Joseph’s coat of many colours has been said to have been a sign of all-blessing, but we must remember that there is considerable doubt concerning the context of this passage, Still we do know that in many nations certain variously coloured garments have been considered garments of honour. Thus the ancient Irish bards had robes striped with the following colours as a sign of their noble and honourable calling--white, blue, green, black, and red. Modern symbolism speaks in very beautiful language of the fact that the seven rays of the spectrum give white light, but we must remember that this symbolism is essentially modern. Thus, as I have said previously, white represents unity; while to the ancients, yellow, the sun colour, was the colour of unity. The seven rays have been likened to the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit, and sometimes they are likened to the Elohim. In the spectrum we have three main rays, sometimes given as red, yellow, and blue, and sometimes as red, green, and blue. These are said mystically to stand for the Trinity or God in Three--that is, God in manifestation; while the white ray would represent God in Unity or the One Supreme Cause--God Unmanifest--God ever changeless. Sometimes the seven rays are likened to the various ways and methods of approach to spiritual vision, for few people receive this vision in the same way or under the same conditions. Some people receive inspiration through work, others in quiet meditation, or by concentrating their energies on some great truth. Thus the Zoroastrians and Parsees have concentrated on the virtue of Purity, and they realise that all that is unclean, whether of the body or of the soul, is forever separate from God. This is a great and basic truth that must be enshrined in the heart of every worshipper:-- “Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God” --a wonderful promise, hardly to be comprehended except by the saints, the seers, and the exalted ones. Then the Buddhists lay stress on the Brotherhood of Man, and so charity and the virtue of giving willingly and freely has been exalted to one of supreme importance in India. The Christians lay stress on the Love of God--the highest conception so far; but one that must include the other truths or it becomes degraded and debasing, as in the belief of the person who holds that the more wickedly he lives, the more God will have to forgive, and therefore the more love God will have for him. So all Truths are necessary in order to form the white ray. As James Russell Lowell says:-- “God sends His teachers into every land, To every clime and every race of men, With revelation fitted for their growth And shape of mind, nor gives the realm of Truth Into the keeping of one single race. * * * * *