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unite most readily with the others, to form alloys, amal- 

 gams or metallic compounds. Copper is very readily 

 alloyed ; lead almost always contains silver ; mercury is 

 susceptible of amalgamation ; arsenic metallizes the 

 others almost like sulphur. 



758. The air-metals appear to have lost for the most 

 part the metallic character ; arsenic therefore destroys 

 also magnetism. 



759. The essence of metallic poison thus appears to 

 reside in the endeavour on the part of the metals to sup- 

 press the metallic character and convert themselves into 

 the formless elements. The metallic poison is the direct 

 opponent of the metals themselves, and through this, of 

 everything that has form, and thus of the Organic also. 



d. MAGNETISM. 



760. Two actions are necessarily manifested in iron, 

 one clearing or dividing in so far as it is earth, and one 

 to be identifying, in so far as it is metal. Iron is the 

 fluctuation between oxydation and reduction, between 

 light and gravity, and this conflict of the two latter is 

 Magnetism. Magnetism is the spiritual function of 

 the metals. 



761. Magnetism belongs essentially to the metals 

 only. What is not metal, is metallic only according to 

 idea or signification ; it may be therefore aptly said, that 

 such a body hath no magnetism, and that what has it, 

 were metallic. 



762. Magnetism is the direct property only of iron ; 

 this alone is the hybrid or heterogynous metal. 



763. Magnetism appertains only to the other metals 

 in as far as they are positions of iron ; and is the more 

 powerful, the nearer they stand in relation to iron, All 

 metals are magnetic in idea, whether magnetism be mani- 

 fested in them or not. 



764. All metals have originated through magnetism, 

 through the radial polarity, or the conflict of light and 

 gravity. Magnetism is the action betwixt light and dark- 

 ness, periphery and centre. Magnetism as being a metal- 



