The symbolism of colour

Chapter 12: APPENDIX I SCHOOLS OF COLOUR (p. 25)

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The text surveys traditional and esoteric meanings attached to colours, arguing that hues function as symbols and vibratory forces linked to emotion, music, and the natural world. It treats individual colours in turn—red, yellow, green, blue, purple, white, black, brown and grey—and considers the rainbow, tracing cultural lore, gem and talismanic uses, and artistic and poetic responses. Practical topics include medical and agricultural applications of coloured rays, meteorological colour signs, chromatics of the sky, and the proposed correspondence between colour and sound. Appendices outline schools of colour, planetary colours, and experiments on plant growth under coloured light.

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APPENDIX I

SCHOOLS OF COLOUR (p. 25)

In these ancient schools of colour the students of seership concentrated for, sometimes, years on the truths coming to them from a given colour. Of the Persian Sufis there are said to have been four colours:—

1. Gold School.—Where all the beauty and majesty of the inner symbolism of the sun colour was to glorify their souls.

2. Green School.—Where they learnt of immortality, and the need of ever serving the Maker.

3. Black School.—Where they pondered on the mysteries of God and learnt wisdom thereby.

4. White School.—Where as full initiates they knew the joy of God.

There have also been rosaries of symbolic colours. Roses and prayers seem to have some connection in nearly all great religions, hence the colour of the rose was to denote a prayer or deep desire for the quality symbolised by the rose.