What is Colour?

Physical and Physiological Considerations

Knowledge of the exoteric, physical behavior of colour

is valuable to the esoteric colour investigator, to:

1. find logical relationships

2. find suggestive analogies

3. find hints as to how the physical and metaphysical realms differ

colour is a phenomenon of the

impact of LIGHTWAVES upon the visual sense organs

and its subsequent interpretation.

Colour does not exist outside

of the perception of an observer.

There is no colour ‘out there’.

Colour is a physiological phenomenon – not a physical one;

there is not a physics of colour, but a physiology of colour.

Historical and Linguistic Considerations

In the native English-speaking countries,

seven names are commonly recognized as

the order of the rainbow or electromagnetic spectrum:

Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet.

cultural factors are crucial in naming and undertaking colour research –

Each language has unique names for the various light frequencies …

… but even similar modern-western cultures share

no common one-to-one correspondence

between languages and colour definitions.

The one commonality throughout cultures

is recognition of colours

in terms of temperature:

"warm" or "cool".

These seven names for colour

are those used in the esoteric doctrines,

under the manifesting archetype of septenates