Note 22 — II.

In everything are there five elements or qualities contained, because everything consists of vibrations of the one element, called by the Alchemists prima materia, in which these qualities are latent (potentially contained). Everything is a manifestation of substance. That which is essential in it, is the substance and not the form. Thus for instance that which is essential in a diamond is the carbon; but carbon is not composed of diamonds. Carbon is a substance universally distributed in nature in solid, watery, gaseous, fiery form, and all these forms of carbon are certain states of the one element “Carbogen” which is at the root of their existence.