“When a substance is the conductor of the second or the passive force, it is called ‘OXYGEN,’ and, like the OXYGEN of chemistry, it is designated by the letter 0. Fragments: Five

In addition I was very interested in the names of the elements: “carbon,” “OXYGEN,” “nitrogen,” and “hydrogen.” I must here remark that although G. had definitely promised to explain precisely why these names were taken and not others, he never did so. Later on I shall return once again to these names. Attempts to establish the origin of these names explained to me a great deal concerning the whole of G.’s system as well as its history. Fragments: Five

“The note si in the Absolute will be the conductor of the passive force designated by the number 2. And the matter in which this passive force acts or in which sounds the note si will be ‘OXYGEN’ (0). Fragments: Nine

“In the order of the action of the forces they will stand in the succession 1, 2, 3, that is, corresponding to the matters ‘carbon,’ ‘OXYGEN,’ ‘nitrogen.’ But by density of matter they will stand in the order: ‘carbon,’ ‘nitrogen,’ ‘OXYGEN,’ that is, 1, 3, 2, because ‘nitrogen’ by retaining the number 3, that is to say, by being the conductor of the neutralizing force, stands by its density of matter between ‘carbon’ and ‘OXYGEN,’ and ‘OXYGEN’ appears as the densest of the three. Fragments: Nine

“‘Carbon,’ ‘OXYGEN,’ and ‘nitrogen’ together will give matter of the fourth order, or ‘hydrogen’ (H), whose density we will designate by the number 6 (as the sum of 1, 2, 3), that is, H6: The first triad Fragments: Nine

“C, O, N retain their numbers 1, 2, 3. ‘Carbon’ is always 1, ‘OXYGEN’ is always 2, and ‘nitrogen’ is always 3. Fragments: Nine

“But being more active than ‘OXYGEN’ ‘nitrogen’ enters as the active principle in the next triad and enters with the density of 2. In other words ‘nitrogen’ has a density of 2 and ‘OXYGEN’ a density of 3. Fragments: Nine

“So that the note la of the first triad is the conductor of the active force in the next triad which it enters with the density of 2. If ‘carbon’ enters with the density of 2, then ‘OXYGEN’ and ‘nitrogen’ must correspond to it in densities, repeating the ratio of densities of the first triad. In the first triad the ratio of densities was 1, 2, 3; in the second triad it should be 2, 4, 6, that is, ‘carbon’ of the second triad will possess the density of 2, ‘nitrogen’ a density of 4, ‘OXYGEN’ a density of 6. Taken together they will give ‘hydrogen’ 12 (H12): The second triad Fragments: Nine

“According to the same plan and order the following triad will be constructed: fa, ‘shock,’ mi. ‘Carbon’ which was ‘nitrogen’ in the second triad enters with a density of 4; the ‘nitrogen’ and ‘OXYGEN’ corresponding to it must have a density of 8 and 12; together they will give ‘hydrogen’ 24 (H24): Fragments: Nine

“‘Hydrogen’ 12 corresponds to the ‘hydrogen’ of chemistry (atomic weight 1). ‘Carbon,’ ‘nitrogen,’ and ‘OXYGEN’ (of chemistry) have the atomic weights: 12, 14, and 16. Fragments: Nine

“Physical food is H768, or la, sol, fa of the third cosmic octave of radiations. This ‘hydrogen’ enters the lower story of the organism as ‘OXYGEN’ do 768. Fragments: Nine

‘Re 384 which becomes ‘OXYGEN’ in the next triad meets with ‘carbon’ 96 in the organism and together with it produces a new ‘nitrogen’ 192 which is the note mi 192. Fragments: Nine

“Do 192 (air) entering the middle story of the factory in the character of ‘OXYGEN’ and giving part of its energy to mi 192 unites in its turn at a certain place with ‘carbon’ 48 present in the organism and passes into re 96. Fragments: Nine

“The third octave begins with do 48. “Impressions enter the organism in the form of ‘OXYGEN’ 48, that is, la, sol, fa of the second cosmic octaoctave Sun-Earth. Fragments: Nine

But I was unable to grasp the principle on the basis of which it would be possible to determine exactly when to make use of such a scale. P. showed me a table made up to the fifth scale and relating to parallel levels in different worlds. But I got nothing from it. I began to think whether it was not possible to unite all these various scales with the various cosmoses. And having dwelt on this thought I went in an absolutely wrong direction because the cosmoses of course had no relation whatever to the division of the scale. It seemed to me at the same time that I had in general ceased to understand anything in the “three octaves of radiations” from which the first scale of “hydrogens” was deduced. The principal stumbling block here was the relation of the three forces 1, 2, 3 and 1, 3, 2 and the relations between “carbon,” “OXYGEN,” and “nitrogen.” Fragments: Thirteen

“Each complete ‘hydrogen’ is composed of ‘carbon,’ ‘OXYGEN,’ and ‘nitrogen.’ Now take the last ‘hydrogen’ of the third scale, ‘hydrogen’ 3072. This ‘hydrogen’ is composed of ‘carbon’ 512, ‘OXYGEN’ 1536, and ‘nitrogen’ 1024. Fragments: Sixteen

“Now further: ‘Nitrogen’ becomes ‘carbon’ for the next triad, but there is no ‘OXYGEN’ for it and no ‘nitrogen.’ Therefore by condensation it becomes itself ‘hydrogen’ 6144, but it is a dead hydrogen without any possibility of passing into anything further, a ‘hydrogen’ without the Holy Ghost.” Fragments: Sixteen

I felt that there was very much material in the enneagram. Points 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 represented, according to the “food diagram,” different “systems” of the organism, 1 — the digestive system; 2 — the breathing system; 4 — the blood stream; 5 — the brain; 7 — the spinal cord; 8 — the sympathetic system and the sex organs. According to this the direction of the inner lines 1428571, that is, the content of fraction 7, showed the direction of the flow or distribution of arterial blood in the organism and then its return in the form of venous blood. It was particularly interesting that the point of return was not the heart but the digestive system which indeed is the case since venous blood is first of all mixed with the products of digestion, it then goes to the right auricle, through the right ventricle, then to the lungs to absorb OXYGEN, and from there goes to the left auricle and then the left ventricle and then through the aorta into the arterial system. Fragments: Eighteen

” ‘Oxygen’ 768 meets with ‘carbon’ 192 which is present in the organism. From the union of O768 and C192 is obtained N384. N384 is the next note re. Fragments: Nine