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Qi The elemental salts after decomposition, ser- 

 ving for nourishment to other plant-life. This, too, a pure 

 note. 



Probably some intuition ol this natural sequence guided 

 the ancients in reckoning the number 7 as sacred and 

 symbolical, and induced them to take this number in 

 dividing times and seasons. We notice that in the week 

 there are seven days; in religion there are seven sacra- 

 ments; seven years is the agricultural cycle; twice seven 

 lunar months comprise the year. Finally the seven colours 

 of the rainbow suppty the white sunlight for daily life 

 and healthy toil. 



Is this all mere coincidence, or is it not rather a key 

 to the unity of celestial and terrestrial laws? 



