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THE CHEMISTRY OF THE FUTURE.
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We may take as an example, Mr. W. Crookes' latest discovery of
what he has named Protyle. In the Notes 07i the Bhagavad Gita, by
one of the best metaphysicians and Vedantic scholars in India, the
lecturer, referring cautiously to "things Occult" in that great Indian
Esoteric work, makes a remark as suggestive as it is strictly correct.
He says:
Into the details of the evohition of the solar system itself, it is not necessary for
me to enter. You may gather some idea as to the way in which the various
elements start into existence from these three principles into which Mulaprakriti
[the Pythagorean Triangle] is differentiated, by examining the lecture delivered by
Professor Crookes a short time ago upon the so-called elements of modern
chemistry. This lecture will give you some idea of the way in which these
so-called elements spring from Vishvanara,* the most objective of these three
principles, which seems to stand in the place of the protyle mentioned in that
lecture. Except in a few particulars, this lecture seems to give the outlines of the
theory of physical evolution on the plane of Vishvanara, and is, so far as I know,
occult theory on
the nearest approach made by modem investigators to the real
the subject.
These words will be reechoed and approved by every Eastern Occul-
Much from the lectures by Mr. Crookes has already been quoted
tist.
in Section XI. A second lecture has been delivered by him, as remarkable
as the first, on the "Genesis of the Elements,"! and also
a third one. Here we have almost a corroboration of the teachings of
Esoteric Philosophy concerning the mode of primeval evolution. It
is,
indeed, as near an approach, made by a great scholar and specialist
in Chemistry,§ to the Secret Doctrine, as could be made apart from the
application of the Monads and Atoms to the dogmas of pure transcendental
Metaphysics, and their connection and correlation with "Gods
and intelligent conscious Monads." But Chemistry is now on its
ascending plane, thanks to one of its highest European representatives.
It is impossible for it to go back to that day when Materialism
regarded its 5z^