From Letters on Occult Meditation, Chapter on Colour
… it is not yet permissible to give out the esoteric significance of 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. …
1. By the study of colours and the planes,
2. by the study of colour and its effect to the life side,
3. 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. … 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. … endeavours to make practical application of all indicated truth
3. … 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. …
We begin with a conundrum:
· Colour holds the key to all knowledge, and
· the presence of colour indicates imperfection.
'Imperfection' …
is caused by the relative state of evolution of
the One in Whom we Live and Move and have our Being.
Our logoic life is imperfect, or coloured.
Whatever we perceive, can know, or can perfect, can only be achieved in relative terms, within the limits of His colouration.
Colour is a separation from oneness; it is unique, fragmented or partial expression.
The “I” principle (a dividing line) separates the self into a distinct identity.
Even such a separated self as “indigo” is limitation upon That Whole.
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.
Absorption into BLUE is a mark of our specific quality and level
– our highest goal of achievable imperfection.
We have now evolved through green, into blue … :
1. the first solar system, the Green system of Intelligence, created the foundation for where …
2. we are now in this Blue system of Love,
3. 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).
How do we cooperate with Him in his immediate stage of development?
Knowledge of colour helps us cooperate
With the purposes and methods of our Logos
to help inaugurate the New Age –
furthering His, and thus our, evolution.
His 7th purpose is intimately related to colour.
From The Rays and The Initiations, Rule 12:
“These seven types of purpose
embody the seven energies
which will reorganise and redefine
the hierarchical undertakings,
and thus inaugurate the New Age. ”...
g. The final phase of divine purpose is the most difficult to indicate … 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 … dismissed as symbolic writing …
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,
colour is a key method of power (and therefore dangerous)
suggested for aiding evolution,
for both the logos and the humble disciple.