The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-08-11
4. FINE COLOR rs YELLOW.
It's Present Use IL . Case 0f tho Mighty
Having Fallen.

In ancient mythology yellow was sacred
TO Jupiter, and to be worn on Sunday. the
day ruled by the sun and c~onsecrated to
deity. Saffron or fame colored robes were
also dedicated 10 Hymen. says the Queen.
and brides were covered with a veil called
the flammarion, without which no mar
riage vow was held binding.
The imperial color OF China 10 orang
and is sacred to the use Of the Son OF
Heaven. Yellow mixed with red Is often
an emblem OF turbulence. as the orange
lily badge OF the Orangemen in Ireland.
Yellow is considered q fundamental color.
like red and blue; its principle is healing.
stimulating, but may prove injurious n
~overexciting to very irritable and nervous
conditions. as it is powerful in its effect
upon the nerves, especially OF the brain
and lower parts of the body.
The yellow principle pervades poisons.
tonics, emetics and such medicines as
SIENNA. figs. castor oil. olive oil, sulphur. &c.
Coffee, with its yellow brown principle, Is
infammatory and disposes to restlessness;
saffron in small doses exhilarates the
spirits; in large doses produces headache
and delirium.
Nearly all alcoholic drinks contain the
stimulation Of y~ellow-sherry, MARSHA,
whiskey, brandy, champagne. the golden
wines OF Italy and Spain. &C.. also cereals
such as wheat, oats and barley. There are
strange chemical affinities between colors
ard IL is curious to note with regard to
the growth OF plants how certain colors
group themselves together. such as violets
and primroses, gorse n heather, &c,
violet and yellow being aftinitive colors.
Wherever yellow enters another color there
is a deepening n warming; thus yellow
with blue. green; yellow with red, orange.
Yellow is assuredly the outward express
sion OF power, vitality, vigor-physical,
intellectual and spiritual. 1t contains ali
the qualities for good and for evil OF the
planetary principle of Jupiter, the ruling
qualities Of the world; wherever il is present
II strikes a dominant note.
The raging fire, the illimitable desert
fierce body of a lion. a tiger, a cobra are
alike yellow. There is no power on earth
greater than those little Jumps Of yellow
metal. passed with the unconscious swift
ness OF thought from hand to hand, focus
sing like a magnet all the evil passions of
men,, consuming Its seekers with the gold
fever; it IL the root OF all evil, yet with a
~blossoming power for good; by il men
must live, without IL, die.
In the Jewish ritual the most precious
golden cherubims above the golden ark
and mercy seat, the golden table and the
golden candlestick, the golden lamps,
the golden bells on the high priests robe,
the golden mitre with it's engravement,
Holiness to the Lord"
And the same symbolism lows through
the vision Of Patmos-the golden altar, the
golden crowns and girdles, the golden
walls Of odors and those seven terrible
walls Of the wrath Of God, and the golden
cup OF denominations held by the scarlet
woman, running. as IL were, from the height
to the depth OF the golden scale-or rattle.
shall 10 be said, from the depth to the height,
from the barbaric, tawny range of physi-
cal force, through the infinite gsmut OF
tone shades-copper, bronze. jscinth, topaz,
flame, saffron. amber, citron, lemon. prim-
rose. cream. ivory-up to the glorious
fount Of light before whom the spirits
veil and from whose radiant glory the torch
OF life Ii liz.