The chakras. A monograph

A very faint, faded diagram, likely labeled as Figure 3, shows a circular or oval form within a square frame.

in the gradual development of new chemical elements, which show increasing complexity of form, and more and more energetic internal life or activity.

Students of chemistry are familiar with the Periodic Table, originated by the Russian chemist Mendeléeff in the latter part of the last century. In this table, the known chemical elements are arranged in the order of their atomic weights, beginning with the lightest, hydrogen, which has an atomic weight of 1, and ending with the heaviest at present known, uranium, which has a relative weight of 238.5. In our own investigations into these matters, we found that these atomic weights were almost exactly proportional to the number of ultimate atoms in each element. We have recorded these numbers in Occult Chemistry, and also the form and composition of each element.

In most cases, the forms which we found when the elements were examined with etheric sight the ability to see subtle matter indicate, as does the Periodic Table, that the elements have been developed in cyclic order. They do not lie on a straight line, but on an ascending spiral. We have been told that the elements hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen (which constitute approximately half the crust of our globe and nearly all its atmosphere) belong at the same time to another and greater solar system, but we understand that the rest of the elements have been developed by the Logos Divine Creator of our system. He is carrying on His spiral beyond uranium, under conditions of temperature and pressure which are quite inconceivable to us. Gradually, as new elements are formed, they are pushed outwards and upwards towards the surface of the earth.

The force of kundalinî the serpent-fire in our bodies comes from that laboratory of the Holy Ghost deep down in the earth. It belongs to that terrific glowing fire of the underworld. That fire is in striking contrast to the fire of vitality which comes from the sun, which will presently be explained. The latter belongs to air and light and the great open spaces; but the fire which comes from below is much more material, like the fire of red-hot iron, of glowing metal. There is a rather terrible side to this tremendous force; it gives the impression of descending deeper and deeper into matter, of moving slowly but irresistibly onwards, with relentless certainty.

The serpent-fire is not that portion of the energy of the Third Logos the creative aspect of God with which He is engaged in building denser and denser chemical elements. It is more of the nature of a further development of that force which is in the living center of such elements as radium. It is part of the action of the life of the Third Logos after it has reached its lowest immersion, and is once more ascending towards the heights from which it came. We have long understood that the second life-wave, from the Second Logos, descends into matter through the first, second, and third elemental kingdoms, down to the mineral, and then ascends again through the vegetable and animal to the human kingdom, where it meets the downward-reaching power of the First Logos. This is suggested in Figure 3, in which the oval indicating that Second Outpouring comes down on the left side, reaches its densest point at the