Theos-Talk Archives (November 1997 Message tt00178)

Apparently Leadbeater and Besant did pretty good job analyzing the microcosm:

http://www.geocities.com/~whitegoldweb/libframe.htm

> The results of Leadbeater's and Besant's investigations were published
> serially as articles in the magazine, The Theosophist. The material was
> later arranged and published in 1909 in a book titled "Occult
> Chemistry", which was revised in a second edition in 1919. In 1951, a
> much enlarged and revised third edition (396 pages) was published in
> Adyar, Madras, India. I am fortunate to have copies of these two later
> editions. Over twenty years ago, in the 1970's, I corresponded at
> length with the Theosophical Society's Olcott Library, and they
> graciously provided me with a good deal of further information. Since
> that time, and during my own studies, I have awaited in hopes that the
> Theosophical Society would reprint all the original material. This has
> not yet occurred, though I continue to hope for it. Editions of Occult
> Chemistry are now very rare and difficult to find. [R. A. Kessinger
> has done a reprint of this book. It is available from them at: P.O. Box
> 160, Kila, MT 59920, phone (406) 756-0167, fax (406) 257-5051,
> e-mail : rak@netrix.net]
>
> However, a British physicist named Stephen Phillips became aware of
> this material, and in 1980 published a book titled "Extra-Sensory
> Perception of Quarks", describing the two Theosophist's work and
> interpreting it in the light of modern atomic theory. Though the atomic
> structures observed by the yogic faculty, as described by Leadbeater
> and Besant, did not make much sense to their contemporaries, present
> day theories of atomic structure and particle physics make their
> descriptions much more recognizable, validated, and startlingly
> accurate, as Dr. Phillips was amazed to discover.
>
> Phillip's book was published before the high spin state was recognized,
> and so he does not discuss it from this aspect. However, he does
> notice how the observations match the Higgs superconducting vacuum
> model, recognizes non-Abelian monopoles with Nielsen-Olesen
> vortices as carrying quantized flux, and identifies the mechanisms at
> work underlaying quark stability, among many other things. All in all,
> he did a fine job of it. [Extra-Sensory Perception of Quarks, by
> Stephen M. Phillips, PhD, 1980, Theosophical Publishing House,
> Wheaton IL, ISBN 0-8356-0227-3, US $15.00]