Theos-Talk Archives (December 2003 Message tt00197)

In a message dated 12/10/03 12:08:05 AM, bartl@sprynet.com writes:

>OK. Putting in "indigo" into the colors is an arbitrary way of making 7
>out of six more general colors. But showing the point where one color 
>ends and the other begins is virtually impossible. It is an attempt to
>put in divisions on a continuity; any attempt to do so is automatically
>arbitrary.

Not when the colors are based on specific frequencies of light that obey 
cyclic laws of harmony, and when you can treat them mathematically as vectors. 
This also, incidentally, applies to sound and any other harmonic frequencies of 
energy from radio waves to gamma rays. Incidentally, the law of seven is based 
(among other factors) on the fact that the cycle or sine wave has three null 
points or nodes and four directions of motion. Also, on a sine wave, if you 
count the changes of direction or condition of motion and charge from the start 
point to the end point, there are seven stages or changes in all. No man 
made that happen or made it all up arbitrarily. "It's amazing how many times the 
number seven shows up as a fundamental harmonic in all quantum physics 
equations." (So said Richard Feynman, one of the foremost theoretical physicists of 
our times.) Wake up and smell the coffee. (Or study a little science and 
mathematics, and then try understanding the basis of theosophical metaphysics 
before spouting such nonsense.:-)