inite variety of
forms.

BERYLLIUM (Plate III, 2, and VIII, 1).

[Illustration]

Beryllium offers us four similar funnels and a central globe, and the
proto-elements consist of these five bodies, set free. The funnel, released
from pressure, assumes a spherical form, with its four ovoids spinning
within it, and the central globe remains a sphere, containing a whirling
cross. On the meta level, the ovoids are set free, and two from each funnel
are seen to be positive, two negative--sixteen bodies in all, _plus_ the
cross, in which the resultant force-lines are changed, preparatory to its
breaking into two duads on the hyper level. On that level, the decades
disintegrate into two triplets and a quartet, the positive with the
depressions inward, the negative with the depressions outward.

CALCIUM (Plate VIII, 2).

The funnels, as usual, assume a spherical form on the proto level, and
show, in each case, three spheres containing ovoids. These spheres, still
on the proto level, break free from their containing funnel, as in the case
of gold (p. 49), twelve bodies being thus liberated, while the central
globe breaks up into eight segments, each of which becomes globular, and
contains within it a "cigar" and a somewhat heart-shaped body. Four
spheres, each containing seven ten-atomed ovoids, are identical with those
in beryllium, and can be followed in its diagram. Eight spheres, each
containing five nine-atomed ovoids of a different type, set free, on the
meta level, eighty duads--forty positive and forty negative--and forty
quintets, which are identical with those in chlorine. On the hyper level,
the duads become single atoms, within a sphere, and the central atom from
the quintet is also set free, one hundred and twenty in all. The remaining
four atoms of the quintet divide into two duads.

The central globe, dividing into eight, becomes eight six-atomed spheres on
the meta, the "cigar" behaving as usual, four "cigars" being positive and
four negative, and becoming dissociated into triplets; the four atoms
within the heart-shaped body appear as a tetrahedron, remain together on
the meta level, and break up into duads on the hyper.

STRONTIUM (PLATE VIII, 3).

The third member of this group repeats the _a_ groups of beryllium and the
_b_ groups of calcium, and they dissociate into the bodies already
described under these respectively. The two upper globes in each funnel
repeat each other, but each globe contains fou