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action (see Chapter IX), you will begin to realize 

 the truth. With the first glimmer of this confi- 

 dence you will find your attention wonderfully 

 sharpened to the relations of external objects, and 

 no moment of thought on ^he subject will be fruit- 

 less. 



In India, nothing is ever told to the student of 

 Occult mysteries which can be learned through 

 study and thought, for speculating upon these hid- 

 den relations of the natural forces furnishes the 

 wings upon which intuition takes its flight straight 

 to the cause. In this Western world, however, 

 where the art of thinking is less understood, the 

 student needs some guidance, but the quicker he 

 can stand on his own feet the better. In the phy- 

 sical world about us, you must be prepared to rec- 

 ognize the dominant Tattva or the combination of 

 elements in natural objects by the colors. Thus, 

 all the vegetable kingdom germinates in Mother 

 Earth Prithivl, which is yellow, and draws 

 nourishment in proportion as it sends its roots deep 

 into her bosom; while it breaks into leaf and blos- 

 som and fruit in the ambient, elastic air Fayu, 

 blue; and from the yellow and blue of its earth and 

 air-progenitors is evolved the grateful, refreshing 

 green. 



The Tattvas are the artists who grave the won- 

 derful geometrical lines which can be studied in 

 sea-shells. Cross-sections of the shells of nummu- 



