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THE REV. J. J. B. COLES, ON THEOSOPHY. 



of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements, |by 

 Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. I give a few extracts — 



The first thing which is noticed by an observer, when he turns 

 his attention to the chemical atoms, is that they show certain 

 definite forms, and that within these forms modified in various 

 ways, sub-groupings are observable which recur in connection with 

 the same modified form." (p. 11.) 



"The tetrahedron seems to be one of the favourite forms of 

 nature, and repeatedly appears in the internal arrangements. * Gold 

 contains no less than 20 tetrahedra.' " 



" The Cube appears to be the form of triads." The Octahedron 

 — the simplest example of this is carbon. 



" We have a regular series of the Platonic solids, and the question 

 suggests itself, will further evolution develop elements shaped to the 

 dodecahedron and the icosahedron 1 " 



Those of us who have studied the Geometrical Philosophy 

 of the ancients, and who are aware that Moses, the writer of 

 the Pentateuch, was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, 

 and that he introduced in an esoteric manner, into Genesis, the 

 science of geometrical form and number, will have read this 

 book of Occult Chemistry with very great interest. 



On my writing table before me I have three of the regular 

 polyhedra or platonic solids, the icosahedron being one of them. 

 Some of us will remember Lord Kelvin's Moleculctr Tactics of a 

 Crystal and the diagram representing a small sphere in the 

 centre of twelve other similar spheres, and we note with close 

 attention this reference to the dodecahedron and icosahedron in 

 connection with the suggestion as to further evolution. Many 

 of us have but little doubt that this further evolution will soon 

 be an accomplished fact. 



But let us continue our perusal of this interesting book, all 

 the more interesting from the fact that at a recent meeting of 

 scientists in Milan, a well-known Professor of Chemistry, 

 Dr. Ubaldo Antony, spoke very favourably of the results of this 

 clairvoyant excursion into a hitherto unoccupied field. 



After noticing the diagram of radium on p. 89 and the 

 allusion to the " extraordinary vivid and living " complex 

 central sphere, " so rapid that continued accurate observation 

 is very difficult," let us turn to the Appendix on the ^ther of 

 Space, 



" Much discussion has taken place, especially between physicists 

 and chemists, over the nature of the substance with which all space 

 must, according to scientific hypothesis, be filled. One side contends 



