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fracting angle presented downwards, at an horizontal 

 fissure in the shutter of a dark chamber, the red colour 

 is then exhibited upon the upper and lower borders 

 of the spectrum so formed within the eye ; thus, in 

 both instances, where the Dark is above and the White 

 beneath, as also where the latter is above and the former 

 beneath, as on the inferior border of the opening. Upon 

 the lower border of the upper Red, and thus in the Clare, 

 Yellow appears, which is consequently a mixture of Red 

 and White, as seen through the thinner part of the prism. 

 Yellow is thus brighter Red. Upon the upper border 

 of the lower Red, thus also in the Clare, Blue appears, 

 which is consequently a mixture also of Red and White, 

 but the latter seen through the thicker part of the prism. 

 Blue is thus offuscated Red. If Yellow and Blue be mixed, 

 Green then originates. There can be therefore only four 

 colours, whereof the Red is a mixture of Black and White, 

 Yellow of Red and White, Blue of Red and Black, Green 

 of Blue and Yellow. The first three are simple or mixed 

 colours, the last a compound colour or a medley. These 

 colours are parallel to the gradations in nature, or the 

 latter are none other than the materializations of colours 

 or the gradations of light. All other colours must be 

 contained in the Red; it must serve as the basis or 

 groundwork of ah 1 ; it must be the noblest, most total, 

 fullest and purest colour. This colour is the first 

 position of the aether as matter, and thus ofjlre. Fire- 

 colour is the first-born, the noblest, highest, fullest, 

 purest ; it is the setherial, cosmic colour. In fire the 

 light is oftuscated by gravity, and thereby coloured. 



367. The light is not, however, perfected by its 

 position as fire, but is posited also terrestrially. There 

 are therefore terrestrial colours also. 



368. There can be only three terrestrial colours, 

 neither more nor less ; for there are only three different 

 material or offuscated positions of light. 



369. The first terrestrial offuscation of light is the^V. 

 The colour of the air is thus second in the rank of colours. 

 As the fire-colour plays the chief part in the cosmic and 



