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the Self is making and moulding out of the oppor- 

 tunities of this life, for they indicate his varied 

 states, physical, mental, and spiritual. Thus the 

 tone- and color-body of man reflects the man him- 

 self as in a mirror. This is the unvarying law of 

 color, which ever and always betrays the media 

 through which it flows, and the substance whence 

 it emanates. And according to the prevalent color 

 of the individual is that individual played upon 

 and affected by the color in the external world; 

 for color produces sound and sound produces color, 

 the interaction of the two being invariable.* 



The quality of a Principle is, of course, condi- 

 tioned by the elements which compose it, and these 

 give it a distinguishing color. But the shade or 

 hue and character and disposition depend much 

 upon this is determined by the number of its 

 atoms, not considered in multiple or quantity, but 

 in grade from one to seven, degrees of subtlety 

 or density; for every Principle has its septenary 

 divisions of Tattvic permutations, and this varies 

 the order of the colors. The physiological effect 

 of the excess or deficiency of the normal color of a 

 Principle is profound, and every disturbance of a 

 Tatt-va causes exactly such disorder. 



The difference in the effect of such disturbance 

 upon different persons brings out in strong relief 



* For interesting physical experiments proving this law, see 

 Mrs. Besant's Building of the Kosmos. 



