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Post by LorrB on Mar 25, 2013 8:33:08 GMT 9.5
Colour plays a significant role in Freemasonry - regalia, furnishings, wall-hangings, banners etc. The first three degrees are referred to as 'the Blue'. Then we have the Red, White, Black degrees.. the Rainbow of Ark Mariners (Green) etc.
Regalia, are the combinations of colours significant?
We find several different but specific shades of blue featured in Freemasonry. Why?
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Post by LorrB on Mar 25, 2013 8:35:41 GMT 9.5
This is a little something I found .. COLOUR
(1) All colours emanate from one source, or one primary colour – in this solar system, the cosmic ray of indigo, veiling cosmic love or wisdom – and then split into three major colours, and thence into the four minor, making the seven colours of the spectrum. (2 – 238).
(2) Colours as manifested on the physical plane show at their crudest and harshest. Even the most exquisite of shades as seen by the physical eye, is hard and harsh, compared to those on the emotional plane, and as the finer matter of the other planes is contacted, the beauty, the softness and the exquisite quality of the different hues, grow with each transition. When the ultimate and synthetic colour is reached, the beauty transcends all conception. (2 – 209).
(3) I appreciate your feeling that even these hints but lead apparently to greater confusion. But by constant application to the subject in hand, by frequent brooding and meditation on the colours, and by an endeavour to attain their esoteric significance, and their microcosmic application, will gradually appear the thread that will lead the student out of his confusion into the clear light of perfect knowledge. Have, therefore, courage, a broad elasticity of view, and an ability to reserve opinion until further facts are demonstrated, and also an avoidance of dogmatic assertion. These will be your best guides in the early days of your search. Many have, through meditation, and a receptiveness to higher teaching found their way out of the Hall of Learning into the Hall of Wisdom. Only in the Hall of Wisdom can the esoteric interpretation of the colours be truly known. The Hall is entered through meditation which prepares the student for that initiation which opens to him the door. Therefore, hold fast to meditation and falter not in purpose. (2 – 231). www.lucistrust.org/en/books/ponder_on_this/ponder_online/contents/part_1/021_026#22 |
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Post by LorrB on Mar 25, 2013 8:37:46 GMT 9.5
The Tree of Life and its colour combinations. (Note Wisdom, Strength and Beauty)  |
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Post by paul on Mar 25, 2013 8:43:00 GMT 9.5
Before I joined my first lodge I parked outside the lodge building to observe its energy flows. It had a somewhat uneven (irregular?) flow from the brightest star in the heavens (Sirius) so I joined. I saw the energy as pale blue with a slight turquoise undertone. I consider "Sirius blue" to be the correct colour for aprons in lodges that look to the Blazing Star.
The Widow Isis was thought by ancient Egyptians to have come from Sirius
Of course not all lodges look to the Blazing Star. The Oxford Blue and gold found on many Grand Lodge and some lodge aprons symbolically may indicate an aspiration to the nearest temple in the heavens (solar system) with the 7 Masons who make a lodge perfect - if they condescend to visit.
The dark emerald green of the Scottish Grand Lodge may indicate a connection with Andrew/Indra
Red and gold regalia/pavement may indicate the greater temple in the heavens to which the Lodge on Sirius belongs.
The fish(er) kings behind Royal Ark Mariners are a wandering lot and connect to many bi-colour systems.
So who has seen a temple with violet-indigo and gold pavement?
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Post by LorrB on Mar 27, 2013 8:55:31 GMT 9.5
Anyone notice that Daath/Sirius/Knowledge is in the Centre of 'the Pavement'..
if Beauty can be considered to be in the South, Strength in the West and Wisdom in the East?
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Post by LorrB on Mar 27, 2013 9:03:17 GMT 9.5
So who has seen a temple with violet-indigo and gold pavement? Not me.. ..however, we had our Installation of the new Master last night and as I left the pavement towards the end of the ceremony the white tiles flashed blue (similar to the Jupiter blue in the ToL above). The black remained black. I have never seen that before. It was a particularly potent and moving ceremony and the MPGC was in attendance. |
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Post by paul on Mar 29, 2013 7:05:35 GMT 9.5
> the white tiles flashed blue (similar to the Jupiter blue in the ToL above). The black remained black. I suspect an inflow from the world mother. As a test, go back into that scene and bring the following image close to the pavement and see what happens.  |
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Post by LorrB on Mar 29, 2013 8:25:23 GMT 9.5
Could not bring the image close to the pavement, closest I could get it was above the lodge and out of sight. I could see lines of light coming from above and connecting to each of the Brn, bit like a Maypole. I rather gained the impression during the exercise that this is all related to the canopy referred to in Freemasonry.
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Post by paul on Mar 29, 2013 8:48:12 GMT 9.5
> I could see lines of light coming from above and connecting to each of the Brn, bit like a Maypole. That seems a pretty good validation of the hypothesis that the World Mother energy was present. >this is all related to the canopy referred to in Freemasonry. Here is Mithras with his cape/canopy of stars  And of course the canopy of stars points out that the Freemason's lodge (in principle) is connected to and nourished by the heavens. |
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Post by LorrB on Mar 29, 2013 13:08:28 GMT 9.5
The Mother of the World is the Widow?
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Post by paul on Mar 29, 2013 13:58:51 GMT 9.5
>The Mother of the World is the Widow?
The Widow is a much lesser and humanoid being.
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Post by paul on May 19, 2013 9:46:44 GMT 9.5
The Tree of Life and its colour combinations. (Note Wisdom, Strength and Beauty) The Tree of Life not only fits on Holy Royal Arch chapter, it also fits on land masses. The first time I saw that was on the island of Iona.  It turned out that currently inhabited parts are on the land at the lower end of the Tree. Presumably the residents find it easier to relate to the lower sephira. I seem to recall that St Columba and his supporters also occupied the land at some of the higher sephira. |
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Post by stepnwolf on May 20, 2013 23:52:32 GMT 9.5
Serendipity does happen! Just as this thread appeared I happened on an article on the Mantis shrimp, a creature who has many special gifts from the Creator to preserve the species. (see www.huffingtonpost.com/murray-rosenbaum/mantis-shrimp_b_3129443.html) One of the most interesting though is its perception of color. Our vision of color depends on those elements in the eye called rods. On the top of the evolutionary totem pole man has three types of color-receptive rods for red, green and blue, that enables him to see all the colors of the rainbow. The lowly butterfly have 5 kinds of color-receptive rods and the mantis shrimp has 16, which enable the creature to detect red, green, blue plus 13 colors our human mind cannot process. This raises a couple of questions, though. If we do not see all the colors the Mantis shrimp does, do unseen colors still impinge on us in ways other than sight? If so what kind of influences would that be? I wonder if these colors/sensations might be higher or lower octaves of the colors we do see. Nature is truly wonderful! |
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Post by paul on May 21, 2013 6:33:51 GMT 9.5
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Post by paul on Aug 28, 2013 12:32:16 GMT 9.5
So who has seen a temple with violet-indigo and gold pavement? Some brethren have reported to me that they sometimes see the pavement flashing. What sort of colours does the pavement have when flashing? |
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Post by fjrogers on Jan 4, 2016 9:24:06 GMT 9.5
On Iona, I imagine the majority of residents do find it easier to relate to the lower sephira on the Tree of Life. The more spiritually focused people can relate to the higher levels where there's less emphasis on materialism.
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Post by paul on May 4, 2016 8:20:24 GMT 9.5
... bring the following image close to the pavement and see what happens. This is an interesting experiment to try with your lodge. Visualize the image approaching your temple when the lodge is open. What happens? |
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Post by fjrogers on May 4, 2016 18:17:48 GMT 9.5
I haven't undertaken the experiment but I wonder if you might see two pillars or possibly a black and white pavement.
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Post by paul on May 4, 2016 18:19:59 GMT 9.5
Seeing is believing?
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Post by fjrogers on May 15, 2016 14:37:13 GMT 9.5
> Visualize the image approaching your temple when the lodge is open. What happens?
Have you tried this experiment?
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