162 OCCULT PRINCIPLES OF HEALTH & HEALING
conscious of the light and color which exist
everywhere around them.
The white light of the Sun contains the seven
colors of the spectrum. The occultist sees even twelve
colors, there being five between red and violet—going
one way around the circle—in addition to the red,
orange, yellow, green, etc., of the visible spectrum.
Four of these colors are quite indescribable, but the
fifth—the middle one of the five—is similar to the tint
of a new-blown peach blossom. It is in fact the color of
the vital body. Trained clairvoyants who describe it as
“bluish-gray”, or “reddish-gray”, etc., are trying to
describe a color that has no equivalent in the Physical
World and they are therefore compelled to use the
nearest descriptive terms afforded by our language.
When the three primary colors are interblended,
there appear four additional colors, the three secondary
colors, orange, green, purple, each due to the blending
of two primary colors, and one color (indigo) which
contains the entire gamut of colors, making in all the
seven colors of the spectrum. (Red plus yellow gives
orange; blue plus yellow gives green; blue plus red
gives purple.)
The color of Mars is red; of Venus, yellow; of
Mercury, violet; of the Moon, green; of the Sun,
orange; of Jupiter, blue; of Saturn, indigo; of Uranus,
yellow. We may blend these colors in order to obtain
help from them. As a matter of fact, it is the
complementary color which is seen in the Desire
World that produces the effect of the physical colors.
If it is desired to restrain one whose Mars is too
prominent, the gems, colors, and metals of Saturn will