of the spheres in entrancing sounds.
The faster does not go far in the search for the secrets of himself before he comes face to face with the unrevealed secrets of the world in which he lives–secrets sealed to the masses but revealed to him because he has pushed his mind behind the veil of matter in which the common senses had shut him.
In the very beginning in this search for wisdom, he comes to a world of color and sound; he finds these so wonderful that they bewitch his senses; the color sinks him into introspection while the sound either soothes him or jars him into more and more mystery. When fasting has opened his vision to the color scheme of the universe, and his ears to its wonderful harmony, he must then pass, by higher law, into the added peace, power and usefullness which these gifts bring him.
It is a perfectly natural thing for the Illuminati to see colors and hear the vibrations of their life song. Thousands are born just on the edge of these deep, etheric vibrations. Clairvoyance and Clairaudience are just natural expressions of these intensified states of mind and body. They are not the gifts of God to some especial saint or seer, but are the gifts man gives to him self through the normal use of the finer senses already in his possession.
Form, color, sound, this is the trinity of life; every blade of grass gives off its own keynote, or life song, as a tuning fork gives out its notes; every mineral, animal, or man, everything, sings
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