Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God,
But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Paracelsus tells us that if we knew all the qualities of the stars we would find that the "quality of each one of them is represented on earth by some plants. It is no inconsistent thing to say that every stone, flower and tree has its horoscope."
The Group Spirit of plants, from its focus in the center of the earth, also emanates a spectrum of light which is absorbed by the roots of plants, carried up in the life force or sap, and used by nature spirits to color the plant kingdom exactly in accordance with its varying development. Thus, flowers truly "write music in the air," proclaiming to all who observe them the position of their evolutionary status. White roses represent the highest stage of progress. Their perfume is generally the most delicate because the human sense of smell is as yet too unrefined to receive its full vibratory emanation.
Blue flowers are next in development. They are not only more rare but much more fragile. The yellow follows; then the pink; lowest in color rate and most hardy in physical endurance are the reds.
From an unidentified newspaper clipping we quote:
There are some indications that in pre-historic times, before the Carboniferous Period, the earth was comparatively devoid of color. Some enthusiasts even see in the development of the color sense a result of the "survival of the fittest." The appreciation of color in the aesthetic sense is certainly a product of cultural advancement. Children and savages love bright and garish colors; culture and refinement (if not decadence) make for a liking of the soft, subdued tints.
The above recent findings of modern science are in complete harmony with spiritual science. The Carboniferous Period of the former is the Lemurian Epoch of the latter. As man evolves he touches new gradations of color. There were few flowers in Lemuria; mostly dense green forests and heavy tropical vegetation. The color green is due for tremendous development. It is the earth color, and future Burbanks will produce beautiful green flowers when man learns to use this color as the wonderful curative agency it is destined to become.
The early Atlanteans knew flowers but not the delicate, dainty hues of today. Theirs were heavy brick reds, russet browns and purplish blacks. When the nadir of materiality had been reached and man turned heavenward once more, the Christed vibration, which is centered within the earth, opened the way for pastel tints to develop in greater beauty and variety as the earth and man became increasingly attuned to it.
As the Cosmic Christ Principle awakens increasingly the Christ principle in man, altruism, compassion and selfless serving will be correspondingly evidenced in the world. A direct manifestation of this fact will be found in pastel tints objectified in the realm of color. Delicate blues are still rare and fragile in the flower world because the operation of pure spiritual impulse is so rare in human kind.
As previously stated, there are seven gradations to each of the seven colors of the spectrum. Later, these will be extended to twelve, and the physical solar spectrum now known to science will also be enlarged to include twelve color-tones. The color scale of seven tones will be augmented to respond to the twelve-toned chromatic scale.
The more of the Light and Reflecting Ethers (the two highest of the four ethers) which man attracts to himself through high and inspirational living, the more of the beautiful he will find surrounding him. Truly as the poet has said: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.''
Certain vibratory rates manifest to physical perception as color. This color vibration is drawn from the Sun by one of the seven planetary rays using the Light Ethers as the medium of transmission.
Each flowering plant produces its own "paint pot," so to speak, from which nature spirits draw the colors they use to tint petals. Annie Besant charmingly described these same little devas or nature spirits as "building in a language that is color and a motion that is melody."
Flowers also emit their fragrance in music. As with tone and color, so also many perfumes are too refined to make an impress upon the physical senses. Organs of smell, sight and hearing are due for a remarkable process of sensitization.
Many composers have caught in the strains of their flower music the perfume of the flower, a notable example being MacDowell's To a Wild Rose. The composer duplicated the exact pattern of melody upon which the wild rose is fashioned. If the performer is in a sensitive mood while playing this lovely music, he will discover that the atmosphere surrounding him is suffused with delicate fragrance as of attar of roses.
Fragrance is produced by the dissemination of minute particles of the flowering plant, their essential oil. Different colors are found to have different odors. Red roses emit a heavy rich perfume like deep bass notes. Pink roses shed a finer perfume which may be compared to a rich baritone. Yellow roses give out a lighter, pungent odor which may be likened to the golden notes of clear tenor or pure contralto voice. Blue is the soprano color-tone. But a white rose gives forth a high delicate fragrancy, frequently barely perceptible and comparable only to the flute-like tones of the most beautiful coloratura.
Kepler assigns to Saturn and Jupiter the bass; to Mars the tenor; to Venus and Earth the contralto; to Mercury the treble. As Hargrave Jennings well observes, "Music is always in the air, particularly at night, for nature (being born of it) is necessarily more sensitive at night to the beautiful."
Nature always works in harmony with the chromatic color scale. It has been discovered by horticulturists that when flowers are placed under blue light they grow more rapidly. Under yellow light they blossom more profusely, and under red light they have a tendency to turn back into the earth.
Dr. Enoch Karrer (Smithsonian Institute) reports:
"Different Colors of Light cause seedling tips of plants to seek or shun each other."(Dr. Karrer grew seedlings and exposed them to the rainbow band of light obtained by splitting the white light of an electric arc.) "Blue light caused the seedlings to bend toward the light and toward each other. Red illuminated seedling tips bent away from each other. Plants receiving orange light became greener than their neighbors and roots grew longest in the extreme blue rays."
The variegated colors of a garden hold much for scientific study and spiritual meditation by every reverent observer of the deeper mysteries of life and being. Warmly will they echo the poet's utterance:
The simplest flower that grows bears throughts that lie too deep for tears.
The following is a listing of the flowers and perfumes ascribed to the Twelve Zodiacal Signs:
| Signs: | Flowers: | Perfumes: |
| Aries | All small red flowers | Red Carnation and Red Rose |
| Taurus | All flowers | All Rose perfumes |
| Gemini | All double flowers | Lilac, Old Lavender |
| Cancer | Lotus and Immortelles | All Lily perfumes, Jasmine |
| Leo | All Golden and deep yellow flowers | Orange Blossom |
| Virgo | All flowers of Lily family | White Rose and Heliotrope |
| Libra | All Balms, Pansy, Violet, Primrose | Rosemary and Sandalwood |
| Scorpio | Chrysanthemum; all large red flowers | All red flower perfumes |
| Sagittarius | All climbing vines and flowering trees | Violet |
| Capricorn | All black and dark-hued flowers — blooming Cereus, Black Poppy, Nightshade. | Black Narcissus and Black Tulip |
| Aquarius | Blue and white flowers, Acacia, Frankincense and Myrrh | Gardenia |
| Pisces | White and orchid flowers: all sea plants, Ferns and Mosses | White Narcissus |
— Corinne Heline
