Karma

Author(s): Annie Besant
Publisher: Theosophical Publishing House

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belonging to the various sub-divisions, and they are communicated with in a colour-language, grounded on the colour to which they belong. This is why the real knowledge of sounds and colours and numbers
-number underlying both sound and colour-has ever been so carefully guarded, for the will speaks to the elementals by these, and knowledge gives power to control.
Master K.H. speaks very plainly on this colour language. He says:
How could you make yourself understood, command in fact, those semi-intelligent Forces, whose means of communicating with us are not through spoken words, but through sounds and colours, in correlations between the vibrations of the two? For sound, light and colour are the main factors in forming those grades of intelligences, those beings of whose very existence you have no conception, nor are you allowed to believe in them-Atheists and Christians, Materialists and Spiritualists, all bringing forward their respective arguments against such a belief-Science objecting stronger than either of these to such a degrading superstition.1
Students of the past may remember obscure allusions now and again made to a language of colours; they may recall the fact that in ancient Egypt sacred
1 The Occult World, p. 100.