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Let us now enter our house of safety within which our environment is all contributory to the well being of organic life. By organic life we mean oxygen dependent bodies. Within that triangle on the universal harp are only five of its tones out of its total of 121. Those five tones are carbon, silicon, oxygen, hydro-
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gen and nitrogen. It will probably amaze you to be informed that four of these five elements constitute 98 1/2% of your whole body composition. More amazing still, all five constitute 98 1/2% of the upper few feet of the earth's crust upon which your body is dependent for the food it needs for survival. The basic constituent of animal bodies is carbon while the basic constituent for the fertile life giving earth's crust, is silicon. Silicon is the first stage of death for carbon. It is, therefore, as good for purposes of earth as carbon is for purposes of life.
Our bodies need many metals but it is extremely important to realize two things about such needs. One is, that out of the many their total is only 1 1/2% of our bodies. The other is that not even a millionth of a milligram of metal enters the body in its free state. They can be present only as metal salts, or oxides. Iron, calcium, magnesium, sodium and many other ((metal salts|mineral salts)) are necessary, but only in infinitesimal amounts. To indicate the small amounts of metals the body will accept we cite such examples as manganese, which is present in only seven hundredths of one per cent, copper one thousandth, nickel two ten thousandths, and gallium three one hundred thousandths of one per cent. Iron, calcium, iodine, sodium and other metal salts are necessary also, but in extremely small fractions.
This seems a very strange thing, for Nature creates only metals. The text books give lists of non-metals, but there are no nonmetals. All stone in this universe is composed of one or more pairs of metals in union. The stone, of which your grindstone is made, is the main source of aluminum, but the mate of aluminum is phosphorous. Likewise, the stony carbon is composed of boron and nitrogen in union. Nitrogen is classified as a gas, but all gases are low pressured metals. The next octave above nitrogen is phosphorous. It has been multiplied into a solid by one octave of additional pressure. Nitrogen and oxygen are good friends in the atmosphere we breathe, but phosphorous will burst into flame and consume oxygen if exposed to it, and if we breathe it we would die - yet it is but concentrated, or compressed nitrogen. If you multiply nitrogen another octave the result is arsenic,
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and that is obviously a metal. If you breathe arsenic vapors or take a very little of it into your body, even as a salt, it will kill you quickly - yet that too is but compressed nitrogen.
Every gas, and dense element of every octave, becomes an obvious metal when multiplied into higher octaves - and therein lies one of the reasons why organic life is possible only by keeping within the limits defined by the triangle on the map herein given.
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