Blue, yellow and red are considered 3 primary colors. Primary colors cannot be made from mixing other colors and are the basis for all other colors. These are like building blocks. Think about our own building blocks. What would are three primary beliefs be from which all our other thoughts would be derived.

Secondary colors result from combining primary colors. We get orange from red and yellow, green from blue and yellow, and violet from red and blue.

We also have what are called tertiary colors. Tertiary means third – it follows secondary which follows primary. Tertiary colors result from mixing a primary color with and adjacent secondary colors.

Red, yellow, and orange are considered warm colors while greens, blues, and violets are deemed cool colors.

Let’s put the colors on a wheel or a clock. We could put the 3 primary colors at 2 (blue), 6 (yellow), and 10 (red) o’clock. The rest of the clock would look like

secondary
time    primary    tertiary

10    red
11            red-violet
12        violet
1            blue-violet
2    blue
3            blue-green
4        green
5            yellow-green
6    yellow
7            yellow-orange
8        orange
9            red-orange
10    red

Interestingly there are 12 colors. If we had a baseball we could fit 12 baseballs around it. In 2 dimensions if we draw a circle you can draw 6 similarly sized circles around it. We will get into numbers another day. Just thought it was interesting that the colors number 12.

Of course there are also an infinite number of shades in between, but remember to consider the similarities and differences. When does orange stop being orange and become red? When red goes towards yellow it makes orange? When red heads to blue it makes violet.

Notice that this list did not have to have red at the one end and red at the other – it is a wheel – like a clock it returns to red. If we rotate the wheel we could have yellow at top and bottom at 6 o’clock.

By adding white we make it lighter. By adding black we make it darker. Kind of like the ball inside the 12 above. Or think of a white ball and a black ball and the 12 colored balls surrounding each.

In a way we can view white as being the spiritual blending of the colors and the black as the material blending of the colors. Or black is the ultimate shading and white as the ultimate tint.

Colors are frequently used as symbols for our various powers of consciousness. Red is associated with our desires, yellow our thoughts, and blue our subconscious emotions.

When are (red) desires merge with our (blue) subconscious we manifest subconscious desires (violet).

When our thoughts (yellow) join with our subconscious (blue) the new create mental image images (green) untainted with the red of desire.

We have previously discussed our desire inventory also called our astral body which is made up of our passions and desires and our mental body composed of our inventory of thoughts and intuitions. Our thoughts and desires color our bodies. The more materialistic, selfish, malicious thoughts and desires produce darker, heavier colors. Those in line with larger spiritual pursuits produce lighter colors.

Many seers can actually see astral bodies and describe them in terms of colors. And remember that many physical ailments have their roots in the astral bodies. Seers such as Edgar Cayce could diagnose illnesses, unseen by traditional doctors, by examining their astral bodies. And it can be fun to do too.

Remember in searching for your spiritual truth to discard what does not hold true to your intuition and rational mind.

Our inventory is tinted, shaded and colored by with desires and thoughts. While we are emphasizing our mental images and desires which we use in defining our spirituality we should remember even our baser desires are reflected in our coloring. We should strive for lightness.

Below are some common color associations. What color might our inventories appear? What color might we want them to be?

Blue – Religious feelings, devotion
Light blue – devotion to a noble spiritual ideal
Luminous lilac blue higher spirituality with lofty spiritual aspirations
Yellow – intellect
Gold – intellect applied to philosophies or mathematics
Prim rose yellow – intellect devoted to spiritual ends
Orange – pride or ambition – often found with irritability
Rose –affection, unselfish love, spiritual love for humanity tinged with lilac
Crimson – selfish love (dull and heavy) shaded
Grey – fear, depression (with brown red of avarice)
Green – Adaptability
Bright apple green seems to accompany strong vitality
Pale luminous blue green – deep sympathy and compassion
Emerald green – versatility, ingenuity, resourcefulness unselfishly used
Grey green – deceit and cunning
Dull rust colored brown red – avarice
Dull hard brown gray – selfishness
Lurid Red and Sanguinary red – sensuality
Brilliant scarlet aura in background – noble indignation – irritability
Deep red flashes on black background – anger
Black thick clouds – hatred and malice

Suppose we denote the three most important aspects of our spiritual path by the colors red, blue, and yellow. What would the orange, green, and violet represent?

We shall deal much more with color going forward. They serve as familiar symbols that seem to work well with our intuition.

As promised the other 11 groups of thoughts

Group XII
• “Giving up” is not always bad – the beginning and end are the same thing.
• Be able to release things from will, ego, striving.
• Striving for perfection/completion generates worry
• Give up regret, fear, guilt – be able to look at your shortcomings
• Accept yourself – while improving
• Nothing is ever finished or perfect
• Fear is caused by focusing on the past or the future – stay in the present
• Release all fear – pain is resistance to change
• Loss of life is not loss of individual identity
• We must give up and release our projection of identity (our physical body)
• Accept existence for better or for worse – accept difficulty
• All limitations and constrictions are temporary
• Project higher energies into material world and lift the material self to the spiritual realm

Group XIII
• Death is process of clearing accretions which build up around our consciousness
• Every experience is a death experience
• Changes are loss and gain – so is Death
• One desire causes another to be given up
• May need to give up negative elements within the self-image to get more love and health
• Force ahead in life and work – don’t bring all with you
• May need hardships to get to desires – may cause confrontation and conflict
• Be willing to cross any limits or boundaries

Group XIV
• Accumulation – one brick at a time – not the whole wall
• Advance with steadiness – don’t be impatient
• Everything has a natural period of gestation – no work is done before its time
• Pace yourself
• Combine forces, objects, ideas in proper amount
• Spatial integration
• Harmony and integrated growth
• All of the universe was present at the beginning of the universe
• Right thing at the right time
• Do not fear loss – do not be possessive – give it away and it will come back in another form

Group XV
• No way out of the laboratory
• Confined to limits of time and space – while in physical body
• Infinity is limited to particular forms
• Tune into psychic content and vibrational nature of work at hand
• Do something and conquer yourself – not all things and conquer the world
• Question yourself – be suspicious of motives, desires, drives, ideas – without tearing yourself down or destroying your ego
• Expand – within our structure
• Cohesive and ordered growth
• Removal, lessening, negation – make room for new
• Question everything – but keep moving

Group XVI
• Creating and destroying – all acts are constructive/destructive behavior
• Be aware of what each act creates and destroys
• Nothing is too precious to destroy
• Accept your power and use it
• Abeyance is of our own volition
• Battle the forces of stagnation
• Life is renewal – without it there is no death
• Love actualized through aggression – love manifest in works, deeds, actions carried out with force and aggression
• Black magic is based on hate – forgive yourself
• Allow anger to flow through being – so it dissipates
• Dissatisfaction impels us forward
• Do not be dissatisfied with dissatisfaction
• Maintain steady and constant heat – avoid burnout
• Be in touch with your fire

Group XVII
• All knowledge comes from within
• Books only stimulate inner light – it is revealed
• Most people veil it by preconceptions, habit, fear, and a thousand other veils
• Rending all of the veils is the path to wisdom
• Compare inner and outer experience
• Reasoning and Psychic ability should be reconciled and harmonized
• Intuition and rational mind wish to communicate – can get infinite power
• Do not dissect all your experience – allow awareness to move easily – like fish in water
• Power of imitation – imitation is reflection
• Watch outside world – to learn inner being
• Outer is reflection of inner
• Dynamic balance
• If someone loves us it is because we love ourselves
• Provoke inner changes by forcing changes in outer

Group XVIII
• One needs Protection – need space to work (physical, mental, emotional)
• Protect from outside influences
• Security concerns – Inner light is supreme security – don’t veil your inner light
• Life seems like a maze of confusion and unknown
• Valley and Shadow of death – dark of the soul
• Cosmic vacuum of loneliness seems to know no relief
• We are all here alone
• Goddess of Love and Mercy born from endless nothingness – powers forth suns, galaxies, stars
• Blackness her child – nourishes with light
• We are the Mother Goddess herself

Group XIX
• Concerned with Definiteness of action – no right or wrong
• Become the movement
• Flow out fully into his doing
• Core of self is hidden – dwells in silence
• Need dramatization to manifest energy
• Can get damned up and trapped by blocks of uncertainty – move through them with grace and fluidity
• Only get as much love as you give yourself
• Affirmation of true self generates and attracts love
• Love causes us to confront directly our illusions, pains, limitations
• Any and all forms of love can be extended to all simultaneously
• Love is a spiritual absolute – manifest only as shadow in material world – can never be wholly known
• Self-love is merging self with others – differences between self and others make little difference
• Egotism is affirmation of self’s power – never deny or negate power of others

Group XX
• The Resurerection – calling Forth
• Own power – not others
• Power sleeps within
• Learn to feel – music call’s forth man’s soul
• Live in present – in nowness – way to kill habits
• Love and respect our own energy – even if it manifests as negative, hateful, depressing, vile, or evokes fright and anxiety
• Get stuff out of subconsciousness in view to be judged
• Sin and guilt are killed with self-love
• Reflection – don’t just be reflection of social conditioning, friends, surroundings – you have no life/light of your own
• Don’t reflect the dreams and concepts of others.
• Group XXI
• Make some things important – immunize importance of other things
• Must decide for yourself what is important – nobody else can tell you
• What is made important is like a Sun – other things are like planets revolving around the Sun gaining light form it
• Nothing is inherently important
• Importance is something created – a quality bestowed on something
• Bestow importance on things properly and effectively
• Pain is from improper bestowal of importance on something
• Physical pain stems at finer levels – psychological, emotional
• In Spirit realm – some energies and forms have eternal importance
• In Earth Realm – nothing is important forever
• Importance is based on how much emphasis is placed on it – should be rhythmic like beat in music – forms basis of cosmic dance

Group XXII
• After formulas learned and discussed
• After Principles have been applied
• After structures have been explored and manipulated
• Everything is what it is – no more no less
• More can not be wanted, for all is had
• That which is sought is present
• No place to “go”, nothing to “do”
• Striving becomes effortless
• Channels open to life energy – let it flow where it will
• Life is a big joke – Sense of Humor
• More pressure on us makes forward push more intense.