the rays of the sun directly, one cannot always get the sun when one
might need it most. There are often days when we never see the sun
(not to mention nights!).
If you should suddenly become ill late in the evening, and help
was needed in a hurry, waiting until the next day for the sun to shine
is hardly the answer. There are also many days of cold weather —
too cold to lie nude for long.
If all the conditions were exactly right, you would get some
good from the sun — particularly if you were already tanned to
protect yourself from the destructive rays of the sun. Probably the
destructive invisible rays would do damage before the healing of the
visible rays could take place. But if all the above conditions are just
right and little beads of perspiration are present, the white light is
broken into its various colors and the body uses only the colors it
needs and rejects the rest. Our bodies have the ability to choose only
the color they need from the sun, if we are not too depleted.
Getting all the necessary elements from our food is also
important. Plants are governed by the same natural law as everything
else. They have the ability to pick up just the color and chemicals
they need, if all are present in the soil and air where they grow. If a
plant becomes sickly from lack of sufficient minerals and water, the
sun can do it no good. It takes every natural condition to produce a
perfectly healthy plant — or human being. Each vegetable, fruit and
flower has an individual color of its own. When we eat any kind of
food, we are actually eating color from the sun. The chemicals and
minerals are there because of the action of the color in the suns' rays.
Of course, the minerals and water have to be in the soil and air or the
colors could not make the plant grow.
If we are unable to use the suns' rays directly, we must then