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376. From the same cause Red warms, but Blue on 

 the contrary does not. The calef action given out in 

 prismatic spectra of colours is an impure work, in which 

 refractions, diversions and convergences of light, as well 

 as demi-foci, cooperate. 



377. The sun in the firmament may be viewed as the 

 bright opening in the darkened chamber. Colours are 

 therefore nothing but images of the sun in darkness, 

 self-manifestations of the sun in dark matter. A point 

 of light thrown into darkness is colour. This is the 

 case around the sun, which is therefore surrounded by 

 a hollow globe of colours, by its own refulgence. The 

 rainbow is a ring around the sun consisting of infinite 

 positions of the solar spectra in darkness. 



378. The symbolical doctrine of the colours is correct 

 according to the philosophy of nature. Red is fire, love 

 Father. Blue is air, truth and belief Son. Green 

 is water, formation, hope Ghost. These are the three 

 cardinal virtues. Yellow is earth, the Immoveable, Inex- 

 orable, falsity the only vice Satan. There are three 

 virtues, but only one vice. A result obtained by Physio- 

 philosophy, whereof Pneumato-philosophy as yet augurs 

 nothing. 



COLOURS AND PLANETS. 



379. Every condensation of aether by light is conse- 

 quently a production of colour, and inversely, every produc- 

 tion of colour is a condensation of the aether. The laws 

 of coloration run parallel with those of materialization, or, 

 what is more, are the same. The planets are thus pro- 

 duced according to the laws which light exercises in the 

 production of colours. 



380. There are as many productions of heavenly 

 bodies as there are of colours, and thus there are four. 



381. The sun is the incorporation of Red or fire, the 

 planets are that of the three terrestrial colours. The 

 comets belong to the kingdom of darkness. 



382. The planets are only suns reflected in darkness 

 as in a mirror ; they have originally been hollow globes 



