Occult Chemistry

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.

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.

Occult Chemistry states that the structure of chemical elements can be assessed through clairvoyant observation with the microscopic vision of the third eye. 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."

Critical reception

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

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

References

References

1. Brock, William H.. (14 December 2016). "William Crookes (1832–1919) and the Commercialization of Science". Taylor & Francis.
2. [http://www.tphta.ws/TPH_OCPG.HTM List of Sources - Occult Chemistry for Postgraduate Students of Physics, Philosophy & Psychology]
3. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16058 Occult Chemistry by Annie Wood Besant and C. W. Leadbeater] at [[Project Gutenberg]]
4. It was claimed by [[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. [http://www.theosophical.org/resources/articles/AppreciationofCWL.pdf An Appreciation of C.W. Leadbeater, by Geoffrey Hodson]
6. Morrisson, Mark. (19 April 2007). "Modern Alchemy: Occultism and the Emergence of Atomic Theory". Oxford University Press.
7. McBride, J. Michael. (12 May 1999). "Serious Scientific Lessons from Direct Observation of Atoms through Clairvoyance". Yale University.
8. [[Martin Gardner. Gardner, Martin]]. (2001). ''Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience''. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 62. {{ISBN. 978-0393322385
9. [[Philip Ball. Ball, Philip]]. (2015). ''Invisible: The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen.'' University of Chicago Press. pp. 121-124. {{ISBN. 978-0226238890