The Divine Color Sequence: Twelve Sacred Forms in Meditation (Initiation into the Light)

“Sunt autem tria: est enim una mundana, alia vero humana, tertia quae in quibusdam constituta est instrumentis.”

— De institutione musica I.2 — the threefold division musica mundana / humana / instrumentalis (G. Friedlein ed., Leipzig 1867)

“Were the eye not sunny, how could we perceive the light?”

— Theory of Colours, Introduction — Goethe's motto-verse (after Plotinus); trans. C. L. Eastlake, 1840

“Ut queant laxis resonare fibris / Mira gestorum famuli tuorum, / Solve polluti labii reatum, / Sancte Iohannes.”

— Hymn 'Ut queant laxis', first stanza — the ascending initial syllables Ut-Re-Mi-Fa-Sol-La supplied the solmization (solfège) names

“All whatsoever is spoken, written, or taught of God, without the knowledge of the signature is dumb and void of understanding.”

— The Signature of All Things, ch. 1, §1, trans. John Ellistone

“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”

— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna

“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”

— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts.”

— The Dhammapada, Ch. I (The Twin-Verses), v. 1 — trans. F. Max Müller, SBE Vol. 10

“Yoga is restraining the mind-stuff (Chitta) from taking various forms (Vrittis).”

— Book I (Samadhi Pada), aphorism 2, trans. Swami Vivekananda (1896)