62 Evolution of Life and Form. 



vision and that we have physical solid, physical earth 

 or Prithivi, physical water or Apas, physical fire or 

 Agni, physical air or Vayu,physical ether or A'kasha. 

 Bach of these great Gods works on each plane 

 through the medium that corresponds to the region 

 which belongs to him in the Kosmos as a whole. 

 How often we see those correspondences as it were 

 printed in physical nature. We have light with its 

 seven sub-divisions as seen in the solar spectrums 

 showing the seven colours, and the scale with its 

 seven notes. Colours and notes alike result from 

 vibrations, and are determined by the number of 

 vibrations occurring in a unit of time. As the uni- 

 verse is built by vibrations, colour and sound are fac- 

 tors of the universe at large, and every region is said 

 to have its own colour ; the God of that region has 

 his colour dependent on his vibratory force which 

 he imprints on the region over which he rules ; so 

 that if a Rishi looks at the solar system from a 

 higher plane, he not only hears the seven funda- 

 mental notes of music, making "the harmony of 

 the spheres," but he sees a gorgeous display of 

 colours, as the sphere of every great Deva with his 

 own colour interpenetrates the others, yielding an 

 iridescent splendour of interfering radiances, the 

 marvellous " rainbow that is round the throne of 

 God." Such mystic expressions have lost their 



