Colour Meditations

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 5 in this series, please refer to article “Colour Meditations’ published on the 20^th January 2022.

Meditation 6
It is late afternoon in a great gothic cathedral. Gleams of mellow light are pouring richly cross the dusky dimness and drifting in long rays past the noble pillars of warm stone through the ancient glass windows filled with jewel colours of emerald and ruby, sapphire and amethyst.

The organ-notes carry the thoughts through the dark aisles into a far world of rest and peace.

Realisation. Within our being is the jewelled sanctuary of the spirit – the cathedral of the soul. It is our safe retreat in all times of stress, strain and anxiety. Peaceful is the atmosphere and beautiful is the radiance of the inner sanctuary. The glory of the seven rays is enshrined here – the shining splenour of the white light forever gleams within.

From the interior altar of colour we absorbe the tranquil rays of peace and harmony, joy and life and we behold the luminous beauty of truth, goodness, inspiration, calmness and perfect serenity. The kingdom of heavenly colour is within you.

Medidtation 7
Picture a pergola against an azure afternoon sky – a regal glory of purple and crimson. It is aflame with rambling roses and stars of clematis in a jewelled setting of polished leaves. The burnished sun, sinking slowly on the golden horizon, throws an almost astral splendour on these divinely-wedded colours and bathes them in beauty of clearest light. And the world of hill and valley behind, misty blue and amethystine, is shot across with long rays of gold. It is nature’s altar of colour.

Realisation. The colour-conscious soul realises the perpetual splendour of creation. We are living in a comic fairyland. When once understood the divinity of which the earth’s light and aura is an outward expression, we become in harmony with the spirit of life – the world is no longer a grey or barren place but a sparkling pageant of divinely-wedded colour.

The trials and disappointments, the cares and vexations of life are all part of the same golden pathway – though dark clouds reign for a time, the hills beyond are still blue and amethystine.

All fear, strain and doubt is an illusion, as grey and black are the negative aspects of light and colour.

Meditation 8
Visualise a tall, pale-lilac pyramid-orchid, standing lonely and beautiful in the heart of a wood. Focused upon it is a great slanting ray of sunshine.

It points straight upwards to the effulgent light that is pouring down. Round its base are grouped clusters of little red wild strawberries, looking gay with their three-fold leaves and clear white blossoms, like little children wonderstruck by the soaring height and beauty of a fairer influence. The huge solemn oaks look down like cosmic gods on this mimic world and above is the ‘height beyond all height’.

Realisation. The soul that is developing the inner consciousness stands up like a spiral of light. The immediate result of developing colour-awareness is that we discover our true identity. There blossoms within us a sense of increasing wisdom and illumination. We begin to realise that our inner self – our true being – is a focusing point of the great cosmic rays. We are linked by the forces of light and colour with the unchanging and the eternal. We are reminded of the presence of God in every ray of light and by every vibration of colour in nature. From the cosmic soul radiates infinite power, wisdom, love and intelligence.

Meditation 9
Picture mentally a glorious sky of unbroken blue. It is so clear that the eye seems to travel on into its depths to distance unending. The earth below is bathed in sunlight – a world of azure and gold. In the foreground, the ruby and garnet leaves of a virginia creeper rise like flames in the clear atmosphere, throwing up long tendrils towards the blue like an aspiring soul.

Realisation. Soul-growth and spiritual progress takes place when we transmute our soul-colours by the blue ray – the calming and spiritualising radiation of the cosmic soul. Even on the physical plane we are reminded of the rays of truth and beauty by the colourings of the sky and the garments of the earth.

The secret of joyful earth-life is to link consciously if possible with the cosmic forces and powers. When we develop these powers in ourselves we can climb high and rise like flames with the celestial aura. By right thinking and by valuing every aspect of life in its proper sense, we are able to extend our mind into the superconscious realm – the eternal fountain of light. To achieve the higher consciousness it is necessary to rise above all resentment, envy and self-pity, above all complacency and selfishness and above all hardness of heart.

Mediation 10
See in your mind a beautiful assortment of roses in a quiet garden. They grow lightly and daintily at the end of the long stalks – some cream and yellow, shading to orange and apricot, some pale warm flesh-pink shading to deepest crimson and scarlet, with long buds like pointed flames. Their fair, bright heads glimmer like illuminated chalices against the rich vibrant green of the yew hedge. Their scent is full of the radiant memories of golden summer.

Realisation. Life is a harmonious progression like the evolving of a rose-bud into the glory of a rose. The cosmic forces are here at work transmuting and perfecting form and colour. The same forces work through and in our being. A life of ugliness, ill-health and disharmony is not the real life, but an empty parody of it. Karmic debts must e paid, but we must not allow our souls to become static and colourless we must develop our consciousness like a plant from seed to flower. The colour way is beauty, harmony and peace. When we make contact with cosmic colour then the lower (dark) mind becomes healed of its blindness, discord and imperfections. We become like illuminated chalices filled with spiritual essences.

Meditation 11
Picture mentally a border of deep blue larkspurs – great spires of richest ultramarine and sapphire – gleaming in the radiance of an apricot sunset. The surrounding lawns are golden green in the beautiful clear light. Some canterbury bells with transparent cups of pale pink, pure white and violet-purple, hold the vital sunshine until it seems to be burning and throbbing in their inmost hearts.

Over all hangs a peaceful atmosphere of stillness and calmness.

Realisation. Behind the turmoil and unrest of material life, the cosmic soul dwells in radiant repose. You are part of the cosmic colour system. Nothing can disturb the serenity nor wreck the peace of the colour-conscious mind. When you realise your affinity with the universal soul of nature, you attract to yourself the rays of peace, joy and harmony, health and vitality, and you begin to know the meaning of radiant repose.

The vast display and majestic splendour of colour in the kingdom of nature is a faint reflection of the eternal radiance that is behind the sun, the stars and the flowers. By earnestly studying cosmic colour science we daily advance towards this perfection. Life becomes an illuminated pathway. We should constantly endeavour to live in the consciousness that we are creatures of light, spiritual beings, rays of divinity, abiding continually in the eternal radiance.

Keep an eye out for tomorrow’s article which will be a continuation of these 31 colour meditations.