The prism effect

During Physics we all have studies the prism effect.

Below is a copy paste from Wikipedia for ready reference
Before Isaac Newton, it was believed that white light was colorless, and that the prism itself produced the color. Newton's experiments demonstrated that all the colors already existed in the light in a heterogeneous fashion, and that "corpuscles" (particles) of light were fanned out because particles with different colors traveled with different speeds through the prism. It was only later that Young and Fresnel combined Newton's particle theory with Huygens' wave theory to show that color is the visible manifestation of light's wavelength.
Newton arrived at his conclusion by passing the red color from one prism through a second prism and found the color unchanged. From this, he concluded that the colors must already be present in the incoming light — thus, the prism did not create colors, but merely separated colors that are already there. He also used a lens and a second prism to recompose the spectrum back into white light. This experiment has become a classic example of the methodology introduced during the scientific revolution. The results of this experiment dramatically transformed the field of metaphysics.

Now lets look at it with the spiritual bent of mind.

The light always had the colours but only after going through the prism there were visible. So the colours were unmanifested with in the light.

Just like the many features of divinity that are in us and around us - but not manifested for our physical eyes.

The physical sense organs are limited in their ability to sense only the very gross.

For examples the frequency that a human ear can pick is different from what other animals can pick or radios can pick. The radio wave frequencies are all there, just we only pick some of them.