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its principles, and this for the simple reason that there are no distinctive sounds in nature accompanying the majority of the ideas expressed in these Aryau roots.
The theory which we put forward, on the other band, is that sounds have by Dature a spiritual or innate relation with various colours, forms or qualities, and that the Aryan roots were formed with a clear intuitional perception of this fact. It is probable that the process of their formation was instinctive and unconscious, rather than intentional and deliberate.
To make the theory more clear, we may say that is appears to us that the entities on each plage have a spiritual relation to the entities on the other planes. A particular sound, for instance, corresponds to seme one colour, to some one taste, to some one odour, and to some one simple figure or form. In order to connect the Aryan roots, or, to speak more correctly the sounds of the Aryan roots with their values on the other planes-thus shoing their origin to be spiritual and intuitional it will be necessary to analyse the chief sounds used in this branch of human speech, and to assign to them their spiritual values; and having discovered these values to apply them to the Aryan roots or to the words of any early language akin to the Aryan. It will be seen that besides the values to be assigned to them intuitionally, a parallel series of values will be diocovered arising from physiological reasons, such as the position of the organs of
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