GATHERING OF THE LIGHTS 2011
Paths of the Rainbow: Colours on the Tree of Life
Lodge of the White Dove
David Riggle
Atziluthic Sephiroth and Paths
Atziluthic Sephiroth, Briatic Paths
Briatic Sephiroth and Paths
Briatic Sephiroth, Yetziratic Paths
Yetziratic Sephiroth and Paths
Yetziratic Sephiroth, Assiatic Paths
Assiatic Sephiroth and Paths
Assiatic Sephiroth,Yetziratic Paths
Yetziratic Sephiroth and Paths
Yetziratic Sephiroth, Briatic Paths
Briatic Sephiroth and Paths
Briatic Sephiroth, Atziluthic Paths
Atziluthic Sephiroth and Paths
Outline 1. Circulations 2. Beauty 3. Theory 4. Mechanics 5. Subjectivity 6. Conclusion
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light Da’ath Throat Centre Gimel/Teth Thymus Centre
Samekh/Peh Spleen Centre
Yesod Sacral Centre
Graphic relating to mediations Aug-Sep 2010 After a number of repititions, the actual pattern of circulations between Da’ath and Yesod usually seemed to exit Da’ath from the top (or go out through the upper part of the windows in the Turret Room), travel down and around Tiphareth, and then enter Yesod/ Chamber of Power from ‘below’, like through vents in the bottom of the floor. And the energy on return would leave from the same area, although on the other side of the room. This created a kind of heart shape, as shown in the graphic above.
Atziluth
Da’ath Lavender Jehovah, Elohim
Tiphareth Clear Rose Pink
Yesod Indigo
13th Gimel (over) - Blue 19th Teth (under) - Greenish Yellow
25th Samekh (over) - Blue 27th Peh (under) - Scarlet
Shaddai el Chai
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light
Briah
Da’ath Silvery Grey Archangel Uriel
Tiphareth Golden Yellow
Yesod Violet
13th Gimel (over) - Silver 19th Teth (under) - Deep Purple
25th Samekh (over) - Yellow 27th Peh (under) - Red
Archangel Gabriel
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light
Yetzirah
Da’ath Pure Violet Seraphim, like serpents. A head with two faces, looking both ways
Tiphareth Rich Salmon
Yesod Very Dark Purple Kerubim, the Strong A beautiful, naked man, very strong
13th Gimel (over) - Cold Pale Blue 19th Teth (under) - Grey
25th Samekh (over) - Green 27th Peh (under) - Venetian Red
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light
Assiah
Da’ath Grey Flecked Gold Sirius, Sothis Winged Isis Anubis Thoth Hope Tiphareth Golden Amber
13th Gimel (over) - Silver Rayed Sky Blue The Moon; Tarot Key II, The High Priestess; Preistess of the Silver Star 19th Teth (under) - Reddish Yellow Leo; Tarot Key VIII Strength, Daughter of the Flaming Sword
Yesod Citrine Flecked Azure Levanah, the Lunar Flame The Moon Veiled Isis Pan, Thoth The Perfumes The Sandals Memory
25th Samekh (over) - Dark Vivid Blue Sagittarius; Tarot Key XIV Temperance; The Daughter of the Reconcilers 27th Peh (under) - Bright Red Rayed Azure and Emerald Mars; Tarot Key VI The Tower; The House of God
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light
Atziluth
13th Gimel (over) - Blue 19th Daleth (under) - Emerald Green
Da’ath Lavender Jehovah, Elohim
Tiphareth Clear Rose Pink
Yesod Indigo
13th Gimel (over) - Blue 19th Teth (under) - Greenish Yellow
25th Samekh (over) - Blue 27th Peh (under) - Scarlet
Shaddai el Chai
Da’ath/Yesod Circulation of Light
Path of the Rainbow
Wildwood Tarot, c. Will Worthington
"...the Colour Plan which runs through the whole of the Qabalistic scheme, is not there merely to give the Tree a festive appearance......" W.E. Butler
Georges Seurat (1859-1891) colour wheel http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152-3/dlieber/001735.html
SOL.org website
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Interactive Tree Adopts The Golden Dawn Colour Scales -- King, Queen, Emperor, Empress -- on all Four Levels Hebrew Text, Letters, Attributions Tarot Card Attributions (also GD) God/Goddesses Connections to Commentaries Virtues,Vices, Symbols, Animals, Plants, etc etc Hex Codes on the HTML pages!
Next two steps 1. Theory and Golden Dawn Colour Scales II. Mechanics and Hex Codes
The Golden Dawn Colour Scales -- p1 Sephiroth (Paths 1 - 10) -- p2 Paths 11 - 32
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 http://www.lelandra.com/tarotbook/TreeofLifeColors.htm
Path 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Early Temples and members 1888 - 1902 Isis-Urania (London: Westcott, Woodman and Mathers) 1888 - 1895 Osiris (Weston Super-mare: B Cox) 1888 - 1902 Horus (Bradford: TH Pattinson) 1893 - 1901 Amen-Ra (Edinburgh: JW Brodie Innes) 1893 - 1918 Ahathoor (Paris: Mathers)
William Wynn Wescott
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Moina Mathers (Mina Bergson)
William Robert Woodman
Brodie Innes
Florence Farr Annie Horniman
Pamela Coleman Smith Paul Foster Case
Alistair Crowley
Israel Regardie
Wm Butler Yeats
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Early Temples and members 1888 - 1902 Isis-Urania (London: Westcott, Woodman and Mathers) 1888 - 1895 Osiris (Weston Super-mare: B Cox) 1888 - 1902 Horus (Bradford: TH Pattinson) 1893 - 1901 Amen-Ra (Edinburgh: JW Brodie Innes) 1893 - 1918 Ahathoor (Paris: Mathers)
William Wynn Wescott
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers
Moina Mathers (Mina Bergson)
William Robert Woodman
Primary Colours, Seconday Colours Tertiary Colours In the Sepher Yetzirah the Hebrew letters are divided into three types: Three Mother letters, seven Double letters and twelve Singles. This is the way the colors are obtained. In the middle of this
diagram are Aleph, Mem and Shin. Aleph is yellow, Mem is blue, and Shin is red. Those are the
three primary colors. From them all other colors can be derived by mixing. Aleph has the property of air in the Sepher Yetzirah. Mem is Blue and corresponds to water in the Sepher Yetzirah, and Shin corresponds to fire. -- Bill Heidrick, The Rose and the Scales. 1977
19thC Colour wheel -- ‘The Rose of 22 Petals’
The Golden Dawn Colour Scales
The Rosy Cross Lamen as worn by Adepts in the Rosae Rubae et Aureae Crucis, the inner order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
King Scale: The ‘essence of colour’ The colors of the King Scale are derived from the natural essence of color and should be transparent, like the colors seen in stained glass windows. Of the King Scale it Is more difficult to speak, for it belongs to the region of pure light, the source of all colour and music. To that region only the Initiate has access, and that which he receives is in the nature of light and life. -- Whare Ra papers
Queen Scale: Reflected Light The colors of the Queen Scale are the colors we perceive from reflected light and are taken from nature.
The Queen scale lists a collection of alternate colors that have been used: Air -- like the blue of the sky, so Aleph is sky-blue in the Queen scale.
The vapor of mercury is purple or violet in color, so Beth, which corresponds to Mercury, can be assigned to purple. The second-string opinions were put in the Queen scale. -- BH
[Reflected Light, e.g.,] “In Binah is the Radix of Red, and therein is there a red color, pure and scintillating and flashing with flame which is reflected unto Geburah......” Hodos Chamelionis, Concerning the Tree of Life , HOGD
Emperor (Prince) Scale: King mixed with Queen The Prince (Emperor) Scale is usually a blend of King and Queen. -- Whare Ra papers The Emperor scale is a simple mixture of the colors in the King and Queen scales. There are one or two exceptions, but that is the basic method. For example, Bright Pale Yellow and Sky Blue mix to give a form of Green.
Some of the names for these colors are a bit odd; e.g. blue-emeraldgreen and new yellow leather. Those names come from a color set available in the 1890's and made by WinsorNewton Ltd. Many of them are still sold as opaque water colors (WN Designers Gouche) in tubes.” - BH
Empress (Princess) Scale “In actually depicting this scale the colours are represented as sharply divided, but if you consider them clairvoyantly you will see that they waver and
mingle as the colours of moving water shift and blend as you look at them, or as lights interplay with the movement of clouds. So on a windy day in Spring have you seen colours interchange in a wood as the young leaves rustle, and the shadows play over a mass of wild hyacinths or primroses.
“...Polluted Light”
The Princess must always be taken as something changing, unstable, evanescent; the flecked and rayed colours should actually be so cunningly interwoven that they would change with each movement of the canvas like shot silk.” -- Whare Ra papers
1810 Goethe, The Theory of Colours Red,Yellow, Blue Primaries The Artist’s Colour Wheel
“...The RYB primary colors became the foundation of 18th century theories of color vision... These theories were enhanced by 18thcentury investigations of a variety of purely psychological color effects, in particular the contrast between "complementary" or opposing hues that are produced by color afterimages and in the contrasting shadows in colored light. ...” Wikipedia,, Colour Theory
RBY would have influenced the 1888 Golden Dawn Colours
Additive Colour -- Light RGB instead of RYB. describes what kind of light needs to be emitted to produce a given color. Light is added
together to create form from out of the darkness. Digital devices.
Subtractive Colour -CMYK for Printing describes what kind of inks need to be applied so the light reflected from the substrate and through the inks produces a given color. One starts with a white substrate (canvas, page, etc.), and uses ink to subtract color from white to create an image.
http://www.sapdesignguild.org/resources/glossary_color/
Golden Dawn: Winsor Newton Paints in the late 1880s
A Painter’s Approach to Mixing Pigments
Jupiter Wall of a modern Vault of the Adepti
Portrait of Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers, by Moina Mathers
........a chamber decorated with elaborate artwork and furnishings painted by MM http://therubyroseandgoldencross.blogspot.com/
RGB ‘web-safe’ hexadecimal codes
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CC9999
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Atziluth
Briah
Yetzirah
Assiah
The Path of Shin
Glowing Orange Scarlet
Scarlet (Flecked Gold)
Vermilion
Vermilion flecked Crimson
Remember SOL New Yellow Leather?
FFCC33
CC9999
Jolyon’s colour picker
New Yellow Leather But if you don’t agree, that’s what it should be, you can change it on your display.
For more details on Jolyon’s Tree of Life app:
[email protected]
Website: The Tree in Colour
https://sites.google.com/site/dairiel23/
The End
Special thanks to Heather Goodhand, Morag Cameron, Jolyon Hallel, Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, Helene McMurtrie Watson, Stephanie Norris and Eugenie Kelly Riggle
Thank you......
P.S.
Polarity on the Tree of Life "When considering the colours used for the Tree diagrams, it should be remembered that for objective magical work and ritual initiation, the psychic structures which are built up are linked with the appropriate Sephiroth, and these are coloured in a higher scale than the connecting Paths between them. But for meditation work concerned with action upon our own weaknesses, the psychic structure, or Astral Temple, should be in the same colour scale as the connecting Paths. This enables one to work upon the corresponding centre in ones own aura....." -- (W.E. Butler, The Tree of Life, p. 39)
Ongoing exploration •
Atziluthic -- Light (Prismatic) actual -- the spiritual qualities of Light. Rays?
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Briatic -- Body of Light/Mental visual internal -- best visualised. Healing?
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Yetziratic -- Astral/ Emotional/ FEEL the colours/more viceral than visual? Musical?
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Assiatic -- Pigments (physical paint) -- and unstable, ephemeral physical and imagined colour
Golden Dawn to SOL Lineage Path 1888 Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn Founded 1901-06 various Golden Dawn scandals 1906 MacGregor Mathers closes Golden Dawn; Opens Alpha et Omega • 1918 Mathers dies -- Moina Mathers and Brodie Innes head Alpha et Omega • 1918 Paul Foster Case joins Alpha et Omega • 1919 Dion Fortune joins Alpha et Omega • 1922 Dion Fortune left w/Moina’s blessing to form the Fraternity of the Inner Light • 1925 Walter Ernest Butler joined Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light • 1962- 65 WE Butler met Gareth Knight and the two founded Helios School • 1964 Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki and Michael Nowicki joined Fraternity of the Inner Light • 1971-3 Helios School became Servants of the Light • 1976 Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki became Director of Studies of the SOL
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Tehuti thank you
Assiah Paths 11 - 32
