.t.s.
AND
CHARLES W. LEADBEATER

Revised Edition edited by A.P. Sinnett

London
THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE
1, Upper Woburn Place, W.C. 1.
1919

[...] Mr. Leadbeater was then staying at my house, and
his clairvoyant faculties were frequently exercised
for the benefit of myself, my wife and the
theosophical friends around us. I had discovered that
these faculties, exercised in the appropriate
direction, were ultra-microscopic in their power. It
occurred to me once to ask Mr. Leadbeater if he
thought he could actually see a molecule of physical
matter. He was quite willing to try, and I suggested a
molecule of gold as one which he might try to observe.
He made the appropriate effort, and emerged from it
saying the molecule in question was far too elaborate
a structure to be described. It evidently consisted of
an enormous number of some smaller atoms, quite too
many to count; quite too complicated in their
arrangement to be comprehended. It struck me at once
that this might be due to the fact that gold was a
heavy metal of high atomic weight, and that
observation might be more successful if directed to a
body of low atomic weight, so I suggested an atom of
hydrogen as possibly more manageable. Mr. Leadbeater
accepted the suggestion and tried again. This time he
found the atom of hydrogen to be far simpler than the
other, so that the minor atoms constituting the
hydrogen atom were countable. They were arranged on a
definite plan, which will be rendered intelligible by
diagrams later on, and were eighteen in number.

We little realized at the moment the enormous
significance of this discovery, made in the year 1895,
long before the discovery of radium enabled physicists
of the ordinary type to improve their acquaintance
with the "electron." Whatever name is given to that
minute body it is recognised now by ordinary science
as well as by occult observation, as the fundamental
unit of physical matter. To that extent ordinary
science has overtaken the occult research I am dealing
with, but that research rapidly carried the occult
student into regions of knowledge whither, it is
perfectly certain, the ordinary physicist must follow
him at no distant date. [...] 


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