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Occult Chemistry
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The Periodic Law: the number affixed to an element is the number of "Anu" (the ultimate physical particles of which matter is constituted).

Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds (originally subtitled A Series of Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements) is a book written by

Henry Olcott
after his death in 1907.

Overview

The first edition reprinting articles from The Theosophist was published in 1908, followed by a second edition edited by Alfred Percy Sinnett in 1919, and a third edition edited by Curuppumullage Jinarajadasa in 1951.[1][2]

Since the first edition was published in 1908, the book is in the public domain, and available in whole or in excerpts, on many sites on the internet.[3]

Occult Chemistry states that the structure of

clairvoyant observation with the microscopic vision of the third eye.[4] Observations were carried out between 1895 and 1933. "The book consists both of coordinated and illustrated descriptions of presumed etheric counterparts of the atoms of the then known chemical elements, and of other expositions of occult physics."[5]

Critical reception

Academic criticism is available in Chapter 2 of Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory,[6] and in an online article from the Chemistry department at Yale University.[7]

Critics regard the book to be an example of pseudoscience.[8] According to Philip Ball, most scientists did not take the book seriously.[9]

See also

  • Clairvoyance
  • How Theosophy Came to Me
  • Thought-Forms

References

  1. .
  2. ^ List of Sources - Occult Chemistry for Postgraduate Students of Physics, Philosophy & Psychology
  3. ^ Occult Chemistry by Annie Wood Besant and C. W. Leadbeater at Project Gutenberg
  4. C.W. Leadbeater
    that, by extending an "etheric tube" from the third eye, it is possible for one to develop microscopic vision and telescopic vision. See Leadbeater, C.W. The Chakras Wheaton, Illinois, USA:1927 Theosophical Publishing House Page 79
  5. ^ An Appreciation of C.W. Leadbeater, by Geoffrey Hodson
  6. .
  7. ^ McBride, J. Michael (12 May 1999). "Serious Scientific Lessons from Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance". Chemistry 125. New Haven, CT: Yale University. Archived from the original on 24 July 2010. Retrieved 6 March 2017.

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