LIGHT, COLOR, AND SOUND 163help, but if we want to help someone who is moody
and taciturn, we may use the gems, colors, and metals
of Mars to advantage.
In the Physical World red has the tendency to
excite and energize, whereas green has a cooling and a
soothing effect, but the opposite is true when we look
at the matter from the viewpoint of the Desire World.
There the complementary color is active and has the
effect upon our desires and emotions which we ascribe
to the physical color. We speak of jealousy, which is
engendered by impure love, as the green-eyed monster.
Upon observing the auras of people, the trained
clairvoyant notices the scarlet of anger, the gray and
steel- blue of fear, the darkish blue of worry, the red
cloud of hate, the black veil of despair, etc. A tinge of
soft sky-blue indicates hope, optimism, and a dawning
religious feeling. Blue shows the highest type of
spirituality, but the blue color does not appear outside
the dense body save in the very greatest of saints—
only yellow is usually observable there.
In the lower races the ground color of the aura is a
dull red like the color of a slow burning fire, indicating
their passionate, emotional nature. When we examine
people upon a somewhat higher rung of the ladder of
evolution, the basic color or vibration radiated by them
is seen to be of an orange hue, the yellow of intellect
mixed with the red of passion. The natural golden
color is the Christ ray finding its chemical expression
in the oxygen, a solar element, and as we advance
upon the path of evolution those who are not
professedly religious acquire a tinge of gold in their