turns away to seek relief in blue or green.

But to a more sensitive soul the effect of colours is deeper and
intensely moving. And so we come to the second main result of
looking at colours: THEIR PSYCHIC EFFECT. They produce a
corresponding spiritual vibration, and it is only as a step
towards this spiritual vibration that the elementary physical
impression is of importance.

Whether the psychic effect of colour is a direct one, as these
last few lines imply, or whether it is the outcome of
association, is perhaps open to question. The soul being one with
the body, the former may well experience a psychic shock, caused
by association acting on the latter. For example, red may cause a
sensation analogous to that caused by flame, because red is the
colour of flame. A warm red will prove exciting, another shade of
red will cause pain or disgust through association with running
blood. In these cases colour awakens a corresponding physical
sensation, which undoubtedly works upon the soul.

If this were always the case, it would be easy to define by
association the effects of colour upon other senses than that of
sight. One might say that keen yellow looks sour, because it
recalls the taste of a lemon.

But such definitions are not universally possible. There are many
examples of colour working which refuse to be so classified. A
Dresden doctor relates of one of his patients, whom he designates
as an "exceptionally sensitive person," that he could not eat a
certain sauce without tasting "blue," i.e. without experiencing a