“Watching the sleeping earth with ardent eyes And thoughts embracing all its living things; While o’er the waving fields that murmur moves Which is the kiss of Morn waking the lands, And in the East that miracle of Day Gathered and grew. At first a dusk so dim Night seems still unaware of whispered dawn, But soon--before the jungle-cock crows twice-- A white verge clear, a widening, brightening white, High as the herald star, which fades in floods Of silver, warming into pale gold, caught By topmost clouds, and flaming on their rims To fervent golden glow, flashed from the brink With saffron, scarlet, crimson, amethyst; Whereat the sky turns splendid to the blue, And, robed in raiment of glad light, the King Of Life and Glory cometh.” As we read the passage the whole scene arises before us, of the lonely watcher and the glorious Eastern sky. In other versions of the same event, however, we have more definite teaching concerning these beautiful sunrise hues. The Buddha plays his vina and the colour of the sky changes according to his seven notes--yellow, blue, violet, green, pink, white, and cream; not colours given by chance, but of deep esoteric meaning. Did we but know it, no doubt the seven strings on the lute of Apollo had once the same significance; and though we know these seven strings had other meanings as well, yet we must not therefore dismiss our theory, for “Is not God able to say many things in one?” That is the whole essence of the understanding of symbolism, that there are planes of interpretation. There has always existed a belief in the essential connection between colour and sound. That is why in everyday language we say “a colour clashes” or “a colour harmonises”--both terms from the sister art of music. The scientist has now worked out this connection,[1] so that we have the following facts:-- Vibrations per second. A tenor voice produces 400 Red light ” 400,000,000,000,000 A soprano voice ” 700 Violet light ” 700,000,000,000,000 Thus light gives a finer vibration than sound to the extent of a million million times, and this is one reason why, when the mind is so tired that even music seems wearisome, it can be healed by means of colour. Professor Wallace Rimington of King’s College made a colour organ in which colours were thrown on a screen when the organ was played. [1] Dr Mount Bleyer of New York invented the vibrograph to give the connection between colour and sound.