Saturn, it may be said, is the planet of mystery and the mysterious ways of God. He is like the god Chronos or the Angel Oriphel; he makes the person wait till his appointed hour before gifts are given. Still, as he often, by means of waiting and suffering, causes the person to develop some of the very highest gifts, he is sometimes given the yellow flecks. Minnie Theobald, in an explanation of a Passion play entitled _The Descent of the Light Spark_, writes on the colours worn by the Planets in her play. I quote at some length:-- “These seven principles are represented in my drama as the seven planets, which in the ancient mode of consciousness typified different modes of consciousness and substance.... Neptune and Uranus are the two planets of regeneration and rebirth, they are connected with cosmic consciousness; and so in the colour scheme either iridescence or all colour must be present to indicate their connection with wholeness.... Red typifies life and consciousness, and suggests the power of the Father, the Lord of Fire, reappearing in the lower worlds. Blue indicates the mother element or the substance into which life enters; yellow stands for the personality or child. _Colour is language; any planet may be represented by any colour_; it depends upon the particular activity of the particular planetary spirit to be portrayed. In this drama Mercury or Memory, the messenger between Time and Eternity, wears red, for he is carrying life and consciousness down to the cross of matter. He is the representative in the lower regions of the Light Spark; he is the flame hidden within each one of us, giving us memory of our divine origin. Next comes Venus, our fundamental soul-substance, the medium between the ego and personal mind; she is clad in blue. Jupiter, personal mind, follows next, clad in yellow. Then we have Mars. Our soul-substance, blue, has become mingled with personal mind, yellow, and so we get green. Red, cosmic life becomes green, personal life, for after the birth of the personal mind everything becomes reversed. Our personal life-current is the complementary mode of activity to the crucified cosmic life-current. This personal life and passion is the field of activity of Mars, and so shows his complementary colour, green. Finally, black or Saturn marks the limit of the fall. Here we have the negation of the life of Eternity, black or dense matter being the inversion of the pure white light of spirit.” This last quotation will show how modern mysticism uses colours. APPENDIX III CHROMATICS OF THE SKY. By J. S. DYASON (p. 4) The following is a tabulation of his observations:-- Copper at sunset presages wind or rain. Bright yellow ” wind. Pale yellow ” wet. Rosy sky ” fine. Pale green ” wind or rain. Indian red ” wind.