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NOTE BY C. W. LEADBEATER:Page 6
There is a sentence in the article on "Koilon". It runs as follows:
" By actual counting it has been discovered that the number of coils or spirillae of the first order in each wire is
1,680; and the proportion of the different orders of spirillae to one another is, equal in all cases that have been examined, and corresponds with the number of bubbles in the ultimate spirilla of the lowest order".
I counted all those 1,680 turns in the wire of the Arnoo, not once, but many times. I tried altogether 135 different
specimens, taken from all sorts of substances.
If we remove one wire from the Arnoo it can of course be straightened out into a circle. Really, however, it is not a
single wire but a spiral spring, as in Fig. 6, and I called each of these little rings a coil, or a "spirilla of the first order", "a," and I meant to explain that there were 1,680 of these rings or turns or coils in each wire. But each of those coils is itself a spiral spring made up of finer coils (which we might call "b") and I
FIG. 6. THREE COILS IN AN ARNOO
called those "spirillae of the second order", and so on down to spirillae of the lowest order".
In the seven thinner wires of the atom which correspond to the seven colours I find that each "spirilla of the first
order", "a, " is composed of seven "spirillae of the second order", "b ", each "b" in turn is composed of seven "c"s, each "c" of seven "d"s, and so on down to the "spirilla of the lowest order" which is composed of exactly seven bubbles.
But in the three thicker wires of the atom there is a very slight difference. The seven bubbles no longer fit exactly
under one another, as it were, if one looks along or through the wire endwise; in 100 "spirillae of the lowest order" there ought to be just 700 bubbles; so there are in the seven thinner, coloured wires, but in the three thicker wires there are 704. So the increase is at present 1 in 175. And the same curious little increase holds good in the relation of the different orders of spirillae. In the thinner wires exactly 7 spirillae of one order make 1 of the next higher order, so that 700 "b"s make exactly 100 "a"s and so on; but in the thicker wires 704 "b"s go to 100 "a"s, and the same curious proportion all through. That is what I meant when I said that " the proportion of the different orders of spirillae to one another is equal, and corresponds with the number of bubbles in the ultimate spirilla of lowest order."
THE ETHERIC SUBPLANES
The first etheric subplane El is formed, as has been previously explained, by single Arnoo. More or less complex
combinations of these Arnoo form successively the second, E2, third, E3, and fourth, E4, etheric subplanes.
The second subplane E2 -- The simplest union of Arnoo, apparently never consisting of more than seven, form the
second etheric subplane. In Fig. 7 are shown some characteristic combinations of the E2 state; the Arnoo is conventional with the depression emphasized. The lines, always entering at the depression and coming out at the apex, show the resultants of lines of force. Where no line appears entering the depression, the force wells up from four-dimensional space; where no line appears leaving the apex, the force disappears into four-dimensional space; where the point of entry and departure is outside the Arnoo, it is indicated by a dot. It must be remembered that the diagram represents three-dimensionial objects, and that the Arnoo are not necessarily all on one plane.
TYPES OF E2 MATTER
FIG. 7
The third Etheric Subplane E3 -- The E3 state, in some of its combinations, appears at first sight to repeat those
of the E2 state; the only obvious way of distinguishing to which some of the groups of less complexity belong is to pull them out of the "cell-wall"; if they are E2 groups they at once fly off as separate Arnoo; if they are E3 groups they break up into two or more groups containing a smaller number of Arnoo. Thus one of the E2 groups of iron, containing seven Arnoo, is identical in appearance with an E3 heptad, but the former dissociates into seven Arnoo, the latter into two triads and a single Arnoo. Long-continued research into the detailed play of forces and their results is necessary; we are here only able to give preliminary facts and details, are opening up the way.
TYPES OF E3 MATTER
FIG. 8
The fourth etheric subplane, E4 -- The E4 state preserves many of the forms in the elements, modified by release
from the pressure to which they are subjected in the chemical atom. In this state various groups are thus recognizable which are characteristic of allied elements.
These groups are taken from the products of the first disintegration of the chemical atom, by forcibly removing it
from its hole. The groups fly apart, assuming a great variety of forms often more or less geometrical; the lines between the constituents of the groups, where indicated, no longer represent lines of force, but are intended to represent the impression of form, i.e., of the relative position and motion of the constituents, made on the mind of the observer. They are elusive, for there are no lines. The appearance of lines is caused by the rapid motion of the constituents up and down, or along them backwards and forwards. The. dots represent Arnoo within the elements. Fig. 9.
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Two Arnoo, positive and negative, brought near to each other, attract each other, and then commence to revolve
round each other, forming a relatively stable duality; such a molecule is neutral. Combinations of three or more Arnoo are positive, negative or neutral, according to the internal molecular arrangement; the neutral are relatively stable, the positive and negative are continually in search of their respective opposites, with a view to establishing a relatively permanent union.
Speaking generally, positive groups are marked by the points of Arnoo being turned outward and negative
groups by the points being turned inward towards each other and the centre of the group.
The groups show all kinds of possible combinations; the combinations spin, turn head over heels and gyrate in
endless ways. Each aggregation is surrounded with an apparent cell-wall, a circle or oval, due to the pressure on the surrounding matter, caused by its whirling motion. The surrounding fields strike on each other and the groups and rebound. dart hither and thither, for reasons we have not distinguished.
Fig. 9
THE CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
The first thing which is noticed by the observer, when he turns his attention to the chemical atoms, is that they show
certain definite forms. The main types are not very numerous, and we found that, when we arranged the atoms we had observed according to their external forms, with a few exceptions they fell into seven natural classes. Fig. 10.
1. The Spike Group
2. The Dumb-bell Group
3. The Tetrahedron Group
4. The Cube Group
5. The Octahedron Group
6. The Crossed Bars Group
7. The Star Group
Each atom has a spherical or oval wall, within which the various groups of Arnoo move. That wall is drawn as an
ovoid in the case of Hydrogen; it must be imagined in the case of every other element. A sphere-wall is a temporary effect, caused by one or more Arnoo in rotation. Just as a stream of air under pressure will make a hole on the surface of water, by pushing back that water, so is it with the groups. As they revolve, the force of their motion drives back the circumambient medium. That medium thus driven back by the atom element as it moves round its axis is the space around it which is filled with millions of loose Arnoo; it also drives back denser parts of what is called astral matter. For instance the medium driven back by each separate funnel in Sodium is astral atomic matter.
In the seven clearly defined forms it is worthy of notice that in divalent elements four funnels open on the faces of a
tetrahedron; in trivalent. six funnels on the faces of a cube ; in tetravalent, eight funnels on the faces of an octahedron. Here we have a regular sequence of the platonic solids, and the question suggests itself, will further evolution develop elements shaped to the dodecahedron and the icosahedron? |
