Ink falling through a black field

Chapter 06 · 1919

How the coil travelled

John Woodroffe, writing as Arthur Avalon, The Serpent Power

A judge in Calcutta translated the six-centre text and gave English readers the coil, the channels, and the lotuses.

The rainbow chart that hangs in many studios is a later layer. This library keeps the sixteenth-century picture and the 1919 book apart from that poster.