inguishable
texture of sunlit marble and cool shadow, yet in reality each is
a separate work of art. So with the capitals of the columns of the
wonderful sea-arcade of the Venetian Ducal palace: alike in general
contour they differ widely in detail, and unfold a Bible story.
In Gothic cathedrals, in Romanesque monastery cloisters, a teeming
variety of invention is hidden beneath apparent uniformity. The
gargoyles of Notre Dame make similiar silhouettes against the sky,
but seen near at hand what a menagerie of monsters! The same spirit of
controlled individuality, of liberty subservient to the law of all, is
exemplified in the bases of the columns of the temple of Apollo near
Miletus--each one a separate masterpiece of various ornamentation
adorning an established architectural form (Illustration 28).

[Illustration 28]

[Illustration 29]

The builders of the early Italian churches, instinctively obeying this
law of Diversity in Monotony, varied the size of the arches in the
same arcade (Illustration 29), and that this was an effect of art and
not of accident or carelessness Ruskin long ago discovered, and the
Brooklyn Institute surveys have amply confirmed his view. Although
by these means the builders of that day produced effects of deceptive
perspective, of subtle concord and contrast, their sheer hatred of
monotony and meaningless repetition may have led them to diversify
their arcades in the manner described, for a rigidly equal and regular
division lacks interest and vitality.

BALANCE

If one were to establish an axial plane vertically through the center
of a tree, in most cases it would be found that the masses of foliage,
however irregularly shaped on either side of such an axis, just about
balanced each other. Similarly, in all our bodily movements, for every
change of equilibrium there occurs an opposition and adjustment of
members of such a nature that an axial plane through the center of
gravity would divide the body into two substantially equal masses,
as in the case of the tree. This physical plane law of Balance
shows itself for the most part on the human plane as the law of
Compensation, whereby, to the vision of the occultist, all accounts
are "squared," so to speak. It is in effect the law of Justice, aptly
symbolized by the scales.

The law of Balance finds abundant illustration in art: in music by
the opposition, the answering, of one phrase by another of the same
elements and the same le