Identifier: gri_c00033125011227010 (find matches)
Title: The principles of light and color: including among other things the harmonic laws of the universe, the etherio-atomic philosophy of force, chromo chemistry, chromo therapeutics, and the general philosophy of the fine forces, together with numerous discoveries and practical applications ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Babbitt, Edwin D. (Edwin Dwight), 1828-1905
Subjects: Phototherapy Color Color
Publisher: New York, Babbitt & Co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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of the brain, that it seemsas though I could scarcely see them. When a person laughs orsends forth happy thoughts, it causes a dancing play of brightcolors ; but when in violent passion, a snapping and sparklingred is emitted, (p. 55). An eminent clairvoyant informs methat this description is mainly in harmony with the colors as hehas seen them, and it also coincides nearly with my perceptionof the same. In saying firmness was of a scarlet color, I thinkit is an oversight, as I heard her in private conversation admitthat there was a blue on the upper head behind the yellow whichwould bring it about over firmness, in accord with my own per-ception. Firmness seems to form the upper end of a mass ofpolarized lines of force which run down through the whole spine,and thus, when active, causes the whole being to become bracedup into a rigid and powerful condition, hence the effect which >v::v,:w^.-.<■• ; ■;¥■•;•.:.;::•, BABBITTS PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND COLOR.-PLATE IV.
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PSYCHIC LIGHTS AND COLORS. On the lower face of the above the artist has placed the green and yellow too low. The yellowshould come over the mouth, then a slight orange merging into a red at the chin, which continues allthe way to the occiput, at which last point it assumes a more muddy cast. THE COLORS AND FORCES OF THE BRAIN. 477 we call firmness. But these firm conditions, or polarizations,come from electricity, and electricity is the blue principle, sothat both theory and observation agree in the matter. I havedrawn the colors and had them engraved in Plate IV., accordingto Mrs. Mortons description, modified and completed by myown observations, assisted somewhat by others. The combina-tion, as in nature, is so soft and indescribably exquisite, and thevariety of tint is so vast that it is impossible to give anythingmore than the general plan of colors, and that with materialsmany times as coarse as the radiations themselves. The eyes,perceptives, and reasoning powers radiate blue e

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