TWOFOLD colour:

 

1.      EXOTERIC                  act as a veil

2.      ESOTERIC                  demonstrate the quality of the central (ray) life.

 

 

also a threefoldness, analogous to these triplicities:

 

"The use of coloured lights. … cannot be done till further information is given anent the Rays; when a man's ray is known,

 

1.  Stimulation" will occur through the use of an individual's "own colour"  (DK may refer to someone's "ray" as the monadic ray – if it is not obviously soul or personality.)

 

2.  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').

 

3.  A “disintegration of unwanted matter” can be effected through the use of an antagonistic colour.

 

 

“One’s own colour” need not necessarily refer to the monadic or higher essence, yet if it doesn’t, we have examples of two ‘esoteric colours’.

 

 

The sun is blue in colour, esoterically orange and green!

 

 

 

Is this “in colour” meaning the true, monadic colour: Blue Logos

and the soul is orange and green …

 

If blinded, the yellow (greatest light) monad of the sun is through its (dual soul) blue and red.

 

These are the three pigment primaries: yellow and blue and red

Maybe blue and red cooperated in the 1st solar system, not orange and green (the blinds). 1st and 2nd aspect made 3rd?


THREEFOLD colour:

 

hierarchical                          esoteric                       exoteric   

monad                                   soul                              personality       

Centre of attraction/quality    complementary            antipathetic

true colour                             complementary            antagonistic colour

true colour                              reflection                       illusory appearance

colour                                      complementary            polar opposite

initiate                                     disciple                         aspirant

 

 

·       True Colour (like the hierarchical ruler or monadic quality)

 

·       Esoteric or Complementary Colour (soul aspect)

 

·       Exoteric or Antagonistic Colour (personality aspect)

 

 

 

Both personality and soul rays

(exoteric and esoteric colours)

are ‘effects’ or reflections

to the monadic (true) colour.

 

 

 

“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.”

 

 

References in Letters on Occult Meditation and Secret Doctrine "concern the 1st solar system and some concern a portion of the 2nd solar system."

 

Some of the colours then are related to

3rd aspect, green, personality or exoteric appearances,

and some to

2nd aspect, blue, soul or esoteric qualities.

 

BLINDS

 

“major blinding technique used is that of complementary colours.”

 

What does “complementary” mean?

 

 “… 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 suggests “complementary” may relate to ‘an’ exoteric form, personality or soul, because they must “recognize their source”.

 

 

Red may be called Green

 

Orange may be called Blue.

 

Yellow may be called Indigo

 

 

 

 

Exoterically, in the science of optics a “complementary pair”

is defined as any two colours which when combined produce white:

“two colour white.”

 

The exoteric complementaries, highlight their use as blinds in esoteric doctrines, here are the 3 pairs that produce white:

Yellow and Blue                                       

Magenta (blue-red or rose) and Green   

Cyan (light blue-green) and red-orange 

 

Esoterically, the complements are similar:

          Yellow and Indigo                 

          Red and Green                     

Blue 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.

 

These are given just before reference to the 4 rounds externalized in this second solar system, a “portion of the 2nd” … (and all blinded?)

 

                                                          Conjectured unblinded

              BLINDED                              complementaries

 

Exoteric               Esoteric               Exoteric               Esoteric

         

Purple                  Blue                     Cream                 Orange       1

Yellow                  Indigo                  Indigo                  Yellow        5

Cream                  Yellow                  Purple                  Indigo         4

White                             Violet                             Violet                             White                   7

 

 

 

More hints: esoterically violet is white … and "of all I have given only two corresponding with their esoteric application, indigo and green. … the only two you can be absolutely assured."

                   Green         3

                             Indigo         2

 

 

 

What is the relationship of the Rounds to the Rays?

If each Round is qualified (if not the direct expression of) by a Ray

 

Secret Doctrine tabulations, blinded like DK blinds …

said to be the colours of the Rays

– in the 3rd solar system?, or part of 3rd and part 2nd ?

 

                                      Exoteric                       Esoteric

Ray 1                   Orange/flame               red

          Ray 2                   Indigo with purple     light blue

          Ray 3                   Black                             green

          Ray 4                   Cream                          yellow

          Ray 5                   Yellow                          indigo       

          Ray 6                   Red                               silvery rose

          Ray 7                   White                            violet

 

 

Thus we have 7 (ray) colours given in their exoteric and esoteric forms, likely blinded. 

 

Note similarity to SD ‘races’, the “moon coloured” (cream), yellow race, white race, black race, red race …

Blinds mixing references to Planes and Rays 

 

Another type of blind, 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 the possible complementary blinds, let’s assume the higher mind is Blue, and 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 … 

 

… “another type of blind is to speak in terms of the plane

and not in terms of the ray”  

 

The more accurate colour key is likely colour = ray

not: colour = plane.

 

 

the Mental Plane is the key plane of the solar system.

Is the mental plane blue on the abstract,

orange on the concrete,

and via the 5th ray (via Venus) indigo? 

 

 

The sun in the night sky, or daylight on earth

(the dual Indigo-Blue, analogous; wisdom-love.)

 

 

 

 

The 2nd ray phrase is “I see the greatest Light” 

 

The exoteric “greatest light” of our Sun (the Blue Logos) is YELLOW.

 

The complement of Indigo, yellow burning in the midnight blue space.

 

 

 

Esoteric Correspondences to Exoteric models

 

His True, His complementary, An antagonistic

 

In Light

 

For example, Red as the true colour …

complement of Red is Cyan, or a blue-green

 

An antagonist must be a primary, not one of the complements

 

– because if we apply the other two complementary filters, magenta or yellow, red can still pass through

 

– and with cyan, they combine and produce two-colour white

 

 

Thus, one of the other primaries,

blue or green, must be antagonistic to Red, as they block red

 

 

DK refers to “an” antagonistic colour. Not THE antagonistic colour.

 

 

The other LIGHT examples:

 

Blue is the true colour, its complementary is Yellow

the antagonistic colours would be red or green.

 

Green as true colour, complementary is magenta (rose) = white

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 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

 

 

These models do not have an opposite to Indigo, but it is ‘cream’. The lunar or moon coloured orb in the night sky.

 

 

Polar opposite is esoterically the complementary, because when they merge and blend they become white light (synthesized).

 

e.g. If Venus is Indigo, its polar opposite of Earth, Earth would be cream or ‘moon coloured’?

 

 

 

DK mainly uses:

 

The colours of MATTER for exoteric effects:

·        Red, blue and yellow

when referring to man’s soul or personal rays reflecting other sources of light

 

Or the colours of LIGHT for esoteric causes:

·        Red, blue, and green

when referring to cosmic or planetary sources of light

 

 

Distinction is between yellow or green.

 

Yellow referring to Ray 4 (humanity’s colour of harmony through conflict), buddhi, personal expressiveness) and Mercury …

 

Green referring to Ray 3, the 3rd Divine Aspect of Active Intelligence, and the synthesizer, Saturn …