Tuesday, April 8, 2008

The well calculated circum-stance & color theory

Edith A. Feisner point out that "More than any other element of design, color has the ability to make us aware of what we see for nothing has meaning without color. Color defines our world and our emotions. Color can be seen arbitrarily in a symbolic mode. We have reactions based on scientific and the reactions that result from an individual's reaction to color." (Color Studies, 1988)

While Christian Esotericism is primarily taught via symbols imposed upon the psyche of the initiate, a good many of these symbols are correlated with colors. The four quadrants mark the four directions, the four elements and the four archangels, and each of these are marked by colors or banners/veils. Each element has a different mood according to most Hermetic texts, and these definitions seem to compliment the astrological placements used to identify the quadrants.

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