284 The Law of the Rhythmic Breath 



one evolved from the tangle of discrepancies which 

 appeals to me as logical and rational. The funda- 

 mental correspondence must be that of vibrations, 

 and upon the coarseness or fineness of these all as- 

 sociations must be based. 



When we speak of coarseness in this connection, 

 and especially in reference to color, it must be un- 

 derstood in a comparative sense. Thus, red vi- 

 brations, the largest waves of visible light, are so 

 small that 39,000 of them grouped side by side 

 cover only one inch of space. The agreement of 

 red with the fundamental tone in music was early 

 recognized, each being the coarsest vibration of its 

 kind; and in the procession of octaves of both color 

 and sound, it was found that the closest ratio of 

 like progression existed between the Tonic chord, 

 or first, third, and fifth, and the triad of colors, 

 red, yellow, and blue. The earnest student of the 

 Tattvas must already have perceived that this triad, 

 predominating in the solar plexus, exercises a pre- 

 eminent influence upon the functions of life. 



Now, Nature has taken such care to prove the 

 agreement between tone and color that she has not 

 left us to depend solely upon the psychic vision of 

 the clairvoyant who sees the colors of tones and 

 voices, but through remarkable cases of sense ab- 

 normalities has furnished us with indisputable cor- 

 roboration of these relations. 



In Berlin an operation was performed upon a 



