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Colours may best be expressed by a heptad, the largest possible formula for / things finite, as the pentad is the smallest possible form. Indeed, the / heptad of things finite is in all cases reducible to the pentad. The / adorable tetractys, or tetrad, is the formula of God; which, again, is / reducible into, and is, in reality, the same with, the Trinity. Take / colours thus: --
/ Prothesis, / Red, or Colour [Greek: kat exoch_en]. / ^ / /1 / /
Mesothesis, or Indifference of / / Red and Yellow = Orange. 4/ 5 Indigo, Violet = Indifference / /Synthesis of Red and Blue. / / -- 6 / Thesis = Yellow. 2 3 Blue = Antithesis. / Green indi-/ / componi- / / ble / / / / / / To which you must add 7/ which is spurious or artificial / v synthesis of Yellow and Blue. / Green, / decom- / ponible