{"id":342,"date":"2011-11-21T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T19:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/?page_id=342"},"modified":"2015-12-30T14:16:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T14:16:37","slug":"colour-theory-the-munitum-mundum-diagram","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/colour-theory-the-munitum-mundum-diagram\/","title":{"rendered":"COLOUR THEORY: The Minutum Mundum Diagram"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cKether is the highest of all and herein scintillates the Divine White\"\"<\/a> Brilliance.\u00a0 Chokmah is gray, the mixture of colors, Binah is black, the absorption of colors.\u00a0 And thus is the Supernal triad completed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn Kether is the root of the Golden Glory and thence is the yellow reflected into Tiphareth.\u00a0 In Chokmah is the root of blue and this is reflected into Chesed; in Binah is the root of red and this is reflected into Geburah.\u00a0 And thus is the first reflected triad completed<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe beams of Chesed and Tiphareth meet in Netzach and yield Green.\u00a0 The beams of Geburah and Tiphareth meet in Hod, and yield a Tawny orange.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The beams of Chesed and Geburah fall in Yesod and yield Purple.\u00a0 And thus is the third triad completed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd from the rays of the third triad are these three colors shown in Malkuth, together with a fourth which is the synthesis.\u00a0 For from the Orange tawny of Hod and the Greening nature of Netzach is reflected a certain greenish citrine (citron); from the Orange tawny mixed with Puce (violet)of Yesod proceedeth a red russet brown \u2013 Russet and from the Green and the (Violet) cometh a certain other darkening green\u00a0 \u2013 Olive.\u00a0 The synthesis of all these is blackness and bordereth on the Qlipphoth.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In consideration of the nature of the true Primary Colours, it seems important to re-examine the Minutum Mundum diagram, wherein the Sephiroth of Chesed, Geburah and Tiphareth reflect, according to Regardie\u2019s description, the root colours of blue, red and yellow.<\/strong>\u00a0 The word \u2018root\u2019 surely must correspond to the word \u2018primary’.\u00a0 In the past, ‘Red’ was considered a primary colour, however, a modern interpretation of\u00a0 the above quote would render \u00a0\u00a0 Chesed\u00a0 coloured Cyan, Geburah in Magenta, and Tiphareth Lemon Yellow.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Magenta suits the colour of Geburah because of its position on the feminine pillar. Its bold, deep hue has a feminine quality yet it has a power and strength \u2013 a strength which it lends to Cadmium Red\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 remember: Red is a mixed colour, formed from Magenta and Yellow.\u00a0\u00a0 Of visible light, violet\/magenta light has the shortest wavelength and therefore the most energy, whilst red light has the longest wavelength and least energy. \u00a0\u00a0Magenta then, having the most energy, fits well with the symbolism of Geburah.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\" <\/strong>Regardie states: \u201cThe beams of Geburah and Tiphareth meet in Hod, and yield a tawny orange.\u201d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 As can be seen in the diagram of colour mixes, the orange of Hod should be a purer, more vibrant orange, coming closer to red than \u2018Tawny Orange,\u2019 due to the increased purity of the Magenta of Geburah as opposed to Cadmium Red in the mix with the yellow of Tiphareth.\u00a0 Similarly, the \u2018Violet\u2019 produced in Yesod is closer to Indigo than Violet\u00a0 \u2013 \u00a0 it is a deep purple, found in the pigment of French Ultramarine.<\/span><\/p>\n

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In following the colour mixing of the three primaries beyond the secondary colours of Hod, Netzach and Yesod, we arrive at the colours of Malkuth.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the traditional name \u2018Citrine\u2019 is a little misleading as it suggests a yellowy-green colour, when the \"\"<\/a>actual result is a yellow shade of brown, very different from the green that is often chosen when colouring this segment of the Malkuth square.\u00a0 The synthesis of the three colours produce an asphaltum black \u2013 a warm, earthy black, which resembles the colour of rich soil, and indeed, all four colours of the Malkuth square can be found in the soils and rocks of Earth.\u00a0 [Note: in the image on the right, the glare of sunlight has created an illusion of a thick blackness to the right-hand quadrant.\u00a0 However, look to the bottom right-hand corner to see a hint of the purplish\/slate grey\/black which is the result of the third mix in the picture on the left.]
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\u201cKether is the highest of all and herein scintillates the Divine White Brilliance.\u00a0 Chokmah is gray, the mixture of colors, Binah is black, the absorption of colors.\u00a0 And thus is the Supernal triad completed. \u201cIn Kether is the root of the Golden Glory and thence is the yellow reflected into Tiphareth.\u00a0 In Chokmah is the root of blue and this is reflected into Chesed; in Binah is the root of red and this is reflected into Geburah.\u00a0 And thus is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-342","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1166,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/342\/revisions\/1166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendricharthouse.com\/study\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}