182 THE WHOLE AND ITS PAKTS. 



light to pass separately through a second prism, they may be 

 still further decomposed, and form a secondary iris, in which 

 each of the seven colors will again be visible. Now the first 

 or general iris represents the great System of systems, con- 

 sidered as one, while each included iris represents one of the 

 sub-systems involved in the latter, and which is also seven- 

 fold. In other words, the grand seven-fold System of nature 

 is composed of all its included and subordinate seven-fold 

 systems, in the same way as the grand iris is composed of 

 all the elements involved in its included irises, there being 

 in either case a similar interdependence of parts ; and hence 

 there is the same unity in the System as a whole, that there 

 is in each one of its analogous and component sub-systems. 

 The grand System of nature, and each one of its sub-systems, 

 then, correspond to each other in the same way as the grand 

 iris, and each of its included sub-irises correspond to each 

 other, according to their similar numerical designations. But 

 while this is the case with the iris and its included sub-irises, 

 it is evident that one of these latter, based, for example, upon 

 the general red ray, would bear a different degree of corre- 

 spondence to other seven-fold divisions of color, from one 

 that is based generally upon the yellow, blue, or any other 

 ray ; and the same is true of the great System of nature and 

 its sub-systems. 



It was before shown that each seven-fold system of nature 

 is accompanied, in its development'and functional operations, 

 by seven corresponding dynamic agents, and also seven 

 corresponding laws. It may therefore be said that these 

 dynamic agents and laws are also, either identically or by 

 their natural representatives in different degrees of ascension, 

 subject to the same comprehensive and involved classifications 

 which we have just seen to apply to their corresponding 



