A Multidimensional Explanation for Magnetism

Printed in the  Summer 2020  issue of Quest magazine. 
Citation: Brooks, Mark Hunter, "A Multidimensional Explanation for Magnetism" Quest 108:3, pg 34-38

By Mark Hunter Brooks

Don’t let the title of the book Occult Chemistry scare you. The Theosophical Publishing House first released this important work over 100 years ago, and its concepts have never left the world’s psyche. By its third edition, published in 1951, it had grown to over 400 pages with over 200 charts and detailed drawings that described the physical structure of all the atomic elements known at that time.

How did the authors, Theosophical Society leaders Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater, do this? They practiced a yogic technique that enabled them to visually observe objects on the subatomic scale (Besant, 1. This ability is also mentioned by Theosophical author A.E. Powell, who wrote that this ability could be used to either magnify very small objects or to shrink the immensely large: Powell, 110–11). In contrast, scientists today use particle accelerators, like CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (See “Definitions”), to smash atoms into each other at a speed close to that of light so they can observe the debris from the collision.

Figure 1. The drawing of the hydrogen atom in Occult Chemistry. Arrows and terms are my additions.

 A third claim the book makes concerns the existence of anu (the term is the same in both the singular and plural). These entities are smaller than quarks, which are the smallest subatomic particle that science currently recognizes. The book’s drawing of the hydrogen atom (figure 1) shows three anu inside each of the three quarks that make up the hydrogen atom’s proton and neutron. The book states that anu come in two mirror-image types: male and female (figure 2). Male anu move energy from the astral to the etheric dimension, which is the dimension next to our physical dimension, and female anu move energy in the opposite direction. (Besant et al., Occult Chemistry, 13–14. Leadbeater separately describes the mirror-image reversal of numbers in his description of the astral plane: Leadbeater, 7–8).

This article adds yet another claim to the list, that the book’s drawing of the iron atom can be used to explain how magnetism works. Scientists have written about the properties of magnets, but they have yet to explain how or why the magnetic force originates in nature. This article asserts that it is the anu’s movement of energy between the etheric and astral dimensions that creates the magnetic force. Support for this claim comes from the observation in Occult Chemistry that anu simultaneously spin and exhibit a pumping action (Besant et al., 14). The name for this type of movement, which was unknown at the time, is a Clifford displacement. It occurs when an object in the fourth dimension simultaneously spins in two orthogonal, or opposing ninety-degree, planes (figure 3. See the YouTube video Visualizing 4D Geometry: A Journey into the Fourth Dimension [Part 2], starting at 12:58 into the video, for a representation of the movement. Sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4URVJ3D8e8k&t).

Figure 2. Images of male and female anu.

Using this definition, I propose that male and female anu are actually the same entity, but that they are distinguished by the dimension in which the anu’s head is situated. If the head of the anu lies in the astral dimension, it is a male anu, which moves energy from the astral into the etheric dimension. Conversely, if the head of the anu lies in the etheric dimension, it is a female anu, which moves energy from the etheric into the astral dimension. The astral dimension is fourth-dimensional, which aligns with the assertion that the anu’s motion is a Clifford displacement.

Figure 3. An illustration showing how an anu's simultaneous spinning and pumping action can be characterized as a Clifford displacement, giving rise to an explanation of the difference between male and female anu.

The physical structure of the iron atom is unique. According to Occult Chemistry diagrams, it resembles a multiarmed jack from the children’s game Ball and Jacks (figure 4). At the tip of each arm is a point-shaped funnel that is covered with anu (figure 5). It is the only atomic element in Occult Chemistry drawn with a funnel at the tip of multiple arms. In nonmagnetic iron samples, the distribution of male and female anu would be balanced throughout the piece. When an iron sample is magnetized, however, this article proposes that the top and bottom halves of each iron atom become polarized, meaning that half of the iron atom consists of only male anu, while the opposite half is composed of only female anu.

Figure 4: An illustration of an iron (Fe) atom.

Within the body of an iron magnet, the male anu in the arms of one polarized iron atom bond to the female anu in the arms of other polarized iron atoms, creating an interlocking latticelike structure that connects them. Anu on the outer surface of the iron magnet, though, do not have oppositely polarized anu with which to bind. As a result, they bind with the polarized anu on the opposite end of the magnet, creating what scientists call magnetic field lines (figure 6). Occult Chemistry also mentions that an electric current causes anu to arrange themselves in parallel lines (figure 7), which could produce a magnetic effect in electrified wire that is similar to that of polarized anu in magnetic iron (Besant et al., 15). One has to speculate, though, regarding how groups of anu would need to be arranged to produce this effect.

Testing the Article’s Explanation

   The scientific method is the process scientists use to determine whether an explanation for a phenomenon occurring in nature is actually true. They work to prove that an explanation is true by repeatedly trying to prove that it’s false! Only after failing to prove that an explanation is false will scientists begin to believe that it is true. As a result, most scientists will not consider new explanations for how something works unless that explanation also includes a way to test how it can be proven false, hence the reason for this section.

Figure 5. The placement of anu within each arm of an Iron (FE) atom. Each dot represents an anu.		Figure 6. Magnetic field lines.

Comparing the Decomposition of Elements

Figure 8: An illustration showing how a hydrogen atom decomposes into individual anu.

The claim in this article relies on the accuracy of the information presented in Occult Chemistry, so one way to prove that the claim is false is to show that the information presented in the book is not true. Throughout the book, the authors created charts that show how each element decomposes into individual anu. Figure 8 shows the four substates, labeled E1–E4, through which hydrogen passes in its decomposition process. Substate E4 shows that the hydrogen atom first separates into a proton and a neutron, each of which contains three quarks. Within each quark are three heart-shaped anu, the positive and negative sign denoting whether they are male or female, respectively. Substates E3 and E2 show how the proton and neutron decompose, arriving at the final substate E1, which consists of only individual anu.

In the process of creating the book, the authors Besant and Leadbeater used their abilities to document how each element decomposes through its various substates. Without knowing how this occurs, we can only make a reasoned guess that elements decompose the same way, regardless of whether it was done using a mystical technique or a particle accelerator.

Therefore one way to test whether this claim is false would be to compare the decomposition of elements described in Occult Chemistry with the decomposition of the same elements as a result of collisions in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The number-weight procedure described in the book can be used to estimate the atomic weight of each element’s substate, based on the number of anu present in each drawing. These weights can then be compared with the atomic weights of the particles ejected from Large Hadron Collider collisions to see if there are any correlations. If no correlations exist, then the information presented in Occult Chemistry, and this claim, could be false. However, if correlations are found, it implies the need for further study.

Comparing the Crystalline Structure of Diamonds

Figure 9: The structure of a diamond.

 Another test of the accuracy of Occult Chemistry would be to compare its analysis of a diamond’s crystalline structure, which was first published in 1925, with similar modern-day analyses. The book’s authors described the diamond’s structure in great detail, including the illustration shown in figure 9 (Besant, 337–38). This drawing depicts twenty-five groups of diamond crystals, shown in red and white, with each group interlinked in a Maltese cross–like pattern. Two layers of these crystals are then joined together by sixteen carbon atoms, shown in blue. A drawing from the book of a unit of diamond is shown in figure 10 (Besant et al., 337–38). If the book’s analysis aligns with modern scientific analyses, it could indicate that more study of the book’s contents, and the claim, might be warranted. Similarly, an inaccurate depiction of the diamond’s structure might make one also question the book’s description of the structure of an iron atom.

Figure 10: A unit of diamond.

Conclusion

The contents described in Occult Chemistry continue to offer relevant insights a century after its initial release. The claim outlined in this article, if validated, could add legitimacy to other claims made in this work, which could be of tremendous benefit to the scientific community.

Definitions

Astral. A name for a nonphysical dimension. In Theosophical literature, the astral dimension is located above the etheric dimension and below the mental dimension.

CERN. A French acronym for the European Center for Nuclear Research, which is an international collaboration of organizations that operate the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator.

Etheric. A name for a nonphysical dimension. In Theosophical literature, the etheric dimension is located above the physical dimension and below the astral dimension.

Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The world’s most powerful particle accelerator. Its magnetic ring, 27 kilometers in diameter, is located 100 meters underground in a tunnel that spans the Franco-Swiss border near Geneva, Switzerland.

Sources

Besant, Annie, C.W. Leadbeater, Elizabeth Preston, and C. Jinarajadasa. Occult Chemistry: Investigations by Clairvoyant Magnification into the Structure of the Atoms of the Periodic Table and Some Compounds. 3d ed. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 1951.

Brooks, Mark H. Christianity from a Spiritual Perspective. Charlotte N.C.: From a Different Perspective, 2019.

Leadbeater, C.W. The Astral Plane. 2d Adyar ed. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 2010  (first published in 1895).

Powell, A. E. The Etheric Double: The Health Aura. First U.S. ed. Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925.

Mark Hunter Brooks, author of the book Christianity from a Spiritual Perspective, has had numerous spiritual experiences since 2003 that have profoundly changed his worldview. He writes and speaks about the mechanics of the nonphysical world to demystify what has traditionally been a taboo topic.

With the exception of Figure 3 and Figure 5, all illustrations were taken from Besant et al., Occult Chemistry. Figure 3 was taken from Christianity from a Spiritual Perspective, Version 3.0, 168. Figure 5 was sourced from the Internet at the link http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/pictures/physics/ironfilings.html on November 21, 2019. 

Brooks, Mark H. Christianity from a Spiritual Perspective. Charlotte N.C.: From a Different Perspective, 2019.

Leadbeater, C.W. The Astral Plane. 2d Adyar ed. Adyar: Theosophical Publishing House, 2010  (first published in 1895).

Powell, A. E. The Etheric Double: The Health Aura. First U.S. ed. Wheaton: Theosophical Publishing House, 1925.