Colours-The Formula of Light

C o l o u r s

the Formula

of Light

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C o l o u r s

the Formula of Light

This work is intended to provide a review with original conjecture on colour, in context of the esoteric philosophies as described by A. A. Bailey and H. P. Blavatsky. These pages will therefore be most accessible to those familiar with the concepts presented in their works, and no undue elaboration will be undertaken upon the theories commonly held in those writings.

This work may, however, be of interest to those unfamiliar with these doctrines, who wish to accept my assumptions and work with colour according to a comprehensive system (which may seem complex or obscure to the new investigator). If one were inclined to accept the basic premises, the information in the Practice Chapters could be utilized without the need for the philosophical background; the suggestions may be used in creating meditative or practical experiments for transformative personal, group, and global work, through visualisation or the physical application of coloured lights.

This is primarily a mental approach, with I hope some inklings of the intuition coming through occasionally (especially when the going gets excrutiatingly hard logically!) There is due background given and attention paid to exoteric optics and colour theory, as I believe knowledge of exoteric sciences may be fundamental to a well-rounded and logical system of thought around the esoteric nature of colour. I have not used an experiential or experimental approach in developing this material. I do not have any special sight or unusual sensing abilities. I do not even believe that I “see” or visualise colour mentally in ways common to other meditators or those with strong visualization faculties.

The style of writing will range from matter-of-fact exoteric science, to quoted references, to conjecture, pointed and circuitous questioning, sometimes coloured by exasperation! I use colour, bolding, and various font size in certain places, which I trust will not distract the reader but enhance a more vibrant and immediately accessible visual presentation of some of this apparently vague, contradictory, or ‘blinded’ material.

I have made assumptions of significances, emerging trends, original relationships and correspondences. These conjectures are the result of my research, objectively and subjectively surmised, unless otherwise stated. Chapter 8 outlines the major questions and problem areas surrounding esoteric colour philosophy as I understand them, whether they have been treated upon within the thesis or not. My only hope is that this treatise may be of some use, put to the test and furthered by peers and students.

I welcome your comments; e-mail [email protected]

Vicktorya Stone 20 February 2002


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CONTENTS OUTLINE

OVERVIEW

1.1 Foundational Comments: Intent and Scope

1.2 What is Colour? (Exoterically Considered)

1.3 Key Esoteric Doctrine References

1.4 Exoteric Colours: Science of Optics and Colour Theory

ESOTERIC THEORY AND RELATIONSHIPS

2.1 Esoteric and Exoteric Colours

2.2 Investigations of Individual Colours and Colour Combinations

CONJECTURE

3 Macrocosmic: Esoteric Cosmology with Colour Correspondences

4 Microcosmic: The Human Constitution: Vehicles, Centres, and Colours

5 Tables and Charts (of combined macro, micro, and various relationships)

PRACTICE

6 Analysis of various stanzas, Old Commentaries, words of power, etc.…

7 Consciousness and Colours in Meditation, Transformation, and other Application

EVOLVING THE STUDY

8 Questions

9 References and Compilations


DETAIL OF CHAPTER ONE

1. OVERVIEW

1.1. Foundational comments: Intent and Scope

1.2 What is the phenomenon of Colour? (Exoterically considered)

1.3 Key Esoteric Doctrine References

1.4 Science of Colour and Optics

1.4.1 Science and Colour

a. The Electromagnetic Spectrum

b. Colour and Sound

1.4.2 Overview of Physics of Optics and Physiology of Human Vision

1.4.3 Additive and Subtractive Colour and the relationship between


1. Overview

1.1. Foundational Comments: Intent and Scope

· To further the study of colour as presented by A. A. Bailey and H. P. Blavatsky.

· To offer original charts, tables of correspondences, and compilations on this material.

· To suggest some uses of colour that may be useful in consciousness transmutation, healing, or other applications.

· To sketch the outstanding questions and problems in this field, and provide a comprehensive reference and compilation of the colour materials from AAB’s and HPB’s books, to provide assistance to other researchers.

1.2 What is colour?

Physical and Linguistic-Cultural Considerations

In the physical world, colour is a phenomenon of the impact of light upon the visual sense organs and its subsequent interpretation by the brain. Colour does not exist outside of the perception of an observer. Colour is therefore a purely physiological phenomenon; not a physical one. That is: there is not a physics of colour, but a physiology of colour. Thus, there is no colour ‘out there’; it is a product of our sense organs (eyes) and the interpretation of that by our brains.

While this is true, it does not diminish the fact that our perception of and interaction with colour has effect upon our inner psychological reaction. Additionally, knowledge of the physical behavior of colour is useful to place the esoteric treatment of colour in perspective of the physical or exoteric universe, and thereby find and create suggestive analogies and logical relationships.

In the physical sciences, colour theory is primarily based on the work of Sir Isaac Newton in 1665-66. More popular perhaps among the esoteric community is the colour theory work of Johannes von Goethe, who devised many interesting experiments with less scientific rigor but with perhaps created a more intuitively-based philosophical system for dealing with colour. While Goethe's work is suggestive, it is not discussed in this treatise. While Newton may be referred to as a reductionist, it is likely that he was an initiate of some standing, as the magnitude of his work testifies. Further, his divisioning of the spectrum into seven colours reflected his understanding of music and alchemy, and reinforces the esoteric doctrine’s assertion that form manifests through the archetype of septenantes. It is upon this basis, therefore, that we proceed.

From Newton's foundational works in optics, we commonly recognize the following names for the spectral colours, in the order of the rainbow or electromagnetic spectrum. These names highlight the crucial role of linguistics and cultural factor in colour research: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

When we see, sense, imagine, think of, and speak of colour, we are conditioned by our particular language and culture. While each language has specific names for the various light frequencies that cause colour sensation, even in similar modern-western cultures we share no common one-to-one correspondence between languages and colour definitions. For instance, in Russian there are two words for (what most English-speakers or ‘westerners’ call) the colour blue. The sensations most English-natives identify as “light blue” and “dark blue”, Russian-speaking natives would call two distinct colours, each with different names. Similarly, in Hungarian there are two terms for what we normally include in “red”; in Japanese one word that covers green, blue, or all dark stimuli; Welsh has one word that means green, blue, grey or brown; and, many aboriginal and the New Guinea languages have only two terms meaning light and dark. (See Chapter 8, 1a, for notes on further study.)


In general, the one thing common throughout cultures is the recognition of colours in terms of temperature: "warm" or "cool". (This is effective in making distinctions even among those who are colour blind.)

However, the seven names for colour are those primarily used in the esoteric doctrines, and I believe some archetypal key is involved in their use. While other colour names are also used (such as turquoise, sapphire, ruby, azure, gold, rose, etc.), I believe their use is qualitative to the fundamental seven. Therefore, while for the purposes of this work we use these seven colours, we must not assume that there actually are only – or ‘as many as’ – seven colours, at least not according to the physical sciences or sociological conventions. There is no objectively recognized fixed number of colours. (Further, in the esoteric doctrines, we both told that during this major time period there are only 4 colours we can be sure of, as well as that there are myriads of colours unknown to us.)

Physiological Considerations

While there are three major receptors in the human eye (the often-called red, green, and blue cones), this neither implies that there are three major colours.

There is a continuum of wavelengths. Thus, depending upon the degree of minute measurement of the wavelengths, there could be defined ‘a different colour’ for every wavelength. With normal colour vision (i.e., healthy cone receptors) recognizing violet at around 400 nm to red which becomes invisible around 700 nm, we can at least say there are roughly 300 distinct wavelengths of colour – which isn’t to say each of these 1 nanometer differences could be discretely registered. However, this doesn’t take into effect the millions of recognizably different colours to the human eye, which result from combining and blending, shading and tinting, and other optical effects.

Most people do notice 4 distinct divisions of colour, that is, they perceive: red, yellow, green, and blue as colours distinct in themselves, and not due to blending. (This is regardless of whether people know that yellow and blue pigments make green, or, more sophisticated, that red and green light make yellow, in general these 4 colours impact most in the modern western world as distinct colours.)

In terms of our cultural use, colour is one of the first things we recognize about an object: "a red car"; "a yellow dress", "a blue bird". It is also a primary descriptor for emotional states, “he saw red”; “I felt blue”; “she was green with envy”; “they view the world through rose-coloured glasses.” In everyday language, colour adds a quality or 'feeling' to an object. Further, in our environments, it is now well recognized that the use of colours can assist people to feel more relaxed, or excited. Restaurant designers may propose the use oranges or reds to stimulate appetite; waiting rooms are often in subdued hues, relaxing blues or greens. Colours are also often referred to in terms of volume or texture, and interaction: “Those are very loud colours”; “She always wears soft colours”; “those colours clash”. The Fauvist artists were known for their use of wild colours, pushing the limits of conventional expectations about what colour was and how it should be used in painting. (See Chapter 8, 1b.)

While most of us in modern cultures derive beauty and emotional satisfication from the aesthetic use of colour, there is ample evidence that the biological development of our colour sense was likely due to the need to distinguish healthy food, in conjunction with the vegetable kingdom’s need to distribute seeds (in fruit-bearing trees). (See Chapter 8, 1c.)

With these few basic physical and cultural considerations in place, let’s begin to lay the foundation of the colour theory in the esoteric doctrines, and then we can more fully discuss its potential relation with the physical or exoteric evidence.


1.3 Foundational References, and the Law of Correspondence and Mutation

From Letters on Occult Meditation: “… it is not yet permissible to give out the esoteric significance of [Page 213] 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."

Yet the right correspondence and application of colour holds “the key to all knowledge”. From Letters on Occult Meditation, pages 222-223:

By the study of colours and the planes, by the study of colour and its effect and relationship to the life side, and by the study of the form side of the mind, will come much of value to the student of meditation, provided always he does three things:

1. That he seeks to find the esoteric colours and their right application to the planes and centres, to the bodies through which he manifests, and to the bodies through which the Logos manifests (the seven sacred planets); to the rounds and to the races, and to the cycles of his own individual life. When he can do this he holds in his hands the key to all knowledge.

2. That he endeavours to make practical application of all indicated truth …

3. That he remembers ever that perfection, as we know it, is only partial and not real, and that even perfection itself—as grasped by the mind of man, is but illusion, and that only the next logoic manifestation will reveal the ultimate glory in view. As long as there is differentiated colour there is imperfection. Remember, colour as we know it is the realisation by the man using a fifth root-race body in the fourth round on the fourth chain, of a vibration that contacts the human eye. What then will colour be as visioned by a man of the seventh round in a seventh root-race body? Even then a whole range of colours of wondrous beauty will be outside and beyond his comprehension. The reason being that only two great aspects of logoic life are being thoroughly demonstrated and the third will be but partially revealed, waiting for the still greater ‘Day be with us’ to flash forth in perfect radiance. …”

We begin with a conundrum: Colour holds the key to all knowledge, and the presence of colour indicates imperfection. All knowledge therefore is a state well below perfection, and this perfection will be a long time coming, (til the "Day be with us").

Let’s start with the framework that 'imperfection' is caused by an evolution much greater than ourselves, and is a demonstration of the One in Whom we Live and Move and have our Being (of at least Solar Systemic levels, and likely beyond). Our "logoic life" is imperfect, or coloured. He is evolving, and therefore working with the various coloured lives and levels of consciousness which make up his Being. Whatever we perceive or can know, or perfect, can only be achieved in relative terms, within the limits of His colouration. One’s colour is what distinguishes one from another.

The Ahamkara, or “I” principle, is what circumscribes the sense of a separated self, or distinct identity. Even in the archetypal realms of a grand septenate of colour, such a separated self as “indigo” is limitation upon that Whole, which if perceived as One would be colourless, or all colours blended into one white light. While we may rightfully strive towards absorption into the Great Ray Life of Blue-Indigo, or Love-Wisdom, or Two, the true blue of our Solar Logos, this is only temporary. It is a mark of, and indicator of, our specific level of our highest level of achievable imperfection.

The doctrines suggest we have come from the synthesis achieved in the first solar system, the Green system of Intelligence, are now in this Blue system of Love, and will eventually attain perfection upon the final expression of the future Power or Red system. At that time, this final, synthesis ‘solar system’ will blend the three and white light result, which is our goal of perfection (relative though that will also be in some grander scheme).

More locally, our planetary logos or local “god”, is evolving his particular colour. How do we find and cooperate with Him in his immediate stage of development? From the doctrines, His 7th purpose is intimately related to colour.


From The Rays and The Initiations, pages 241:

These seven types of purpose embody the seven energies which will reorganise and redefine the hierarchical undertakings, and thus inaugurate the New Age. ”...

So we have special need to focus on colour, because in cooperating with the purposes and methods of our Logos we may help inaugurate the "New Age" – a furthering of His, and our, evolution. Following, from page 246, we receive hints of this final phase or 7th purpose:

g. The final phase of the divine purpose is the most difficult of all to indicate, and when I say indicate, I mean exactly that, and nothing more definite and clear. Does it mean anything to you when I say that the ceremonial ritual of the daily life of Sanat Kumara, implemented by music and sound and carried on the waves of colour which break upon the shores of the three worlds of human evolution, reveal—in the clearest notes and tones and shades—the deepest secret behind His purpose? It scarcely makes sense to you and is dismissed as a piece of symbolic writing, used by me in order to convey the unconveyable. Yet I am not here writing in symbols, but am making an exact statement of fact. As beauty in any of its greater forms breaks upon the human consciousness, a dim sense is thereby conveyed of the ritual of Sanat Kumara's daily living.”

While we are a long way from the consciousness of our God, we find colour is a key method of power suggested for the aiding of evolution, for both the logos and the humble disciple.

While there are many more key quotes and foundational references, they will be included throughout this thesis. Let’s close this section with the following hint. From LOM, page 228:

… colours are the expressions of force or quality. They hide or veil the abstract qualities of the Logos, which qualities are reflected in the microcosm in the three worlds as virtues or faculties. Therefore, just as the seven colours hide qualities in the Logos, so these virtues demonstrate in the life of the personality and are brought forward objectively through the practice of meditation; thus each life will be seen as corresponding to a colour.

Law of Correspondences

The Law of Correspondences is the major tool in understanding what is known in one area to an area where less may be given or understood. So primary is this Law that it is prominent in the Introductory Postulates in A Treatise in Cosmic Fire, p. 7:

4. The Law of Correspondences will explain the details … This Law of Correspondences or of Analogy is the interpretive law of the system, and explains God to man.

I rely upon this Law to maintain logic in the realms of conjecture. If a proposition does not hold true, in the sense of being collaborated by natural systems and archetypal knowledge, then the proposition is at least out of context and not yet of use if not erroneous.

While at times we know that a certain example is not intended to be an exact reflection, that it is ‘analogous’ and not a direct correspondence, there are other instances when we are admonished that the correspondence, analogy, or correlation must be exact.

Principle of Mutation

As universe is a temporally evolving system, the “principle of mutation governs every department in the Law of Correspondences …” (page 600, TCF).

While something may be ‘true’ – when was it true? The primary struggle for this human mind has been to logically (correspondingly) place any conjectured relationships according to its rightful time, or point of evolution, and according to its correct level of consciousness. The complexity involved can suggest any number of ‘correct relationships’, yet the beauty (and agony) lies in finding the correct time and space in which to place that relationship.

Thus, in conjunction with the Law of Correspondences, the principle of mutuation must be constantly held in mind, for without the ability to place a relationship in its proper time or


evolutionary context, we are unable to truly further advance this study. Right location and relationship, in time and space, will be what helps us determine our direction and next step.

Complexity, Synthesis, and Perspective

In realization of the complexity of this subject, perhaps the main offering of this treatise may be found in study of the correlated material, rather than in any depth of analysis or synthesis I offer. I shall recommend light-heartedly, therefore, that the reader remembers these lines: “We shall now come to a considerable amount of tabulation, for all that it is wise and possible to give at this time are certain facts, names and outlines which can only be demonstrated through the law of correspondence. The key to comprehension is always this law.”

Along with what will be much abstract conjecture, I also attempt to maintain obvious simple correspondences or analogies. For example, I think the key relationships are shown in the colours that surround us. The most esoteric of truths may be found reflected in the blue sky of day and the indigo of night, in the blue-greens of rivers and seas, from the vibrant yellow-greens of spring to the flaming oranges of harvest. Perhaps in these omnipresent reminders we are most easily shown the way.

Now let’s move into some exoteric science, to give us potential for informed supposition and suggestion, and then we will look into the esoteric fundamentals of colour.

If I may suggest to the reader that a review of the Chapter on Colour in Letters on Occult Meditation will prove invaluable to your understanding and discrimination of any research offered and conjecture proposed.


1.4 Science of Colour and Optics


A. The Electromagnetic Spectrum and the Ether

B. Colour and Sound

1.4.2 Physiology of Light and Colour Sensation

1.4.3 Additive and Subtractive Colour and their Relationship

Early Light TheoryWhile the focus of this thesis is upon the esoteric doctrines, a basic knowledge of objective science allows coherent, insightful analogies to be made to the esoteric teachings. Some mention of scientific and esoteric doctrine differences will be mentioned here; however, this segment concentrates upon relevant exoteric topics, in abbreviated form. (Several references and images from Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia and other public sources.)


The esoteric teachings indicate to us that the eye is one of the most significant features of man and that we may find great meaning in understanding its working, as science now unfolds. Early history of modern scientific knowledge of light and colour does not appear to reflect what we now know about the physiology of the eye. The latter part of this section will investigate what we know of the eye. Apparently contrary to our current understanding, the Greek philosophers, including Pythagoras, believed light issued forth from visible things, and most also thought vision, as distinct from light, proceeded outward from the eye. Ptolemy experimented with optics, but he too believed vision issued from the eye. An early Egyptian scientist through logic and experimentation finally discounted the theory that vision issued forth from the eye. Other early Greek ideas were close to our modern knowledge, such as the idea that light travels with finite speed, and Aristotle explained the rainbow as a reflection from raindrops. Euclid understood the law of reflection and the properties of mirrors, and early thinkers observed refraction but did not explain its mathematical law. Of course it may be hard to determine what was more esoterically known by early investigators, or that what we now believe is not erroneous in more subtle terms. E.g., that the faculty of divine vision was what caused the physical eye to evolve, and in that way vision issues forth from the eye. Be that as it may be, this segment will concentrate on the exoteric perspective, with some correlations to esoteric assumption.

A. The Electromagnetic Spectrum

Light traditionally refers to a frequency range of electromagnetic waves we see with our eyes, and call visible light. Color is our perceptual response to less than 1% (one percent) of the total electromagnetic radiation emitted by the sun. All electromagnetic waves (can) travel at the speed of light (roughly 186,000 miles per second in a vacuum, or exactly 299,792,458 meters per second). Light has been made to slow to as little as 38 miles per hour; as it travels at various speeds in matter.

The ethersFor esoteric context, let’s review excerpts from A.A. Bailey’s Light on the Soul (page 54 forward) so that we understand the ether, before taking up the specifics of the electromagnetic spectrum, scientifically considered. As we know, Einstein proved that light can travel in a vacuum, and that the proposed ‘medium’ for its propigation, ether or aether, was unnecessary for light to travel. Thus the early scientific proposal of a required etheric medium required for the propigation of light has been disproved. However, esotericists may logically enough presume that there is still a more subtle form of energy which may be the truer, or higher subplanes of etheric matter of the ageless philosophies. In this light, I suggest the electromagnetic spectrum is directly associated with (4th subplane) etheric material, as the Tibetan states, the sun is 4th etheric matter and that the scientists in the latter part of the 1800’s and early 1900’s were working


with this level. Most of the quotes in this segment are from scientists of that day, and so much be interpreted from their view of the then current thinking, which may have been as said, from an obvious assumption, “disproved”.

THE THEORY OF THE ETHERIC BODY

First: There is nothing but energy, and it functions through a substance which interpenetrates and actuates all forms, and which is analogous to the ether of the modern world. Matter is energy or spirit in its densest form, and spirit is matter in its most sublimated aspect.

Second: As all forms are interpenetrated by this ether, every form has an etheric form or etheric body.

Third: As the tiny atom has a positive nucleus, or positive nuclei, as well as negative aspects, so in every etheric body there are positive centres of force in the midst of negative substance. The human being too has an etheric body which is positive to the negative physical body, which galvanises it into activity, and which acts as its coherent force, holding it in being.

Fourth: The etheric body of man has seven main nuclei of energy through which various types of energy flow, producing his psychical activity …

Fifth: Only certain centres are now functioning …

There is a universal substance, the source of all, but so sublimated, so subtle that it is truly beyond the real grasp of human intelligence. In comparison with it, the most delicate fragrance, the dancing radiance of sunbeams, the crimson glory of the sunset, are gross and earthly. It is "a web of light," forever invisible to human eye. …

Subtle and fugitive as this universal substance is, yet in another sense it is denser even than matter. … If we could conceive of an agent outside of universal substance—an hypothesis contrary to all fact and possibility—and if such an external agent attempted to compress universal substance, or in some other way affect it from without, then substance would be found denser than any known material.

Inherent in substance, and a perpetual counterpart of it, is life, incessant life. Life and substance are one and the same, one and forever inseparable, but different aspects however, of the one reality. Life is as positive electricity, substance negative. Life is dynamic, substance static. Life is activity or spirit, and substance form or matter. Life is the father and begets, substance is the mother and conceives. In addition to these two aspects of life and substance, there is still a third. Life is theoretical or potential activity, and needs a field of operation. Substance furnishes this and in the union of life and substance, there flames forth active energy.

Thus we have a single reality, universal substance—but at the same time a co-existent duality—life and substance; and at the same time, a coexistent trinity, life, substance, and the resultant interaction which we call consciousness or soul. Matter is energy in its densest or lowest form; spirit is this same Energy in highest or most subtle form. So matter is spirit descending and debased; spirit, conversely, is matter ascending and glorified.

This is a direct correlation to Einstein’s discoveries that energy and matter are really the same, matter just being very inert energy, which can be converted to energy by squaring. Energy being related to Spirit or Life, and Matter to form, we read E = mc2 . (i.e.,

energy ‘may become’ matter when multiplied by the square of the speed of light – to something like: spirit ‘may incarnate’ into form when multiplied (densified?) by the personality by the soul.

The factor of squaring is a fundamental in the three-dimensional world, and correlates well psychically with the creation of the quaternary (the personality necessary to interact in the 3 worlds of human evolution) animated by the soul or the incarnating Light. Geometrists may correlate this to the squaring of the circle, by the triangle or trinity of the 1 Circle of Life. Thus, animal man, the square of matter, becomes infused with the Hu-man, the threefold Energetic Soul or Triad, and the ‘seven leaved plant or septenate of the incarnating soul is born. Seven is the archetypal number of Light manifesting Life into Form, and thus our archetypal spectrum is presented to us in the seven names of colour.

In taking on density, energy takes on, or descends into, seven degrees or planes. … Three subplanes of the physical are known to every school-boy—the solid, liquid and gaseous, for example, ice, water and steam. In addition there are four subtler planes, or rather four different types of ether. These four are co-existent with each of the three well known subplanes, and interpenetrate them. The etheric counterpart, whether of man or of any physical thing, is of the universal substance, of universal life, and of universal energy. It partakes of all of these but it is not self-sufficient or independently existing. It draws upon the


reservoir of universal energy, and in it the etheric counterpart lives and moves and has its being. Energy is thus functioning through the etheric.

This 4th ether is both exoterically this realm of Light, and esoterically, the representative realm of energetic, soul light, on the physical plane. The 4th cosmic plane, the buddhic, is that of the Soul, characterised by light and colour, and through the Creative Hierarchies this is the realm of the Human Hierarchy and the Solar Angels. These are the Lords of Sacrifice, who, like Lucifer or Prometheus, bring fire to animal man.

This phenomenon of wavelengths therefore, that animate our physical realm, can potentially travel at the speed of Light (but not when) ‘in-forming’ the matter of our bodies and environ-ment, as the carriers of soul energy. These wavelengths, built on a dance between electricity and magnetism, meet at the midway point, the 4th or particularly human realm, and permeate the denser planes with the spark of light, the animator or energizer of form.

Sir Isaac Newton … "And now we might add something concerning a certain most subtle spirit which pervades and lies hid in all gross bodies; by the force and action of which spirit the particles of bodies mutually attract one another at near distances, and cohere if contiguous; and electric bodies operate to greater distances, as well repelling as attracting the neighbouring corpuscles; and light is emitted, reflected, refracted, inflected, and heats bodies; and all sensation is excited, and the members of animal bodies move at the command of the will, namely by the vibrations of this spirit … But these are things that cannot be explained in few words, nor are we furnished with that sufficiency of experiments which is required to an accurate determination and demonstration of the laws by which this electric and elastic spirit operates."

[from the 1926 edition] of the Encyclopaedia Britannica … under the heading of "ether." … from time to time attention has been directed to the intervening portions of space from which sensible matter is absent; and this also has physical properties … These physical properties do not appeal directly to the senses, and are therefore comparatively obscure; but there is now no doubt of their existence; even among those who still prefer to use the term space. But a space endowed with physical properties is more than a geometrical abstraction, and is most conveniently thought of as a substantial reality, to which therefore some other name is appropriate. The term used is unimportant, but long ago the term ETHER was invented; it was adopted by Isaac Newton … [it] connotes a genuine entity filling all space, without any break or cavity anywhere, the one omnipresent physical reality, of which there is a growing tendency to perceive that everything in the material universe consists; matter itself being in all probability one of its modifications.... The properties of the ether are not likely to be expressible in terms of matter; but, as we have no better clue, we must proceed by analogy, and we may apologetically speak of the elasticity and density of the ether …

"We do not usually attend to the ether aspect of a body; we have no sense organ for its appre-ciation, we only directly apprehend matter. … We know that a body of characteristic shape, or indeed of any definite shape, cannot exist without the forces of cohesion—cannot exist therefore without the Ether—meaning … the unmaterialized part of it, the part which is the region of strain, the receptacle of potential energy, the substance in which the atoms of matter are embedded. Not only is there a matter body, there is also an ether body: the two are coexistent."

“… Light is an affection of the ether. Light is to ether as sound is to matter ... Subject to all the laws of time and space, fully amenable to the laws of energy, largely the source of terrestrial energy, governing all the manifestations of physical forces, at the root of elasticity and tenacity and every other static property of matter … Electric charges, composed of modified ether, are likely to prove to be the cosmic building material.... There is the great bulk of undifferentiated ether, the entity which fills all space and in which everything material occurs. A duality runs through the scheme of physics—matter and ether.All kinetic energy belongs to what we call matter, whether in the atomic or the corpuscular form; move-ment or locomotion is its characteristic. All static energy belongs to the ether, the unmodified and uni-versal ether; its characteristics are strain and stress. Energy is always passing to and fro from one to the other—from ether to matter or vice versa—and in this passage is all work done.

Now, the probability is that every sensible object has both a material and an etherial counter-part. One side only are we sensibly aware of, the other we have to infer. But the difficulty of perceiving this other side—the necessity for indirect inference—depends essentially and entirely on the nature of our sense organs, which tell us of matter and do not tell us of ether.

Science admits it can only determine the existence of observable, natural objects – those which we have instruments, or organs, to perceive. (See Chapter 8, 1d). Thus, the higher ethers may simply be yet unregisterable by common appliances or organs; however, the 4th etheric subplane (of the cosmic physical plane) is exactly what we understand scientists to have been working with early last century (according to A.A.Bailey’s writings). These include all the phenomenon of electricity, xrays, the cosmic rays, etc.:


Ether belongs to the physical frame of things, no one supposes it be a psychic entity; but it probably subserves psychical purposes, just as matter does. … It is invisible, permeates all matter and pervades all space by wave motion, without limit in the universe. It offers practically no resistance to radiant energy, even to light from the sun and the most distant stars discovered. It is the medium which transmits `radio' waves, wireless telegraphy waves, cosmic rays, X-rays, etc.

With this argument of the reality or rarity of the ether admitted, let’s condition our thinking with current scientific evidence and terms, making esoteric correlations where logic and the scope of this paper dictate:

Electromagnetic waves (EM)Scientifically considered, these are characterized by wavelength, frequency, and amplitude; these determine the type of energy, or what we call variously gamma rays, visible light, infra-red, etc.

Wavelength is measured from crest to crest. Frequency is the number of times a wave propigates (crest to crest) in one second (which is usually measured in Hertz, Hz, but electro-magnetic waves of extremely high frequencies, such as light and X rays, are usually described in terms of angstrom units, Å is a hundred-millionths of a centimeter). Amplitude is the height of the wave (from midway between a peak and a trough to the peak of the wave), which relates to the strength of the fields and number of photons in the light.

Light behaves both as a wave and as a particle. The particles are photons, like packets of light energy, but not like ‘fixed’ particles as they are not limited to a specific volume in space or time. Photons are associated with specific frequencies of electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic waves are non-mechanical, in that they do not move the material through which they pass. EM waves are a displacement of the electric and magnetic fields of force in space or a vacuum. Non-mechanical waves can be propagated in “matter”, but do not require a medium, unlike mechanical waves. (This difference is illustrated in the segment on colour and sound.)

All electromagnetic, non-mechanical waves are, as the name implies, a compound of electric and magnetic waves, traveling perpendicular to each other. They wrap, or warp, around each other: an electric wave moves forward, the magnetic wave whips around it, followed by the electric wave, etc. Light is carried on electric and magnetic fields, thus:


Light expands spherically, i.e., light particles or photons traveling on the electromagnetic waves expand outward from its source in three dimensions (in a vacuum or uniform material) in a spherical pattern (like a balloon expanding). Each point on a wave surface can act like a new source of smaller spherical waves (which explains how light seems to spread away from a pinhole rather than going in one straight line through the hole. The same effect blurs the edges of shadows.)

Polarization refers to the direction of the electric field in an electromagnetic wave, e.g., a wave with an electric field oscillating in the vertical direction is polarized vertically. If a wave’s electric field is vibrating in all directions, it is said to be unpolarized, such as the waves from the sun. Sunlight reflected from a surface is partially polarized parallel to the surface.

Sources of light differ in how they provide energy to the charged particles, such as electrons, whose motion creates the light. Incandescent sources provide energy from heat; luminescent sources provide energy from chemical or electric energy:

In an incandescence light source atoms collide, transfering energy to electrons, boosting them into higher energy levels. Electrons release this energy by emitting photons. Some collisions are weak and some strong, so photons of different energies are emitted. The sun is an incandescent light source with its heat energy released from nuclear fusion. Different stars emit incandescent light of different levels or frequencies—and therefore appear as different colours—depending on their mass and age. All incandescent (thermal or heat) sources have a broad spectrum, meaning they emit photons spanning a wide range of energies. The colour from incandescent sources is related to their temperature, with hotter or more energetic sources having more blue in their spectra, or ranges of photon energies, and cooler or less excited sources having more red. To repeat: hotter sources emit more blue light


(which reflects the more rapid, intense or stronger frequency of collision of atoms); cooler sources emit more red light (due to less intense collision).

A luminescent light source absorbs energy in a non-heat manner and is therefore usually cooler than an incandescent source. The color of a luminescent source is not related to its temperature. A fluorescent light is a type of luminescent source based on chemicals called phosphors. As electricity passes through the tube it excites the mercury atoms and makes them emit blue, green, violet, and ultraviolet light. Phosphor electrons absorb ultraviolet radiation, release some energy to heat, and then emit visible light with a lower frequency (i.e., violet, blue or green frequencies). The high latitude auroras are luminescent sources, created due to electrons in the solar wind becoming deflected in the earth's magnetic field.

Chemiluminescence is a chemical reaction that produces molecules with electrons in excited energy levels that then radiate light. The color of the light depends on the chemical reaction. Chemiluminescence in plants or animals is bioluminescence, which is manufactured in substances called luciferase and luciferin, which combines with oxygen.

A laser (Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) produces light that is polarized, monochromatic, and coherent: all the electrons radiate synchronously so the peaks and troughs coincide over long distances.

White light and sunlight, like most light sources, do not radiate monochromatic light. What we call white light (including light from the sun) is a mixture of all the colors in the visible spectrum, with some represented more than others. Daylight, or other nearly whole-spectrum or ‘white light’ environments (certain types of incandescent bulbs, for example), displays all frequencies of the visible light spectrum; i.e., the range from red (the longest wavelength frequency the human eye can detect) to violet (the shortest wavelength visible to the eye). When all of these are perceived together our sensory experience is of ‘white light’. White light therefore is not homogenous (of one frequency), but heterogenous (a composite, made up of many different wavelengths). Sunlight is close, but not identical to a white light spectrum. Sunlight has more EM waves in the medium length (yellowish) frequency. Remember, this is the visible light waves, and only about half the energy of sunlight at the earth's surface is visible, about 3 percent is ultraviolet, and the rest is infrared. One way stars are classified is by their spectral signature; our sun is considered a yellow star. Most accurately, it emits most the frequencies perceived as yellow-green. Therefore, everything ‘under the sun’ is coloured by its quality of light. During the middle of the day, there is a distinct blue bias to sunlight. We see this in the color of the sky. At this time ultraviolet radiation (roughly 290nm to 400nm) is strongest (and causes the energetic effects such as sunburn, fading paints and fabrics). At sunrise or sunset, the sun's light passes more obliquely through the earth's atmosphere, and filters out more of the shorter ("blue" and "green") wavelengths and the light has a red bias, as we see in the sunrise and sunset.

Prisms Splitting the SpectrumOnce full spectrum, or white light is split in a prism, there is no further subdivisioning into ‘sub spectrums’. For example, red or long wave radiations do not further subdivide into anything other than red; e.g., the 700 nm wavelengths are 700 (red) no matter how many times they pass through a prism. This concept tells the esoteric investigator that a subray of a primary ray, e.g., the green subray of indigo, cannot occur in exoteric science. Once indigo is split or separated from the spectrum, it does not change its frequency, i.e. our perception of its colour. It may however be recombined with other frequencies to create other apparent colours, but a 700, red, frequency does not ‘sub-spectrum’ or division into ‘fractals’ of a prism. The longest wavelength most humans see is deep red at about 700 nm. The shortest wavelengths normally detectable is violet, at about 400 nm. Human eyes respond the most to a yellow-green light, at 550 nm, which is about the brightest color in sunlight at the earth's surface.A prism, or rainbow, refracts the full spectrum of white daylight so that the various coloured frequencies are distinguishable to the eye. If we analyze white light when split by a prism or rainbow, we see it is made up of this range of colours which we commonly term red, orange,


yellow, green, blue, (indigo), violet, as described above. All light is reflected into the eye in “white light”.

Detecting light depends on how the light was produced and what is the medium or organ of reception or detection. For example, as heat produces incandescent light, this light produces measurable heat when it is absorbed by a material or sensed on the skin. In a photoelectric effect, atoms absorb photons and part of the photon's energy goes toward releasing the electron from the atom and part goes to transferring the released electron in the form of motion, or kinetic energy. The detection process is the change induced in photographic film exposed to light, which induces a chemical change in photosensitive chemicals on film. The film is then processed to convert the chemical change into a permanent image. Human vision works somewhat similarly: light of different frequencies causes different chemical changes in the eye, the chemical action generates nerve impulses that our brains interpret as color, shape, and location of objects.

Interaction with matter causes light to behave variously. When light strikes a material or object it interacts with the atoms in the material, depending upon the frequency of the light and the atomic structure of the material. In transparent materials, the electrons in the material vibrate while the light is present. This oscillation momentarily takes energy away from the light and then puts it back. Materials that are not completely transparent either absorb light or reflect it. In absorbing materials, like a dark cloth, the energy of the oscillating electrons does not go back to the light but toward increasing the motion of the atoms: i.e., the material heats up. In reflective materials, such as metals, the light is re-radiated, which cancels out the original wave, and only the light re-radiated back off the material is observed. All materials exhibit some degree of absorption, refraction, and reflection of light.

Refraction is the bending of light when it passes from one kind of material into another. Light is not traveling at the speed of light when in matter, such as earth’s atmosphere, but light takes the shortest, or fastest path. It works according to the “Principle of Least Time” that means a light ray passing through different media will refract so as to minimize the time it takes the ray to travel between points a and b. Since light travels at a different speeds in different materials, when it changes speeds at the boundary between two materials, light on the side of the beam that hits first is slowed down or accelerated before light on the other side of the beam hits the new material. This makes the beam bend, or refract, at the boundary. This produces the familiar colorful rainbow spectrum seen when sunlight passes through a glass prism.

Red light, due to its longest wavelengths, bends the least, and the shorter violet wavelengths of light bend the most. Esotericists could view this like red and orange lights are less affected by the medium, while the blue and violet wavelengths are more adaptive or affected by the density of matter.


Reflection occurs when light hits the boundary between two materials: some of the light is reflected back into the first medium. If light strikes the boundary at an angle, the light is reflected at the same angle (like a ball’s bounce). Light reflected from a flat boundary, such as the boundary between air and a smooth lake, will form a mirror image.

Diffraction is the spreading of light waves as they pass through a small opening or around a boundary. As a beam of light emerges from a slit, the light some distance away from the screen will consist of overlapping wavelets from different points of the light wave in the opening of the slit. When the light strikes a spot on a display screen across from the slit, these points are at different distances from the spot, so their wavelets can interfere and lead to a pattern of light and dark regions.

Scattering occurs when the atoms of a transparent material are not smoothly distributed. The sky is bright because the variously distributed air molecules and dust particles scatter the sunlight. Light with higher frequencies and shorter wavelengths (the violet and blue end of the spectrum) is scattered more than light with lower frequencies and longer wavelengths (red end of the spectrum). Therefore, the atmosphere scatters violet light the most, but since human eyes do not see this color that well, the eye notices more the slightly longer blue wavelength, the next most scattered color, and we therefore have a ‘blue sky’. Sunsets look red because the sunlight traveling along the horizon travels a longer distance or thickness of atmosphere, and the thicker layer of air and dust scatter the blue to even longer wavelengths of the warmer yellows and reds.

Interference is when lightwaves overlap. Constructive interference is when the peak of one wave is aligned with the peak of the second wave, then the two waves will produce a larger wave with a peak the sum of the two overlapping peaks. Destructive interference is when the peak of one wave is aligned with a trough of the other, then the waves tend to cancel each other out, producing a smaller wave or no wave at all.

Holography is an application of interference. A hologram is made by splitting a light wave in two with a partially reflecting mirror. One part of the light wave travels through the mirror and is sent directly to a photographic plate, the other part is reflected first toward a subject and then toward the plate. The resulting photograph is a hologram. Instead of being an image of the subject, it is an image of the interference pattern between the two beams.

B. Colour and Sound

If we begin with the esoteric perspective, we may wish to consider, as repeated from the earlier long quotation on the ethers from Light on the Soul, from Sir Oliver Lodge: “… Light is an affection of the ether. Light is to ether as sound is to matter ...”

However, a recall of the nature of waves will help us understand the crucial distinction in exoteric science between light and sound, which make the two qualitatively and behaviourly different to each other. Sound and colour may perhaps, in some fashion be analogous or


even ‘married’, but for this to be exoterically demonstratable, it would require crossing the time, or light barrier.

The primary distinction is that sound waves travel significantly slower than light waves: between 331 meters per second to 345 – as opposed to light’s roughly 300 million meters per second. The speed of sound varies according to temperature and moisture (slower in cold and dry and gasses; faster in hot and moist and liquids).

Another key difference is that light is a non-mechanical and sound is a mechancial wave, so that rather than interpreting the two as ‘octaves’ of each other as one may do in esoteric science, sound waves (like waves in water) require and disturb the medium through which they travel by compression and rarefication of the matter.

A longitudinal wave, as it travels through air, compresses and expands the molecules in the air in the same direction that the wave travels – they shift forward and back, horizontally. A transverse wave is like ripples on the surface of a pond, where the water is displaced verti-cally while the wave itself travels horizontally – the water molecules do not move side to side, but up and down. The behaviours of sound, and all mechanical waves, do have correlation to electromagnetic light waves in terms of refraction, reflection and interference. In this sense at least we have solid evidence for good correlations to be usefully made between the two wave methods, and within the esoteric philosophies.

One popular area of relating colour and sound via electronically programmed machines that produce a certain colour or patterned movement of colour effects when sound is made. This however is a simple assigned association, not a relational one, nor in any way indicative of a cause-effect relationship between sound and colour, exoterically considered.

In the esoteric and new age communities, relating notes to colours are of interest, but not scientifically correlatable. For instance, the esoteric fact that “fa” is ‘related to’ green, cannot be substantiated by scientific experiments. If we wish to assume that sound creates colour, or vice versa, we must do so outside of a way which is yet understood, or understandable, to scientific methodology.

Sound (in terms of the esoteric doctrines) must mean somethings other than sound as we call it on the physical plane (as must Light and Colour). We speak of the ‘inner voice’ and realize it is not necessarily meant as a voice audible to our physical ears, but some effect upon the ‘inner ear’, esoterically understood. Similarly, we may need treat esoteric understanding of colour in the same context; not necessarily as relevant to the optical function of the eye, but associated and significant to ‘inner sight’.


Another esoteric correlative area of interest is the notion that humans hear sound and see colour, and devas see sound and hear colour. As science isn’t yet able to register devas with instruments either(!), this area will be touched upon in Chapter Two, Section 2.3. There are other factors which also relate sound and light to the planes, and treat sound as primary to light or colour, and it too will be addressed later.

As we move into the next section, I’ll insert this reminder from the Tibetan, suggesting our own research into scientific knowledge, and the illusory nature of sensory perception, from the soul’s perspective:

Vibration: Some students make demand that I define what is the meaning of the word "vibration" and state exactly what a vibration is. If I tell you that vibration is an illusion, as sensory perception is known by the soul to be, do you comprehend (limited as all human beings are by the reactions of a series of vehicles, all of them instruments of perception) ? If I tell you that vibratory reaction is due to our possessing a mechanism which is responsive to impact, I am answering your question in part, but if this is true, what does it mean to you and from whence comes the impact? If I give you the scientific definition (which you can discover in any good textbook on light, colour or sound), I am doing work that you can do yourself, and for that I have no time.

In the ageless philosophies, the Masonic quest, and the search for Light, well suggests that man is uniquely developed to perceive light. The development of vision is also characteristic of this wave of human development, the 5th or Aryan Race, and so the themes of illumination and the Greatest Light relates us to the mystical quest. And it is also true that the evolution of the physical form developed to be sensitive to coloured light, based on some logical biological needs, such as distinguishing ripe food in the vegetable kingdom.

Here follows the scientific background on the eye and the creation of its illusion, vision, including some correlations to esotericism as may be useful.


1.4.2 Physiology of Light and Colour Sensation

Colour vision means that an animal (including human!) has a sense organ (such as an eye) that can discriminate light stimuli on the basis of spectral content (different wavelength frequencies). The animal must have at least two receptors (e.g., cone cells) sensitive to different wavelengths of light in order to distinguish any difference in colour.

The colour that we perceive of an object depends on the spectral makeup of the light impacting the object. If the frequency of the light changes, so does our perception of the colour of the object. The same object therefore will appear different depending upon the type of illumination.

Matter and energy are colourless; colour exists only in the observer’s perception: the visual system receives input and the brain creates colour perception as output. depending on the context in which the light is viewed. For example, a red-pigmented object can, depending on the light impacting it, appear red (in ‘white light’), or scarlet, crimson, pink, maroon, brown, gray or black! This is fundamental: there is no colour “out there”; colour is in the mind.

Additionally, and with good esoteric reference, simply detecting the presence of light does not offer distinction or differentiation. It takes two (at least a duality, if not a triplicity or quaternary) to create colour: i.e., two cones of differing sensitivity. Perceiving difference, contrast, design, colour, are aspects considered integral to perceiving beauty. The polarity or circulation between two or more is what allows the perception of distinction.

Additionally, the human eye only (normally) perceives ‘visible light’. (We are not yet here considering the proposed ‘etheric vision’; however, let’s review a comment from the esoteric doctrines, in order to place the physiological nature of perceiving etheric vibration.

"This registering of light within the periphery of the skull is connected with the relation to be found between the head center and the center between the eyebrows; that is between the area (localized around the pituitary body) and that localized around the pineal gland. The vibratory effect...of those two centers can become so strong that the two vibrations or their pulsating rhythmic activity can swing into each other's field of action and a unified magnetic field can be set up which can become so powerful, so brilliant and so pronounced that the disciple - when closing his eyes - can see it plainly. It can be visually sensed and known. Eventually, and in some cases, it can definitely affect the optic nerve, not to its detriment by to the extent of evoking the subtler side of the sense of sight. A man can then see etherically, and can see the etheric counterpart of all tangible forms. This is physiological and not a psychic power and is quite different to clairvoyance. There can be no etheric vision apart from the usual organ of vision, the eye." Esoteric Psychology II, p. 607-8.

Etheric Vision as defined in the esoteric sciences is a function of the physical eye which will enable humanity to see into the 4th ether, at least. It anecdotally occurs among many psychically or spiritually-developed people, children, and some individuals with psychotic diseases, but this phenomenon is not documented or recognized by mainstream science, either within the realm of possible physical vision, or as an evolving or mutant development of sight.

The distinction between (physical) etheric vision to (astral) clairvoyance should also be kept in mind. Etheric vision is considered an inevitable and natural evolutionary development of the physical eye. Astral clairvoyance is an ‘inner sight’, not a function of the human eye, and involves ‘seeing’ entities, thoughtforms, or less organized effluvia on the astral plane. The other esoteric planes of ‘sight’, include this sense on the mental, buddhic and atmic planes, respectively called “high clairvoyance”, “divine vision”, and “realization”. Light in terms of seeing a “light in the head” is considered by the Tibetan as a phenomenon affects the physical body through the glandular system. (see Esoteric Psychology II, p. 611-2)

Structure of the eyeThe diagram below shows the eye, The eyeball is spherical with the outer part made up of three layers of tissue: 1) the outside is the sclera, a protective coating; 2) the middle layer is the choroid which contains the iris; and 3) the innermost layer is the light-sensitive retina.

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1. The outer cornea is tough and has five-membrane layers through which light enters to the interior. Behind the cornea is a chamber of clear, watery fluid, the aqueous humor, which separates the cornea from the crystalline lens.

2. The middle layer contains the iris or pigmented ‘colour of the eye’, which lies behind the cornea, in front of the lens, and has a circular opening in its center, which is the ‘black’ pupil. The pupil dialates or contracts based upon how much the cilliary, a ring-like muscle, relaxes or constricts in response to the amount of light admitted to the eye. Behind the lens the main body of the eye is filled with a transparent, jellylike substance, the vitreous humor, enclosed in a thin sac, the hyaloid membrane.

3. Inside the eye is the sensory or light-sensitive cells of the retina. Directly behind the pupil is a small yellow-pigmented spot, the macula lutea. In the centre of this is the fovea, the area of greatest visual acuity. The central area of the fovea is packed entirely of cone-shaped (colour sensitive) cells. Moving outwards from this central area of highest sensitivity are both rod-shaped and cone-shaped cells, and towards the periphery of the sensitive, reflective area of the retina, there are only rod-shaped cells. Therefore colour-sensitive cells are necessary for the greatest perception of detail, with the more general distinctions of light and dark being more periphereal.

The optic nerve enters the eyeball below and slightly to the inner side of the fovea. At this juncture there are no light-sensitive cells, and this area forms the “blind spot”, as nothing can be seen if it strikes this area of the eye. The optic nerve is the channel upon which the cellular information transfers to the area of the brain that calculates and then interprets the stimuli as visual and colour sensation. Interestingly, the part of the brain that processes colour is in a different region of the cerebral cortex from the area that handles other types of visual information.

Eye and the Indwelling Energy; Physiological SymbologyHere is an excerpt from Esoteric Healing, p. 572, about the optic nerve and structure of the eye, and the relation to the threefold man to threefold deity.

As occult knowledge increases a whole science of energy distribution will be built up around the eyes and their symbolic function, and their esoteric use will be understood. The time has not yet arrived for this, though already the power of the human eye when focussed on a person, for instance, is known to attract attention. One hint I can give you: the optic nerve is a symbol of the antahkarana, and the entire structure of the eye ball is one of the most beautiful symbols of the threefold deity and the threefold man.

Perhaps other insights into the distinction of man to animals may similarly be found in the investigating the physioilogy of the eye. The eye of other vertebrate animals are similar to the human. However, nocturnal animals have predominantly or only rod cells (and therefore they lack detail and colour vision); however, the cells are more sensitive and more numerous than in humans. The eye of a dolphin has 7,000 times as many rod cells as a human eye, enabling it to see in deep water. Birds’ eyes are elongated from front to back, permitting larger images of distant objects to be formed on the retina. (The investigation of reptilian eyes may well repay the esoteric investigator, of especial interest may be research into the New Zealand Tuatara and its retention of a functioning third eye.)

Function of the Eye In general, eyes act like simple cameras: the lens of the eye forms an inverted image of objects on the sensitive retina which corresponds to the film in a camera. Review of optics and convex and concave surfaces and focal length may repay the reader: basically, a convex (rounded outward) lens inverts images onto the surface behind it. However, the eye is not as precise as a camera, actually producing a yellowed, chromatically aberrated, fuzzy image, but again, the brain’s interpretative capacity makes the image sharper. And, the retina is not like photographic film but more like a computer network of 200 million layered and highly-specialized nerve cells that collect and process visual information, sharpening and filtering the image, and synthesizing color information, before sending it on to the brain.


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Reception of Photons in the Eye: Rods and Cones As the photoreceptor cells, the rods and cones, are what absorb photons, let’s take a detailed look at them. Rods and cones are arranged perpendicular to the back of the eye so that each photon must pass through all these layers, which increases the probability that photons will strike one of the 10 million or so photo-pigment molecules in each receptor cell. These photo-pigment molecules are the actual agent of vision; they are the transducers that turn photons into nerve impulses.

Each photo-pigment molecule is looped seven times through pads in a membrane. The chemical effect of light is that it straightens a segment of an amino acid chain. Intertwined with the photo-pigment is a chromophore molecule that twitches or twists when the photo-pigment is struck by a photon. Any twitch in a chromophore creates a nerve impulse in the membrane, which is the first response to light. As more photons strike the chromophores, there is more reaction by the nerve, and the intensity of light sensation increases. Vision is, so to speak, a form of touch fused into a dense, three-dimensional array of light sensitive molecules.

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The rods perceive intensity of light, and cones perceive the various wavelengths. There are normally three types of cones in a human eye, which are responsible for three levels:

blue-violet short wavelengths green medium wavelengths orange-red long wavelengths

These are commonly called blue, green or red cones, but more accurately they are individually sensitive to roughly these frequencies:

· short or "blue" cones (B, most sensitive to "blue-violet" wavelengths around 435 nm).

· middle or "green" cones (G, sensitive to "green" wavelengths at around 530 nm);

· long or "red" cones (R, actually most sensitive to "greenish yellow" wavelengths around 565 nm)

The following diagram of cone sensitivity shows that these three levels of sensitivity are not evenly spaced across the spectral bandwidth.

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What we call the ‘green’ and ‘red’ cones, are actually very closely related and are sensitive to light waves that are similar to each other. In terms of their peak sensitivity (530 and 565, respectively), they could be called the green and yellow cones (not green and ‘red’).

Remember though that all cones should be considered ‘colour blind’ in the sense that they are simply sensitive to a band of wavelength, not to a colour, and it takes at least two cones, sensitive to different bands of wavelength, to provide enough information so that the brain can interpret separate colours. The perception of colour is based upon the information from two ‘viewpoints’, or different cells.

Red and GreenDefects in red-green vision are usually sex linked, because while the gene for blue-violet is located on chromosone seven, the other two (red and green) are far away from blue, but near one another on the X(sex) chromosone. Red-green color blindness occurs when the Rho and Gamma sensitivity curves are exactly overlapped or if there are an insufficient number of either of these red or green sensors. Roughly 40% of the amino acids are identical; however, red and green pigment’s amino acid sequences are 96% identical, suggesting they diverged relatively recently in evolution.) Since women have two X chromosones, the likelihood of


problems in both sex chromosones is much less than in males, and thus women seldom have colour blindness.

The differences between males and females in potential for evolutionary change in the visual system is marked and curious. Colour blindness is about 12% (twelve percent) in European males, and negligible in females. One of the tasks in which colour-deficient men are severely handicapped in is picking ripe fruit. While for hunters, or for man living in urban environments, this is not a too dangerous trait, in fruit-eating primates it could have been deadly, if not sorely inefficient. Day and Night VisionThe eye sees with greatest clarity in the region of the fovea in the retina, as this is where the greatest concentration of cone cells exist. Cones are colour sensitive and individually connected to other nerve fibers, so stimuli to each cell are reproduced directly and fine details can therefore be distinguished. Conversely, the more general, light-sensitive, rod-shaped cells, are connected in groups so that they respond to stimuli more generally. The rods, therefore, respond to minute light stimuli, but do not separate small details. This is why dim objects can be seen at night in peripheral vision more than when looking directly ahead.

In daylight, we see colour well, but after about ten minutes of low illumination, our eyes become ‘dark adapted’ and the cones stop responding, which is why we lose color vision at night, except for isolated points of stronger illumination (distant stoplights or Mars).

Seeing at night involves sensitization of the rod cells by a pigment called visual purple or rhodopsin (formed within the rod cells). Visual purple is bleached by the action of light and must be reformed by the rod cells under conditions of darkness, which is why someone coming from sunlight into a dark room cannot see until the pigment begins to form. The eye is then able to perceive in low light levels and is dark-adapted. Another type of brown pigment in the outer layer of the retina protects cone cells from over-exposure to light. If bright light strikes the retina, granules of this pigment migrate around the cone cells, shielding them from the light. This is called light adaptation.

The following graph shows the spectral sensitivity of the rods, which is peaked at yellow-green. This is in distinction to what we may intuitively or societally presume to be the blue light of shadow (such as motion pictures portray moonlight). However, as all rods share the same spectral selectivity characteristics and thus cannot create specific colour information, any portrayed colour for low light is as good as the next, but most accurate would be a blurry black and white image. Yellow-green is simply the brightest, most illumined segment.

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Our visual system has greater sensitivity in low illumination, but the cones contribute little or no sensitivity in this condition. Imaging is primarily accomplished by the rods when illumina-tion levels are very low. In daylight, rods are largely "switched off" because their photo-pigment rhodopsin is continuously saturated by light. Rods however can skew the perception of normal colour. They are most affected by frequencies of around 500 nm ("blue green"), and therefore, especially during the daytime when this band of the spectrum is strong, the rods can become activated and shift apparent colours toward bluish green. We can observe this most readily when spending time in the sun, and then looking at colourful orange and red objects, such as a flower bed or bright prints, and notice their dullness or lack of ‘saturation’.

Biological Evolution of the Eye; past and futureAs mammals, we only share good spatial and full ‘normal’ tri-chromatic colour vision with Old World monkeys and apes, but daytime birds and surface-dwelling (coral reef) fish also have good full colour vision. However, tri-chromatic cones may be the exception and not the rule. This is not a clear area of concensus, and tetrachromats (4 cones) is not unlikely.

The first cone cells developed are believed to be those that are sensitive to the middle band of wavelengths, or what we call the green cones. (These also provide sufficient information by themselves for most mammals who rely on vision during the daytime.) Theory holds that each


type of cone cell developed at different stages in evolution, for different purposes. For example, the second or ‘red’ sensitive cone gene co-evolved with a class of tropical trees that had fruits, too large for birds to take, and that were of a yellow, orange or red colour when ripe (apples, oranges, lemons, etc.) Thus the tree is offering information of ripeness only to those animals able to distinguish colours in this range. The cooperation of the vegetable (the 2nd kingdom) with the (development of the visual system of the) animal and budding human kingdom provides interesting food for thought!

Of note, some researchers suggest a 4th cone, called "orange" (O) sensitive to wavelengths (around 590 nm – therefore sensitive more to long wavelengths than Red cones, may be as prevalent as up to 50% in women (10% of men or about 32% of all people). (Obviously the research isn’t being aggressively investigated!) The assumption is also untested, in that there is various assignments of the new cone being inbetween red and green, or, as suggested above, 590, which is to the further side of red.

Whichever this case may be, both reinforce the assumption that there is a “warm bias” in the photoreceptor cells; the cones’ sensitivity are skewed towards the longer wavelengths. This is despite what may be logically supposed that evolution would have developed vision around the preponderance of frequencies in earth’s daylight (the earlier mentioned, “blue bias” of mid-day). One idea for this is that, although many birds and insects have evolved to see more in the ultraviolet wavelengths, for longer lived mammals with a large eye UV radiation is harmful (it destroys photopigment molecules and yellows the lens in the eye). The primate eye may therefore be adapted in part to shift away from UV light, due to its potential for damaging the instrument.

Esoteric Correlations and Conjecture to Etheric Perception and EM SpectrumSensitivity to blue-violet does not appear to be evolutionarily crucial, yet the introduction of these very few cones in this area of sensitivity provided the necessary ability of the brain to distinguish different colours along the range of green to blue-violet, such as aquas. Experi-ments show that colour signals from the short-wave blue-violet cones give inexact information about spatial position or depth perception, and information from the more abundant longer-wavelength cones are used to decide the exact position of an edge. This is what the second longer wavelength sensitive cone offered, greater depth perception and clarity of edges.

Esoterically, as we are said to be in the second or ‘blue’ solar system, the introduction of sensitivity to this frequency could be interpreted as analogous to those few who are sensitive to the 2nd ray or love-wisdom energy, as opposed to the masses characterized more by the 1st

or 3rd (green ‘solar system’). We have been told in Letters on Occult Meditation p. 208, green is the foundational colour of nature, and upon it blue is built. The suggestions would then be that we would be becoming increasingly sensitive to blue-violet. If this is true, then it would follow that there would be an increase in the number of blue-violet receptor cells in the eye. However, this is not born out exoterically. The “warm bias” in the vision receptors, and the increasing evidence for orange cones, suggests an even further sensitivity to the longer end of the spectrum.

If, as DK suggests, etheric vision is a function of the physical eye, would we not assume the vision to be in either the ultraviolet or infrared end of the spectrum? The question is how does etheric vision fit in here? Where does the etheric ‘bandwidth’ lie on the electrom-magnetic scale? If the Electromagnetic spectrum is logically ‘situated’ in the 4th ether, then where is the ‘etheric wavelength’? (Even if the etheric vibrations are is more properly in the 3rd ether, a step higher than what science has been working with for over a sentury, could also be logical and it would then interpenetrate the EM wavelengths of the 4th ether, as opposed to being on the developmental ends of our ‘normal sight’.)

Further, if etheric vision is involved in seeing the ‘violet devas’, this is consistent with how one is often advised to put one’s vision ‘out of focus’ in order to see auras and other potentially ‘etheric’ phenomenon, as the violet end is fuzzy. The dominance of the cones sensitive in the longer frequencies would seem to make it more difficult for someone to stretch their focal length into the level of fuzziness necessary to see actual ‘physical-etheric’ phenomenon. (One may also wonder whether the characteristic of ‘fuzzy thinking’ could be correlated with those who may be ‘evolutionarily advanced’ but “out of focus” with the norm.)


The fact that bees (esoterically considered a 7th, or violet ray, symbol) are sensitive to ultra-violet light is additionally curious in this respect. Perhaps they are sensitive or can ‘see’ the scent of flowers in ultraviolet? The relation of smell and visual sense cells share similar characteristics, such as how the amino acid chain traverses the cylindrical membrane seven times (as all amino acids in the superfamily of heptahelical receptors). Bees do not have a wider range of vision, however, and therefore our sensation of red would be, to them, infrared or invisible. Bees also have the ability to see polarised light. (However, before we get all warm and fuzzy about the bee and the 7th ray, some rodents also demonstrate a degree of visual ultraviolet sensitivity.

This could suggest that what we know of as ‘red’, and what this colour may more truly be esoterically, is unexplored territory because, as it relates to the final ‘solar system’ or impact of the First or Red Ray, this has not fully externalised or impacted humanity. In this sense, when the esoteric doctrine refers to red as a colour we have no cognizance of, this is literally true in that we do not have cones specifically sensitive to the furthest end of that light; it would take another new cone that is truly sensitive to long wavelengths to offer us more information about the long (red) end of the visible light spectrum.

In this case, we could correlate the appearance of the green or middle wavelength logically occuring first, biologically, then the blue-violet range (for the 2nd system), and now perhaps an evolvement of the more specifically longer or red wavelengths as humanity becomes more accustomed to the impact of the will, monadic, red or Shamballic ‘frequencies’. This would correlate nicely with at least a recapitulation of evolution: the green system first, the blue system second, and the red system, to come.

Colour as Perceived PsychologicallyWhile there are (usually at least) three cone cells, humans experientially recognize four pure hues: blue, green, yellow, red. That is, most people identify these four as pure colours that 'stand on their own', not necessarily as ‘mixes’ of each other.

The human eye does not function like a machine for spectral analysis; the same perceived color can be produced by different physical stimuli. For example, in viewing coloured light, a mixture of red and green light of the proper intensities can appear as exactly the same as a pure spectral yellow, even though it may not contain any wavelengths that correspond to yellow.

The perception of colour is made depending upon which type of cones are stimulated, and to what degree of intensity. Because there are three cone receptors, combined with black and white, (the absence of full spectrum light and the full intensity of full spectrum light, respectively), there are eight logically recognizable “basic colours”:

In working with colour, exoterically and esoterically, it is necessary to learn and remember the combinations of these colours of light, or additive colour. Colours produced from the simultaneous stimulation of two cones result in the secondary colours, as shown:

B+G+R whiteB violet-blueG greenR Orange-redG+R yellowB+R magentaB+G cyanBl black


3 Primary colours 8 basic colourspure wavelength, or as combined

Blue Green Red White

Note that magenta, created through the stimulation of the red and blue cones, does not naturally appear in the electromagnetic spectrum. Note also that yellow is visually created through the simultaneous stimulation of the cones sensitive to red and green (long and medium-cool wavelength producing the medium-warm sensation). This is the ‘least intuitive’ pairing, and should be commited to memory until it becomes a natural understanding.

This is consistent with the esoteric terminology complementary pairs of: Violet and yellowBlue and orange

(We may wish to note that the complementary or opposite of this colour, which subject we will investigate more fully later, would be a very dark, warm indigo or purple, and the esoteric blinds used by the Tibetan and Blavatsky often consist of the use of calling a colour by its opposite.)

An increase in intensity of the same spectral makeup of light causes the visual system to raise or lower the perception level of each colour uniformly. A change in the spectral quality of a source of illumination (e.g., the sun at noon to the sun at late afternoon, or a fluorescent to incandescent light bulb) causes the visual system to adjust so that the optimum perception of colour differentiation is maintained.

The visual system is unable to differentiate or equate same wavelengths independent of adjacent stimuli. That is, we judge a colour by the company it keeps. Colour perception is dependent upon all of the wavelengths of light that simultaneously impact the cones. The examples in this area are fascinating, but due to the limitations in quality control of reproduction, and scope of this thesis, I will not attempt colour examples. (Many good examples can be found in colour publications on colour and vision, scientifically or artistically-oriented texts.) In lieu of a colour diagram, the following phenomenon are suggested to the reader’s conceptual consideration:

THREE COLOURS APPEAR AS FOUR: Using the SAME GREEN (medium wavelength) on an bluish background, and this same GREEN on a reddish background, would be interpreted


as a different colour (two distinct wavelengths). This is due to the visual system’s attempt to highlight differences of two adjacent colours. In this case, the green on blue will be perceived as a more yellow-green – the colour further away from blue; the green on red will be shifted towards the blue-green range – the colour further away from red.

FOUR COLOURS APPEAR AS THREE: Using DIFFERENT GREENs on blue and red can appear the same (according to some specific wavelengths, not all.) In reverse of the example above, if a yellow-green object is placed on a red background, it will be perceived as more blue-green than it would on a white or black background (because the yellow wavelengths will be diminished by the orange-red cones attempting to focus on the more prominent red background). Similarly, if a blue-green object is placed on a blue background, it will be perceived as more yellow-green (because the blue wavelengths cannot ‘compete’ and will therefore ‘move away from’ the perception of the more prominent blue background.)

Colour reflected from an object is perceived differently depending upon the quality of light, (e.g, sunlight, fluorescent light, incandescent light, individual spectra of light). As an object’s reflected colour is ONLY perceived due to the type of illumination impacting an object and reflected into the visual system, this is a crucial consideration. (For example, an object that appears white in full spectral “white light” will appear red if illuminated by a red light; a violet-blue hue will look much darker and impure in a yellowish light than in white light; a red tomato illuminated by a green light will appear black; etc.)

The possible uses and further definition of these aspects of sight, and of the commonly used terms “visualization” and “creative imagination”(a sense related to ‘taste’ in the esoteric schematics), will be explored in the “Practice Chapters”.

DINA II, p367-8: Light upon the physical plane leads to vision, Light esoterically leads to increase in consciousness, recognition, perception, the role of vision in evolution, Human evolution or the human evolutionary process is entirely concentrated around the sense of sight, with its consequent effects and results of vision, recognition and perception—all of them constituting what we mean when we speak of revelation.The eye is esoterically speaking most important from the standpoint of humanity. Indeed humanity is offering the gift of Vision through the Eye of Consciousness to our planetary Logos, indeed its monad constitute the eye of the planetary Logos.

DINA II, 291-3: "the Monad is to the planetary Logos, what the third eye is to man; this will become clearer to you if you will bear in mind that our seven planes are only the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. The monadic world - so-called - is His organ of vision; it is also His directing agent for the life and light which must be poured into the phenomenal world. In the same way, the Monad is to the personality in the three worlds, also the source of its life and light.

"The mystery of the eye and its relation to light (esoterically understood) is very great, and as yet not student, no matter how diligent, knows anything about it. For instance, brother of mine, when the third eye, the inner eye, and the Monad are brought into direct alignment with "the Eye of God Himself", so that what the planetary Logos sees can be partially (at least) revealed to the initiate, who can tell what that revelation will bring of results and enlightment? When the true nature of the will is comprehended and the self-will of the personality (of a very high order, necessarily), the will of the soul (as demonstrated by the activity of the highest tier or circle of the egoic petals), atma, expressing itself as the spiritual will, and Sanat Kumara are also brought, through initiation, into direct alignment, who, again, can predict what the revelation will be? When again ...the myriad thoughtforms of the concrete or lower mind are seen as illusion, and the lower mind, the knowledge petals of the egoic lotus, the abstract mind and buddhi or pure reason are all brought into alignment with the Lords of Karma in a direct relationship and as signifying the ending of karma in the three worlds, who can foretell the nature of the ensuing revelation? It is alignment that holds the clue or the key to all these deeply spiritual events " DINA II, 349.


1.4.3 Overview of Additive of Light, Subtractive Colour of Pigments, and the relationship between

In this section we deal with the combination of colours of light and colours of pigment. We should first define the common and way of referring to colours:

Any color sensation can be duplicated by mixing varying quantities of red, blue, and green. These colors, therefore, are known as the additive primary colors. If light of these primary colors is added together in equal intensities, the sensation of white light is produced. A number of pairs of pure spectral colors called complementary colors also exist; if mixed additively, these will produce the same sensation as white light. Among these pairs are certain yellows and blues, greens and blues, reds and greens, and greens and violets.

Most colors seen in ordinary experience are caused by the partial absorption of white light. The pigments that give color to most objects absorb certain wavelengths of white light and reflect or transmit others, producing the color sensation of the unabsorbed light.

The colors that absorb light of the additive primary colors are called subtractive primary colors. They are red, which absorbs green; yellow, which absorbs blue; and blue, which absorbs red. Thus, if a green light is thrown on a red pigment, the eye will perceive black. These subtractive primary colors are also called the pigment primaries. They can be mixed together in varying amounts to match almost any hue. If all three are mixed in about equal amounts, they will produce black. An example of the mixing of subtractive primaries is in color photography and in the printing of colored pictures in magazines, where red, yellow, black, and blue inks are used successively to create natural color. Edwin Herbert Land, an American physicist and inventor of the Polaroid Land camera, demonstrated that color vision depends on a balance between the longer and shorter wavelengths of light. He photographed the same scene on two pieces of black-and-white film, one under red illumination, for long wavelengths, and one under green illumination, for short wavelengths. When both transparencies were projected on the same screen, with a red light in one projector and a green light in the other, a full-color reproduction appeared. The same phenomenon occurred when white light was used in one of the projectors. Reversing the colored lights in the projectors made the scene appear in complementary colors.

Hue or Chroma, normally the commonly named colourSaturation: the degree of strength or purity of the colour; the amount of gray; a colour is a shade if it contains more black than the or tint Brightness or Intensity.

Colours are described in terms of three fundamental characteristics: Hue is the wavelength of light reflected from or transmitted through an object. This is the commonly named “colour”, such as red, orange, or green. Hue is measured as a location on the standard colour wheel and is expressed as a degree between 0° and 360°.

Saturation, sometimes called chroma, is the strength or purity of the colour. Saturation represents the amount of gray in proportion to the hue.. Fully saturated colour approaches black and is called the “shade” of the hue; “unsaturated” colour approaches white and is called the “tint” of the hue. An analogy in sound could be that of the amount of base or treble quality to a note, or the amount of muting that is applied to the tone.. Brightness is the relative lightness or darkness of the colour, similar to volume in sound.

Exoteric science has well defined colour models to describe the various mediums of colour: the two basic models areLight


Pigments

Most of us are most familiar with pigments, as this is what we use in painting and how we learned about colour combination. In both the light and pigment systems, there are three primary colours in each of these systems, and the primaries are different in each model. Light = Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) LightPigment Paints = Red, Blue, and Yellow (RBY) Matter

The primary difference between colours of light and the colours of pigments is how they respond in combination with their other colours. The two distinctions are termed: additive and subtractive.

Light is “additive” because when one wavelength of light is added to another, more light is added, and the resulting colour is a combination of the two lights, thus brighter and more luminous.

Pigment is “subtractive” because when one pigment is added to another, more material is added, and the resulting colour is a combination of the two pigmented paints, thus darker and less luminous.

Pigment absorbs light; Light reflects more light.Light = Additive = all colours = whitePigment = Subtractive = all colours = “black” (a muddy dark colour)

Colour mixing laws refer to the law of vision. How either of these mixing laws take effect depends on the point in the chain of effects between light emission and the arrival of the wavelength upon the cones in the retina.

In additive mixture, the radiation itself strikes the eye. This is the most direct possibility of colour reception upon the visual system. The subtractive system is one step removed from the visual system, because the absorption performance of the filtered layers work together. Each filter layer modulates the original radiation wavelength.

If the appearance of a colour comes about because of light reflected off an object, this is object colour. In contrast to coloured light, object colour reveals the most varied properties, including translucence and opacity. All colouring agents, such as paints, pastels, etc., are object colours, because they are ‘absorbing matter’.

In both additive and subtractive mixing laws, the four missing basic colours are produced due to the cooperation of the four existing basic colours.

E.g., Additive – black, plus red-orange blue-violet greenSubtractive – white, plus magenta cyan (blue-green) yellow

Additive Light Model: RGBIn the visible light spectrum, three of the colours are considered primary. Through combining the wavelengths of these three basic components of coloured light in various proportions and intensities, nearly all the other colours in the spectrum can be produced. Specific frequencies of these three primary colours combine and create white. (A few other specific combinations of two colours, called “complementary pairs” can also combine to create white, which is called ‘two colour’ white.) While we just learned above that each colour, or wavelength, is independently produced and has as much as ‘existence’ as any othe frequency on the em scale., the three “primary colours” of Red, Green, and Blue are uniquely placed so that when they overlap or are combined, they create the “secondary colours” of light: cyan, magenta, and yellow.

In common physical environment, the RGB model (additive colours) are used for creating video, film recorders, lighting, and TV and computer monitors. These monitors creates the wide range of colours through stimulating phosphors of just the three primaries.


In the additive trinity of light (RBG), combining:RED and BLUE = MagentaBLUE and GREEN = CyanGREEN and RED = Yellow

Note that the secondary colours are lighter or brighter than the primaries, because they have benefit of two sources of light, thus more light or brilliance.

Pigment Model: RBY This is the more commonly recognized trinity of primary colours, which is often used in children’s toys and on the artists’ palette. These are the “subtractive colours” of pigment are: Red, Blue and Yellow. The difference from light and pigment primaries is the exclusion of Green and the inclusion of Yellow.

In combining these three primaries, Red, Blue and Yellow, we arrive at the pigment set of “secondary colours”:

Red and Blue = PurpleBlue and Yellow = GreenYellow and Red = Orange

Note that the secondary colours of pigment are darker or more saturated than the primaries, because they are created through two pigments, increasing the material which absorbs light, and are thus duller or darker.

Subtractive Pigments behave similarly to filters, because coloured filters ‘subtract’ out light from the source. However, let’s call this a third model, which is not neatly defined as of light or pigment, or additive or subtractive, as it has qualities of each and depends upon light to produce its effects.

Subtractive mixture describes modulation of visible radiation through transparent filters.Subtractive mixture is the counterpart or reverse side of the complementary law of additive mixture.

The generation of colour due to subtraction occurs when something is ‘taken away’ or subtracted from the existing radiation energy by absorption. The subtractive basic colours are yellow, magenta-red and cyan-blue.

E.g., through the yellow layer, no shortwave radiations can pass so the reception sector for violet-blue will not receive any stimulation and therefore no perception of violet is possible; yellow regulates the perception of violet-blue. (exoterically, 4 controls perception of 7)

Similarly, through the cyan layer, no red may pass; light blue regulates the perception of red. (Exoterically, 6 controls perception of 1 … or 2 controls perception of 6)

Through the magenta layer, no green may pass; magenta regulates the perception of green. (Exoterically, 6 controls perception of 3)These are therefore the inverse of the RGB, light or additive, system

Colour photography, and in part, multicolour printing, work according to the laws of subtractive mixture.

Achromatic white is always the indispensable initial basis for subtractive mixture. E.g, in colour photography the white light, which is necessary to see a colour slide or in printing, the white paper surface which is the foundation for the photo.

The CMY(K) Model; both additive and subtractive light filters or films (additive)light-absorbing inks or dyes (subtractive)


As noted in the RGB, or Light model, combining or overlapping the primaries of light resulted in the secondary colours of light: Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow

These colours are used in light filters and in photography, we have the additive effect of the colours of light, yet we are working with a medium which blocks various frequencies of light. As we see, CMY and RGB are in reciprocal relationship, i.e., each pair of CMY colours creates a RGB colour. The main point to note is that the apparent resulting colour is not its own frequency of light, but a combination of two.

As well, in the combination of RGB frequencies, the resulting secondaries produced through combination of two primaries creates a new colour which, although it may appear the same as a colour in the natural spectrum, it is a combination of two, and can be resolved into its component parts. As well, combining just the three frequencies of RGB apparently makes white light, yet it is ‘three colour white’, and not full spectrum white.

E.g., magenta and yellow creates a ‘two colour red’, it is not the red frequency, but in stimulating both the medium (yellow) wavelengths and a mix of long and short (red and violet), the combination appears red. The difference is that when you split a red frequency from the light spectrum, you will only and always have just the red frequency wavelength. To the contrary, if you split a red light that has been created from yellow and magenta filters overlayed on white light, you will find its component parts are distinctly yellow and magenta.

Note: it is interesting that magenta is not found naturally in the em spectrum. Being a combination of blue and red, it is impossible to have magenta in the ‘linear spectrum’ as it naturally occurs; magenta does not occur naturally in the electromagnetic spectrum, but must be created through the application of red and blue separated lights. I.e., As infra-red and ultra-violet are the two ‘ends’ of the spectrum,

Relationships of all three models

We see an integral relationship between the RGB model and CMY model. There is no direct or symbiotic type relationship between the RBY model and either of these two. To be suggestive to the esoteric sciences, this shows that pigment or matter is unrelated to the worlds of light, but that if a material can be made light-sensitive, there is a direct relationship.

In the case of the RGB and CMY models, let’s look again at the two primaries or trinities involved. We see that through the relationship of any two in each trinity, the result is one of the other trinity.

In the additive trinity of light (R,B,G), combining:RED and BLUE = MagentaBLUE and GREEN = CyanGREEN and RED = Yellow

In the subtractive trinity of absorptive inks (C,M,Y), combining Cyan and Magenta = BLUEMagenta and Yellow = REDYellow and Cyan = GREEN

We note there is no orange, or indigo, or violet in this model. Yet blue and cyan, could be, respectively, Indigo and Blue within the esoteric model. The violet may well be Magenta, yet violet as normally considered has much more blue than the red of magenta. So where is Orange?

We quickly find these colours that appear to be missing from the light models if we look to pigments. In comparing the two major trinities of Light and of Pigment, we note the following


systems. The first primary, red, is repeated at the bottom in order to show the resultant 3 complements in each system. This is better illustrated in the accompanying chart.

LIGHT (additive) PIGMENT (subtractive)

Primary secondary primary secondaryRed/orange Red *

Magenta* VioletBlue/violet Blue

Cyan (blue green) GreenGreen Yellow

Yellow OrangeRed/orange Red *

* The red normally used to create the truest purple is more of a cadmium, or bluish red. For a clear orange, the red should not have the blue pigments but tend more towards a ‘true’ or orange-red.

chlorophyll a is a green dye. The absorption spectrum of chlorophyll (below) shows that it absorbs strongly in the red and blue-violet regions of the visible spectrum. Because it absorbs red and blue-violet light, the light it reflects and transmits appears green, e.g., plants appear green because chlorophyl reflects green light and absorbs red and blues.

ComplementariesThe definition of complementary colours and opposite colours can be complex..

In the light model, a “complementary pair” are two specific frequencies that produce white. There are 3 pairs of light frequencies that produce ‘two-colour’ white:Yellow to BlueMagenta to Green Cyan (488 nm, blue-green) to Red (600 nm, orangish-red)

If we place these primary and secondary colours of light in a colour wheel model, we see that the complementary pairs can also be considered opposites; however, truly the spectrum in a continuum, not a circle or wheel. (However, the creation of the secondary colour magenta does seem to bring the two ends of red and blue together.)

Note here that, esoterically, the “complements” normally given are as follows. They are very similar to the exoteric science:Yellow to Indigo (v blue)Red (v magenta) to GreenBlue (v blue-green) to Orange (v red)

In regard to the pigment model, we have the following “opposites”, normally considered. Again, the similarities are just.Yellow to Purple (v blue or indigo)Red to GreenBlue to Orange

The term ‘complementary’ may not apply in the pigment model in the way which the light model do, nor in the way the esoteric doctrines mean. Combining two opposite pigments creates very muddy dark colours.



Reference of popular psychological impacts of colours. While the variation of personal preference varies widely, and especially due to cultural factors, the following points give some idea about the effect of colours on the majority of westerners.

Red symbolizes heat, fire, blood, passion, love, warmth, power, excitement and aggression. It is an attention grabber. Words and objects in red get people's attention immediately. In decorating and design, red items attract attention. It is an emotionally intense and very extreme color. Red clothing can be uplifting and convey power and energy but may invite confrontation. It is dominating. With automobiles there is a positive correlation between the color red and theft rate and traffic tickets. It can elevate blood pressure and respiratory rate. It has the effect of stimulating people to make quick decisions and increase expectations. Red rooms make people anxious, but rooms with red accent can cause people to lose track of time, thus are favored by bars and casinos. Restaurants often use red as a decorating scheme because of its appetite stimulant function.

Orange is associated with warmth, contentment, fruitfulness and wholesomeness. It looks strong and generous. It is the color most associated with appetite. It has a declassifying, broad appeal. It can be used to indicate that a product is suitable for everyone, and can make an expensive product seem more affordable.

Yellow When used in small amount, produces sensations of brightness and warmth. It represents playfulness, light, creativity, warmth and an easygoing attitude toward life. It is as inviting as a warm, sunny day. Yellow is like sunlight -- you want it to be there to feel good, but you don't want it to be "in your eye". The pure bright lemon yellow is the most eye-fatiguing color. Light is reflected by this bright color, resulting in excessive stimulation of the eyes, causing eye irritation. It also speeds metabolism. Paint a room yellow, you will make babies cry and grown-ups lose their tempers in it. Furthermore, yellow is not a good color for notepads and monitor background. Although it can alert our brain and enhance concentration, it is hurtful to our eye. Pure yellow is the most cheerful and sunny of the spectrum. A softer tint, however, will make it more pleasant to look at. Dingy yellow represents caution, decay, sickness, jealousy and duplicity. The cheerful sunny yellow, is an attention getter. It is the most visible color of all the colors, it is the number one attention getter. Yellow is also associated with spirituality, and is a symbol of the deity in many religions

Green comes with many symbiotic meanings, among which, the strongest and the most universal is nature. Related to that, it also signifies life, youth, renewal, hope and vigor. Brides in the Middle Ages wore green to symbolize fertility. It is the easiest color on the eye and can improve vision. It is a calming color and has a neutral effect on the human nervous system. The "green rooms" are designed for people who are waiting to appear on TV to sit and relax. Green is also a popular color in hospitals because it relaxes patients. Various shades have different symbolic meanings: Dark Green -- cool, masculine, conservative, and implies wealth. Emerald Green -- immortality. Yellow-Greens -- least preferred color of consumers.

Blue represents solitude, sadness, depression, wisdom, trust and loyalty. Wearing blue to job interviews indicates dedication and loyalty. It is one of the most popular colors. To American consumers of both genders, blue is the favorite color. However, be careful when using blue in association with food - it is a natural appetite suppressant and can be repulsive in some instances. It is the least appetizing. Blue food is rare in nature. Blue-colored food is repulsive to humans because when our ancestors searched for food, they learned to avoid toxic or spoiled objects, which were often blue, black, or purple. During experiments, when participants were served with food dyed blue, they lost appetite. It relaxes our nervous system. It has a sobering effect on the mind and can cause people to be more contemplative, which is the opposite reaction as red. Peaceful, tranquil blue, which is a good color for bedrooms, causes the body to produce calming chemicals. Darker shades of blue, however, can feel cold and depressing. Blue surroundings, if not too dark, increase productivity. Studies show that students score higher, weightlifters lift heavier weights in blue rooms. People retain more when reading information written in blue text.


Purple is the color for royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance and sensitivity. It is a rare color in nature. In ancient times, people used a certain species of shellfish to create purple dyes -- a meticulous process. Some people like purple decorations for its unusually posh and artistic look. To others, however, it just looks artificial.

Pink is the most romantic and tender color. It is also tranquilizing. Research suggested that pink makes people calm and soft-hearted. If prison cells were painted pink, it reduced aggressive behavior among prisoners. Even if a person tries to be angry or aggressive in the presence of pink, he can't. The heart muscles can’t race fast enough. It’s a tranquilizing color that saps your energy. Even the color-blind are tranquilized by pink rooms. Such effect however may be short-lived as once the body returns to a state of equilibrium, a prisoner may regress to an even more agitated state.

White stands for purity, chastity and innocence. In most of the western societies, brides wear white to symbolize innocence and purity. It also represents cleanliness. Doctors, nurses, and lab technicians wear white to imply sterility. White reflects light and keeps cool. So it is the color for summer clothing. In general, it creates a cool and refreshing feeling

Black is controversial; associated with demons, witches and the devil; on the other hand, sturdiness and reliability. It speaks with authority and power; on the other hand, despair and mourning. It symbolizes evil characters and criminal activities; on the other hand, constancy, prudence and wisdom. It is the clothes color of choice for many people for various reasons. Some wear black for it feels formal and powerful and visually slimming, stylish or sophisticated. Priests, on the contrary, wear black to signify submission to God.


Let’s move now fully into the esoteric models of colour, and the blinds and contradictions that are logically used.

A synopsis of key elements of the visual system:

The perception of ‘true’ white light occurs only if a sufficient range of frequency is registered by various cone types simultaneously with the necessary intensity.

“White” doesn’t describe the spectral composition of the emanating or reflected light. Sunlight is considered white. Yet, the observer should note that sunlight, while the only naturally occuring full-spectrum light we are exposed to, is of a ‘yellow’ classification, astronomically speaking. Further, the spectral quality of “daylight” varies greatly depending upon the time of year, position of the sun in the sky, atmospheric conditions, reflecting surfaces (e.g., ocean or forest), etc.

Primary three:There are ‘dominant wavelengths’ that create the perception of the trinity of primaries: blue-violet, green, and orange-red; these wavelengths correspond to the wavelengths to which the primary three cone receptors in the eye are most sensitive. Secondary colours are perceived from the combination of two cones being stimulated simultaneously; i.e., there is no single receptor (cone) that transmits the information of cyan, magenta, or yellow.

Two colour white: Certain combinations of wavelengths can create the phenomenon of white light. These combinations are termed “complementary pairs”. All colour stimuli are considered complementary if they together lead to the perception of whtie. The determinant of the perception of white is not the spectral composition of the stimulus, but the interpretation of the values within the visual system.

Complementary pairs:Complements can be created through many combinations of wavelengths. Two colour white can only be created through combination of wavelengths in the short wavelengths with those in the long wavelengths (blue-violet colours with orange-red colours). This is because, as magenta is only perceived through the combination of two colours, green has no single-wavelength generatable complementary pair. However there are numerous complementary pairs combined from specific wavelengths of the blue-violet and yellow, and the cyan-blue and yellow-orange ranges. As we are utilizing the Newtonian or esoteric nomenclature for colours, we have the following complements that agree in both exoteric and esoteric models:

Red greenBlue orangeYellow indigo

Violet and white are not exoterically recognized as opposites, but suggested to be so esoterically.

Black and white would be considered complements logically, but these are not registrable in the visual system as frequencies, but as the absence of light or full presence of all wavelengths, respectively.


2 Esoteric Theory and Relationships

2.1 What is Colour? Esoterically considered

2.2 Twofold and Threefold levels of meaning

2.3 Blinds and Contradictions

2.4 Investigations of Individual Colours and Colour Combinations

2.1 The concept of esoteric and exoteric colours is repeated throughout the works of HPB and AAB. The terms esoteric and exoteric refer to one being more true to the inner reality, and the other more characteristic of the outer form, respectively.

One meaning of the term esoteric is: “meant for the initiated” – one of the definitions of an initiate is that he is the “cause of evolution”. A meaning of exoteric is: that which is commonly available or obvious, or that which is an effect. (As cause and effect are relative terms, any one cause being the effect of a greater cause, and any effect being the cause of a lesser effect, let us hold in mind the relative ‘direction’ of our definitions of esoteric and exoteric. The major question will be: What caused the esoteric colour? Of What greater Cause is this ‘cause’ an effect?) We are therefore commonly presented with a dual expression of colours: a positive and negative polarity; a light and dark side; a vice and a virtue; a cause and effect dynamic.

This dual way of interpreting colour, and any phenomenon in the lower worlds, is fundamental to the esoteric doctrines. However, one also generally finds a triplicity of energies emphasized in any full system. For example, in esoteric astrology, we are offered three levels of planetary rulerships: exoteric, esoteric, and hierarchical. Further, the whole nature of triangles and the circulation of energy in a threefold system is paramount when dealing more with the life aspect than the form phenomenon.

And so in colour, we find occasions when a triplicity is offered, or can be logically applied to colour. Any definition of a colour depends upon:The vehicle or point of evolution which a Life of Colour is expressing through: e.g., personality, soul, or monad The plane of consciousness upon which this Entity is polarised or ‘located’Plus the plane of consciousness and point of evolution of the observer

The notion of status (point of evolution) and location (polarisation) can be held here for both the Entity under consideration and for the observer interpreter. Each of these adds its own colouration in the deciphering of the correct quality or true nature of any entity in question. LOM, p. 215: "In the esoteric interpretation lies hid half the mystery, and the other half is concealed by the fact that all interpretation depends upn the standpoint of the interpreter, and the plane whereon his consciousness is working." A confirmation of both this twofoldness and threefoldness are colour are found in TCF, p. 1171-1172, Law 7, The Law of Colour: "… colour serves a twofold purpose: It acts as a veil for that which lies behind, and is therefore attracted to the central spark; it demonstrates the attractive quality of the central life. All colours, therefore, are centres of attraction, are comple-mentary, or are antipathetic to each others. …

So the “twofold purpose” is to 1. act as a veil 2. demonstrate the quality of the central life.

As to the threefold roles or effects, let’s arrange them under the three above mentioned roles, and then add in other correspondences used in relation to the threefold nature of colour: attraction/quality of Life complementary antipathetichierarchical esoteric exoterictrue colour complementary colour antagonistic colour


true colour illusory appearance reflectioncolour complementary polar oppositemonad/initiate soul/disciple personality/aspirant

This is in accordance with the basic 1st, 2nd, or 3rd aspect of colours. Simply, it appears that each ‘true colour” or Life may be the term most appropriate to the originating monad, the complementary colour relates to that of the esoteric nature or soul aspect, and the antipathetic relates to the exoteric or personality aspect.

In daily life and consideratio, we refer to a colour in its exoteric form, or that which would be the reflection or polar opposite or antagonistic colour to the 'esoteric' or 2nd aspect version. We are likely not given the 1st aspect of the true colour as at this level of exoteric knowledge getting in touch with the monad or originating source of a colour is beyond the scope of printed material. The import of this is that, for all of us endeavoring to discern our personality and soul rays, or these colours, that each of these are ‘effects’ to the true colour, which ramains unknown until at least the 3rd initiation. Recognizing this major limitation, we note that the ‘esoteric colour’, the soul colour, the life of a colour, is in itself a reduction or distortion from the true colour.

Adding some complication in deciphering the esoteric and exoteric and true colours, we are on one occasion given two colours as the esoteric colours:. This reference is made in context of the solar logos, "blue in colour, esoteric orange and green." Either with the orange and green one is our normally considered esoteric or soul colour and one is the true or monadic colour, else we have the possibility that there can be dual esoteric rulers. My tendency at the moment is to take the former view, and in this instance, orange is the soul colour of the solar logos, and green its true or monadic colour. Blue is its exoteric colour, (blinded by the complementary yellow -- disk of golden light -- to our eyes). [Comment along further ramifications on this topic are handled in Chapter Two.]

One reference makes clear the need to consider colours at their proper level: TCF, page 1011

"The 'Eye of Shiva,' when perfected, is blue in colour, and as our solar Logos is the "Blue Logos" so do His children occultly resemble Him; but this colour must be interpreted esoterically. It must be remembered also that prior to the final two Initiations (the sixth and seventh), the eye of the white magician, when developed, will be coloured according to the man's ray—again esoterically understood. More anent this question of colour may not be communicated. According to the colour, so will be the type of energy manipulated …

Obviously here the reference is not made to exoterically blue-eyed children of the Blue Logos, but those who resemble Him by quality of the 2nd Ray. In this example, Blue is the esoteric colour of the Solar Logos, Yellow its exoteric form we see in the sky. (Further, as a reference suggests of the Blue Logos, "esoteric green and orange" -- this may be the Hierarchical level, the one more esoteric than the esoteric, and relate it to its origin in the first solar system.)

Likely another factor in our not normally having the third or highest level of 'esoteric' colour referred to, (here called true or hierarchical) is because, beyond the fact that this info is not for the general public due to hazards of knowledge in magical work, but because the term 'colour' isn’t very useful or accurate beyond the 'buddhic' or 'soul' or esoteric level, as the distinctions or separations, the sense of Ahamkara, is drastically reduced at this level of ‘group’ consciousness. The futher we move ‘up’ in consciousness (away from the heresy of the concept of separation), the further we move towards pure light or white light, and away from the divergencies of Colourations. However, this is relative, as distinction or colour must exist up until the Final Day Be With Us.

Therefore, colour will always ‘be with us’ up until that truly final event of perfection. Yet we must pay attention to major changes in one’s essential ‘sense of difference’, which colour suggests. We have one most notable level when we are told that colour is not. In considering the 7 paths out of the solar system (entrance to the Cosmic Astral plane?), we find that the Paths are beyond colour. I suggest this is a relative realization, and that the essence which colour veils, continues, as does number, as far back along the paths of monadic emanation until The One disappears back into the Absolute.


The point about esoteric and exoteric colours could be put simply that we must always look at the level and relationship of the colour in question. “Red” is both an exoteric and esoteric colour – i.e., there is an exoteric expression called red, and an esoteric expression called red. The question is, of what? These expressions may well not be the True Colour Red, but how Red, as an entity, as a quality of Living Light, is perceived at various levels of distortion. (There are two qualities of colour, Radiance and Translucence, which may shed additional light on the meaning or deciphering of esoteric colours, yet they are not fully investigated herein.)

1. The eye of Shiva - the all-seeing eye, the eye which directs the will and purpose of Deity.2. The right eye - the eye of Buddhi, of Wisdom and of Vision.3. The left eye - the eye of mind, of the common sense and of sight.

1. The eye of the Father - carrying light from the great Bear.2. The eye of the Son - carrying light from Sirius.3. The eye of the Mother - carrying light from the Pleiades.

We’ll treat this question of colours as Living Light in the second chapter, on macrocosmic and microcosmic correspondences. For now, we are simply well aware that there are at least two, and likely three or more names for types of energy. These types of energy make appearances which we call by the names of certain colours.

Some Examples of Exoteric and Esoteric Colours In the Colour Chapter in Letters on Occult Meditation regarding esoteric and exoteric colours, the main hint we are given is that this information and that in the Secret Doctrine "concerns the first solar system and some concerns a portion of the second solar system." At this point four colours are given with their exoteric and esoteric correspondences. (p. 224)

Exoteric EsotericPurple BlueYellow IndigoCream YellowWhite Violet

We can assume these as relevant to the 4 rounds of this second solar system, as we are told as much. DK then goes on to say that the esoteric colours of the exoteric red, green and range may not be imparted to the general public … yet on an earlier page, 216, he offered that "esoteric orange is a purer yellow, and the red is scarcely seen at all."

However, we are additionally also told that esoterically violet is white … and DK also stated that (p. 214) in reference to the listing on p. 213 that "of all I have given only two corresponding with their esoteric application, indigo and green. … the only two of which you can be absolutely assured." So let’s add these too:

Violet WhiteGreen greenIndigo indigo

From tabulations sourced out of the Secret Doctrine, we have the following relationships of colours, and are told that these are blinded, similar to how DK blinds. These are said to be the colours of the Rays, which perhaps differ from simply the colours, or from the colours of the planes.

Exoteric EsotericRay 1 Orange/flame red

Ray 2 Indigo with purple light blueRay 3 Black greenRay 4 Cream yellowRay 5 Yellow indigoRay 6 Red silvery roseRay 7 White violet


We notice that exoteric Blue is not present, and there is no esoteric orange (although we are told red is more like orange, and so perhaps esoteric yellow is like orange. If so, where is esoteric yellow? Is it more like cream?)

While we are told that the esoteric and exoteric colours differ widely, yet in the instance of orange, we are told that esoteric orange is simply more yellow and "the red is scarcely seen at all." That isn't "widely different". Yet when we view some tabulations of (likely blinded) exoteric and esoteric colours (reference), we find that there is wide divergence, especially in the case of exoteric Yellow being esoteric Indigo, or exoteric white being esoteric violet (and vice versa). In most of the other cases, the differences are not apparently widely different, but usually a tint or shade of the exoteric version. (E.g., exoteric cream being esoteric yellow; exoteric purple/indigo being esoteric light blue, etc.)

Thus we have 7 colours given in their exoteric and esoteric forms. The point here is that we may have the esoteric colours available for more colours than just those 4 of this round. The only colour which is the same in the list of 4 and the key listing of colours on 213 is yellow, that of the 4th or buddhic plane. We also find that the information in LOM may be giving us some truer esoteric hints, less blinded, and we will work with the assumption that Indigo is Indigo, and Green is Green. Yet, is Indigo THE colour for the second ray, or for the fifth, as indicated in the esoteric descriptions, and as the 5th Plane is considered to be THE KEY plane of … this solar system?

Contradictions and Blinds

In addition to being aware of the exoteric and esoteric (and probably hierarchical) forms of colours, we must first determine if any information we have been provided is subject to blinds. To safeguard the mysteries, apparent contradictions and the use of blinds, as a code for those who are able to safely apprehend the information, is widely used in the esoteric doctrine. As colour is one of the keys in physical plane manifestation, guarding its secrets has been especially necessary, as those who may not be working from a motive of light could use this most vital of keys to create effects most potently upon the physical plane. When one is able to use the creative imagination and visualize ‘in colour’ – they are manipulating the energies of manifestation. If their intention and the imaginings are accurate, the potential for magic is real, for good or ill.

In the Secret Doctrine and the writings of Alice Bailey, DK tells us that the colours referred to differ, yet the blinds used are the same, and are applied according to the same rules. Therefore, to our help, the use of contradicting information is not arbitrary, but is used carefully used in a way that also holds keys for those who penetrate beyond the appearances. We also know that from the above references about the Secret Doctrine, that some of the information on colour referred to the first solar system, some to the second. Therefore, our first ‘blind’ and potential area for contradiction, lies in whether our reference material is speaking about the personality (unless the first really was monadic) or soul aspect of the solar system.

Predominantly, the major blinding technique used is that of complementary colours. In addition to calling one colour by its complement, another type of blind is to speak “in terms of the plane and not in terms of the ray” (p. 207, LOM). This suggestion reinforces the idea that the more accurate colour key is colour = ray, not: colour = plane.

Some examples of this usage will be explored below, but, before we go to the examples, let’s see what complementary means and how it is used in the esoteric and exoteric sciences. First, here is a key esoteric references that mention “Complementary colours”, from TCF, Stanze XIII, page 32 “… Many the circling fires; many the revolving rounds, but only when the complementary colours recognise their source, and the whole adjusteth itself to the seven will be seen completion. Then will be seen each colour in adjustment right, and the cessation of revolution.”

This quote suggests “complementary” may relate to the exoteric form, because they must “recognize their source”. Else, it refers to the esoteric form, and its adjustment to the monadic ‘sources’. At either level, it assumes the complementary colour has a ‘source’. Once this


‘recognizition’ is made, then the seven can blend, white light rays forth, revolution ceases, the goal of evolution, perfection or synthesis, is achieved.

This next key quote again suggests the three levels of colour, and, in support of this theory, we find that even in the practical application of colour in healing, we are suggested to use 3 colours. (In LOM, page 335)

"The use of coloured lights. These lights are played on the body of the disciple and effect a shaking-out process and a simultaneous stimulation of the atoms. This cannot be done till further information is given anent the Rays; when a man's ray is known, stimulation will come from the use of his own colour, a building-in will be brought about by the use of his complementary colour, and disintegration of unwanted matter will be brought about by the use of an antagonistic colour. … " LOM, page 335

Thus we have the following basic practical relationship, (my notes in parenthesis added for context.) A "stimulation" will occur through the use of an individual's "his own colour" (Often when DK refers to someone's "ray" he appears to refer to the monadic ray – if he has not mentioned context of the soul or personality. Thus we can call this the “true” or “hierarchical colour” of the monad, that which stimulates Life. Don’t go into the morbidity of the monad.) A 'building in will be made by use of his complementary colour (the soul or esoteric level, whose function is as the 2nd aspect, to 'build'). A “disintegration of unwanted matter” can be effected through the use of an antagonistic colour.

This division reinforces the previous quote’s probable meaning of the complementary colour being ‘of the soul’ or consciousness level, and ‘the source’ that is to be recognized is “his own colour” or true colour, the monadic or level of origination.

Alternately, “his own colour” and “his complementary colour” could both be on the ‘soul level’, and are the two “esoteric colours”, and there is a duad: “stimulation” and “building in” both referring to activities of the soul. “One’s own colour” need not necessarily refer to the monadic or higher essence, yet if it does, we still have two ‘esoteric colours’ -- one monadic and one soular, both esoteric from the point of view of the personality aspect.

Exoterically, in the science of optics a “complementary pair” is defined as any two colours which when combined produce white. This is called “two colour white.” This is a reminder that white can be produced by two colours, as well as by specific combinations of three colours, as well as through a full spectrum. Let us also remember that, in a spectrum, there are not divisions of 7 colours, or 6 or 5 or 12 or any divisions at all, naturally. The spectrum is a continuum, and it is based upon convention and the nature of human vision that we assign colours into various divisions of colours. In most simple colour wheels for example, the basic division is of three primary colours with the secondary or opposite colours, making 6. Adding “indigo” as a 7th colour is not so common in spectral optics. This will be shown more clearly in the next section on optics.

To return to the exoteric example of complementaries, to highlight their use as blinds in esoteric doctrines, here are the 3 pairs that produce white:Yellow and BlueMagenta (blue-tending red or rose) and Green Cyan (488 nm, a light blue-green) and red-orange (600 nm)

Yellow, Magenta, and Cyan are called the complementary colours, as they are formed by combining the two adjacent primary colours of Light: Red and blue make magenta, blue and green make cyan, red and green make yellow.

Esoterically, the complements are as follows. Similar, yet distinct in certain respect from exoteric science:Yellow and Indigo Red and GreenBlue and Orange


(Note: Violet is not mentioned in complementaries; and remember its curious relationship to white, and how white and violet are reciprocally each others esoteric and exoteric colours. See pp.s 221 and 224 LOM – is this contradictory, the same, or reciprocal? Am I reading it wrong? These could be used as blinds as well. As short explanations, our exoteric white is esoteric violet because the entire cosmic physical plane, the 7th, can be considered violet as a whole, and this is where we live and have our consciousness, this violet colour is actually what we term White Light in common terms; we believe our ‘full spectrum’ of the electromagnetic band creates white light. Similarly, our exoteric violet is esoteric white because on our 7th physical plane, the upper 4 etheric subplanes are called violet, yet the ethers could be considered to be the dazzling solarized white of the “violet” subplanes. This will be looked at more closely in the chapter on pairs of colours, Chapter 4.)

To explore, what would be an example of a true colour, a complementary colour, and an “antagonistic”? What would antagonistic mean in this sense? Examples of blinds using Complementary ColoursAccording to DK, the following blinds involving complementaries are likely: “Red may be called green and orange may be called blue.” Further, he adds that “the key to accurate interpretation lies in the point of attainment of the unit under discussion. If speaking of the Ego one term used; if of the Personality, another; whilst the Monad or higher auric sphere may be described synthetically or in terms of the monadic ray.” (LOM, p. 207.)

This again reinforces our assumption to always take into view these three levels of consciousness, yet adds the question of when is the blind used on what level. For example, Red, Blue and Green are commonly given as the colours for each of the three solar systems. If we are investigating the Green or first solar system, which we believe developed the matter or 3rd aspect, to which level do we assume is this assignation of green? Is it the real colour of the personality aspect, the soul aspect, or the Monadic? Or none of the above? Is the first solar system, that which developed the 3rd aspect, more truly the red solar system? Our assumption that it IS green, may be the blind that we are referring to. Yet, if it is the Red solar system, then does Red refer to the personality, soul, or monadic level? One sees the complexity involved.

Examples of blinds through mixing references to Planes and Rays Another type of blind, as touched on breifly, is to speak “in terms of the plane and not in terms of the ray” (p. 207, LOM). The example given is for the “colours of the higher or lower mind”. Excluding for the moment the use of complementary colours as blinds, let’s assume that the colour of the higher mind is Blue, and the colour of the lower mind is Orange. (LOM, page 225-226.) The colours of the 5th Ray are given in various places, and refs above, as Yellow (exoteric) and Indigo (esoteric). If we were dealing with a blind for the 5th ray therefore, we could, for example, say that Orange is the colour of the 5th Ray. (The interesting thing about this example, is that if we use the complementary colour blind, we find that the colours of the rays and of the higher and lower planes are, respectively, the complements for each other. Blue/Orange; Yellow/Indigo. Therefore, in the case of 5th Ray, if we were only dealing with the possibility of the use of complementaries as a blind, we could safely say Ray 5 is either Yellow or Indigo, esoterically. However, combining this with the blind of switching Planes and Rays, it could be Blue or Orange …

To touch on another example, considering blinds in general. Let’s take the atmic plane. We are not offered a colour for the atmic planes, yet the third ray would be normally associated with the atmic plane, and the colour for the third ray, is normally called green (sometimes yellow). In this case the normal ray and plane are the same colour. (We have been given black as an exoteric colour for ray 3, however, but that may have been first solar system.) If we only consider that the Atmic plane IS green, we have to factor in green is a complementary blind for red.

Could atma be red? Certainly it makes sense that Atmic plane could be red, because it is where the will aspect of the monad is situated. Will is often related to Red. Yet -- Could the third ray be red? If so – What aspect of it? As we are admonished, “if in terms of the personality one term, if the ego, another, the Monad another. Now if we wanted to refer three colours to Ray 3 or Atmic Plane, this makes sense. Yet from which point do we start? And what would be the third colour?


One method would be to assign the colour given as the exoteric or personality colour. Thus in considering either the Atmic Plane or the Third Ray, in its exoteric or form aspect, they could definitely be Green; yet in its esoteric or egoic aspect, they could be red. (The Third Ray may have a willful soul!) In its monadic expression, however – where do we go? If we make a leap to “describe it synthetically”, perhaps the Third Ray is yellow, the colour of red and green combined. As Yellow is often termed a colour of the soul or middle principle, Atmic Plane is the middle plane of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th – the planes of the Monad.

While these examples are neither meant to frustrate us into futility, nor meant to suggest endless possible logical ways to decipher the ‘true colours’ – they are meant to give an appreciation for the complexity involved, and the possibilities that may open up when even a turn or two is made on this colour key. Let’s retain this as integral to all work which will follow.

My efforts in Chapter Two will be to offer some coherent systems which hopefully will bear out some of these conjectures through simple charts, which resonate truth through their correspondence to other keys. The conjecture there will be based upon the intuitions garnered through pondering upon the variety of references on each colour, individually and in combination, which is documented in Chapter 4, and through leaps of faith and possibly unfounded confidence.

Esoteric Correspondences to Exoteric modelsHis True, His complementary, An antagonistic

Can we put this all together? For example, let’s assign Red as the true colour …

In Light

the complement of Red is Cyan, or a blue green (perhaps turquoise or light blue). An antagonistic must be one of the other primaries, not one of the complements. I say this because if we take a red light and apply a magenta, yellow, or cyan filter – cyan we know blocks the red light, or more accurately, combines with it to produce white – as they are a complementary pair. Magenta and Yellow filters allow the red to pass through unaffected. Thus, one of the other primaries, blue or green, must be antagonistic to Red. – is this a logical reason that they are antagonistic? What would best cause a “disintegration of unwanted matter”

Let’s try another example, Blue. Blue is the true colour, its complementary is Yellow, and the antagonistic colours would be red or green.

With Green as true colour, complementary is magenta (rose), and the antagonists are blue and red.

With the light-absorptive colours, same holds true in filters

If Rose is true colour, complement is Green, antagonists are cyan or yellow.If Cyan is true colour, complement is Red, antagonists are yellow or magenta.If Yellow is true colour, complement is Blue, antagonists are magenta or cyan.

In pigment:If Red is true, green is complement, orange and violet are antagonists.If Blue is true, orange is complement, green and violet are antagonists

If Yellow is true, violet is complement, green and orange are antagonists

Polar opposite is esoterically the complementary, venus is polar opposite of Earth, but esoterically it is the complementary. Pigment and ink analogyBlue Logos -- esoterically orange, green? It looks like DK mainly uses the colours of pigment; however he also uses red, blue, and green for the primaries of the solar system – red blue and yellow when talking about a man’s rays (the colours of pigment, or exoteric), and red, blue, and green when talking about cosmic or planetary sources (the colours of light, or esoteric)



Begin insert of info from Leo Probe here, for incorporation into final thesis.

for Systemic Centres, (from Solar Septenary Chart of Planetary Schemes) I. Uranus

II. Neptune

III. Saturn

1. Vulcan

2. Venus

3. Mars

4. Earth

5. Mercury

6. Jupiter

7. Saturn for Planetary Centres (in Earth chain)A. "Within each planetary scheme, are found the seven chains which are the seven planetary centres, B. "... seven planetary centres, or continents." (-- this is a complete dice toss!, just putting it 'in the game'.) C. Also adding in 5 kingdoms "and 5 planetary centres", and "3 major planetary centres"

I. Shamballa (Manu) or red (Russia)

II. Hierarchy (Christ) (USA)

III. Humanity (Mahachohan) (Britain)

1. Neptune (Russia & Asia) Geneva) HEART (vegetable kingdom)

2. Venus (South & Central America)

3. Saturn (Europe) London: THROAT (human kingdom)

4. Earth (Africa)

5. Mercury (India, Asia) Darjeeling: AJNA (5th kingdom)

6. Mars (North America) New York: SOLAR PLEXUS (animal kingdom)

7. Jupiter (Australia? Far East) Tokyo: BASE (mineral kingdom)

"... outlets of planetary energy through the means of which great and general effects are produced in the external, planetary life. In this fifth root-race, there are only five such outlets as far as effects on humanity are concerned; man's responsiveness to them, is demonstrated by the fact of their relative importance in conditioning world events and world affairs. Wherever one of these outlets for spiritual force is found, there will also be found a city of spiritual importance in the same location. These five points are: 1. London.—For the British Empire. 2. New York.—For the Western Hemisphere. 3. Geneva.—For all of Europe, including the U.S.S.R. 4. Tokyo.—For the far East. 5. Darjeeling.—For all of central Asia and India. "... The soul and personality qualities of nations will be studied, the centres within each nation which focus certain ray energies will be noted, and the qualitative emanations of its five or six major cities will be investigated. Let me here give you an instance of what I mean: the influences of New York, Washington, Chicago, Kansas City and Los Angeles will be the subject of scientific research; the psychic atmosphere and the intellectual appeal will be studied, effort will be made to discover the soul quality and the personality nature (the spiritual and the materialistic tendencies) of these great aggregations of human beings which have


come into expression in certain fixed localities because they are expressions of the force centres in the vital body of the nation. Similarly, in connection with the British Empire, a study will be made of London, Sydney, Johannesburg, Toronto and Vancouver with subsidiary studies of Calcutta, Delhi, Singapore, Jamaica and Madras which are all subjectively related in a manner unforeseen by students at present. Under the plan and contingent upon the energies pouring through the five planetary centres according [Page 530] to plan, there are three great fusing energies or vital centres present upon our planet: a. Russia, fusing and blending eastern Europe and western and northern Asia. b. The United States (and later South America) fusing and blending central and western Europe and the entire western hemisphere. c. The British Empire, fusing and blending races and men throughout the entire world."

Individual Human Centres"and which need to be studied from two angles, "a. From the orthodox angle. b. From the angle of discipleship and initiation."which I would guess are the exoteric and esoteric colours, not herein considered.(AVERAGE MAN—EXOTERIC PLANETS 1. Head Centre first ray Pluto 2. Ajna Centre fifth ray Venus 3. Throat Centre third ray Earth 4. Heart Centre second ray Sun 5. Solar plexus Centre sixth ray Mars 6. Sacral Centre seventh ray Uranus 7. Base of Spine first ray Pluto) DISCIPLES. INITIATES—ESOTERIC PLANETS 1. Head Centre first ray Vulcan 2. Ajna Centre fifth ray Venus 3. Throat Centre third ray Saturn 4. Heart Centre second ray Jupiter 5. Solar plexus Centre sixth ray Neptune 6. Sacral Centre seventh ray Uranus 7. Base of Spine first ray Pluto:

I. Monad or red

II. Soul or blue

III. Personality

1. Vulcan 1st ray HEAD (Pluto)

2. Venus 5th ray AJNA

3. Saturn 3rd ray THROAT (Earth)

4. Jupiter 2nd ray HEART (complementary to indigo: yellowgold) (Sun)

5. Neptune 6th ray SOLAR PLEXUS or ORANGE/BLUE, (Mars = red/green)

6. Uranus 7th ray SACRAL ("washed white in the blood"?)

7. Pluto 1st ray BASE (or FLAME, more esoterically, kundalini afire)

Conclusion: This doesn't relate "the planetary centres to the human centres or of the systemic centres to the planets." It just makes some suggested assignments, with little degree of certainity. At this stage I just hope the background documentation may prove useful to others.


Reference only on basic points for Leo ProbeFull ref is Vic’s ‘working draft of colour thesis’ (Ref chapter on colour is DK’s 7th letter in LOM. Also note it is here where he begins with discussion of the Law of Substance, the law of supply and demand, and the injunction to use, demand, and take, and that gravitation holds the secret.) Colour is primarily related to form and planes of manifestation [3]. (Conjecture into lives/rays [1]; and qualities/centers [2] is less certain, but can be resonant, or used as blinds.) See LOM p. 229 and 218 & on 219, note these ray apportionments are “one way to consider the rays influencing the evolving life or form” … for these “great basic colours”:

BLUE 1 = LIFE = Spirit, Consciousness, SelfHEART = Sound Relates to rays 2, 4, and 6 (Neptune/Venus?) The rays influence the evolving life in form through 3-fold Beings, aspects of 3-Monad, Triad/Soul, 3-Personality.

INDIGO 2 = INTELLIGENCE as LOVE-WISDOM = Mind, Vitality, Relation HEAD = Number/Vibration Relates to Rays 3 and 5. (Star pentagrams, man, flashing forth, and Rays 3 and 5, as the most ‘developed’ rays from the previous system, is what the Two, love-wisdom system is using as its “foundation”, here:

GREEN 3 = FORM = Matter, Vehicle, Not-SelfTHROAT = Colour and Light Relates to Rays 1, 7, 5. The septenate planes, subplanes, centers, chakra, rounds, chains … LOM p. 205: Because … the Solar Logos, for THIS solar system, “uttered the great Cosmic Word/Life” and 3, then 4, major streams of colour issued forth, creating the Cosmic Planes for this 2nd aspect of his threefold Life (monad, soul, personality, and other 3-fold levels): Blue - Indigo - Green then the quaternary: yellow, orange, red, violetA U M O M

Remember this is B I G (Blue, Indigo, Green) + Y O R V These 3 are the BASIC COLOURS, then … this 7-fold MATTER of the PLANES is what a 3-fold Life (Helios-Sol for example) uses to ‘work through’.“orange, red, violet fall naturally together”, because they are Sol’s 3-fold Personality Ref: The two kumaras who fell, or at least the orange and rose did; knowledge and love, to create a flame/wisdom system? Blinded here: (orange =) blue + (red/rose =) green = cyan, sacred blue … see full refs in thesis, Stanzas. Note the 3 triangles of Life (of Helios, e.g.) have the following relationships (see LOM p. 217) and rays (also remember the alternate apportionment of ray influences above.) Personality or 3rd aspect: form green & orange rays 3 and 5, 1st first solar systemSoul or 2nd aspect: love/wisdom indigo-blue & yellow rays 2 and 4, 2nd this solar systemMonadic or 1st aspect: will (blue) red & violet rays 1 and 7, 3rd last solar system


We see this (‘confusion’ of) blue and red in terms of the 1st plane because as shown in the BASIC COLOURS, the first, Logoic, or KEY Plane is BLUE As Sol is the BLUE LOGOS because he is working on his 2nd system, 2nd or 6th aspect, Soul, THAT WHICH builds upon the form or foundation of the Green or activity, 1st/3rd Personality systemBlue is the KEY note and goal. A hint: p. 208: a. "Just as the green of the activity of Nature forms the basis of the love aspect, or the indigo vibration of this love system, b. so will it be found upon the mental plane ... c. flame, even exoterically, blends all the colours." Thus: a. The atmic/mastery/active intelligence (green, old s. system) IS the 'basis' or foundation for the monadic/love-wisdom (indigo-blue, present s. system). b. "so will it be found on the mental plane". c. If we assign the BASIC COLOURS to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd subplanes of the mental, we relate the 3rd subplane of the mental, green, the foundation, achievement of previous ss, basis & natural startfor the causal body on the 2nd, indigo-wisdom and then on the 1st or Will’s vibration, which in this 2nd ss is Love-Blue. Green is foundation of Indigo vibe in Love system.THREE (activity) is foundation of TWO (monadic vibe) in this One system (logoic keynote of blue-love) This helps solve the red/will/1st ray confusion with the blue 2nd, ray, as the 2nd is PRIMARY now. (It is like Blue is … in the Red position, just like the CHRIST is HEAD, or in the leader position, of the Hierarchy.) Now, to expand the plane relationships: Cosmic Physical Plane is Violet … with possible chakra and quality correlations):blue logoic will = love of the father (1 & 2, red/blue) HEART-LIFEindigo monadic love = wisdom of mind and relation. HEAD/AJNA-CONSCIOUSNESS green atmic intelligence = mastery of the Son in the 5 worlds, THROAT-ACTIVITYyellow buddhic SPLEEN – “all need the vital AIR” (or AJNA – HEART IN HEAD?)orange mental mentation, the Son/knowledge fallen into the 5th plane, SOLAR PLEXUSred astral devotion, mother/’love’ fallen into the ocean of red blood -- SACRAL(wherein the father will wash his robes white) violet physical order, father's will fallen into the white light of the manifested worlds (violet/white as exo/eso) BASE 5 Synthesis ColoursRed/white as synthesis of whole system of 7/1Indigo as premiere synthesis (blue-indigo) for the 6 planes of Monadic achievement in 2nd ss)Green for the 5 worlds soul-personality: 2+3 = 5 worlds (from atmic plane)


Orange for the 3 worlds of personality (emanates from 5th or mental plane) Violet on the 1 plane, physical “It [astral permanent atom, see p. 512 TCF] is in the direct line of active force emanating from the cosmic existence, and passing to it in ever-lessening degree, via the solar Logos in His system of love, and the planetary Logos within a scheme, the Dragon of Wisdom-Love.” Or, the Violet center of Indigo-Blue system(check final stanzas and all the purple and violet and blue references … mentioned in my thesis.)If we keep the same order for all planes (e.g. Blue is always THE logoic plane key) … then we see this in terms of Agni, the Cosmic Mental, Astral and Etheric planes: Ray & Create Hierarchy *

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Cosmic Astral

Cosmic Etheric

Planetary rulers

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Gemini Blue Gemini as Cosmic Christ Causal Body Solar Logoi = 1st

Cancer Indigo Leo Green Causal Body of Planetary

Logoi = 3rd Virgo Yellow Libra Orange Scorpio Red Sagittarius Violet Capricorn Blue Aquarius Indigo 3 Pisces Green Pluto Polarisation of Venus4 Aries Yellow Uranus Polarisation of Earth5 Taurus Orange Vulcan 6 Gemini Red Earth 7 Cancer Violet Neptune 1 Leo Blue Sun 2 Virgo Indigo Jupiter Human Monad3 Libra Green Saturn 4 Scorpio Yellow Mercury 5 Capricorn Orange Venus Causal Body of Human6 Sagittarius Red Mars 7 Aquarius Violet Moon * obviously there is conjecture here that the astrological signs repeat themselves, and Sag and Cap are not reversed ‘higher up’. Anyway, as an exercise. Note in connection to Sagittarius/RED “falling”, related to red As we are working ‘towards’ the cosmic astral, and do not yet have experience of it (via Cancer, veiling the Christ) the astral is more like Life more Abundant, and indicative(?) of the next or Red solar system, so red is ill-expressed ‘down below’ and associated with the seas or astral plane, which will disappear. (“He will wash his robes white in the blood.”; there will “be no more sea”.) Further, Sag as related to red, Mars, kundalinishakti, lunar lords, who “took the fall” for Venus? – Orange as a blind? Sagittarius has ‘taken the fall’ for Capricorn, Also check relation to discipleship as an interim experiment, something which will not ‘always be’: disciples abnormal, earth’s amount of water unusual – but initiates always are … something here.) For some tables … In terms of centers and planets, we may also apply this 3 + 4 colouration (of the planes, matter): blue - indigo - green + yellow, orange, red, violet

I think the centers and planets would at least be affected by this major colouration-structure of the Cosmic Planes, if not it being the same. This table below is based on Solar Septenary Chart–and as given for the OAWNMBS and SSSOWOIO charts sent to the Leo Probe group.

* chart w/ systemic & planetaryUranus


ManuNeptuneChristSaturnMahachohanVulcan NeptuneVenus VenusMars SaturnEarth EarthMercury MercuryJupiter MarsSaturn Jupiter

Another suggestive order is the systemic planes with their key colours as their logoic plane, as shown below for the lower three, or personality of Agni. This is again in the LOM plane order, and remember: violet is key for the Etheric:

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Systemic Astral

Systemic Etheric

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1 Uranus Orange red Violet These ‘fall together’ as Agni Personality

2 Neptune Red/rose? violet Blue “mystery” w/ these 3: red/violet/blue

3 Saturn-Eso

Violet blue Indigo

1 Vulcan Blue Indigo Green LOM beginning order of colours relate to the mental – blue in the 1st place, logoic plane, thus: Mental archetypal TRUE = BlueAstral archetypal esoteric = indigoEtheric archetypal exoteric = green

2 Venus Indigo Green Yellow3 Mars Green Yellow Orange4 Earth Yellow Orange Red5 Mercury Orange Red Violet6 Jupiter Red Violet Blue7 Saturn Violet Blue Indigo

However, this bears little relation to exoteric, esoteric, and True in terms of ‘each colour’ Anyway, save that for now. Transmutation from 226-227 LOM (good for macro, e.g., Agni, or microcosmic man.) Could make this into a circular model to assist visualizing the spherical aspect. However: PlaneAssumptions here

3 fold lives 3-fold reflection correlation

Normal exoteric descript, as above

transmuted comments

Logoic 1 Will I. blue Red/blue link to will and logoicMonadic 2 Love-wisdom II. indigo Monad Body or Abstract Atma

3 Activity III. green

Concrete Atmic 4 Atma will or power 1 Green

Overall colouration of lower 4 is orange.

Buddhic 5 Buddhi love-wisdom

2 yellow

Suggest order is yellow exo, blue eso, violet Hierarchical.

Triadal Body orAbstract Manas

6 Higher manas expresses activity

3 blue *

Concrete Mind 7 Mental reflects will

5 orange

Green of Atmic Shows orange/green connection: TRANS: ATMIC GREEN FIRE TO MIND

Astral 8 Astral reflects love or wisdom

6 red

Yellow of Buddhi

Link to ajna center colours (right eye) & etheric (left) through astral / imagination TRANS: BUDDHI YELLOW TO ASTRAL

Etheric 9


Physical reflects activity

7 Violet Blue of Higher TRANS: BLUE OF ABSTRACT MIND Physical 104 n/a all/white?

Not sure on ray order and numbering, 4 left out or base?

* question: What is said to be the lowest point/body for next ss? Abstract mind? If so, then eso and true colour may be violet, then red, correlating with red of physical in this sytem? RAY LivesColour Frequency and SPEED“Remember … out of the synthetic indigo one ray of this ss, imagine it more as a circle or band of 7 colours circling and continuously shifting and moving through the planes … which moves at different rates, passes ‘through all the planes, circling down and up again’, they move at different rates.” Exoterically at least, while all light ‘moves’ at the same speed – that of light (duh), the frequencies of vibration (Hz) are various, from red ‘slowest’ – meaning ‘longest’ – through the spectrum of (so called) orange, yellow, green, (cyan), blue, (indigo) – to the ‘fastest’ meaning ‘shortest’ wavelength, violet. To investigate: Alpha and Omega Longest to shortest These various rates are what (relate to ray cycles please …) cause the changes (in rays and therefore in the numbers of those?) Investigate: wavelengths, not the numbers we have assigned to them, are more intrinsically ‘colours’ and qualifying than numbers? Check therefore into the ‘chords’ of colour, what harmonics are necessary here, what 7 and what 5 make what 12? (e.g., back to Key Sound). See Rays heading, later in this paper for correlation to 4th Fundamental I believe it may be harder to correlate colours to rays as they relate more to life than form … however, let that be no deterrent J Taking a slice of life, the weekday, what do we have: Ray order, starting Sunday (as Ray 1, orange/flame/red as logoic plane)

Week order, starting with Thursday (as Ray 2, blue, logoic)

2 Jupiter Thursday 5 Venus Friday 3 Saturn Saturday 1 Sun Sunday 7 Moon/Uranus Monday 6 Mars Tuesday 4 Mercury Wednesday Some suggestive correlations may emerge. 1. Week order (ifstarting with Thursday, Jupiter) shows basic colour resonance to planes, per LOM: blue - indigo - green (+ orange or yellow for the sun?)

Rays 3 and 6, Saturn and Mars, are in very logical position4, Mercury in the 7th place is logical, 4th ray related to base, but yellow?


1 Sun Sunday 2 Jupiter Thursday 3 Saturn Saturday 4 Mercury Wednesday 5 Venus Friday 6 Mars Tuesday 7 Moon/Uranus Monday

7, moon, Monday/Uranus is unlikely on the 5th plane, unless we consider the TCF p. 331 chart, HM colour, with his colour being/relating to our mental plane 2. Ray order (starts with Sunday and shows most common colours assigned to planes, especially the Orange/red? Blue, green, as the first 3, the primary colours of light


Ok, so what does all this have to do with the 4th fundamental? if we try to assign frequency correlations to the colours, the order of ‘speed’ may be in this order:Does this have anything to do with these cycles, or even anything we think is ‘right’ esoterically? ? Let’s look at what these ray cycles suggest:Ray 1 = 1 cycles of 1 = 10 x 1 = 10 x 10 = 1,000Ray 2 =5 cycles of 5 = 10 x 5 = 50 x 10 = 5,000Ray 3 = 9 cycles of 9 = 10 x 9 = 90 x 10 = 9,000Ray 4 = 2+5 cycles of 25 = 10 x 25 = 250 x 10 = 2,500Ray 5 = 3+5 cycles of 35 = 10 x 35 = 350 x 10 = 3,500Ray 6 = 1+5 cycles of 15 = 10 x 15 = 150 x 10 = 1,500Ray 7 = 7 cycles of 7 = 10 x 70 = 700 x 10 = 7,000 first, just for the sake of remembering, from exoteric science: (slowest or) longest is red …………..……….. ….(fastest or) shortest is violetIf put ‘in order’ means longest to shortest: We have:9 Ray 3 red longest cycle 7 Ray 7 orange5 Ray 2 yellow3.5 Ray 5 green2.5 Ray 4 blue1.5 Ray 6 indigo1 Ray 1 violet shortest cycle Could be suggestive. In terms of correlation, it is simply exoterically spectral, and there is difficulty in assigning plane or ray colours accordingly. If we investigate by blinds, etc., we may be able to create something, but I’m hesitant. Exoteric and Esoteric: For good measure, a touch on this conundrum. I am frankly completely stymied here. The only thing I can be ‘happy about’ and haven’t been proven wrong yet on (due to not knowing how to investigate!) is this: There are three (discernable/usable) levels of colour ‘rulers’, like rulers for each astrological sign: Hierarchical, Esoteric, Exoteric – Which in colour may be called similarly or alternately, e.g.: True, Complementary, and Antagonistic (not sure about “opposite”, in exoteric colour science this is the complementary) For BACKGROUND only – don’t bother reading if you are seeking clarity?!From tabulations sourced out of the Secret Doctrine, we have the following relationships of colours, and are told that these are blinded, similar to how DK blinds. These are said to be the colours of the Rays, which perhaps differ from simply the colours, or from the colours of the planes, as I have conjectured is what LOM presents.

Exoteric EsotericRay 1 Orange/flame red

Ray 2 Indigo with purple light blueRay 3 Black greenRay 4 Cream yellowRay 5 Yellow indigoRay 6 Red silvery roseRay 7 White violet

Exoteric (primarily from SD refs and DK explicit)

Esoteric (DK ref’s)


DK says the esoteric colours of the exoteric red, green and range may not be imparted to the general public … yet on an earlier page, 216, he offered that "esoteric orange is a purer yellow, and the red is scarcely seen at all." (This would also contradict the esoteric Ray 1, which was given as an orange, and is indicated otherwise to be RED, esoterically!) While we are told that the esoteric and exoteric colours differ widely, yet in the instance of orange, we are told that esoteric orange is simply more yellow and "the red is scarcely seen at all." That isn't "widely different". Yet when we view some tabulations of (likely blinded) exoteric and esoteric colours (reference), we find that there is wide divergence, especially in the case of exoteric Yellow being esoteric Indigo, or exoteric white being esoteric violet (and vice versa). In most of the other cases, the differences are not apparently widely different, but usually a tint or shade of the exoteric version. (E.g., exoteric cream being esoteric yellow; exoteric purple/indigo being esoteric blue, etc.) Additionally we read that “esoterically violet is white” (not esoterically white is violet!) See LOM 221 and 224 … and DK also stated that (p. 214) in reference to the listing on p. 213 that "of all I have given only two corresponding with their esoteric application, indigo and green. … the only two of which you can be absolutely assured." So let’s add these too:

Green greenIndigo indigo

So is the first solar system, Secret Doctrine saying green is exoterically Black, or is it that Black is esoterically Green (there is a difference?!) In either way, it isn’t consistent with green being green. Similarly with Indigo being Indigo. Ray 2 (SD ref so exoteric at least) has indigo being “indigo with a tinge of purple” and esoterically it’s normally just called blue. With Indigo being esoteric for Ray 5, yellow being its exoteric colour is a bit of a stretch. (And even if ‘blinded’, the blinds would be violet and orange, which isn’t helpful.) Thus we have 7 colours given in their exoteric and esoteric forms. However -- We notice that exoteric Blue is not present, and there is no esoteric orange. So not all are represented. The point here is that we may have the esoteric colours available for more colours than just those 4 of this round. The only colour which is the same in the list of 4 and the key listing of colours on 213 is yellow, that of the 4th or buddhic plane. We also find that the information in LOM may be giving us some truer esoteric hints, less blinded, and we will work with the assumption that Indigo is Indigo, and Green is Green. Yet, is Indigo or Blue THE colour for the second ray, or for the fifth, -- or the FIRST?) as the 5th Plane is considered to be THE KEY plane of … this solar system? See chart above illustrating the planes of Agni – the Systemic Mental Logoic Plane, the Key is True Blue, Manas. One day orange and blue will blended be. (The blind!?, or the flames and the mental plane?) Here, some KEY references: Page 55, LOMThe fifth great Breath has an effect peculiar to itself, for in its reverberation it holds the key to all,—it is the Breath of fire. It created a similar vibration to that of the cosmic mental level, and is closely allied with the [Page 56] first Breath. It is the dominant note (in technical musical terminology) of the solar system, just as the third Breath corresponds to the major third. It is the note of the Logos. Each breath attracts to the Logos for purposes of manifestation, some entity on cosmic levels. The reflection of the method can be seen in the microcosm when the Ego sounds the egoic note in the three worlds and prepares to manifest or to come into incarnation. The note attracts around the permanent atoms or nuclei adequate matter for the purpose of manifestation, and that matter is itself informed by some vital entity. Similarly, the cosmic Lords of Fire, the great informing Entities of our solar system, respond when this fifth subtone is sounded forth. Again, the Lords of the Flame within the solar system itself responded when the microcosm sounded the fifth subtone of the monadic note, and involved themselves in human evolution.… Page 57, LOM


“When the Personality finds for itself (after lives of stress and search) its spiritual note with the right key and subtone, what is the result? It accords with its monadic note, it vibrates to the same measure, it pulsates with the same colour, the line of least resistance is at last found, … First, he finds out the third of the Personality and sounds that forth … Then he finds the dominant fifth of the Ego, the keynote of the chord … Page 64, LOM:In the egoic note,—as before said—you have a similar sequence, for it is the reflection on its own plane of the Logoic. You will therefore have the basic note of the physical, the third of the emotional, and the fifth of the causal levels.

In all cases, it is the astral plane which stands revealed. The statement can here be made that where there is colour, form and phenomena analogous to or a replica of that to be found upon the physical plane then there is to be seen the "duplicating phenomena" of the astral plane. Where there is materialisation of forms upon the physical plane you see the joint activity of the astral and etheric planes. You do not have the phenomena of the mental or soul levels. Bear this definitely in mind. The astral plane is—in time and space and to all intents and purposes—a state of real being plus a world of illusory forms, created by man himself and by his imaginative creativity. One of the major lessons to be learnt upon the Path of Discipleship is to learn to distinguish that which is real from that which is illusion.

Also writing on

Each sign, and its colours, due to planets.

e.g. Aries, mars, red; mercury, yellow; uranus, orange …


Contradictions and Blinds In addition to being aware of the exoteric and esoteric (and probably hierarchical) forms of colours, we must first determine if information blinded. In the Secret Doctrine and the writings of Alice Bailey, DK tells us that the colours referred to differ, yet the blinds used are the same, and are applied according to the same rules. Therefore, to our help, the use of contradicting information is not arbitrary, but is used carefully used in a way that also holds keys for those who penetrate beyond the appearances. We also know that from the above references about the Secret Doctrine, that some of the information on colour referred to the first solar system, some to the second. Therefore, our first ‘blind’ and potential area for contradiction, lies in whether our reference material is speaking about the personality or soul aspect. Predominantly, the major blinding technique used is that of complementary colours. In addition to calling one colour by its complement, another type of blind is to speak “in terms of the plane and not in terms of the ray” (p. 207, LOM). This suggests, contradictory to my presumption of LOM order = planes, that the more accurate colour key is colour = ray, not: colour = plane. Oh well. Some examples of this usage will be explored below, but, before we go to the examples, let’s see what complementary means and how it is used in the esoteric and exoteric sciences. First, here is a key esoteric references that mention “Complementary colours”, from TCF, Stanze XIII, page 32 “… Many the circling fires; many the revolving rounds, but only when the complementary colours recognise their source, and the whole adjusteth itself to the seven will be seen completion. Then will be seen each colour in adjustment right, and the cessation of revolution.” This quote suggests “complementary” may relate to the exoteric form, because they must “recognize their source”. Else, it refers to the esoteric form, and its adjustment to the monadic ‘sources’. At either level, it assumes the complementary colour has a ‘source’. Once this ‘recognition’ is made, then the seven can blend, white light rays forth, revolution ceases, the goal of evolution, perfection or synthesis, is achieved. This next key quote again suggests the three levels of colour, and, in support of this theory, we find that even in the practical application of colour in healing, we are suggested to use 3 colours. (In LOM, page 335)

"The use of coloured lights. These lights are played on the body of the disciple and effect a shaking-out process and a simultaneous stimulation of the atoms. This cannot be done till further information is given anent the Rays; when a man's ray is known, stimulation will come from the use of his own colour, a building-in will be brought about by the use of his complementary colour, and disintegration of unwanted matter will be brought about by the use of an antagonistic colour. … " LOM, page 335

Thus we have the following basic practical relationship, (my notes in parenthesis added for context.) A "stimulation" will occur through the use of an individual's "his own colour" (Often when DK refers to someone's "ray" he appears to refer to the monadic ray – if he has not mentioned context of the soul or personality.

Thus we can call this the “true” or “hierarchical colour” of the monad, that which stimulates Life.) A 'building in will be made by use of his complementary colour (the soul or esoteric level, whose function is as the 2nd aspect, to 'build'). A “disintegration of unwanted matter” can be effected through the use of an antagonistic colour. This division reinforces the previous quote’s probable meaning of the complementary colour being ‘of the soul’ or consciousness level, and ‘the source’ that is to be recognized is “his own colour” or true colour, the monadic or level of origination. Alternately, “his own colour” and “his complementary colour” could both be on the esoteric level – from the personality’s perspective -- two “esoteric colours”. There may also be a duad:


“stimulation” and “building in” both referring to activities of the soul. “One’s own colour” need not necessarily refer to the monadic or higher essence, yet if it does, we still have two ‘esoteric colours’ -- one monadic and one soular, both esoteric from the point of view of the personality aspect. (Note the reference to the Sun being “esoterically orange and green”. And the fact of two colours is the least of concerns with that quote!)


Detail of Chapter TwoCompiled Background References

2. Investigations into Individual Colours and Combinations

This chapter deals with comments about each colour individually, and various combinations of colours. The basic order I’ll use is that used by DK in his list on page 205 of LOM, (including related colour names), in the following order: Blue, Indigo, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red, Violet.

Variant naming convention, exoteric and esotericMidnight blue sapphireRoyal blue sky blueEmerald green Spring greenSun yellow coronal glowFiery orange flameRoselavendar

2.1 Some references about all colours. Lists; synthesizing colours2.2 Blue & Indigo – treated together, with Azure, Sapphire, Turquoise.2.3 Green, including Emerald)2.4 Yellow, including cream, butter, gold and golden.2.5 Orange (and flame)2.6 Red: including rose, reddish, ruddy, pink 2.7 Violet, including purple and lavender 2.8 Black, White, Silver, Gray

2.9 combinations – twos2.10 combinations – threes2.11 combinations – fours2.12 other combinations


2.1. Various key Colour lists

Some colours (rays?) are considered “synthesizing”, in that they indicate perhaps a consciousness comprehensive of the planes encompassed ‘inside’ of its sphere of influence. In the following list, the colours (or rays?) could be considered to be synthesizing of the planes indicated. (Words in bold indicate direct reference, those in parenthesis indicate a best guess.)

The synthesizing colours.(White or red? may synthesize 7 planes?)Indigo Blue (synthesizes from logoic or monadic down?)Green (synthesizes 5 worlds of human evolution)(Yellow synthesizes buddhic worlds?)Orange synthesizes 3 worlds of personality (Rose synthesizes astral and physical?)Violet synthesizes physical plane

Recall:Red, blue, and green are three colours of lightRed, blue, and yellow are three colours of matter

Light and absence of colour (7 paths out of SS)what is colourless -- beyond colour.Translucence, radiance? Colours beyond comprehension


2.2 Indigo and Blues (analogous) and other blues

CORRELATIONS of references at face value – not figuring blinds: References not included in table; check compilations. Bolding used to indicate stronger links of more confidence; [X] for exoteric, [S] for esoteric, and [T] for True or Hierarchical proposal

Rays: 2nd [S] Light Blue and [X] Indigo 3rd Indigo; blue; Venus – philosophy5th WEAK LINK to RAY: (“Direction of 5th Ray: … blue of heaven … a label in blue … build anew”)6th Light Blue; Mars, Rose, Blue – necessity for an object; Direction of 6th Ray: in the far distance stood a Mountain Blue …; “6th ray is … taking with it all forms whose keynote is … sapphire will become scarce and the turquoise will lose its hue.7th Clear blue; Jupiter (Esoteric Psychology reference)NOTE: Strong references to rose and blue, in ray 6; other references to red and blue and ambiguity with blue being the major colour in this solar system thus of primary ‘logoic’ importance.

Planes: 1st Logoic (colour of Solar Logos: “Blue Logos”, Solar Plane)2nd Monadic (light Blue; Jupiter’s plane – soul principle in the head.) 4th “Blue or indigo dominates when the plane of harmony is reached.”5th blue of higher manasic [X]; “Just as the green of the activity of Nature forms the basis of the love aspect, or the indigo vibration of this love system, so will it be found upon the mental plane.” – suggest green as concrete?)6th Astral (light Blue; “blue devas on astral levels”)7th “blue ethers” (Secret Doctrine); Auric envelop or “egg”

Constellationalthrough ray or direct reference

Gemini (2nd Ray) Leo (Sun [S]; 2nd Ray) Virgo (2nd Hierarchy; 2nd and 6th Ray) Pisces (2nd Ray; 6th Ray)

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2nd or “Blue Solar System” [X]; Solar System is Blue (esoteric orange and green); Blue Logos; symbol embodies green swastika of 1st manifestation … adding concentric and interlaced circles in blue, in groups of three …; solar system is a vast blue lotus; Logos of our system is concentrating on the love or blue aspect. Sirius (Blue Lodge; three degrees of Blue Lodge related to three major groups of lives on Sirius …)Pleaides (“Silver Blue”; throat center) TCF 1274-5 … Master of the sacred Heart is He who builds a Path … great manasic orb … calling in the aid of points of blue. These emerge from the heart of one of the seven (Pleiades).NOTE: “… in a peculiar and esoteric sense the sun Sirius and the Pleiades hold a close relation to each other … analogous to that which the lower mind holds to higher mind.” TCF, page 1258, Path IV, Path to Sirius (Orange/green? Or green/blue?) Solar system – blue [X] “exoterically blue, esoterically orange and green” “… triangles are in blue … the great Bear, Sirius and the Pleiades.”Sun [S], (True colour of the Sun is blue … used to be called the ‘eye of Jupiter’.)Jupiter (Light Blue) Venus (Indigo)DAYS: Thursday (light blue); Friday (indigo)Synthesizes entire 7 planes, and all of 2nd solar system; indigo ray the blending ray;

Hierarchies&

2nd Virgo, Divine Builders; Ether; Monadic Plane; numbers 7, II, 6; Jupiter; Burning Sons of Desire (astral vibration of solar logos; allied with Great Bear)


Kingdoms

& Pathways

Path I: Earth Service: “… from the green to the heart of indigo …”Path III: Training for Planetary Logoi: “five pointed star in a deep indigo shade … a blazing sun of a warm dark blue … transferred to inner round and from thence to the Jupiter scheme.Path V: “Symbol … five balls of fire (blue fire) …”

Planetary& Human Centers:

Hierarchy (exponent of 2nd aspect, Love-Wisdom)Egoic lotus:: 2nd petal blue; 3rd indigo; 5th blue, 6th indigo; 8th blue, 9th blue and indigo. [2, 5, 8, 9 = blue; 3, 6, 8 = indigo]Head (Soul principle in the head; “consciousness in the head”; silence within the head where blue and gold meet; “way of escape”/doorway in head (Indigo)Ajna (one half blue and purple; left eye, manas and ?etheric) Throat (Silvery Blue, blue predominating)Heart (“… picture it as a blue lotus”, more blue than golden) Auric envelop or “egg”

Conscious-ness qualities

Key words & phrases:

Love-Wisdom (blue-indigo)DIVINITY and JOY: “Blue of Life Divine … healing and soothing.”; higher consciousness or divinity; a deep electric blue; vivid electric blue; radiant electric blue deep electric blue; living light, joy.LOTUSES: Blue lotuses, heart lotus “more blue than yellow”; solar system is blue lotus.INSPIRATIONAL: “blue of an inspiring contact”; blue … one-pointed zealSKY and SEA: “blue vault of heaven”; “dark blue vault of heaven”; true indigo is the blue of the vault of heaven on a moonless night. “… haze of blue. That blue protects”; “sea of blue”; “lake of blue water”; “quiet sea of midnight blue”; enveloping blueMATTER & FORM: Indigo will absorb the others … it is the manifestation of the second aspect … the Form builder, that makes this solar system … the most concrete of the three major systems; “The Ram … leads us into the creative life of earth and into the darkness of matter. This is the blue of midnight; “darkness of soul, imprisoned within the form … a field of deepest blue”; “… the indigo sub-ray of the indigo Ray forms the path of least resistance from the heart of densest matter back again to the source.”DOORWAY: disk of blue; heart of blue disk, small indigo disk, oval opening; point of dark blue electric light … esoteric “door of departure”; ”a centre or point of dark indigo blue – midnight blue … dark night, midnight hour, the zero hour … an opening, a door … a way of escape.” WORDS: “First word contains the value numerical of the synthetic indigo … None have heard it save he who hath stood before the Prince of Doom, and hath seen darkness descend upon the fivefold sons of flesh. … Second word holds hid the number of the sacred blue. … third Word holds securely sealed the key to the outer blue. It contains the order for inversion.EYE: Eye which is blue produces that which is intended with great facility; Eye of Shiva, when perfected, is blue; the triple group … the eye through which these Lotus Lords gaze outward is indigo … eye of middle group who look up is turquoise … eye of Lords of deep unmoving slumber gaze in through sapphire blue. SERPENT: Lipika Lords nearest our Planetary Logos is “the Living Serpent” … serpent of blue. FIRE – BLUE-WHITE: “cold blue light”; “clear blue flame”; “blue-white flame, burns but destroys not”; “Concealed at the very centre or heart of the lotus is a brilliant point of electric fire of a blue white hue (the jewel in the lotus).”

Major references, key notes, paradoxes and questions: c. The true colour of the sun is blue. (S.D. III. 461.)

The colours of the symbol have blue and indigo and gold dominant.

Blue is clear stated as eXoterically the colour for the sun and for the higher mind.


Indigo/purple is given as the eXoteric colour for the 2nd ray; light blue as eSoteric.

NumericalIn general then, we can relate blue-indigo primarily to 2, to love-wisdom, to the jewel, the monad.

The interesting connection is to Ray 6, why light blue. Sky blue can literally be considered inspirational, devotional, the colour of the sky. The colour of water, relates blue to the astral plane, where it is put in counterpoint with rose, or red.

As the pl is working on the astral plane, perhaps this is why the ‘direct reflection’ of the blue logos, of the monadic realm, is to the astral.

Two and Six are the primary colours in alliance in this 2nd ss. The 4th plane as well, is it yellow, violet, or blue –

2, 4, and 6 are all blue …, and are given primary place (resonant to 1 energy) because of our focus in the soul, or 2nd aspect ss.

The primary natural analogy to keep in mind is that of the sky, day light blue, and indigo and night. The light blue (esoteric Ray 2), the illusory forms are prominent. Ray 2 takes us into the depth of matter. Capricorn quotes … indigo absorbs like the night sky, and all forms are obliterated from sight. There is no possibility for vision in true absorbing indigo – certainly no ‘colour vision’ of the various phenomenon of the world.

Path 5, the mental plane, the sons of mind, the linking of the blues with the yellow and orange, this again is the note of this 2nd aspect solar system, of the soul, of the middle principle, of consciousness in relation to form.

Green of the first ss,

to indigo – the exoteric colour of this system – to blue – the esoteric colour, when we can see in the light of Day

to red of the next,

Parallel toGreen of the personality, the intelligence of nature – the true middle principle in the spectrum

to indigo of the lords of flame, the solar angels bringing consciousnessbecoming blue of the blue logos, the sons of men become conscious, refining the bodies –the actual fall of consciousness into the depths of matter – a fall, failure of compassion, clear cold light

to red of the monad, the HOT burning

These are all BLUEVenus hesperus and Venus LuciferJupiter the lord of compassion, the beneficent, the second SunSolar Logos HimselfGemini, Virgo, Pisces – all the love and compassion – plus Leo, esoterically, he who comes to redeem


2.3 Green

CORRELATIONS: (“Ref” will link to reference; “BIG” will refer to “Best Intuitive Guess”: using X for exoteric, S for esoteric, and T for True or Hierarchical proposal.)

Rays: 3rd

4th Esoteric Psychology and Esoteric Astrology Planes: 3rd (“Green of atma” [X])

5th (“higher manas expressing activity or intelligence aspect”; “two great devas belonging to the green group on mental levels.”; “… subsidiary rays d. Orange, e. Green, f. Violet.”; in regards 4th ray: kama-manas.)

Constellational(only if through rays or direct reference, planets assisting.)

Cancer (3rd Ray)Libra (3rd Ray, Venus and Saturn)Capricorn (3rd Ray, and Saturn); “The Goat … need for green”.

Mutable cross and fixed cross “… we have the so-called green ray, … Capricorn is an earth sign … third and fifth rays work … preeminently through this sign … these pour through Capricorn to Saturn and to Venus and so reach … Earth.”

Cosmic and Planetary

1st, 3rd aspect Solar System (“Indigo-green is the basis of the activity of Nature, synthetic colour for system 1, and is the foundation for the present manifested system.”; “… symbols … swastika of ten arms … radiant green colour.”) 2nd solar system [S], “esoteric green and orange”

Four are the colours secondary in the cycle of discrimination … green for vivification.

Saturn (3rd Ray; [X] “In the potency of Green we have … Saturn. Esoterically speaking … the vegetable kingdom is … advanced, thus Saturn and Mars are active … prevalence of red, rose, yellow and orange in the flowers.”) !Earth (3rd Ray) supposing [T]Venus (“… holding a trident of fire surmounted by five green emeralds”) supposing [S]

DAY: SaturdayGreen synthesizes 5 lower worlds, atma and below. [X]

Hierarchies/Kingdoms

&

Pathways:

3rd, Libra, Lesser Builders1st Kumara, Pisces, 3rd Ray (“ … a ball of green fire with three rays of rose”)2nd Kumara, Aries – symbolic only, “A sphere, divided by a Tau, in colours green and silver. 4th Ray)all 5 liberated hierarchies – the 5 Kumaras: “… symbol … signifies gains [of] System One … a bird of green and gold plumage with five wings outspread.“ 2nd Kingdom; Vegetable all Devic Hierarchies “Green is the basis of the activity of Nature … synthetic colour for system 1 … foundation for presented manifested system … note of Nature is green … great ray for the devic evolution”; “green devas of vegetable kingdom … protectors of vegetable ;plant life … builders of the vegetable kingdom”; lowest type of evolutionary devas are violet, next come the green, last the white.)

Path I: of Earth Service: “wise-compassion … constellation of the Dragon, via Libra … green dragon.” … one scale veiled in fire of vivid green … From the green into the heart of indigo.” 6th hierarchy; Virgo?

Planetary & Human centers:

Humanity (exponent of 3rd aspect, Active Intelligence)Human principle: lower mind (3rd ray)Instrument of sensation: centres up spine (3rd ray)


Egoic lotus; petals 1, 4, 7Throat (Saturn, 3rd center)Heart (green in spectral order; “green has a definite effect upon the heart and life streams”.) Solar plexus (“rosy with an admixture of green”)

Consciousness qualities/words associated:

Mystery:

HEALING: “Green stimulates and heals.”; NATURE: matter, mother earth, vegetable kingdom, CHALICE: “… lower chalice … colour dark or somber … Chalice the second rises from out the lower sheath as does the flower from out the calix green. Of colour rose it is …” Agni Yoga: “Two contrasts are emerald and ruby. The first is synthesis … Green is nearer to the Chalice”Secret Doctrine: Osiris, Aditi, divine Sophia, mother of the seven sons, the Great Green One.

All about green having to do with nature, intelligence, chalice, matterVegetable kingdom, devic kingdomThe colour from which we all sprang

the ‘middle principle’ in the spectrum – intelligence, the basis for evolution … atma, the king of the 5 worlds – Green is the 1st system, representing the 3rd aspect.

3rd ray, Saturn, karma, the material which we owe our due and through which we must ‘blue’,

Blue the green – this is the injunction for this time, or for anyone becoming soul infused.Blue green, turquoise/cyan – this is the sacred colour.

Green dragons and red dragons

Green as blind for red – green as actually indicative of 1 –Green being primary, growth, highly evolved due to relation to vegetable kingdom, Varuna …


2.4 Yellow, Cream and Butter-coloured

CORRELATIONS:

Rays: 2nd (Esoteric Psychology charts: Love/Wisdom)3rd (Sometimes given instead of Green)4th ([S]; [X] cream); “in the second system of love you have the love aspect demonstrating through the yellow of the ray of harmony or beauty.” 5th ([X]; [S] Indigo); “Direction of Ray 5; key of pure gold.”

Planes: 4th Buddhic often referred to as [X] yellow; “Why is buddhi exoterically regarded as yellow?”; “Buddhi and Mercury correspond with each other and both are yellow and radiant golden-coloured.”5th (reference Esoteric Psychology, lower mental plane; higher mind. White and gold devas work on mental levels.

Constellational(only if through rays or direct reference)

Gemini (2nd Ray) Taurus (4th Ray) “Golden eye of Taurus”Leo (Sun [X]; 5th Ray)Libra (3rd Ray)Scorpio (4th Ray; Mercury)Sagittarius (4th and 5th Rays)Capricorn (3rd Ray)Aquarius (5th Ray)Pisces (2nd Ray)


1st, 3rd aspect Solar System”2nd solar system: “in the second system of love you have the love aspect demonstrating through the yellow of the ray of harmony or beauty.”“… Love of deity reaches our solar system primarily through gemini … with GB and Pleaiades forms a Cosmic triangle, this is the triangle of the cosmic Christ, the esoteric symbol behind the cosmic cross. .. ever the triangle behind the fourfold phenomenon … “Upon the golden triangle the cosmic Christ appeared …”; “the stars are related to states of consciousness, and … triangles related to spirit and synthesis … 5-pointed star is depicted yellow or golden; the triangles are blue

Four are the colours secondary in the cycle of discrimination … yellow the band that cometh …

Sun (4th Order System) Mercury (“Sons of aspiration or Points of Yellow Life”, “golden-coloured Mercury”, 4th Ray)Venus (5th Ray)Saturn (3rd Ray)Earth (3rd Ray)

Hierarchies/Kingdoms

&

Laws&Paths

2nd Kumara, Aries, 4th Ray1st Hierarchy, Leo 4th Hierarchy, ScorpioSymbol of 5 liberated hierarchies/Kumaras: “bird of green and gold plumage with 5 wings outspread”.

Kingdom of the souls; secret of the golden rose of light“tones of yellow and orange; and the mental calibre … influence of 4th ray … and 5th ray, synonymous to merging of intuition and intellect, have definite effect upon vegetable kingdom and human aura, yellow-orange shines forth in both.”Human secret: twisted golden cord with seven knotsMineral kingdom: gold and silver are mineral manifestation of the second aspect.

Law of Sacrifice: “the thread … golden oone of group love, group understanding, group relations, group conduct. Symbol: A rosy cross


with a golden bird”Ray Path: “energies are 5 in number and their major hue is gold.”


Humanity (exponent of 3rd aspect, Active Intelligence)NGWS: symbol is a golden triangle … Monad – Correspondence of the yellow of buddhi to the synthetic blue or indigo of the second aspect of the Monad.Egoic lotus: petal 3, 6, and all sacrifice petals (lemon yellow) 7, 8, 9Etheric body: golden energy, light of love, golden prana; golden bowl; “golden light of cosmic intermediary” or universal ether; flame-coloured vehicle.

Head, Foremost head centreAjna, “one half yellow and rose – right eye of buddhi”)HeartSolar PlexusSpleenSpine “Golden rod of power”


SUN, LIGHT and LOVE: Golden light of illumination, buddhi-manas, golden light of love; “true spiritual sun hidden by a disk of golden light; Gold of living loveHEART, LOTUS; EGG; FRUIT: yellow lotus, field of lotuses. Golden lotus of the heart, golden lotus of the soul, golden egg of universe; golden egg of His thought … golden fruit, golden apple; golden womb of the Absolute; golden ringDOORWAYS, PATHWAYS, GATES: golden portal, golden pathway, golden way to god, golden doorway, thread of gold, golden bridge, golden stairs, golden cables, golden links, golden thread of group loveHARVEST: Yellow of autumn, of harvest, marks completion and fruition, such times of perishing are acts of the destroyer aspect. BIRDS; DRAGONS: Golden Dragon … the primordial Logos or Brahma, first manifested creative power. Yellow Dragon – chief of all the others. Secret Doctrine: gold bird; golden hawk (Sun and Osiris); Golden horn of Unicorn;MAN: Divine golden-man. Third root race; Yellow races form the bulk of humanity. Yellow qualifies the first race; golden yellow race (the Fourth)Vigilence is Yellow; Agni Yoga

imagine yourselves as bathed in a vivid butter-coloured living light which is pouring through the open window ... p. 73, Dina II

Gold The coming avatar comes through gates of gold.


2.5 Orange and Flame

CORRELATIONS: (using X for exoteric, S for esoteric, and T for True or Hierarchical proposal.)

Rays: 1 (X) Esoteric Psychology/Secret Doctrine. “Orange ball of one-pointed purpose.”5 (Orange -- as 5th Ray? -- worked with 3rd in 1st solar system;)

Planes: 1 Logoic Plane (Esoteric Psychology) and through 1st Ray and 1st Hierarchy, 5th (“Orange of mental plane”; lower manas in particular; “direct connection with man as an intelligence … custodian of fifth principle of manas; “orange holds the secret for the sons of mind”; “This colour is for our purpose the colour of the mental plane … epitomises separation.”


Aries (1st Ray)Leo (1st and 5th Ray)Sagittarius (5th Ray)Capricorn (1st Ray)Aquarius (5th Ray)

Uranus (representing Sun) Ray 1


Strong colour in 1st, 3rd aspect Solar System”2nd solar system, [S] orange and green, [X] blue

Sun ([X] Ray 1 colour) Venus (5th Ray)

Synthesizes three lower worlds

Four are the colours secondary in the cycle of discrimination … orange the cloud that hideth …

Hierarchies/Kingdoms:

& paths

1st, Leo, Divine Flames “Lions, the divine and tawny orange Flames” Preponderance of orange and rose … secret of two kumaras who fell

Path IV: Path to sirius … symbol, two wheels of electric fire around an orange Cross, with an emerald at the center.


Shamballa (1st Ray)Egoic lotus: ALL petals; Knowledge petals primary, and; “ predominant orange hue … early stages orange has a dead aspect. … petals fully unfolded … orange now of a gorgeous translucense.”Mental vehicle; “Colours in the three bodies .. orange of the mental.” “tones of yellow and orange; and the mental calibre … influence of 4th ray … and 5th ray, synonymous to merging of intuition and intellect, have definite effect upon vegetable kingdom and human aura, yellow-orange shines forth in both.”Head: Vital airs in skull (Ray 1 [X] colour); “orange lights in room of dying … aids focusing in the head”Etheric “Orange stimulates the etheric body … removes congestion and increases flow of prana. (Esoteric Psychology) “Prana or life vitality” Ajna (5th center, synthesizer of personality)Solar Plexus (5th center)Base (“radiate with orange fire”) Ray 1=light of kundalini


“Exoteric orange is a blend of yellow and red; esoteric orange is a purer yellow, and the red scarcely is seen at all.”Burning sea of flame



2.6 Red, Silvery Rose, Pink

CORRELATIONS:

Rays: 1 [S] red2nd (Reference Esoteric Psychology, Mercury, Yellow and Rose) 6 [X] red [S] silvery rose; “rose and blue”

Planes: 6 “Rose and blue devas of astral plane”; “upon astral plane, the rose of affection and of friendly feeling”; astral or emotional plane, desire plane.


3rd or 1st aspect, “Power” solar systemGreat Bear (1st Ray)

2nd Path and “law of sacrifice … vortex of astral life … triangle of force in shades of varying rose … as through an open door, He sends potency of love into our planet. Path of Magnetic Work … to Heart of Sun, to cosmic Mental, passing through and pauing on cosmic astral plane … this second path.


Aries (1st Ray and Mars)Leo (Sun [X]; 5th Ray)Virgo (6th Ray)Sagittarius (6th Ray)Pisces (6th Ray)

Mercury “yellow and rose”Mars “Graduates of ruddy fire … clothed in red robes, work under first aspect logoic, lines of the destroyer.” “rose and blue, ray 6, Mars”; “Mars as you know is red, corresponds to blood stream, passion, anger, opposition.


Laws

6th, Lunar Lords6th Ray Kumara, Gemini

Preponderance of orange and rose … secret of two kumaras who fell 1st Pisces Hierarchy: ball of green fire with three rays of rose4th Gemini Hierarchy: two stars of vivid rose linked by band of violet.

Law 1: Rosy cross with a golden bird Law 6: Flaming rosy sun with sign symbolizing union of fire and water … and hieroglyphic gives clue to earth sign and keynote to physical body of planetary logos.

Path 1: “Earth service … one scale hides behind a screen of red … “left hand side.Path 2: “most elementary and exoteric symbols … five fold star mounts towards flaming sun of predominantly rosy hue.”

1 Purpose of deity: robe of blue veils eternal purpose, in rising an setting sun, orb of red is seen.5th purpose of Deity: burning ground … drop within the rose-red centre the nature that retards; purification by fire.6th Purpose of deity: Why is desire red, red as blood, why is way red with blood?


Shamballa (exponent of 1st aspect)Egoic lotus: 2nd petal, all love petals and all sacrifice petals.Astral vehicle: “glamour of highest level of astral plane, glamour of rose of aspiration as it pours through solar plexus and not heart”; “rose will vitalise the astral counterpart of the heart center, both in the spine and head center, first ray type needs rose of attachment.” “deep and vibrant rose … stimulate the astral aura”. “… dark and lurid reds in emotional


body”Ajna: one half rose and yellow – right eye (astral/buddhi)Throat (Certain of the qualities of the sun are the qualities of the centres. quality of throat centre is red light) “higher reflection of [S] 6th ray); “light is warm and red … it pierces the third centre and removes all glamour and desire … Heart: Solar Plexus “colour rosy with green”Sacral center (Esoteric Psychology [S] 6th ray seated in sacral center, higher reflection in throat.)Base; kundalini


DESIRE: “way of red desire”, “red of known desire; red is difficult to consider, considered undesirable, considered colour of kama or evil desire; red of greed and anger; “The Chalice rosy red shines the inner glow, til the red of earth desire becomes the glow of heaven’s fire, all is lost save aspiration that shades not the cup with karmic colour.” DEVOTION: “rose is colour of devotion”; “pure rose of spiritual devotion”; “astral plane … angels of devotion in whom divine love is pre-eminent work with astral bodies, guard sanctuaries of churches …”LIFE/BLOOD/FIRE: Red of Blood, red life; “dull red glow within heart of mother … altar glows, red at the centre. Blood, red and white corpuscles; through “pouring out water which is the colour red there is eventuating a liberation …” (animal kingdom); Burning ground of fiery red “ four angelic … orange they are but veiled in rosy light”AGNI REFERENCE’s: “red flame of revolt”; “red banners”; “pink can bring relief the blue”; “pink rays flashed out and a prepared uprising of an entire nation died down; “ruby-like arrows will pierce blue of consciousness”; “Great Hierophant pointing out chalice with red beverage … drink, empty it to see mystery on bottom”; “noble ruby colour … self sacrifice of attainment … ruby nearer to the eye of Brahma.” Secret Doctrine; “Red Sea of Death”; “red-haired monsters”; “the third red”; “Adam is red, and so Brahma-Virah and Mars; water is the blood of earth; all these names with earth and water, first men, shedding of blood; “great red Dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads whose tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and cast them to earth.” “Great Red Dragon … Serpent, etc, all refer to adepts and initiates, who became the first race … prometheus.” “Red and blue races … rudra as a Kumara, is Lilalohita, red and blue; Siva the root Kumara, from moon-coloured,white, in his next transformation he is red (exoteric version differs from esoteric teaching)”; “Michael and the red Dragon” “Python the red dragon connects apollo with Michael, also is porphyrion, the scarlet or red Titan”; “samael or Satan, the seducing Serpent, one of the primeval angels who rebelled, is the Red Dragon, the Angel of Death, he and satan are the same, kille by Michael, and by St. George, the Dragon Slayer.”; “Red Fiery Dragon the Lord of Phosphorus and Lucifer or Light-bearer is in us, it is our Mind, the emanation of the essence of the divine principle Mahat (intelligence).

Relation of 6th Ray, 6th chain, red, and 1st ray is highlighted in the 6th school. Note that the 6th globe of the Venus chain could likely be red, and its lines of force touch the 2nd, 4th, and 5th globes of the earth chain. – as MIND, satan and lucifer – cannot green and red be the same? Green of higher mind, red of lucifer/Venus.


2.7 Violet, Lavenders and Purples

CORRELATIONS:

Rays: 2: [X] eso psych ref, “Indigo with tinge of purple …”5: esoteric psychology reference, “etheric body, lower mind, the moon, Violet”7: [X] “… the violet ray, the Seventh or Ceremonial Ray.” “[the seventh, the violet ray] … a synthetic ray when manifested in the three worlds.” “… the coming in of the violet ray, the seventh ray being one of the three major rays in this round … ration to the 4, on the 4, under the 4.” 7: [S] eso psych ref: violet

Planes: Buddhic: The buddhic plane is peculiarly the plane of violet, even though all colours find their place there, the Lord … Who embodies the violet ray or hierarchy, has a special relationship to the buddhic plane.”; “Is the colouring of the 4th physical ether/buddhic plane blue, or is it violet to correspond with our fouth physical ether.? … buddhi exoterically is regarded as yellow7th Etheric/Physical: “It the ether which the violet ray uses as a medium.”


Aries (7th Ray)Cancer (7th Ray)Libra (7th Ray)

Moon


Cosmic Physical Plane Etheric Physical PlaneUranus (“7th, School of Magic of 10th order … Planet of the violet force … cosmic etheric prana”)Jupiter (Purple opulence)Moon (7th plane)


7th , Aquarius, Elemental Lives7th Kumara, Cancer


Egoic lotus: petals 1, 4, 7 and 8.Etheric/Physical body: “strengthening of etheric web will be aided by violet light, with corresponding sound.” “Violet of the physical as expressed by the etheric.” “It is the ether which the violet ray uses as a medium. (Correspondence of “Violet of etheric and blue of higher mental” ,“etheric responds most violently to the colour violet” (contradistinction to psychological studies where it is calming to people in violet rooms.)

Ajna (one half purple and blue)Throat “… colour applied at night to key up throat … violet.” (suggests [s] of third or manas). Base (7th center)


Purple [X] of [S] blue; [S] White: “Esoterically violet is white”. (AND, white is esoterically violet – reciprocal relationship.)Magic, etheric, devicNEW AGE: “The group of violet angels or devas who work on the four etheric levels will be especially active …”;The CHURCH and Master Jesus “with Him the groups of violet angels cooperate” … “violet devas working temporarily under the Lord Maitreya.” HEALING: “violet light in lessening human ills and curing … sicknesses


which originate in the etheric body.”Ray of Violet, the great note G

Pur/violet is physical to golden bowl is etheric to blue of higher mental Violet [x] of physical to gold-white/yellow of [s] etheric to [t] blue Violet, yellow, and blue …

Etheric as yellow corresponds to [x] buddhic; violet is [s] buddhic? Or blue … ?

EXO ESO TRUEbuddhic = yellow violet white higher manas = blue greenlower manas = orange redastral = red orange blueetheric = violet blue gold/yellowphysical =


2.8 Black, White, Silver

The Silver Thread, and regarding the Pleiades:“All of these were the expression of divine energy as it poured into his mechanism, via the silver thread of divine potency.”p. 479, Esoteric Astrology

The 7th law of the 7 laws of group work has the male figure holding a tray of silver, “a great reflector”.


Combinations:

This section deals with major colour combinations, from those in pairs, to threes, fours, etc.

2.9 Two’s

The complementaries or opposites. Red & green Red & orange


Blue two’s

Blue and another colourThroat centre, silvery blue, the blue predominating.

2.9.1 Blue and Indigo

“Relationship of indigo, blue and yellow lies hid a secret”. LOM 220

2.9.2 Blue/indigo and green – Only two we are sure of esoteric colour

“Blue to the green is added and completion quick is seen. The vibration of the third is added to the one.” (tcf, 24)

2.9.3 Blue/indigo and yellow/gold:

“PATH V. The Ray Path: The Adjuster holds the balances, and the scales are duly set … The energies converge … five in number and their major hue is gold. … Three great Words are spoken by the Adjuster … The first Word contains the value numerical of the synthetic indigo. … This dual Word buildeth a wall which surroundeth the Son of Man whose lips are dumb. It holdeth Him secure until the Word is spoken which will unseal the fount of speech. … When the Silent One within the wall seeth the Ray approach, when He changeth the key of the earlier spoken Word, the disruption of the wall is seen and a door openeth before Him. The second Word holds hid the number of the sacred blue. … He struggleth for speech … he utters the four deep sounds which cause the scale again to drop … The third Word holds securely sealed the key to the outer blue. It contains the order for inversion …” page 1276-1277, TCF

In the 5th direction of the Law of Repulse, the 4th Law of the 7 laws of group life: “Through the opening on the summit of the pyramid, dropped from the blue of heaven, a key came down. It landed at the feet of the discouraged worker. The key was of pure gold; the shaft of light; upon the key a label, and writ in blue, these words: 'Destroy that which thou has built and build anew. But only build when thou has climbed the upward way, traversed the gallery of tribulation and entered [Page 170] into light within the chamber of the king. Build from the heights, and thus shew forth the value of the depths.' p. 169-170, EPII

“1. Withdraw your outgoing consciousness from the periphery to the point of silence within the head, to the place where the "gold and the blue meet, blend and merge.’” p. 421, DINA I

TWM, p 354, About souls “in more advanced work in smaller groups. They idealize more and are the thinkers and leaders of social reform … the higher devas guide them, the blue and yellow devas …”

2.9.4 Blue/indigo and Orange:

“Orange and blue in some more distant time will blended be …” DINA p. 675., and TWM, page 468/9, “a folded lotus flower, close petalled, but bathed in cold blue light. Orange and blue in …

“The vibration of the third is added to the one. Blue to the orange blends, and in their wise admixture is seen the stable scheme.” (TCF, 24)

Orange may be called blue, LOM p. 207.


c. Orange, which is the complementary to blue and which has direct connection with man as an intelligence. He is the custodian of the fifth principle of manas in its relation to the totality of the personality. LOM p. 208

p. 163 EP I, Ray III: Venus “indigo, blue, bronze”

2.9.5 blue/indigo and red/rose/pink/ruby –

“… the stone, translucent now and unalloyed, of colour rose and blue …TCF, p. 16“ TCF, p. 22, Riseth the cave of beauty rare, of colour irridescent. Thineth the walls with azure tint, bathed in the light of rose. The blending shade of blue irradiates the whole and all is merged in gleeming.

Ep I, page 163, Ray VI, Mars, Rose and Blue

Agni Yoga, V 89: the pink [aura] can bring into relief the blue. In such complements are contained currents of special intensity.

The following gives insight into the initiatory process, moving from warmth to coldness, from red to blue. Especially note the final segment, where the relationship of flame (orange) and blue seems to suggest the literalness of these opposite colours being a ‘blind’. "The light is seen, a tiny point of piercing light. This light is warm and red. It nearer draws as it reveals the things that are, the things which may be. It pierces the third centre and removes all glamour and desire.

"A light is seen through the medium of the lower light—a light of warmth and heat. It pierces to the heart and in that light all forms are seen pervaded by a glowing light. The world of lighted forms is now perceived, linked each to each by light. This light is blue, and flaming is its nature. Between the warm and reddish light and this clear light there burns a glow of flame—a flame which must be entered, ere the light of blue is entered and is used.” p. 538, R&I

p. 354, TWM, about souls working only in mass formation, banded together by common aspiration, the majority of Christians in the churches … aided by devas of rose and blue.

p. 768, R&I, “Blue does it [Chalice the third] appear and blends with the rose … “

“One of the four Lipika Lords … ‘the living serpent’ and his emblem is a serpent of blue with one eye, in the form of a ruby.” TCF 893

“… the eye which is blue in colour, and the eye which sees not red, when open, produce that which is intended with great facility.” TCF 1007

regarding 1st purpose of Deity, “His robe of blue … in the rising and the setting sun his orb of red is seen. EP, I, page 63.

SD II, page 192, “the divine Kings sturck the culprits with sterility. They destroyed the Red and Blue Races … there were blue and red-faced men … Rudra, as a Kumara, is … red and blue.

Agni Yoga v, 515: 515. How can the blue fire be transmuted into purple? The tension of psychic energy will send out ruby-like arrows, and their growth will pierce the blue of consciousness.

TCF, page 495: “…the difference between the sapphire and the ruby … not until the fourth ether is controlled”.


2.9.6 blue/indigo and violet/purple

Blue and Violet (transmute violet of etheric with blue of higher mental; blue flowers are outgoing, violet flowers incoming)colour of ajna center; exo and eso colour of Ray 2

(lom 227) “direct correspondence between … violet of etheric and blue of higher mental”

TCF, page 129 & 132, and EH, page 421The withdrawal of the etheric double of a man, a planet, and a system is brought about by the following causes: d. By the transmutation of the violet into the blue. This we cannot enlarge on. We simply make the statement, and leave its working out to those students whose karma permits and whose intuition suffices.

EP I, page 121: “…blue ray of devotion passes now into the violet of what we term the ceremonial ray”

EP I, page 418, Ray II, Jupiter “exoteric indigo with a tinge of purple, esoteric, light blue”



2.10 Green and other combinations

2.10.1 Green and yellow/gold

2.10.2 Green and Orange

2.10.3 Green and Rose/Red

2.10.4 Green and Violet/Purple

Relationship of 3 and 7, Saturn is 3 and 7th in the solar septenary, Saturn is 3rd in the Earth Scheme, Jupiter is 7th. Jupiter often associated with 7 and violet, Saturn most often associated with green. Three and seven, with five – Mercury - are the inner three globes in the earth chain. This quote illustrates the violet and green devas, who have come in from another planetary scheme. The number for the deva evolution is 6, and so perhaps the Jupiter Scheme is suggested. In the Earth chain, Jupiter is given as the 7th chain, and 7 is also one of the inner three of the earth chain.

“There is another group of devas about which much may not as yet be communicated. They have come in from another planetary scheme, and are specialists in their particular line. They have attained, or passed through, the human kingdom, and are of equal rank with certain members of the Hierarchy, having chosen to stay and work in connection with the physical plane evolution. They are not many in number, being only twelve. Four work in the violet group, five in the green group, and two in the white, with a presiding officer of rank equal to a Chohan.” p. 914, TCF

Complicating this, it appear in TWM that these could be the lowest type of devas: “1. The lowest types of devas or builders on the evolutionary Path are violet devas; next come the green, and, last of all, the white devas. These are all dominated by a fourth and special group. These control the exoteric processes of physical plane existence.” p. 389, TWM

Agni Yoga V 89, … the purple aura is not averse to the green. … in such complements are contained currents of special intensity.


2.11 Yellow or gold in combination with another colour

2.11.1 Yellow/gold and orange

2.11.2 Yellow/gold and rose

Yellow and Rose“Preserve your meditation as hitherto, but change the colour of your field of lotuses from yellow to a deep and vibrant rose. This will serve to stimulate the astral aura.” p. 387, DINA I

2.11.3 yellow/gold and violet/purple


2.12 Orange in combination with another colour

2.12.1 Orange and rose

2.12.2 Orange and violet


2.13 red/rose in combination with another colour

2.13.1 red/rose and violet/purple

Red and White“As the blood system, with its two types of channels (arteries and veins) and its two types of builders (the red and the white corpuscles), is studied from the occult standpoint, much will be ascertained of a revolutionary nature.” p. 901, TCF

“When there are a sufficient number of people who are in conscious touch with their souls, then the sheer weight of their numbers, plus the clarity of their intentions and their widespread distribution over the face of the earth, must necessarily become effective. These people will then bring about changes of such far-reaching importance that the culture of the future will be as far removed from ours today, as ours in its turn is removed from that of the red Indians who roamed for centuries over the American continent and of whose possessions the white race took charge.” p. 705, EPII

Red and Black


2.14 Some ThreesIn any of these correspondences, one can be likened to A, one to U, one to M; or to life, consciousness, and form, etc. Trinities are represented in each triangle.

Regarding Path 3: Of special interest, having to do with blues …“The third group is the strange mysterious triple group whose name must not be heard as yet within those planetary spheres whose colour blends not with the blue in just proportion. The eye through which these Lotus Lords gaze out upon the cosmic Path is outward turned. Its hue is indigo. The eye through which the middle group of Lotus Lords look up is turquoise blue, whilst the Lords of deep unmoving slumber gaze in through sapphire blue. Thus is the WAY of triple blue formed into one.”

“The first Word contains the value numerical of the synthetic indigo. … The second Word holds hid the number of the sacred blue. … The third Word holds securely sealed the key to the outer blue.

Seems to have relevance to Formula 1, and the eye of fire, the monad, being the indigo eye outward turned; the eye of vision, the soul, being the turquoise blue looking up, and the eye that knows, being sapphire blue, gazing in. As well, we can assign the

1st indigo Lotus Lords – gaze out monad/2nd eye of fire2nd sacred blue/turquoise middle lotus lords- gaze up soul/4th eye of vision3rd outer blue/sapphire Lords of slumber- gaze in personality/6th eye that knows

2.14.1 Blue/Indigo, Green, and Yellow/gold

The fairies of high development are blue, green and yellow.

“the blending of blue and yellow in [the 1st ss] had much to do with the production of activity” (lom 214); “blue and yellow blended result in green, and the synthetic blue or indigo dominates when the plane of harmony is reached. It leads then to the third plane of atma whereon the green of activity dominates” LOM 215

“in this primary grouping lies much of interest” blue, indigo, green and yellow

2.14.2 Blue/Indigo, Green, and Orange/gold“Our solar system is disclosed as being: … b. Blue in colour, esoteric orange and green.”

COMMENT: Esoteric in this context may mean, past, as the orange and green were prominent in the previous solar system, and the blue is now its colour, more “exoterically” as the Solar Logos is commonly referred to as the Blue Logos.

2.14.3 Blue/Indigo, Green and rose/redthe common trinity of light: blue, green, red.

2.14.4 Blue/indigo, green, and violet/purple

2.14.5 Blue/Indigo, Yellow/Gold, and Orange/gold


Another type of blind, as touched on breifly, is to speak “in terms of the plane and not in terms of the ray” (p. 207, LOM). The example given is for the “colours of the higher or lower mind”. Excluding for the moment the use of complementary colours as blinds, let’s assume that the colour of the higher mind is Blue, and the colour of the lower mind is Orange. (LOM, page 225-226.) The colours of the 5th Ray are given in various places, and refs above, as Yellow (exoteric) and Indigo (esoteric). If we were dealing with a blind for the 5th ray therefore, we could, for example, say that Orange is the colour of the 5th Ray. (The interesting thing about this example, is that if we use the complementary colour blind, we find that the colours of the rays and of the higher and lower planes are, respectively, the complements for each other. Blue/Orange; Yellow/Indigo. Therefore, in the case of 5th Ray, if we were only dealing with the possibility of the use of complementaries as a blind, we could safely say Ray 5 is either Yellow or Indigo, esoterically. However, combining this with the blind of switching Planes and Rays, it could be Blue or Orange … To go intuitive, one could say that blue of day sky is lower mind, and indigo of night is higher mind; the day shows all the forms we live in, the night absorbs all and shows the far off worlds.

2.14.6 Blue/Indigo, Yellow/Gold, and rose/red(EPI, p. 247)

2.14.7 Blue/Indigo, Yellow/Gold, and violet/purpleReferring to colours of the 4th cosmic ether, the buddhic plane TCF 354.

regarding path 3: “In the centre of the Cross is to be seen a five-pointed star in a deep indigo shade, and behind it is a blazing sun of a warm dark blue. Above the whole are certain Sensa characters, depicted in gold, and conveying to the initiated adept the name of one or other of the planetary Schools in which this particular line of study is undertaken. There are, as has been already said, seven such schools and candidates for this Path from our planetary scheme are transferred to the inner round and from thence to the Jupiter scheme. [VSK note: figure ‘warm dark blue’ is purple]

2.14.8 Blue/Indigo, Orange/gold, and rose/redegoic lotus petal two

2.14.9 Blue/Indigo, Orange/gold, and violet/purple

2.14.10 Blue/indigo, rose/red, and violet/purplerelationship of blue, red, and violet is a mystery LOM 220

TCF, 33, STANZA XIII

Through the band of violet that encircleth the Heavens passeth the globe of purple dark. It passeth and returneth not. It becometh enrapt in the blue. Three times the blue enfoldeth, and when the cycle is completed the purple fadeth and is merged into the rose, and the path again is traversed. Three the great colours in the cycle that counteth as the fourth, violet, blue and rose, with the basic purple in revolution. Four are the colours secondary in the cycle of discrimination in which the revolution taketh place. It is circled to the midmost point and somewhat passed.


SDI, page 125. “make a hanging … of blue, purple, and scarlet …”



Green with any other two

2.15.1 Green, yellow/gold, and orange/gold“Yellow the band that cometh, orange the cloud that hideth, and green for vivification.” TCF, Stanza 13, p. 33)

2.15.2 Green, yellow/gold, and rose/red

2.15.3 Green, yellow/gold, and violet/purple

2.15.4 Green, orange/gold, and rose/red

2.15.5 Green, orange/gold, and violet/purple(EPI, p. 248)

2.15.6 Green, rose/red, and violet/purple


yellow/gold with other two

2.16.1 yellow/gold, orange/gold, and rose/red

2.16.2 yellow/gold, orange/gold, and violet/purple

2.16.3 yellow/gold, rose/red, and violet/purple“A centre of violet, orbed by yellow, melts into red. Yellow develops and protects. It

ensheaths the nucleus. When you attain the significance of violet, the laws of health and magnetic alleviation will be no longer sealed. The seal is being loosed by the devas of the shadows; the yellow approaches the violet and the red progresses. The ranks approach and cooperation is possible. In loosening the seal the gateway opens. These three are the great Helpers and in Their hands lies knowledge for the next generation.”p. 765, R&I


Orange with other two’

2.17.1 orange/gold, and rose/red, and violet/purple


Any of these with black or white:

2.18.12 Black, rose and greenI have sought in the above few phrases to give the gist of what is expressed in the Commentary, through the means of a few symbols and a cryptic text. These old Scriptures are not read in the way modern students read books. They are seen, touched and realized. The meaning is disclosed in a flash. Let me illustrate:—The words "the One enunciates the word which drowns the triple sound" are depicted by a shaft of light ending in a symbolic word in gold superimposed over three symbols in black, rose and green. Thus are the secrets guarded with care.


2.19 Some Foursnot all possible combinations are offered, just those which are specifically mentioned.

Blue/Indigo, Yellow and Orange

Blue, yellow, orange, roseTWM, page 547: “At the four corners of the square, the four angelic … are seen. Orange they are, but veiled in rosy light. Within each form the yellow flame is seen and round each form the blue.

2.19.2. Purple, Yellow, Cream, White & Blue, Indigo, Yellow, Violet

2.19.3. Red, Orange, Yellow and VioletThe Salamanders, or the fiery lives which can be seen by clairvoyants leaping in the flames of a furnace or of a volcano; this group can be subdivided into four groups according to colour—red, orange, yellow, and violet—the last of which approximate very closely to the devas of the fourth ether.p. 904, TCF


2.20 Other Combinations and Patterns

Egoic lotus, sacrifice petals:2.20.1 Petal 1: Yellow, rose, orange, green, violet

2.20.2 Petal 2: yellow, rose, orange, blue, violet

2.20.3 Petal 3: Yellow, rose, orange, indigo, blue

White, Red, Yellow, Orange, Green“THE HIDDEN PORTAL: An immense cone of fire is seen in the midst of an arid desert … Its flames have swept the country and left the desert bare. … All green things die and the dwellers on the sphere recede before its flame … White is its inner heart, red the surrounding flame, and yellow the spreading fire … Like a pall of rosy red tinged with an orange deep it veils all the distance. … From out the country full and green …”p. 765, R&I”

blue, gold, orange, red, and white – SD I


Involutionary Coloursb—The Dark Brothers who occasionally employ these elemental forces to wreak their will and vengeance on all opponents. Under their control work sometimes the elementals of the earth plane, the gnomes and the elemental essence as found in evil form, some of the brownies, and the fairy folk of colours brown, grey and sombre-hued. They cannot control the devas of high development, nor the fairies of colours blue, green and yellow, though a few of the red fairies can be made to work under their direction. The water elementals (though not the sprites or sylphs) move on occasion to their assistance, and in the control of these forces of involution they at times damage the furtherance of our work.


DETAIL OF CHAPTER Three

3. THEORY (Chapters Three and Four)

Explanation of organization of Chapters Three and Four: Chapt 3 Macrocosmic: Esoteric Cosmology with Colour CorrespondencesChapt 4 Microcosmic The Human Constitution: Vehicles, Centres, and Colours

2.1 Colour and Number, Sound, Light, Vibration 2.2 Basic Cosmology with Colour Correspondences

Astrological constructs: Trinity of Great Bear, Pleaides, SiriusOther Triangles, Heavenly Men, Schemes, Rounds, Chains, Globes

2.3 Rays and Planes (charts), Creative Hierarchies, Rays and Planes (charts), Creative Hierarchies, Devas, Raja Lords, Plane Lords, Elementals (green and orange)

2.4 The Buddhic Plane, Ethers and Prana (yellow, violet)

2.5 The Mental Plane; Sons of Mind; Abstract and Concrete mind (Orange and Blue will someday blended be)2.6 Time, Mutation and Distortion; Desire, Sons of Necessity; Love … Rose and Red 2.7 Cosmic Physical Plane; space, maya; violet and white2.8. The Egoic Lotus (as archetypal pattern in cosmos)2.9. Spiritual Numerals: Planets, Signs, Metals, Perfumes, Shapes etc. 2.10 Other Correspondences and Tables: Laws, Nations, etc. (charts)


2.0 Colour in the Macrocosm

In this first chapter on colour applied theoretically to macrocosmic correspondences, much of the assumptions are based upon background information in Chapter Two. Through a detailed study of the individual colours, and the colour combinations, I then conjectured into the cosmic structures. The reader may wish to review Chapter Two before perusing this Chapter, or should feel free to reference to the background quotes and conjectured information while reading through the relationships posited herein.

In order to avoid undue discussion and explanation, I will simply make assertions as to my best assumption of what the best colour association is in the various areas. My goal is to place the bulk of conjecture here, relying upon the macrocosmic analogies to set the stage for the microcosmic in Chapter Three. This Chapter is therefore the main section which presents what I hope is a coherent picture of the colours and their essential correspondences. However, if the reader is left with grave confusion as to why certain associations are made, he may find the answer under the individual colour or a colour combination, in Chapter Two.

We have seen how colour is interpreted physically, but what is the philosophical or spiritual meaning to colour, according to the wisdom traditions? What is the way we can look at colour to further our knowledge about realms invisible, the spiritual perspective?

is 'colour', in itself, something? I propose that colour is, at least a part of or the expression of both the archetypal Seven Rays (Ray Lord), if not one of the truest manifestations of the Ray Lords themselves. Also, colours may be an essential quality of the planes or levels of consciousness through which these Rays manifest. My assumption is that Colour is some kind of Being, beyond a quality of a life or plane or environment which it ‘colours’. Colour in this way is a name, just as are number and figure. LOM, page 249, “… science of numbers, being in reality the science of colour and sound … colours will eventually supersede figures.” LOM, page 213, further suggests this correlation of colour to ray: "…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."

Who are these entities called Colour, veiling lives of light, who lie behind the entities called Number? Perhaps an example will start us off into the depths of this inquiry:

For example, blue and indigo are often considered analogous, and often used apparently interchangeably. There may be some correlaton to the first and second aspects, so intertwined in this second solar system, and as also seen in the workings of the first and second ashrams. This duad, of male and female, positive and receptive, active and passive energies, may be represented for us in nature as the blue of day and the indigo of night. Our living Earth shows us this dual blue nature daily; one does not exist without the other. (The use of black would indicate some ‘other worldly’ energy, reference beyond the Saturnian ring pass not?) The Blue Ray therefore, may be associated with Ray 1, and the Indigo Ray to Ray Two. Love-Wisdom then is the dual expression of 1st and 2nd aspects.

The relationship of blue and red, and its use for both the logoic and astral planes, just as the often confusion of the 1st and 6th rays, is also suggestive. This unclear relationship is highlighted in LOM where DK does not give the corresponding sub qualities to what one would expect are blue-blue and blue red, for the 1st and 6th positions in that LOM ordering of colours.

A possible explanation for this is that the cosmic astral plane is in superior position (a 1st ray position) to the cosmic physical plane. This 6th ray (Red or Rose Ray) is therefore qualifying all of what is ‘above’ us, and our next immediate (cosmic) goal. Red/Rose will then always have a first-ray type quality, but it is due to being the quality of the much higher cosmic astral. In the cosmic logoic sense, assuming a second ray (blue ray) solar system, blue is the likely keynote or colour of the cosmic logoic. Hence, in resonance, all first or logoic planes are blue, as are the “eyes” of the solar logos, with all monads resembling him.

Love-Wisdom, Blue-Indigo also shows the joining of Jupiterean (the second sun) blue to Saturn (the black-green ruler of the first solar system of the intelligence or third aspect.) Blue-black is an apt description of indigo, and suggests the demonstration of the current solar Son


of Love upon the foundational work of the Son of Intelligent Matter. While the formulation normally used is indigo-blue (and not blue-indigo), and would correlate more directly with wisdom-love (and not the more common love-wisdom) my current hunch is that blue does relate more directly to love (Jupiter, and the esoteric colour of the Sun – see orange/green eso, blue exo, ref), and indigo to wisdom, as indigo suggest the intermixture of blue (love) to black (material intelligence).

Indigo-blue also implies the supremacy of the 2nd aspect in this system, a more two-one emphasis than one-two. If relating this to the masters, we see the close connection of KH to Morya, and it could be said this is a KH-Morya Hierarchy (rather than a Morya-KH Hierarchy), yet we see their work in the closest cooperation, if not inseparable.

The Blue (1st) and Red (6th) Rays similarly hold potential confusion because red-rose as the qualifyer of the cosmic astral, and it is ‘above’ the physical plane, thus impressive on all the planes, behaving like Ray 1. In essence, the entire cosmic physical is violet or qualified by the 7th Ray, and the cosmic astral is qualified by the 6th or Rose Ray – red is therefore superior to all colours or sub plane rays on the cosmic physical. Thus any reference to Red can indicate the next great goal, the cosmic astral, and thus we refer to the coming (first ray oriented) system as the ‘red’ system. We could say then, archetypally, that any step into the future is a will-full or red act, our present state is a calm, inertial or contemplative blue (indigo-blue), and as it is qualified by the past, the green-black Saturnian or 3rd aspect system of matter’s intelligence.

Red shift and blue shift?

In the last system the colours for Ray Two are suggested to be indigo with touch of purple, and light blue. We know that the 3rd and 5th rays were very active in the first system (as 2 and 5 are in this … and perhaps 1 and 5 will be in the next?) This exoteric purply indigo could be caused by admixture of the violet 7th plane or the rose 6th plane.

Blue light when mixed with green light, creates cyan or a light blue. Using the astrological symbols, if the Sun (blue) is mixed with Saturn (green), we create Jupiter (light blue), as a type of second sun. Venus as indigo, rules the wisdom aspect, and Jupiter the love aspect, so we see how Jupiter-Venus, our two beneficents, are directly related to blue-indigo, love-wisdom. Venus is hermaphroditic, representing (in pigment mixing) a merging between black-green (Saturn-Saturn) and blue-green (Sun-Saturn).

If each colour is therefore an entity in and of itself, and if any one Being is part of greater Beings, then in their eventual merging, as we know in Light, all these colours will become white, pure, and there will be no more ‘colour’, or separation. The Great Heresy of Separation is also the existence of Colour. We notice distinction, and while true in the temporal worlds of evolution, are heretical in the real of true Being.

As an example then, Red (beyond what we agree to call that range of visible electromagnetic spectrum which our eye sees), is at least a philosophical essence. In the esoteric doctrines, whether this entity Red expresses through Ray 1 or Ray 6, or through the first or sixth planes, or through the head or throat or solar plexus or sacral or base chakras (yes, all of those!) – red is more than an expression of quality, but is a Life in itself, independent of a plane, or chakra or rate of vibration. And what we call Red, essentially understood, may bear no resemblance whatsoever to any optical effect it produces that our eye registers and our brain interprets and our language calls “red”.

As we will note in the section on exoteric colour and the scientific basis of optics and vision on the physical plane, it may well be that what we see and know of colour is truly “upside down and backwards” to the original impression, and what we observe as a colour is every colour but that one. We see a very narrow bandwidth, and mostly the colour that is ‘rejected’ by an environment. Thus it is most likely that the opposite of our assumptions will be closer to the truth.


As we move in consciousness more into the life aspect and away from the apparent form nature, we can begin to see the energy that is Red … or Blue, or any of the Names of Colours. We can begin to see them in their truer nature, as the Lives of Light. They are Our very Selves.

Synopsis: a. Colours are the vibratory essence of the Rays or Lives of Consciousness, at a frequency which the human kingdom is particularly susceptibleb. Colours are the qualities the varied Planes of matter or manifestation themselves; colours are the expressions of devic lives

From TCF, 1081: “Many more names might be given but these will suffice to indicate the general nature of these energy summations, under which all the members of the human family are gathered and placed according to:

a. Their rhythm,b. Their quality,c. Their heat,d. Their light,e. Their magnetic influence,f. Their radiation,g. Their activity.”

These 7 categories may also be helpful in relating colours to rays and planes, life and form.1. rhythm blue (egoic) violet head sun 2. quality indigo (monadic) blue ajna

jupiter/mercury3. heat green (atmic) green throat saturn4. light yellow (buddhic) yellow heart

mercury/jupiter5. magnetic orange indigo solar plexus venus?6. radiation red orange sacral mars7. activity violet red base moon

Depends on ‘who’ is using the centers or their state of consciousness, as to what is the ruler.


2.1 Colour and Number

While numerology and Number, are often thought to be primary entities, on LOM, p. 249, we find that the science of numbers is really the science of colour and sound, and “Colours will eventually supersede figures”.

Perhaps however we know more about numbers, and if we can assign colours satisfactorily to numbers, we may then be able to translate. While we made a cursory view of the exoteric relationship as lacking overt analogies, let’s focus on the inner relationships.

Light, Sound, Vibration, ColourColour is alterately placed in various places in this quaternary of


2.2. Basic Cosmology with Colour Correspondences: Cosmic Entities & Planetary Schemes, Rounds, Chains, Root Races, etc.

Following on as well from the first solar system to the evolution up to our perceived 4th chain of this fourth round, we again should look to the four given exoteric and esoteric ‘colours’: (purple, yellow, cream and white – and blue, indigo, yellow and violet, respectively can be associated with: Ray 2, Ray 5, Ray 4, and Ray 7 – in this order (as these are the correlations to the pairs given).

Astrologically, we are given the names of the planets for the numbers of the rounds in the earth schemes, and are told that numbers and not the names would prove more helpful. Hence we have at least another way of associating colours to the names of certain planetary energies as well.

Taking advice from page 224 of LOM, we look to the significance of white being esoterically violet, and the role of the seventh ray as one of the three major rays – in this round. (Rays 7, 2, and 1 are the major rays “at this time”, TCF, page 600.) We additionally see the association to the dominant hierarchies, 2, 5 and 4, as given in TCF, pages 1201-1203.

astrologicallyGreat Bear RedPleiades Green (mother aspect), silvery greenSirius blue, indigo (higher mind = blue)

“...sevenfold brooding Mother, the silver constellation, whose voice is as a tinkling bell, and whose feet pass lightly o'er the radiant path between our worlds and hers.” p. 1258, TCF

Aries redLeo yellow, goldSagittarius orange

Taurus greenVirgo light blue? whiteCapricorn indigo (black, green) this ss, thru cap 5th ray flows to Saturn and Venus (exo blue, eso orange and green)Gemini yellow-whiteLibra turquoiseAquarius electric blue

Cancer violet, silverScorpio maroon, magentaPisces rose

Check all pers, soul, and monad rays of the planets and correlate.

Green and orange: Saturn & Venus?Colours of solar system, eso considered—exoterically blue (Sun/Jupiter?)

this is likely a blind: green and orange (suggesting the Ray 3 and Ray 5 that were potent in the first ss), are blinds for red and blue, the true colour (monadic) and esoteric colour (soul) of the Sun, the reference to “exoterically blue” is likewise a blind, for the sun being exoterically orange, the colour of flame, and that which exoterically unifies the visible worlds and the three lower worlds of manas – our God is a consuming fire.

The colour changes appearance, but is the more descriptive and truer nature of the Ray. E.g., Ray 1, in lowest manifestation or exoteric colour of Ray 1 is Red (demonstrating desire through the life blood). The Red Ray then refers to Ray 1 ‘unredeemed’.

The Red Ray is the White Ray, esoterically, and the Gold Ray monadically – all called Ray 1.


The Indigo-Blue Ray is the Orange Ray esoterically, and the Yellow Ray monadically – Ray 2.(Orange and Blue will one day blended be – at the end of the second ss, see Green, below)

The Green Ray is also the Green Ray esoterically, as it has merged itself (from the first ss’s completion – and as we see demonstrated in the Planetary Schemes with Saturn blending with itself, exoteric with esoteric.) The Green Ray monadically may be black (indigo?)

exo guess eso guessSun: yellow, gold indigo-blueVulcan: red indigo (all sacred planets may be blue)Mercury: orange white, blue, violetVenus: indigo yellow, orange, indigoEarth: yellow turquoise (monad = 1 = red?)Moon: violet, gray whiteMars: red, magenta roseJupiter: light blue, blue, indigoSaturn: green, black greenUranus: electric blue indigoNeptune: violet, lavendar silverPluto: maroon black

Moon, mercury, venus, sun, mars, jupiter, saturnViolet, orange, indigo, yellow, red, blue, green

Three of the sacred planets, it should be remembered, are the home of the three major Rays, of the embodied forms of the three logoic aspects or principles. Other planets are embodiments of the four minor rays. We might consider—from the standpoint of the present—that Venus, Jupiter and Saturn might be considered as the vehicles of the three super-principles at this time. Mercury, the Earth and Mars are closely allied to these three, but a hidden mystery lies here.

Mercury, Earth, Mars: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn: ? Yellow, blue, green (higher devas)

Colours demonstrating through, or are:Rays (includes planetary Lives and all consciousnesses, as exponents of Ray Lives)

Planes Hierarchies, or Kingdoms

Sometimes blinds used in referring to colours or rays of of a plane.

Connection between rays and planes due to similarity of colours. Rays and planes are not the same; neither are their colours – although they may have resonant colours, and hence are more able to express through various planes.

E.g., the 4th plane. (chart 331)4th plane is violet, as it is as our etheric physical matter, when viewed ‘truly’ from the point of view of the SOLAR LOGOS. 4th plane is light blue, as it is as our higher manas, when viewed ‘esoterically’ from the point of view PLANETARY LOGOS. 4th plane is yellow, when viewed ‘exoterically’, i.e., from the point of view of man.

That’s the 4th plane – but is the 4th ray exoterically yellow, esoterically blue, and truly violet?


Rays -- From HPBExoteric Esoteric

Ray 1 Orange/flame redRay 2 Indigo with purple light blueRay 3 Black greenRay 4 Cream yellowRay 5 Yellow indigoRay 6 Red silvery roseRay 7 White violet

DK gives a certain order: To what does it correlate: rays, planes, exoteric, esoteric? Why?BlueIndigoGreenYellowOrangeRedViolet


As mentioned briefly in Chapter One regarding esoteric and exoteric colours, let’s start our exploraton of Colour and basic cosmology with this basic and enigmatic reference about the solar logos, "blue in colour, esoteric orange and green." As I mentioned therein, I am proposing that orange is the soul colour of the solar logos, and green its true or monadic colour, and blue its exoteric colour, (blinded by the complementary yellow -- disk of golden light -- to our eyes).

In this way, we see replicated the fact that the monad is first. Green in this instance, therefore, is the monadic ray of the Solar Logos, and represents the whole of the first solar system, aka “the green system”. Green relates most commonly to Ray 3.

As apparently opposed to what is normally posited that we are moving from the matter aspect developed in the first solar system to the spirit or monadic essence to be realized in the 3rd or “red system”, this suggestion is that Green is the truest essence of these three solar systems. In the first or green system, the monad immetalized itself into the mineral kingdom of matter, and thus intelligence began, and the orange of intelligence (the 5th Ray) cooperated with the Third. These gave birth to the son, the Blue Logos, our sun, who appears to us through His complement, yellow. This is a second ray solar system because the Blue Logos, the Son of the first solar system, is seeking to realize his ‘soul’ aspect.

However, if we apply the rules of the blinds, we see that Green is likely a blind for Red, Orange a blind for Blue, and Blue analogous to Indigo or a blind for yellow. Thus the true colour of the monad of the 3 solar systems is Red, the esoteric or soul colour of it is Blue, and the personality aspect is Indigo, the colour of the 2nd ray, the form building and relationship aspect, that of the son, the third expression.

TCF: “the three planets that make a triangle with the earth, namely Mars, Mercury, and Earth. These three planets—in connection with this inner round—are considered only as existing in etheric matter, and (in relation to one of the Heavenly Men) hold a place analogous to the etheric triangle found in the human etheric body.“

TCF: “5. The absorbing Triangles. This term is applied to the evolutionary schools found located in the three major [Page 1177] planets of our system—Uranus, Neptune and Saturn—and to those found in the three major chains, and three major globes in a planetary scheme.”

Uranus=Red, blue violet ethericNeptune=blue, yellow rose astralSaturn=green green orange mental

Saturn orange green mental headNeptune rose blue(yellow) astral heartUranus violet red etheric base


2.3. Rays and Planes (charts), Creative Hierarchies, Devas, Raja Lords, Plane Lords, Elementals

from Dany’s work:astral light –"The secret of life lies hidden in the serpent stage, - not the life of the Spirit, but the life of the soul, and this will be revealed as the "serpent of the astral light" is truly approached, and duly studied. One of the four Lipika Lords, Who stand nearest to our planetary Logos, is called the "living Serpent" and His emblem is a serpent of blue with one eye, in the form of a ruby, in its head. Students who care to carry the symbology a little further can connect this idea with the "eye of Shiva" which sees and knows all, and records all, as does the human eye in lesser degree; all is photographed upon the astral light, as the human eye receives impressions upon the retina.Relate this to ‘afterimage’ and the way the retina holds the opposite in order to balance out the impress of a strong colour or image. VSK

Here is an interesting correlation of three groups of devas, the blue and rose working with souls who work in mass, the blue and yellow working with souls in smaller groups who are thinkers and leaders, and the two’s and three’s (never more than in groups of nine) of the disciples, who work under guidance of white and gold devas. This correlates well with the 6th ray blue/rose, the 2nd/4th/5th ray blue/yellow devas, and the 1st ray, head center colours of gold/white for the advanced groups working in groups of nine or less, even singly.

“Some souls can work only in mass formation, banded together and unified by a common aspiration. Such are the majority of Christians, for instance, in the churches. These, knowing not the laws of occultism, and only sensing the inner truth, work on broad lines of preparation. They are aided by bands of lesser devas or angels who suggest, guide and control. Others more advanced work in smaller groups. They idealize more and in them you see the thinkers and leaders of social reform, of humanitarian regeneration and of church leadership, either Christian or Oriental. The higher devas guide them, the blue and yellow devas [could relate to rays 2, or 4, or 5], as the former group are guided by the blue and rose [6th ray]. Back of them stand the still more advanced—the aspirants, probationers and disciples of the world. They work singly or in twos or threes and never in groups exceeding nine—the occult significance of these numbers being necessary to the success of their work. Great white and gold devas attend their labours.” p. 354, TWM

Hierarchies and Entities (charts)(p. 1278, TCF) The symbols for the five hierarchies which have passed on may be stated as follows:1. A ball of green fire with three rays of rose. [Pisces, 3rd ray]2. A sphere, divided by a Tau, in colours green and silver. [Aries, 4th ray]3. A bird, with plumage dark and with the eye of radiant fire. [Taurus, 5th ray]4. Two stars of vivid rose linked by a band of violet. [Gemini, 6th ray]5. An ovoid of colour indigo with five letters or symbolic words within its borders. [Cancer, 7th ray]

From dany’s work"the Monad is to the planetary Logos what the third eye is to man" DINA II, 291.In this regard I wonder if we could expand the table given in EP I, 222, in adding a column giving the corresponding eyes to each of the kingdoms in nature:

Kingdom Process Secret Objective Eye 1. Mineral Condensation Transmutation Radiation. Alta Major2. Vegetable Conformation Transformation Magnetization Pituitary


3. Animal Concretization Transfusion ExperimentationPineal

4. Human Adaptation Translation Transfiguration Third eye 5. Egoic Externalization Manifestation Realization

Inner eye6. Divine the all seeing eye

1. Mineral kingdom base of spine Adrenals. 2. Vegetable kingdom heart centre Thymus. 3. Animal kingdom solar plexus Pancreas. 4. Human kingdom sacral centre Gonads. 5. Egoic kingdom throat centre Thyroid. 6. Planetary kingdom ajna centre Pituitary. 7. Solar kingdom head centre Pineal.

Works to DK order: violet, rose, orange, yellow, green, indigo, blue.Humanity seems to be yellow, not green – and it’s third ray, throat center association is therefore more accurate in this lineup. Why Egoic Kingdom green?

1. The pineal gland.2. The pituitary body.3. The thyroid and para-thyroid glands.4. The thymus gland.5. The pancreas.6. The adrenals.7. The gonads.

[Page 413] These centres are:

1. The head centre.2. The centre between the eyebrows.3. The throat centre.4. The heart centre.5. The solar plexus centre.6. The centre at the base of the spine.7. The sacral centre.

This order, orange, violet, may be not according to DK order so well.

Are silver and gold colours? Black and White? They refer to consciousnesses. Mineral kingdom, gems, refer to some level of consciousness. Sapphire Throne, for instance, may refer to a logos (Sanat Kumara), in physical incarnation, as Sapphire is a mineral and hence suggestive of the 7th or physical plane or the 7th kingdom, the mineral.

Show various outline models of esoteric light combos:Light Spectrum red-violet, and reverseDK's version from LOM, and reverseMystic and occult - directions up or downAnd blinds9 of consciousness on the 7 of form: red, blue, green - dual3 aspects,astrological and various levels of planetary rulers, eg.



2.4. The Buddhic Plane, Ethers and Prana

From A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, the following excerpt is taken from page 321:

… We are employing the word "colour" here in its original and basic sense as "that which veils." Colour veils the sevenfold differentiation of logoic manifestation and, from the angle of vision of man in the three worlds, can be seen only in its full significance on the buddhic plane. All fire and electrical display will be seen to embody the seven colours.


2.5 The Mental Plane; Sons of Mind; Abstract and Concrete mind


2.6 Distortion, Time, Mutation, Desire, Son of Necessity …


2.7 Cosmic Physical Planeethers, etheric vehicle as not lunar, physical plane as junction of solar and lunar lives.

Necessary for initiation to be incarnated. Where colour is most found, paths out = out of colour. TCF, p. 1241: “It should also be noted that the Adept Who undergoes the discipline and who passes through initiatory rites which will enable him to tread those seven Paths, has transcended colour, has passed beyond the veil and has expanded His consciousness so that he is at-one with the conscious life of His planetary Logos. He has therefore arrived at a stage incomprehensible to man now; He is passing out of the realm of substantial forms altogether into the realm of energy. He knows the life of the two aspects, the soul and the body, and is passing away from the realm of awareness altogether. This will sound to the average reader as a foolish jingling of words and a splitting of hairs but he who reasons by the Law of Correspondences and who has grasped the basic essential relativity of the three aspects to each other has arrived at the knowledge that back of all form* is a subjective Life which is known by its quality, its colour, and its attributes; he has expanded his consciousness until gradually he has ascertained and made a part of his own conscious ensemble those attributes and qualities. But the pulsating dynamic vibration which is the producing cause of both the subjective life and its qualitative form is as yet—to him—the mystery of mysteries and the ineffable secret. It becomes the goal of his endeavour as he sets foot upon one of the seven Paths which face him after the fifth Initiation.”

* technique of the presence

1. The mineral kingdom—Pluto and Vulcan2. The vegetable kingdom—Venus and Jupiter3. The animal kingdom—The Moon and Mars4. The human kingdom—Mercury and Saturn5. The kingdom of souls—Neptune and Uranus6. Synthesising these five—The Sun

1 – black, red, gold2 – green, yellow-orange, lt. Blue3 – violet, red4 – yellow-orange, green5 – violet, electric blue6 – orange, blue


2.8. The Egoic Lotus – (charts) - ref to 3's, 4's and 5's in combination.Egoic Lotus - here and not under human constitution, as this is considered archetypal for many levels of 'man', logoi, etc.

relate orange, pink, yellow, to lower three planes: physical, astral, mental.

knowledge petals: predominance of orange, as blind or reflection or illusion of extensive development of green in the first system. Orange and Green as allies: Thus indicating knowledge petals

Similarily for the love, pink and its blind/reflection of blue, light blue or indigo ... for the astral plane.

Mental plane relating to the sacrifice petals --

or need to consider the 'downward reflection' of these planes -- so mental and knowledge, astral to love, and physical to sacrifice -- thus yellow being with opposite violet.

questions of whether there are 3 or 4 primary colours -- buddhic/etheric are coloured, or three dense?

primaries --red blue greenorred blue yellow -- references relating to 3rd ray and 4th ray.


2.9. Spiritual Numerals: Planets, Signs, Metals, Perfumes, Shapes etc. (charts)Shapes:

Spheres/Rounds/circles - blues/indigosEllipses/curves - yellows/indigosCubes/rectangles/lines - reds, oranges,Stars - violets


2.10. Other Correspondences and Tables: Laws, Nations, etc. (charts)

EA: p. 455-456:"The following relations must consequently be borne in mind:

I. Head centre . . . Shamballa . . . 1st ray . . . 1st & 7th races . . . Will; the goal.Energy of Life. Synthesis.Seven centres awakened and functioning.In first root-race alive and faintly vibrating.In seventh root-race fully awakened.

II. Heart centre . . . Hierarchy . . . 2nd ray . . . 6th root-race . . . Love; the goal.Energy of Identification. Achievement of fusion.Six centres functioning.The focal point of the egoic consciousness of divinity.The fifth kingdom. The Kingdom of God.

III. Ajna centre . . . Humanity . . . 5th ray . . . 5th root-race . . . Intuition; the goal.The energy of Initiation. Development of inclusiveness.Five centres rapidly awakening.The focal point of personality.The human kingdom, the fourth kingdom in nature.

IV. Throat centre . . . Animal . . . 3rd ray . . . 3rd root-race . . . Intellect; the goal.The energy of Illumination. Creating in the light.Four centres functioning.Focal point of the instinctual consciousness.The third kingdom in nature.

V. Solar plexus . . . Vegetable . . . 6th ray . . . 4th root-race . . . Instinct; the goal.The energy of Aspiration. Unfoldment of sensitivity.Three centres functioning.Focal point of psychic response.The second kingdom in nature.

VI. Sacral centre . . . Deva evolution . . . 7th ray . . . 2nd root-race . . . Responsiveness; the goal.The energy of Magnetism. Power to build.Two centres functioning; heart and sacral centres.Focal point of vibratory response to the "eye of God."

VII. Base of spine . . . Mineral . . . 4th ray . . . 7th root-race . . . Synthesis; the goal.The energy of foundational Synthesis. Completion.All centres functioning as one.Focal point of evolution.The first kingdom in nature.

EA Ray order:Crown: 1:1st/7th rr (Shamballa) blue/red/violetHeart: 2:6th rr (hierarchy) indigo/roseAjna: 5:5th rr (humanity) orange/orange * (atomic)throat: 3:3rd rr (animal) green/green * (monadic)solar plexus:6:4th rr (vegetable) red/yellow/green (atmic strongest in vegetable: 5th mastery)sacral: 7:2nd rr (deva) violet/indigobase: 4:7th rr (mineral) yellow/violet (buddhic strongest in mineral)


Detail of Chapter ThreeContinuation of Theory

3.0 Microcosmic Constitution: Rays and Colours in the Human System

Fundamental to this thesis is application of colour to the human condition; therefore, this section deals with the various human vehicles and associated colours. An overview of this relationship is shown in the following key quote:

“Every individual vibrates to some particular measure. Those who know and who work clairvoyantly and clairaudiently find that all matter sounds, all matter pulsates, and all matter has its own colour. Each human being can therefore be made to give forth some specific sound; in making that sound he flashes into colour, and the combination of the two is indicative of some measure which is peculiarly his own.

Every unit of the human race is on some one of the seven rays; therefore some one colour predominates, and some one tone sounds forth; infinite are the gradations and many the shades of colour and tone.

VSK -- Necessary to continue this quote beyond here? Each ray has its subsidiary rays which it dominates, acting as the synthetic ray. These seven rays are linked with the colours of the spectrum. There are the rays of red, blue, yellow, orange, green and violet. There is the ray that synthesises them all, that of indigo. There are the three major rays—red, blue and yellow—and the four subsidiary colours which, in the evolving Monad, find their correspondence in the spiritual Triad and the lower quaternary. The Logos of our system is concentrating on the love or blue aspect. This—as the synthesis—manifests as indigo. This matter of the rays and their colours is confusing to the neophyte. I can but indicate some thoughts, and in the accumulation of suggestion light may eventually come. The clue lies in similarity of colour, which entails a resemblance in note and rhythm. When, therefore, a man is on the red and yellow rays, with red as his primary ray, and meets another human being who is on the blue and yellow rays, with a secondary resemblance to the yellow, there may be recognition. But when a man on the yellow and blue rays, with yellow as his primary colour, meets a brother on the yellow and red rays, the recognition is immediate and mutual, for the primary colour is the same. When this fundamental cause of association or dissociation is better understood, the secondary colours will be made to act as the meeting ground, to the mutual benefit of the parties concerned.

Of the colours, red, blue and yellow are primary and irreducible. They are the colours of the major rays:a. Will or Power Redb. Love-Wisdom Bluec. Active Intelligence Yellow

We have then the subsidiary rays:d. Orange.e. Green.f. Violet, and the synthesising ray, Indigo.p. 126-128, EPI

“I would like to describe these centres in greater detail, dealing with them as seen in etheric matter, and basing what I say upon a similar statement by Mr. C. W. Leadbeater in "Inner Life," Vol. 1, page 447-460. We will note the colours and petals:1. The base of the spine, four petals. These petals are in the shape of a cross, and radiate with orange fire.2. The solar plexus, ten petals rosy colour with admixture of green.3. The heart centre, twelve petals glowing golden.4. The throat centre, sixteen petals of a silvery blue, with blue predominating.


5. The head centre in its twofold divisions:a. Between the eyebrows, consisting of ninety-six petals, one-half of the lotus being rose and yellow, and the other half blue and purple.b. The very top of the head. A centre consisting of twelve major petals of white and gold, and nine hundred and sixty secondary petals arranged around the central twelve. This makes a total of ten hundred and sixty-eight petals in the two head centres (making the one centre) or three hundred and fifty-six triplicities.”Page 168, TCF

ConsciousnessBodiesCentresHeadViolet and white

AjnaYellow and rose, and purple and blueYellow and rose = right eye, and either referring to buddhic and astral Purple and blue = left eye, and either referring to etheric and mental

If combining purple and yellow– we have complementaries of the buddhic planeIf combining rose blue – we have complementaries of the astral plane

Throat

Heart

Solar plexus and spleen

Sacral

Base


5. Consciousness and Colours

5.1. Colour in Occult Meditation and Visualization5.2. Triangles: Life, Form, Intelligence5.3. Transmutation and Initiations; Application5.3.1. Centers and Planes5.3.2. Exoteric and Esoteric models (charts)Possibilities:The 2,4,6 are all blue/indigo, 1 & 7 red/white, 3 & 5 green, thus the three primaries, to abstract to the 1 white.The lower three become yellow/blue on the 4th.


6. Commentary, Stanzas of Dzyan, Paths, and other Descriptions, Words of Power


The various Stanzas of Dzyan (both from TCF and The Secret Doctrine), Old Commentary sections, Ray and Cosmic Paths are full of colour imagery. Here are some attempts at some possible meanings for a few of the more suggestive passages.

Path of Earth service: red and green as atmic, highest of 5, lowest of upper 3.

From TCF, Stanza VIII:Blue to the green is added and completion quick is seen. The vibration of the third is added to the one. Blue to the orange blends, and in their wise admixture is seen the stable scheme. To the yellow and the red, to the purple and the ultimate is the vibration of the seventh adjusted as the Primary.

RedTHE SUBLIMATION OF THE FIVE HUMAN STAGES

Stage I.

The life has climbed the stairway long through daily use of form. Through the lesser three, with progress slow, the long path has been travelled. Another door stands open now. The words sound forth: "Enter upon the way of real desire."

The life, that only knows itself as form, enshrouds itself in vivid red, the red of known desire, and through the red all longed-for forms approach, are grasped and held, used and discarded, until the red changes to rose and rose to palest pink, and pink to white. Forth flowers then the pure white rose of life.

The tiny rose of living life is seen in bud; not yet the full blown flower.

Stage II.

The picture changes form. Another voice, coming from close at hand utters another phrase. The life continues on its way. "Enter the field where children play and join their game." Awakened to the game of life, the soul passes the gate.

[page 675]The field is green and on its broad expanse the many forms of the one moving Life disport themselves; they weave the dance of life, the many patterned forms God takes. The soul enters "the playground of the Lord" and plays thereon until he sees the star with five bright points, and says: "My Star."

Stage III.

The way of red desire fails. It loses its allure. The playground of the sons of God no longer holds appeal. The voice which has twice sounded from out the world of form sounds now within the heart. The challenge comes: "Prove thine own worth. Take to thyself the orange ball of thy one-pointed purpose." Responsive to the sounded word, the living soul, immersed in form, emerges from the many forms and hews its onward way. The way of the destroyer comes, the builder and again the tearer down of forms. The broken forms hold not the power to satisfy. The soul's own form is now the great desire, and thus there comes the entering of the playground of the mind.

But in these dreams and fantasies, at times a vision comes—a vision of a folded lotus flower, close petalled, tightly sealed, lacking aroma yet, but bathed in cold blue light.

Orange and blue in some more distant time will blended be, but far off yet the date. Their blending bathes the bud in light and causes future opening. Let the light shine.

Stage IV.

Into the dark the life proceeds. A different voice seems to sound forth. "Enter the cave and find your own; walk in the dark and on your head carry a lighted lamp." The


cave is dark and lonely; cold is it and a place of many sounds and voices. The voices of the many sons of God, left playing on the playground of the Lord, make their appeal for light. The cave is long and narrow. The air is full of fog. The sound of running water meets the rushing sound of wind, and frequent roll of thunder.

Far off, dim and most vaguely seen, appears an oval opening, its colour blue. Stretched athwart this space of blue, a rosy cross is seen, and at the centre of the cross, where four [page 676] arms meet, a rose. Upon the upper limb, a vibrant diamond shines, within a star five-pointed.

The living soul drives forward towards the cross which bars his way to life, revealed and known.

Not yet the cross is mounted and, therefore, left behind. But onward goes the living soul, eyes fixed upon the cross, ears open to the wailing cries of all his brother souls.

Stage V.

Out into radiant life and light! The cave is left behind; the cross is overturned; the way stands clear. The word sounds clear within the head and not within the heart. "Enter again the playground of the Lord and this time lead the games." The way upon the second tier of stairs stands barred, this by the soul's own act. No longer red desire governs all the life, but now the clear blue flame burns strong. Upon the bottom step of the barred way he turns back and passes down the stairs on to the playground, meeting dead shells built in an earlier stage, stepping upon forms discarded and destroyed, and holding forth the hands of helpfulness. Upon his shoulder sits the bird of peace; upon his feet the sandals of the messenger.

Not yet the utter glory of the radiant life! Not yet the entering into everlasting peace! But still the work, and still the lifting of the little ones.

RSUYou are primarily along the occult line. You work with energy and, actually and mentally, you are fairly well controlled and coordinated. You need to work with the physical body and use it in the work you have to do and right there is where hindrance creeps in.

Add more here, on line of occultist and assigned meditation has much about colour.


Colour and Sounds, Words, and Language

Pronunciation of various sounds may also be successfully correlated to colour. Some seemingly logical inferrences correlating sound to colour may be made; however, I rather tend away from that here as this requires much more investigation than lies within the scope of this work, and music is not my field. Additionally, I am skeptical of the more common correlations of sound to colour based upon a pseudo-scientific octave correlation of ‘octaves’ along the electromagnetic spectrum (since, physically speaking, sound and colour do not use the same medium of wave propigation – i.e., compression waves and electromagnetic waves, respectively, as I defined in Chapter One. Light travels at, that’s right, the speed of light, a constant, and sound travels at various speeds, all under ‘the sound barrier’, and dependent upon temperature and altitude, usually somewhere below 700 miles per hour. Sound is not electro-magnetic.)

Nevertheless, let’s investigate what we can based upon the Tibetan’s assignments, checked with other correlations. A common correlation is based on simple spectral assignments, one to one, usually starting with red at “C” or the note “DO”. This is usually assigned to the crown or base. The Tibetan does give green as the note of nature, and correlated to “FA”, and the crown, or base, and within the logic of the philosophy, the note SO, or SOL, is easily related to the soul, the Sun, or Blue, the Blue Logos, or the Heart centre.

Here is an example of these schematics:

Do Red Crownre Orange Ajna Crownme Yellow Throat Ajnafa Green Heart Throatso Blue Solar

plexusHeart

la Indigo Sacral Solar plexus

ti Violet base SacralDo Red base

Wavelength Angstrom Units

1 A = 10*-10th Meters

Converted to Hertz Note

Orchestra Pitch

Physical Pitch

Infra Red Begins

7653A to 7813A or 392X10*12thHz

~ ~

G 392 Hz 384 Hz

Red 7228A to 7317A or 415X10*12thHz

~ ~

G# 415 Hz 410 Hz

Red-Orange

6818A to 7042A or 440X10*12thHz

~ ~

A 440 Hz 426 Hz

Orange 6438A to 6522A or 466X10*12thHz

~ ~

A# 466 Hz 460Hz

Orange-Yellow

6058A to 6250A or 493X10*12thHz

~ ~

B 493 Hz 480 Hz

Yellow 5736A to 5859A or 523X10*12thHz

~ ~

C 523 Hz 512 Hz

Yellow-Green

5415A to 5474A or 554X10*12thHz

~ ~

C# 554 Hz 548 Hz

Green 5110A to 5208A or 587X10*12thHz

~ ~

D 587 Hz 576 Hz

Green-Blue 4823A to 4878A or 622X10*12thHz

~ ~

D# 622 Hz 615 Hz

Blue 4552A to 4688A or ~ E 659 Hz 640 Hz


659X10*12thHz ~

Indigo 4298A to 4392A or 697X10*12thHz

~ ~

F 698 Hz 683 Hz

Violet 4054A to 4098A or 740X10*12thHz

~ ~

F# 740 Hz 732 Hz

Ultra-Violet Begins

3827A to 3906A or 784X10*12thHz

Frequency X Wavelength = Speed Of Light

Radiation Type Frequency Range (Hz) Wavelength RangeGamma rays above 3 x 1019 < 10-12 mX-rays 3 x 1017 - 3 x 1019 1 nm - 1 pmUltraviolet Radiation 7.5 x 1014 - 3 x 1017 400 nm - 1 nmVisible Spectrum 3.8 x 1014 - 7.5 x 1014 750 nm - 380 nmInfrared Radiation 1011 - 3.8 x 1014 25 um - 2.5 umMicrowaves 108 - 1012 1 mm - 25 umRadio waves 104 - 108 >1 mm

I have indicated to you certain vowels and consonants which are the nearest approach which I can make to making these Words clear, and I have done so in the case of the first and second rays. I shall give you no others, as it is entirely useless. I shall only give you the significances, the concepts involved and the meaning of which these archaic word-forms (which I have attempted to portray in Anglo-Saxon letters) are the embodiment. As the race passes more and more into the world of meaning, these word-forms assume less and less importance, and only the concentrated thought, based on understanding comprehension, can achieve the results. It is into this somewhat new form of work we are now pioneering. [R&I517]


Words of Power

Here is an attempt to define, via colour and sound, the two Words of Power as given by DK for the first and second rays. First, some background referencing from the Rays and the Initiations

The vivid light of the second ray soul (the most vivid in this second ray solar system) dominates the light of form and radiates out to the triadal light. Then comes a moment of intense concentration and the peculiar Word of Power of the second ray is enunciated. Of this Word, the dual symbol Sxprulxs takes form in the mind of the disciple and signifies the assertion: "I see the greatest Light." This statement has relation to the Central Spiritual Sun and not to the Heart of the Sun; it involves, if I might so express it, the most intense effort to see in the light the relation of the whole, and this is one of the most potent experiences to which the disciple can be subjected. It is not vision or even aspiration to see the vision. It is complete sight and of this the Masonic symbol of the "Eye of God," the "All-Seeing Eye," is the expression. It involves realization of the light of the divine countenance; of this the light of the soul is the dim reflection. The disciple has learnt the significance of solar and lunar light (soul and form light), but this is something other. It is the great obliterating light of reality itself, revealing the fact of the higher Lighted Way which leads to Nirvana.”


UKRT two syllable, "oo-curt" invocative, alignment to fire: "oo", sort of 'upward tending invocation' then "curt", DOWN!

APKL two syllable word: AHP, KHUL -- ahp, being the disciple putting himself into this column or, 'round of fire', oneness making, then KHUL ... don't know, (KL) something indigo ... death of separation ... killing out desire .... hmmm, ponder ponder ...

STI sound of the Fiat, it is done, assertion of fact: STI!


Sx pru lx S"the most intense effort to see in the light the relation of the whole, and this is one of the most potent experiences to which the disciple can be subjected."

I think there is a strong relation to the english sound/word/meaning SEX, and SX, in relation to this second ray (dualword. First sound -- incorporating sounds that aren't normally used in English speech however, so, big guess, something like:ssssecks (sex, with emphasis on a hissing sss sound at the beginning, the snake, serpent, kundalini coming into the 8 of matter -- 1+8, Aries/Scorpio, etc.

then, PRULXS (prew or maybe prewl), as the path between the two SX XS pillars,LXS, as we conjecture, LUX as the root of Light, with the closing sound "Xcess", 8+1, the serpent coiling back out, raising into the dragon, blinding light.

Interesting, light-wise, S = 1, related to red, and also, in the closing position, violet, it brings the spectrum 'around', with the LUX, being the most brilliant portion of the spectrum, the yellow-green (3rd and 4th ray, 'busiest' lights, casting the most light on substance).

So, a colour pronunciation could be like this: SX = 1+8 = RED black (snake of will to incarnate, son of necessity ...)PR = 7+9 = violet indigo/black (2nd solar system, descent into deepest form)UL(X) = 3 = yellow green (black) -- L, the Light (against the blackness)(X)S = 8+1 = black RED (inclining towards next solar system, the coiled snake becomes the dragon, rising above the pillars, in front of the sun. (hmmm, sounds like a cosmic path we know and love?)

written here:

************SUN************** ****black ********* black**** antahkarana ..... antahkarana

************LUX*******************PR*************X*****SX*********************S**


7. Exercises

1.4.2. Medical, Psychological, and Other Applications1.4.2.1. Healing; Birthing and Dying1.4.2.2. Environmental Uses; Feng Shui

1.5 General Trends, Probabilities, and Experiments

Colour trends or fads – in decorating, clothing – variously the use of colour is considered elite or common. Sometimes bright colours will be a sign of the utmost taste, and other times it is garish and unrefined. Black is often a sign of wealth and sophistication, and at other times or other cultures, the colour of utilitarianism.

The main point in psychological analysis would be to determine the cultural constants of the person or group under question. How is colour, in general, and any specific colour, defined in the culture and times?

Esoterically correlations of colour preferences to ray influences and sub and branch races would be most interesting. This could be done for individuals and perhaps more suggestive, on larger populations, nations or major racial components over longer periods of time.

Luscher tests, etc.

Blue is the most commonly preferred colour among Europeans, considered “concentric, passive, sensitive, perceptive, unifying, xpressive of tranquility, tenderness and “love and affection”.

Orange-red is alternately considered to be eccentric, active, offensive, aggressive, autonomous, competitive, and expressive of desire, domination and sexuality.

The tests which offer a preference for one and a rejection of another colour can be indicative of psychological and physical needs. For instance, preference for blue and rejection of red can be seen in those frustrated and anxious in the business world, they are looking for a vacation from the active world in favor of tranquility.

In psychological terminology, blue and yellow are always different:Blue: depressed “feeling blue”Yellow: happy and gay, feeling “sunny” Blue: loyal, “true blue”Yellow: cowardly, “he’s yellow”

Red is the most stimulating violet the most calming

Chromotherapy, does not require the visual system to be active, but is an effect of wavelength upon the skin.


From DINA I: 482-483Each evening write your diary from four points of view. Let it be written with real thought and a determination to find something to relate in connection with each point. This will engender in you a constant watchfulness over your daily life, a vital attentiveness to life as it is lived around you and a reflective daily meditative attitude which is to take the place of the prolonged, definite, morning meditation. The four points to be dealt with and covered in your diary are as follows:

1. What things, attitudes, and words of beauty did I come across today? Note these down and note also your reactions to them when recognised—a sunset of radiant colour; a face or look which brought good remembrance; a paragraph in a book which illumined your mind. Write it all down so as to share it with your fellow disciples. Write, for instance, the paragraph which attracted your attention or the spoken words which brought you light. Hunt every day for beauty and record it.

2. What act of service did I render which was other than my usual programme? What services did I note that other people were rendering? List what you see your fellow-men doing each day that strikes a note of selfless service and learn thereby the wonder of the human being. Give your reactions to that which you record.

3. What colour or colours predominated in my life today? Upon the physical plane—a blaze of sunshine, the grey of a rainy day, the blue of the sky, the riot of colour in the flowers in a garden or a shop? Upon the astral plane—the rose of affection and of friendly feeling, the blue of an inspiring contact, the gold of physical well being, the interplay of colours which your emotional nature can be trained to recognise?

4. What dramas came my way today, in my own life or in the life of others? Seek for drama under the dull exterior of a person, in the world of daily happenings as you see it functioning around you. See it everywhere—the drama of life as lived by yourself, your environing associates, and also the nations of the world. Evoke and cultivate the sense of the immanent beauty of drama, and note the recognition of it in your diary; note also the lessons to be learnt as you sense and study them.

This diary will reveal to you what you lack; it will train you in the objective and subjective recognitions which you so much need; it will lift you out of yourself and will carry to you revelation and joy and an enlarging horizon. Ponder upon the words: Beauty, colour, service, outer relationships, inner linkings. No more I give you now except my blessing.


8. Questions and Notes for Further Study

NOTES for Further Study, from text

1a. (from Chapter 1, p. ) This raises many interesting inquiries to the esoteric investigator about root races and the qualities of each sub or branch race … As well, the influence of certain rays upon cultures and times would be considered in this analysis.

1b. A study into the use of various colours in art in different cultures and in different times could be illuminating, especially in regard to ray, sub and branch race influences.

1c. A study into the biological development of colour vision, and the connection to the vegetable kingdom is suggestive. Fruit trees, bearing produce that reflected yellow, orange and red light, seem to be instrumental in the development of tri-chromatic vision in new world monkeys.

1d. Legitimate instruments are normally only those considered to be mechanical or of the physical senses, if the results can be replicated consistently by someone with a similar instrument or sense organs. (In the same way we hope to prove the nature or existence of the soul, scientifically. Science normally approaches every question in an effort to prove it false; a strict view of science is that it never can prove anything as true, but can hold that a preponderance of good evidence may suggest something is at least more likely to be true than other options. While ether is not now proven as existing, in neither the form that esotericists or early cosmologists may have suggested, it can neither say “it does not exist”. “We do not know” is always a prudent statement, and one we can be most assured of!)Emerging or proto sciences do admit that the psychical senses (i.e., 6th sense-type perceptions) organs) may be legitimate ‘instruments’ – if there are sufficient sensors (psychics, clairvoyants, meditators, etc.) in an emerging group who can reliably predict and reproduce results among those of similar capability. This would be a great area for more scientific and cooperative experimentation by scientists and those with extra-senses or perception.

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In the way of problems to solve:

1. violet and white: esoteric or exoteric? Both referencess

2. Esoteric and Exoteric relationship of blue and indigo.

3. Main problem – various levels of colours. Primary assumption is True colour, Esoteric Colour, Exoteric Colour; analogous to:Primary; Complementary; antagonistic

and as in esoteric astrology: Hierarchical, Esoteric, Exoteric.(Also relevant to the levels which Hermetic theory uses: 4 levels; King, Queen, Knight and Page.)


9. References & compilations (colour*, visual*, creativ*, imag*)


Documents

Colours-The Formula of Light