Wilhelm Pelikan Translated by Charlotte Lebensart 

With the help of metals, humankind has established and ever-progressing
 position in the world and, in the process, has transformed human civilization
 and the face of the Earth itself. Furthermore, the harmony and effectiveness
 of many human bodily processes depend on the marvelous effects of metals.
 With each passing decade, researchers bring us knowledge of new facets 
of the cosmos of metals in and around us. Nonetheless, despite all the 
achievements of chemists and physicists, the world of metals holds many
 mysteries.
In the surrounding world, we continually encounter new deposits of metals 
in the Earth, and these have enabled humankind to move toward ever greater
 levels of civilization and technological advances. And in the inner world of the
 human body, newly discovered layers of activities permeated by metals 
continually arise in our consciousness. Not only do we breathe with iron, but
 we also need copper to form blood and cobalt to avoid pernicious anemia. 
As research methods become increasingly refined and subtle, we continue to
 discover additional metals that are in fact regular components of our bodies.
 We find them not, however, as building blocks in the grosser, more physical
 sense, but as instruments by which our human entity accomplishes important
 physiological activities. 
In The Secrets of Metals, Wilhelm Pelikan—in the light of spiritual 
science—discusses the significance of the classic "seven metals" and their 
importance for humankind as well as for nature as a whole and the Earth. 
He also discusses the "newer" metals as well as the virtually unknown
 "radiation effects of metals—the effects of which Rudolf Steiner used 
therapeutically. Pelikan's method here is a phenomenological one, in which
he helps us try to see natural objects in the Goethean sense, as developed
 by Rudolf Steiner (see, for example Nature's Open Secret). 
Here is a classic text for deeper understanding metals as a whole, as well
 as gaining a fuller appreciation of spiritual scientific research methods in
 relation to the world we inhabit. 
CONTENTS: 

1. The Metallic Condition on Earth
2. Cosmic Aspects of the Metallic Nature
3. Lead
4. Tin
5. Iron
6. Gold
7. Copper
8. Quicksilver
9. Silver
10. Zinc
11. Aluminum
12. Nickel and Cobalt—Siblings of Iron
13. Antimony
14. The Nature of Sulfur

This volume is a translation of Sieben Metalle 
(Philosophisch-Anthropsophischer Verlag, Dornach, Switzerland). 

 228頁

ISBN:978-1-58420-043-7