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===Symbolism=== The front cover, hand-drawn by George Banks, prominently features a primeval Eastern sun, intended to represent the open blazing [[third eye]].<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|281}} Above this is the [[sahasrara|seventh chakra]], the ultimate realm of [[Nirvana]]. The gold color on which this is printed was chosen as a symbolic color for the divine.<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|281}} Below the sun is the band's name, colored red and formatted to look like the eyebrows of [[Buddha]]. This image concept was selected by lyricist and jug player [[Tommy Hall (musician)|Tommy Hall]], along with the rear cover image of a [[meditation|meditating]] [[yogi]], which is from a photograph of an eighteenth-century painting hanging in the [[National Museum, New Delhi|National Museum of Indian Art]] in [[New Delhi]].<ref name="Drummond" />{{rp|280}} Hall selected these images from a [[Tantra|Tantric art]] book, intending to communicate that evolution is obtainable through alignment of the [[chakras]] and opening of the third eye (corresponding to the [[pineal gland]]); thus a [[soul]] coalesces with the collective primeval life force and retains a latent knowledge of its previous existence, therefore consciously achieving [[immortality]].
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