THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF COLOUR AND HEALTH.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 302, 9 December 1922, Page 7

THE SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF COLOUR AND HEALTH.

(From a correspondent). The paper by J. E. Pearce in the book “Colour and Health,” about which I /wrote last week, makes one think. We are apt to get in the habit of skimming books, and it is good ,at times to get hold of something that arrests the mind and provides material for digestion. He says that ad religious teaching assumes that man is divine© in essence, and that spirit is without matter, and matter cannot exist without spirit to inform it. We are not able to proceed far in this knowledge without being Con vinced of the fact that vibration lies at the root of the phenomenal worlds. Light, heat, sound and colour are produced under the same vibratory law; in fact all Nature is truly Hie “Garment of God,” woven from the movement of His great loom.

He refers to the Biblical narrative of creation, where we are told that

“Gjod said lot fl here be light and there was light,” and again in St. John, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God.”

In both wo remark libration as the power, and the potentiality of all heat, sound, colour—in fact all manifested life.

If we accept this idea, that all forms are the result of rates of vi ni’.ftion, and that there are heights anti depths of those rates that, to our Jin sound and colour sense, are unheard and unseen, wo cannot for that reason ignore them. The scientist cannot spo the electrons, and yet it is in this foundation of the unseen that ho is now building.

The writer says that it is reason able to claim that man has invisible bodies of vestures, which are most sensitive to thoughts and feelings, and that the physical or seen body is directly affected by the vibrations of this unseen part. True health exists when harmony is attained, and therefore he suggests that medical science must now widen its horizon. The habit of cultivating pure and true thoughts will lx? seen to be a necessity for healthy life, not only for ourselves but for the community n .for the unpleasant coloursproduced’by the nasty thoughts sondmpa out jangling vibrations to the world around. Verily, man cannot live unto himself! He claims that we should not only choo.se our thoughts, but also select the colours of our clothes and surroundings with care, and he gives the following list of colour corresponaences, worked out from experiments; Devotion: Light blue. Sympathy: Light yellowish green. Adaptability: Green. Depression: Dark grey. Ma•ice: Black. Sensuality! Dirty re»L ••igh intelligence: Light yellow. Pure affection: Rose colour. Fear: Dirty grey. Selfishness: Brownish red. Jealousy: Brownish green. Anger: Blood red. Perhaps we have identified ourselves tb o much with our physical bodies, and now we must realise that we are not the seen body any more than the carpenter in his chisel. Our pagan attitude towards death would soon become more Christian if we could accept this teaching. T think we shall find that, as wo get more knowledge and understanding.

so wm our awe idverence increase, and, like the Magi of okl, we shall b<, content to kneel at the cradle of the Word made flesh. I will end with iCquotation from Mr. Pearce’s paper:

“Within each heart there is a centre of light, wherein all colour is lound, a veritable chamber of light, real and figurative; it would help many a weary soul even to imagine ihis as a centre of refuge wherein he may retire for rest from his pains and. from thence to view his thoughts, desiies and actions and resolve upon his future course. It may he that there is more truth in Christ’s saying than we thought, when He said: “The Kingdom of God is Within You.”