The Auric Envelope: Its Colors '333 



ing evolved no principles beyond desiring the ob- 

 vious advantage of the moment. This green 

 abounds in the auras of those who permit others 

 to do their thinking for them. Selfishness varies 

 from brown-gray to bottle-green, and is, alas I very 

 common in the desire sheath. 



Green is preeminently a material color, and 

 " greenbacks " are aptly tinted and named, for the 

 financial currents of the earth are deep, bright 

 grass green. Purely material phases of intellect- 

 uality, the brains that are absorbed in things ex- 

 ternal, cram with book-knowledge of the day, with 

 statistics and crude facts, send forth vibrations of 

 bright green. 



Strong self-consciousness, the sense of person- 

 ality, is vivid, clear green; and according to the 

 striving for growth, the hope and aspiration felt, 

 may shade from apple to emerald. Where soul- 

 consciousness and individuality as distinct from 

 personality develop, the green changes through 

 peacock-blue to deep, luminous sapphire. Higher 

 mental qualities which bring distinction in the arts 

 and are nourished from springs of intuition vibrate 

 in this exquisite azure. 



All the music of the spheres vibrates in the in- 

 digo-blue of Akdsha, in which are all colors and 

 out of which they flow. With respect to music 

 and other arts, Mme. Blavatsky says they are the 

 children of either the Higher Manasic or Kama- 



