“Before examining these influences,” began G., “and the laws of TRANSFORMATION of Unity into Plurality, we must examine the fundamental law that creates all phenomena in all the diversity or unity of all universes. Fragments: Four

“In order to understand the analogy between man, the human organism, and the universe, let us take the world as we did before in the form of three octaves from the Absolute to the sun, from the sun to the earth, and from the earth to the moon. Each of these three octaves lacks a semitone between fa and mi and in each octave the place of this missing semitone is taken by a certain kind of ‘shock’ which is created artificially at the given point. If we now begin to look for an analogy between the three-story factory and the three octaves of the universe, we ought to realize that the three ‘additional shocks’ in the three octaves of the universe correspond to the three kinds of food entering the human organism. The ‘shock’ in the lower octave corresponds to physical food; this ‘shock’ is do 768 of the cosmic three-story factory. The ‘shock’ in the middle octave corresponds to air. It is do 192 of the cosmic factory. The ‘shock’ in the upper octave corresponds to impressions; it is do 48 of the cosmic factory. In the inner work of this cosmic three-story factory all three kinds of food undergo the same TRANSFORMATION as in the human factory, on the same plan and in accordance with the same laws. A further study of the analogy between man and the universe is possible only after an exact study of the human machine and after the respective ‘places’ of each of the ‘hydrogens’ in our organism has been established exactly. This means that to proceed with any further study we must find the exact purpose of each ‘hydrogen,’ that is to say, each ‘hydrogen’ must be defined chemically, psychologically, physiologically, and anatomically, in other words, its functions, its place in the human organism, and, if possible, the peculiar sensations connected with it must be defined. Fragments: Nine

“The effort which creates this ‘shock’ must consist in work on the emotions, in the TRANSFORMATION and transmutation of the emotions. This transmutation of the emotions will then help the transmutation of si 12 in the human organism. No serious growth, that is, no growth of higher bodies within the organism, is possible without this transmutation. The idea of this transmutation was known to many ancient teachings as well as to some comparatively recent ones, such as the alchemy of the Middle Ages. But the alchemists spoke of this transmutation in the allegorical forms of the TRANSFORMATION of base metals into precious ones. In reality, however, they meant the TRANSFORMATION of coarse ‘hydrogens’ into finer ones in the human organism, chiefly of the TRANSFORMATION of mi 12. If this TRANSFORMATION is attained, a man can be said to have ‘achieved what he was striving for, and it can also be said that, until this TRANSFORMATION is attained, all results attained by a man can be lost because they are not fixed in him in any way; moreover, they are attained only in the spheres of thought and emotion. Real, objective results can be obtained only after the transmutation of mi 12 has begun. Fragments: Nine

“The third stage in the work of the human organism begins when man creates in himself a conscious second volitional ‘shock’ at the point mi 12, when the TRANSFORMATION or transmutation of these ‘hydrogens’ into higher ‘hydrogens’ begins in him. The second stage and the beginning of the third stage refer to the life and functions of man number four. A fairly considerable period of. transmutation and crystallization is needed for the transition of man number four to the level of man number five. Fragments: Nine

“‘Hydrogen’ si 12 is the ‘hydrogen’ which represents the final product of the TRANSFORMATION of food in the human organism. This is the matter with which sex works and which sex manufactures. It is ‘seed’ or ‘fruit.’ Fragments: Twelve

“The transition of matter si 12 into emanations and the gradual saturation of the whole organism by it is what alchemy calls ‘transmutation’ or TRANSFORMATION. It is first this TRANSFORMATION of the physical body into the astral that alchemy called the TRANSFORMATION of the ‘coarse’ into the ‘fine’ or the TRANSFORMATION of base metals into gold. Fragments: Twelve

“When self-deceit is destroyed and a man begins to see the difference between the mechanical and the conscious in himself, there begins a struggle for the realization of consciousness in life and for the subordination of the mechanical to the conscious. For this purpose a man begins with endeavors to set a definite decision, coming from conscious motives, against mechanical processes proceeding according to the laws of duality. The creation of a permanent third principle is for man the TRANSFORMATION of the duality into the trinity. Fragments: Fourteen

“Strengthening this decision and bringing it constantly and infallibly into all those events where formerly accidental neutralizing ‘shocks’ used to act and give accidental results, gives a permanent line of results in time and is the TRANSFORMATION of trinity into quaternity. The next stage, the TRANSFORMATION of quaternity into quinternity and the construction of the pentagram has not one but many different meanings even in relation to man. And of these is learned, first of all, one, which is the most beyond doubt, relating to the work of centers. Fragments: Fourteen

“Exactly the same relationship is repeated in all completed processes. In examining the processes of nutrition in the human organism and the TRANSFORMATION of the substances taken into the organism, we find in these processes exactly the same ‘intervals’ and ‘shocks.’ Fragments: Fourteen