350 Grams. Periodically these animals shed their shell and create a new one. This is called molting. When molting, a

crab is very vulnerable and hides away from all other creatures so it can not get calcium by preying on other

creatures.

According to French chemist C. Louis Kervran of the Conseil d'Hygiene in Paris, seawater contains far too little

calcium to account for the rapid production of a shell (the calcium content of sea water is about 0.042% and a crab

can form a new shell in little more than one day). If the entire body of a crab is analyzed for calcium, it is found to

contain only enough calcium to produce 3% of the shell (even taking into account the calcium carbonate stored in the

hepato-pancreas just before molting).

Even in water completely devoid of calcium, shellfish can still create their calcium-bearing shells as shown by an

experiment performed at the Maritime Laboratory of Roscoff: "A crayfish was put in a sea water basin from which

calcium carbonate had been removed by precipitation; the animal made its shell anyway." (Kervran 1972, p.58)

"Chemical analysis made on animals secreting their shells has revealed that calcium carbonate is formed on the outer

side of a membrane although on the opposite side of the membrane, where matter enters, there is no calcium. This fact

has left specialists perplexed." (Kervran 1972, p.58)

Evidence that Atoms Behave Differently in Biological Systems, by Madhavendra Puri

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So you can see that the cycles of Nature are in place to purify matter, and break it down into lighter, freer

particles and life-energy in order to be used again to create new and better life forms. Life forms grow from

these lighter, volatile particles, which they form into matter according to their own needs, and when they

die Nature turns it back into the dust from whence it came.

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God being before all things, when He was alone created one Substance, which He called the first matter and of that

substance he created the Elements, and from them created all things.

The Crowning of Nature, by Anonymous, 16th - 17th Cen. (?)

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that part of the body which is dissolved, ever ascends or rises to the top, above all the other undissolved matter which

remains yet at bottom. Therefore saith Avicen, that which is spiritual in the vessel ascends up to the top of the mater,

and that which is yet gross and thick, remains in the bottom of the vessel.

The Root of the World, by Roger Bacon, 13th Cen.

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Observe, furthermore, how the seeds of all things that grow, as, for instance, grains of wheat or barley, spring forth

from the ground, by the operation of the Stone, and the developing influences of Sun and Moon; how they grow up

into the air, are gradually matured, and bring forth fruit, which again must be sown in its own proper soil. The field is

prepared for the grain, being well ploughed up, and manured with well rotted dung; for the earth consumes and

assimilates the manure, as the body assimilates its food, and separates the subtle from the gross. Therewith it calls

forth the life of the seed, and nourishes it with its own proper milk, as a mother nourishes her infant, and causes it to

increase in size, and to grow upward. The earth separates, I say, the good from the bad, and imparts it as nutriment to

all growing things; for the destruction of one thing is the generation of another. It is the same in our Art, where the

liquid receives its proper nutriment from the earth. Hence the earth is the Mother of all things that grow; and it must

be manured, ploughed, harrowed, and well prepared, in order that the corn may grow, and triumph over the tares, and

not be choked by them. A grain of wheat is raised from the ground through the distillation of the moisture of the Sun

and Moon, if it has been sown in its own proper earth. The Sun and Moon must also impel it to bring forth fruit, if it is

to bring forth fruit at all. For the Sun is the Father, and the Moon the Mother, of all things that grow.

In the same way, in our soil, and out of our seed, our Stone grows through the distilling of the Sun and Moon; and as

it grows it rises upwards, as it were, into the air, while its root remains in the ground. That which is above is even as

that which is below; the same law prevails; there is no error or mistake. Again, as herbs grow upward, put forth

glorious flowers and blossoms, and bear fruit, so our grain blossoms, matures its fruit, is threshed, sifted, purged of its

chaff, and again put in the earth, which, however, must previously have been well manured, harrowed, and otherwise

prepared. When it has been placed in its natural soil, and watered with rain and dew, the moisture of heaven, and

roused into life by the warmth of the Sun and Moon, it produces fruit after its own kind. These two sowings are

peculiar characteristics of our Art. For the Sun and Moon are our grain, which we put into our soil, as soul and spirit

—and such as are the father and the mother will be the children that they generate. Thus, my sons, you know our

Stone, our earth, our grain, our meal, our ferment, our manure, our verdigris, our Sun and Moon. You understand our

whole magistery, and may joyfully congratulate yourselves that you have at length risen above the level of those blind

charlatans of whom I spoke. For this, His unspeakable mercy, let us render thanks and praise to the Creator of all

things, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

[...] As it is with plants, so it is with metals. While they lie in the heart of the earth, in their natural ore, they grow, and

are developed, day by day, through the influence of the four elements: their fire is the splendour of the Sun and Moon;

the earth conceives in her womb the splendour of the Sun, and by it the seeds of the metals are well and equally

warmed, just like the grain in the fields. Through this warmth there is produced in the earth a vapour or spirit, which

rises upward and carries with it the most subtle elements. It might well be called a fifth element: for it is a

quintessence, and contains the most volatile parts of all the elements. This vapour strives to float upward through the

summit of the mountains, but, being covered with great rocks, they prevent it from doing so: for when it strikes against

them, it is compelled to descend again. It is drawn up by the Sun, it is forced down again by the rocks, and as it falls

the vapour is transmuted into a liquid, i.e., sulphur and mercury. Of each of these a part is left behind—but that which