Preface

E-text prepared by Clare Boothby, Keith Edkins, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16058-h.htm or 16058-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/5/16058/16058-h/16058-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/0/5/16058/16058-h.zip) OCCULT CHEMISTRY Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by ANNIE BESANT, P.T.S. and CHARLES W. LEADBEATER Revised Edition edited by A. P. SINNETT LONDON THEOSOPHICAL PUBLISHING HOUSE 1, UPPER WOBURN PLACE, W.C. 1. 1919 EDITOR'S PREFACE. When undertaking to prepare a new edition of this book I received permission from the authors to "throw it into the form in which you think it would be most useful at the present time." It was left to my discretion, "What to use and what to omit." I have not found it necessary to avail myself to any considerable extent of this latter permission. But as the contents of the book were originally arranged the reader was ill-prepared to appreciate the importance of the later research for want of introductory matter explaining how it began, and how the early research led up to the later investigation. I have therefore contributed an entirely new preliminary chapter which will, I hope, help the reader to realise the credibility of the results attained when the molecular forms and constitution of the numerous bodies examined were definitely observed. I have not attempted to revise the records of the later research in which I had no personal share, so from the beginning of Chapter III to the end the