Color in the Visible and Invisible World 281 



cupied by steam and alcohol-vapor. A familiar 

 experiment with solids is to fill a bowl with peas, 

 scatter over it mustard-seed or other fine grain to 

 fill the vacant spaces, then add salt and sugar. 

 Just in this manner the atoms of the various human 

 sheaths, varied by conditions of vibrating form and 

 color, mingle together. 



Annie Besant says: "Every sphere is around 

 us, the astral, the mental, the buddhic, the nir- 

 vanic, and worlds higher yet, the life of the su- 

 preme God; we need not stir to find them for they 

 are here; but our dull unreceptivity shuts them out 

 more effectively than millions of miles of mere 

 space" (Ancient Wisdom}. But granted all 

 these irregularities and blendings one with another, 

 there yet must be a standard correspondence of 

 Principles with Tattvas, colors, tones, and numbers. 

 To ignore it, is to lose sight of the profound in- 

 fluence and significance of number, to forget that 

 it was and is through the rhythm of vibrations 

 an unchangeable factor, with unchanging re- 

 lations to the Hierarchies and the Principles eman- 

 ating therefrom, because numerical relation is in- 

 herent in form. 



In the sense of progression from the coarse vi- 

 brations of the physical plane to the inconceivably 

 subtle ones of the spiritual plane, we have a men- 

 tal concept in which the numbers of the sheaths 

 must be unvarying. When we deal with involu- 



