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of colour, then orbitar rings of colour (solar rainbows), 

 then points of colour. The planets are coagulated colours, 

 for they are coagulated light. At that very distance from 

 the sun, where light begins to grow dim, where, to 

 speak in the Newtonian sense, it begins to rejrar.t, there 

 planetary mass originates. The mass of the planet thus 

 coagulates together around the sun, but not in an uniform 

 manner like a mass of pulp, but in pauses of colours, 

 exactly like a rainbow. 



383. These planetary chromatic arcs or bows of colour 

 are related to the sun like the three terrestrial colours to 

 the cosmic, or as the three terrestrial elements to fire. 

 Three planetary productions must have thus formed 

 around the sun, because the light condenses, materializes 

 itself in three moments. Therefore the planets range 

 themselves in groups at three great distances. To the 



frst production belong Mercury, Venus, the Earth, Mars, 

 Vesta, Juno, Ceres and Pallas. They are the first 

 digression from Red, the Yellow; the Earthy prepon- 

 derates in them. They are all placed close together. 

 To the second production belong Jupiter and Saturn; 

 water rules them, and fluctuates visibly upon them ; they 

 are the Green. They range at a great distance from the 

 former group. To the third and most remote produc- 

 tions belongs Uranus ; it is the Blue, in which the air 

 preponderates. It again ranges at a great distance from 

 the former group. The comets are naught but aether, 

 which is about to become air. 



384. The production of the earth-planets or of the 

 first group is dispersed into so many as it is on account 

 of the proximity of the sun, on account of the energy 

 of the rays of light, as well as the import of the Earthy, 

 which exists essentially under many forms. The plane- 

 tary rings have been arranged like scales behind each 

 other, like clouds through electrical pauses ; but these 

 repeat themselves more rapidly, in the neighbourhood of 

 the sun. 



