The Secrets of Metals
Wilhelm Pelikan

In The Secrets of Metals, Wilhelm Pelikan examines the seven primordial metals from a variety of aspects to reveal much more than the usual engineering, chemical and general utilitarian qualities by which modern culture identifies them. Pelikan's metals are described as strangers to the earth, 'a guest rather than a citizen', whose true nature can only be found in the cosmic and supersensible realms of existence. By close examination of their characteristics, however - their relationships to each other on the Periodic Table of Elements as well as those found in mineral nature, their concentrations and distribution in the mantle of the earth, their planetary associations, their functions in the organic realms of nature, and their use in therapy - a much richer sense of their individual natures can be gleaned.

Pelikan's writing style could be uncomfortable for the modern scientist who would rather view the metals, and all of nature, as a dead, mechanistic arrangement of matter following a purposeless path of chaotic existence. Pelikan imbues his representations of substance with elements of personality and purpose, the whole amounting to a spiritual/physical organism in a state of active evolution. He combines a comprehensive technical understanding of the metals with an imagination that has been spiritually enriched by his study of anthroposophy to convey a study of the metals that is both informative and inspiring.

Lindisfarne Books
224pp; paperback
ISBN: 1-58420-043-X

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