spray, in coarse silk, with the eyes shut. The spray so produced should be as natural-looking as anything that could be done with the eyes open.
I speak here of Needlework, that being the Art with which I am familiar; but similar principles to those above explained have been applied to colour-study with the brush. The fact that it is possible, by utilizing the polarity of nervous disease, to produce the peculiar old-Eastern colouring, and at the same time to facilitate cure by unifying the antithetic phases, throws light, I think, on the attitude of the Peutateuch writers, both towards colour-and-form Art, and towards the question of Atonement of error by return to the Unseen Unity. The Third Commandment might, I think, be for some persons paraphrased thus:—
When angry, do not indulge in blasphemous exclamations, or in wanton and exaggerated statements ; but learn to curse and swear in colours. This will relieve your feelings as much as bad language could do, and will neither offend your neighbours nor injure yourself. It can be made a means of curing whatever evil tendencies may be latent in your nature, by employing them in the development of Artistic faculty. And be sure that God will bless every attempt to put yourself into line with His Creative energy; and will, sooner or later, punish every expression of evil which has no tendency to further its redemption to the service of Good and Unity.
There are those who smile at any serious treatment of so trivial a pursuit as Embroidery. But how can a woman be sure that she has truly grasped philosophic principles, unless she can employ them to improve feminine and domestic occupations? A wise man once
