are taken, all must receive a proper degree of attention.
Seeing
then that the condition of the blood at the time of experimenting with
the Crystal is of such great importance, certain leading facts bearing
directly upon this point may well be considered here. On an average
there is contained one part by weight of iron in two hundred and thirty
human blood corpuscles; and the total quantity of iron in the blood of
a man who weighs one hundred and forty pounds, is about thirty-eight
grains ; while about one grain per day is on the average taken into the
body with food. This iron forms the colouring matter of the " red "
blood corpuscles.
The
" white, or colourless," blood corpuscles, which are much fewer in
number than the red in a healthy body, are diminished by fasting, and
increased by eating; which fact is of serious interest in connection
with the advisability of any prolonged abstinence from food prior to
those magnetic experiments with the Crystal globe, such as were
conducted by the Seers of the past. Two principal forms of iron are
apparent in the blood ; the " protoxide," or green ferrous salt ; which
is principally found in the venous, or dark blood; and the " peroxide,"
or red ferric oxide; found mostly in the arterial, or bright scarlet
blood. Now, a compound of these two oxides constitutes what was
formerly known as the " Loadstone " or black magnetic oxide of iron;
and it is a remarkable fact that persons of dark, or very dark eyes, or
very dark hair, eyes and skin, are the most magnetic ; which darkness
of hue is, it would seem, connected with a preponderance of the
Protoxide of Iron in the blood, over the Peroxide, in the proportion of
two to one ; which happens to be a similar proportion
