You ask me lastly why I think it is that the nations should agree so well in choosing the inner meanings of colours. It seems to me that in olden times the gift of being able to see the human aura was one well known to the prophets and seers. Now, once a person has this gift it is very easy to connect the type of person exhaling the aura with particular qualities. When another aura is seen containing one of the same colours the quality it shows would ever after be connected with that colour, and so there would grow up a colour symbolism differing little all over the world. Many of the most successful colour healers of to-day see the human aura, and according to the beauty of the colours they see the beauty of the Mind, and according to the lack of beautiful coloration they see illness and wrong-doing. Still it must be borne in mind that the wrong-doer even in health cannot attain so beautiful or refined an aura as the good man. In sickness the colours of the latter are greyish in value, whereas the colours of the evil man are muddy-looking. It is indeed a great subject, proving that the physicians of the future must minister to the soul as well as the body. The world awaits them. APPENDICES APPENDIX I SCHOOLS OF COLOUR (p. 25) In these ancient schools of colour the students of seership concentrated for, sometimes, years on the truths coming to them from a given colour. Of the Persian Sufis there are said to have been four colours:-- 1. Gold School.--Where all the beauty and majesty of the inner symbolism of the sun colour was to glorify their souls. 2. Green School.--Where they learnt of immortality, and the need of ever serving the Maker. 3. Black School.--Where they pondered on the mysteries of God and learnt wisdom thereby. 4. White School.--Where as full initiates they knew the joy of God. There have also been rosaries of symbolic colours. Roses and prayers seem to have some connection in nearly all great religions, hence the colour of the rose was to denote a prayer or deep desire for the quality symbolised by the rose. APPENDIX II THE COLOURS OF THE PLANETS (p. 25) This is a subject on which research gives variable results. In recent years Mr. Alan Leo, perhaps the greatest modern exponent of astrology, assigned the following colours to the planets:-- Sun orange Moon violet Mercury yellow Venus blue Mars red Jupiter indigo Saturn green A list perhaps more in harmony with the ancient beliefs is the one given below:-- Sun yellow or gold Moon white or silver Mercury green Venus blue (turquoise or lapis lazuli) Mars red Jupiter purple (or lapis lazuli) Saturn black (sometimes black with orange flecks).