Since man, as to his soul, presents himself in three states:  the sensitive, intellectual and moral; and in his organism in the eccentric, concentric and normal states; a priori, you may conclude that nature has three colors to symbolize the three states, and experience will not contradict you.

In fact, red, yellow and blue are the primitive colors.  All others are derived from these three rudimentary colors.

Why have we painted the column that corresponds to the life red?  Because red is the color of blood, and the life is in the blood.  But life is the fountain of strength and power.  Hence red is the proper symbol of strength and power in God, in man and in the demon.

Why blue in the column of the concentric state, the mind?  Because blue, from its transparency, is most soothing to our eyes.

Why yellow in the column of the soul?  Because yellow has the color of flame; it is the true symbol of a soul set on fire by love.  Yellow is, then, the emblem of pure love and of impure flames.

Why not use white in our chart?  Because white is incandescence in the highest degree.  We say of iron that it is at a red or a white heat.  But in this world it is rare to see a heart at a white heat.  Earthly thermometers do not mark this degree of heat.

It cannot be denied that red, yellow and blue are the three elementary colors, whose union gives birth to all the varieties that delight our eyes.  We have proof of this in one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena—­the rainbow.

The rainbow is composed of seven colors.  Here we distinguish the red, yellow and blue in all their purity; then from the fusion of these three primary colors, we have violet, orange, green and indigo.

This is the order in which the seven colors of the rainbow appear to us: 

Violet (red}, orange (yellow), green (blue), indigo.  Orange is composed of yellow and red.  Yellow mixed with blue, produces green.  Blue when saturated, becomes indigo.  Upon closer investigation, we may easily find the nine shades which correspond perfectly to the nine operations of our faculties, and to the nine functions of angelic minds.

By complicating and blending the mixture of these colors, we shall have all the tints that make nature so delightful a paradise.

The seven notes of music sound in accord with the seven colors of the rainbow.  There is a brotherhood between the seven notes and the seven colors.

The voice-apparatus, with that of speech and gesture, is for the orator a pallet like that upon which the painter prepares and blends those colors which, under the brush of a Raphael, would at once glow forth in a masterpiece.

Delsarte’s criterion is true; still more, it is beautiful, especially so with its brilliant adornment of the colors of the rainbow.

We verify our judgment by an explanation of the colored chart.