Colour Meditations – Article 5

Taken from the book Colour Meditations by SGJ Ouseley

Chapter V

Thirty-one Colour Meditations

In the “Statement of Principles,’ issued by the Cosmic Colour Fellowship, the term Colour-Consciousness is defined as the “Soul’s Awakening to the Divine Principle in the Universe – the foundation of true clairvoyance and intuition.’

The author confidently believes that this object has been fulfilled in the following exercises in developing Colour-Consciousness.

The aim of the meditations is fourfold viz :

To develop the spiritual faculty of colour
To develop the power of concentration
To assist the student in applying the power of self-healing and overcoming negative conditions
To create a telepathic link between all students of colour science.

The next in this series of 31 Colour Meditations. To see the first 16 in this series, please refer to article “Colour Meditations’ published on the 20^th, 21^st, 24^th and 25^th January 2022.

Meditation 22
Picture a sheltered bay, bounded on each side by low peaceful cliffs. The calm green sea rolls tranquilly in towards flat weed-covered rocks and soft yellow sands. The waves break with a gentle monotonous song upon the shore. On the rich brown seaweed the curling waves splash in whitest foam. The grey-blue afternoon sky seems to hang low over the sea – the winds are asleep and all storms far from this inlet of peace.

Realisation. When the barque of our life sales lightly upon smooth summer seas, driven by the fair winds of health and prosperity; when friends are plentiful and eager to help us; when social favours and influence come to us to gratify our desires – then, indeed, the thought, ‘this world is good enough for me,’ seems true. But when we reach the end of the smiling sea of success; when he winds of adversity have blown us upon hard rocky shores and the waves of suffering threaten to engulf us; when friends fail – then we must look for guidance to the cosmic realms. When the mariner scans the sky in search of a guiding star, he finds the whole heavens in motion. To follow almost any one of the myriad of wandering stars would be to court disaster. The guiding star must be steadfast and immovable – there is only one such, namely, the north star. By its guiding light the ship is brought to safety. By tuning-in to the right wave-length of our fixed ray of destiny we sail through tumultuous seas to the islet of peace.

Meditation 23
Visualist a young cherry-tree in glorious dress of carmine and vermilion; every long drooping narrow leaf glows with colour. It reigns over the orchard like a king in royal robes, for all the other trees, planted in rows that carry the eye down long fascinating vistas, are as yet green or only slightly touched with russet red.

No wind stirs, the earth rests in perfect calm, and the red leaves burn undimmed by the slight mist that rolls over the hills.

Realisation. The cosmic soul – the mind of the infinite – supplies what is necessary at the time; we have to trust the source of all for the future. Neither must we cling to that which is given us ‘freely have ye received, freely give,’ is the cosmic law.

The colour-conscious soul is ‘like a tree planted by the waters, that spreadeth out her roots by the river and shall not see when death cometh, but her leaf shall be green.’

We are rooted and centred in the one light and life from which everything springs.

Meditation 24
Picture mentally a great beech-tree changing slowly to autumnal colouring. The leaves are burnished and shining with every shade of copper, red-brown and gold. The straight, strong stem still retains its smooth gleam of mother-of-pearl and silver. The whole tree glistens like a gorgeous piece of jewelled nature-workmanship and the deep blue sky, visible in spaces of divine colour between the leaves, is clear and bright and majestic.

Realisation. What is termed ‘realisation’ is an expansion of consciousness in which we pass from effect (as experienced by meditation and reflection) to cause, finding ourselves one with the cosmic essence or divine principle. This is what is meant by knowing the truth. One of the main objects of the cosmic colour fellowship is that men should know the truth behind the familiar phenomena of light and colour. By practising colour meditation and developing colour awareness, we contact the light within us and then greater light and understanding come to us. This is why sometimes beginners and preliminary students get wonderful results – they use the interior light of truth they possess.

Meditation 25
Visualise a great wide expanse of land and sky – from the vantage point of a high hill. Far below, the plain with its pale green fields, rounded blue-shadowed trees and purple woods stretches to the distant horizon where all is dim and soft. The sky is full and vibrant with pure light golden in the beams of summer afternoon. Little clouds gather in the west to meet the sinking sun and the sweet wind blows over everything, thrilling the earth and heaven with its living breath.

Realisation. Time and space are merely limitations of human consciousness. It has been said that there is no place but the presence of God. This implies that as regards ‘place’ we are in the real spiritual universe or infinite life now, but we may be either or in heaven or hell according to our state of consciousness and aspect of life. If we incline to darkness or blackness in mind, thoughts and feelings then we are in hell most certainly; if however we love the things of the kingdom of light and delight in pure colour, then we are most certainly in heaven.

When we enter into the cosmic truth, every day the world is made new and life becomes more radiant and beautiful.

It is progressive like the colours in spring. Daily our life becomes more beautiful and harmonious. Beauty, joy, harmony, do not come from without but are qualities that radiate from within.

Meditation 26
Picture mentally the earth lying veiled in the mystic sleep of night. A light diaphanous vapour wraps the wet grass and the silent trees, which seems like intangible brooding shadows. The silver floating mist, like the aura of a spirit, is all woven through with white moor light, and high above the earth in her astral dream, hangs the indigo sky, jewelled thickly with scintillating stars. No sound disturbs the breathless quietude but the rhythmic falling of dew from the unseen leaves. The cosmic beauty is almost too ethereal for mortal mind, but its balm sheds on the soul a radiant blessing beyond all words.

Realisation. At night the living creature feels itself drawn into the earth and it sinks down upon it and the force of gravity embraces it mysteriously, the senses close themselves, but the light that belongs to them remains in the consciousness like a hidden sun. from within, this – our own sun – shines into the night of the veiled senses, whilst from below the earth – the sun of the midnight – exerts its celestial power upon us through the earth’s body. Just as the human organism during sleep re-establishes and builds up during the night its harmony of forces, so also the earth-organism re-establishes at night the equilibrium of its cosmic forces upset during the day by the action of the solar radiation.

Meditation 27
Picture a majestic sky of striped azure and white – light ribbons of cloud stretched across the pale blue, delicately faint and far. Golden shafts from the setting sun glance through the darkening trees, the departing light casting a crown of glory on their tops and a glowing aura round all the other leaves which change to red-gold at its magic touch.

The sky is radiantly bright and the distant woods dusky against it, are full of suggestion and mystery, while these last rays of beauty linger like a divine memory of the day that is done.

Realisation. ‘God is light’ – the light which became life in man. It was dim and achromatically diffused in the early Atlantean Epoch, as colourless as the atmosphere of a fog, but as man evolved so light become refracted in multitudinous hues and was differently absorbed by each individual. Thus diversity manifested and mankind went through the mystic rainbow with its variegated and beautiful colours. The bow of the heavens may therefore be considered as a gateway to the ‘promised land’ the world as now constituted. The present brilliant display of colour is a sign that the basis of the present age is segregation.

So many people live on the material plane cut off from the white light of spirit.

Meditation 28
Visualise a fresh, seaweed-scented shore. The tide is far out and between land and sea stretches a great flat space of beautiful mingled colours – warm rocks, honey-tinted sand scattered with white and purple shells and rich golden-brown seaweed which encircle crystal-clear pools full of light and sky reflections.

Far off the waves are chanting and the wild vibrant calls of many sea-birds fall like music through the windless air. A sky of dove-grey and opal broods over the bay – there is a feeling of cosmic peace, which is at the same time infinite longing, radiating like a blessing over all.

Realisation. Many are the ways through which men pass from the lower to the higher. The cosmic soul may be found in many different ways and by diverse systems. For the colour-awakened soul the most effective way is by cultivating the inner sense of colour-consciousness. The practise of seeing the beautiful in everything leads to harmony and peace. As we meditate on the seven rays our souls float quietly out into the cosmic. Then resting in the bliss and pece in which the spirit of light abides, we breathe deeply the divine breath.

Meditation 29
Picture a sea of bluebells seeming to flow over the woods – the waves of sapphire light and amethyst shade fill all the scene with beauty.

Above the sky answers the lovely colour and the warmth, sweetness and fragrance bring a thrill that is almost unbearable in its poignant joy. Through the hanging wreaths of leaves which sway and quiver in the breeze, the clear unbroken blue sky is caught and held like the radiant gleams of pure colour in a cathedral window. The whole vision is a cosmic prayer – an offering of loving worship.

Realisation. Colour is one of the avenues that lead to cosmic consciousness. The only thing that is real and eternal is spiritual and this spiritual reality is perfection in all its wonderful, beautiful and radiant forms. There is only one reality and this is God and his perfect expression – the cosmic soul. This perfect spiritual universe is not ‘a city afar off’ for the kingdom of heavenly colour is in our midst. When our mind, thoughts are all in harmony with the great cosmic rays and if this condition of mind is extended to all our actions and our dealing with our fellow-men, then we are truly becoming cosmic-minded.

Meditation 30
See in your mind a glorious October carpet of newly fallen foliage. The brow earth is spread with a deep rich covering of warm russet and copper, crimson and red – thickly scattered leaves of all delightful shapes; thrown down, here and there, in wonderful patterns on the subtle colours, are great fans of horse-chestnut gold and green.

Over the horizon is an exquisitely lovely sky melting into amethyst-ink, like the tender bloom on a dove’s breast and changing in the higher regions, from purple to radiant azure.

Realisation. Through looking for the colour and beauty in life we are not only enabled to find it, but also, through realising the true nature of life we are led to co-operate with it instead of opposing it. The cosmic way is harmonious, peaceful and beautiful. The soul of the cosmos emanates love, beauty, harmony, peach and sympathy – and when we respond all is well.

On attaining colour-consciousness we begin to see the soul of nature and to express the best, the richest and the highest in our lives. Remember that the vast powers and intelligence of the subconscious mind operate in conformity with the spiritual rays that illuminate the inner consciousness.

Meditation 31
Picture a group of crocuses in early spring. They are still folded buds but will soon open into bright cups to hold the sunshine. Best beloved of all the first spring flowers. Notice how their fairy-like colours come so purely out of the brown earth.

Golden-yellow with tiny black stripes at the base of the petals, amethyst and deep purple restful to the soul, and delicate white, streaked with violet, opening to show the red-gold stamens. They herald the blaze of colour that the spring is heir to. And when the days are cold and sunless, when the skies are grey and songs grow silent, the crocuses are there to tell of beauty and radiance.

Realisation. If, as a student of colour, you have diligently performed the preceding thirty meditations, you have caused to stir deep down in your soul, a motion or vibration that is linked with the pulsating, vital soul of the universe. Just as the spring sunshine stimulates the seed in the dark earth and animates it into vigorous life, so also the cosmic soul will pour through your aura the glorious radiance of divine life, health, richness, love and harmony.

The cosmic rays flowing into your soul are creative, illimitable, substantial and vital forces with tremendous powers and potentialities. They will enable you to draw to yourself the things that you desire – like the plants’ growth; from the depths of their being they will supply you with perfect health, wisdom, harmony. The cosmic rays are the primal creative and formative forces that caused the first manifestation of light, life and being over the solar and planetary substance itself and which continue to radiate upon every living thing from their boundless, immeasurable and inexhaustible source. Each of the seven principal rays is the embodiment of divine power, purpose and fulfilment.