ABSTRACT
Mrs Besant having in the meanwhile joined the Society, Mr Leadbeater had become well known as a sort of higher Theosophical medium, through whom all sorts of wonders were alleged to occur. Mrs Besant at once installed him in the Avenue Road house, financial arrangements separating him from Mr Sinnett. If Mr Leadbeater and Mrs Besant possessed such powers, it was the simplest thing in the world to demonstrate them in a scientific and convincing manner, making a contribution of paramount importance to science and gaining immortal glory for them. More remarkable was the discovery that the clairvoyant faculty, when exercised by persons so highly-developed as Mr Leadbeater and Mrs Besant, were hypermicroscopic. Using this highly valuable property Mr Leadbeater began to inspect the chemical elements. This method of investigation has obvious advantages, since it does not require any scientific knowledge in the clairvoyant, nor even any specimens of the elements observed.
