I seek to call your attention here to the fact that it is not yet permissible to give out the esoteric significance of these colours, nor exact information as to their order and application. The dangers are too great, for in the right understanding of the laws of colour and in the knowledge (for instance) of which colour stands for a particular ray lies the power the adept wields.” (21314 LOM)

GRASSES, THE GREEN CARPET WHEREON THE ANGELS DANCE.

“In resuming our consideration of the three divisions of the vegetable kingdom it might be stated that...

Ray VI determines the type, family, appearance, strength, size and nature of the trees upon our planet.
Ray II is the beneficent influence, expressing itself through the cereals and flowers.
Ray IV is the life quality, expressing itself through the grasses and the smaller forms of vegetable life,— those which provide the "green carpet whereon the angels dance".

An important symbolic happening has been consummated at the close of this Piscean Age, which is the period of the sixth ray influence. This has been the world-wide devastation of the forests of the world. Everywhere they have been sacrificed to the needs of man. Thus have been brought under the influence of fire, those vegetable forms of life which were ready for the initiation. The major agency in the development of this kingdom has been water, and this new development, this bringing together of fire and water in this kingdom, has constituted the subjective fact which brought the steam age into being. The vast forest fires, which form such a menace at this time in different parts of the world, are also related to this "initiation by fire" of a kingdom hitherto controlled and directed in its growth by the element of water.” (EP 1 240-241)