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that create them. Not until the Causal body is 

 developed sufficiently to control Lower Manas and 

 Kama, does this beneficent and forceful current 

 find a favorable medium through which to act. 

 The prevalence of clear, deep yellow and good 

 pure green in the aura indicate a happy, generous, 

 sympathetic, and hopeful character evolving to 

 higher states. 



Yellow manifests the highest and noblest in- 

 tellectual effort, true wisdom and aspiration, freed 

 from objective, material striving; and therefore 

 represents the highest power and loftiest aspect of 

 spirituality which our race is capable of grasping 

 and understanding. The positive power of this 

 Principle is proved by its dominance over all other 

 colors with which it is blended. Pride vibrates as 

 orange, but in the degree that the red is shaken 

 out of it, is it raised to pure aspiration. Because 

 of its penetrating power, yellow is the color most 

 easily perceived by normal sight; and it has been 

 visible as a veritable halo round the heads of speak- 

 ers engaged in some supreme effort of enthusiasm 

 I which freed the soul to its fullest expression. In 

 such cases the vigor of the astral vibrations rouses 

 " a sympathetic vibration even in the coarse and 

 heavy matter of the physical plane." Exalted 

 spiritual vibrations cause a violet cloud to rise 

 from the crown of the head in the midst of sur- 

 rounding yellow of a luminous tint, and the violet 



