Quote: › As well as visualisations, I also find it a good idea to use the corollaries across the other senses, thus building taste, sound etc into the astral constructs.

MichaelStaley wrote: › When using the LBRP, for instance, the quarterly pentagrams are visualised in colour using the straightforward attributions of yellow at East, red at South, blue at West, and black at North. I used similar colours twenty years or so ago with Reguli too.

Gordan wrote: ›

My initial magical schooling was in former Yugoslavia and everyone there took seriously what Crowley wrote in "The Book of Thoth." Describing the Atu 'The Universe' he makes the following point: "The general colour of the traditional card is subfusc; it represents the confusion and darkness of the material world. But the New Aeon has brought fullness of Light; in the Minutum Mundum, Earth is no longer black, or of mixed colours, but is of pure bright green" (p. 119). This was also observed in the Thoth Deck, where on the reverse side of each card there is a Cross, with five elemental colours: yellow for Air, red for Fire, blue for Water, white for Spirit, and GREEN for Earth.

I was very much surprised when I noticed on numerous occasions that people in North America always paint the Earth as black (on Enochian Tablets, etc.). Therefore my equal surprise at Michael's post. It's sooo Old Aeon to represent the Earth as black, guys!

Gordan wrote: › 93 Camlion and Michael,

I was pretty sure that the smily will make it apparent that I was joking a bit with my earlier post - especially when labeling the use of the black colour for Earth as 'sooo Old Aeon.' But seriously, given that people are of course free to experiment and make choices of their own - particularly if and when these choices work - or maybe even the other way round - my point is essentially twofold. First I do find this an interesting overlook - a Freudian slip if you want - that this particular attribution of elemental colours, as referenced in The Book of Thoth and as represented on the reverse side of each Thoth Deck card, which has green as the colour of Earth, very often seems to be neglected. Or simply overlooked. Now I don't mean to suggest that we should all do as Crowley said - far from it, really - but the Old Man did have something of importance to say on these subjects, as witnessed by our common presence on this site. Thus I find his note on the use of the colour for Earth in the New Aeon illuminating and interesting. That's all. We can all of course either take it or leave it. Second: we all witness a very much needed and urgent rise of the awareness about ecological issues and more and more people are realizing that this is one of the crucial areas of possible communal and political action. So for example we have the Green Egg, a neo-pagan magazine, hugely influential. And we have the green parties in many countries. There seems to be a global association between the colour green and the image of Earth and / or Nature in general. I am certain you catch my meaning: green is cool and important and sexy and fun and we would probably all like to have our Earth more and more green. Why not then reinforce this will, this intention, this hope - among other means - by also projecting into astral images this beautiful green as the symbolic colour of Earth? That's all I mean. It boils down to a simple law of attraction.

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Gordan

MichaelStaley wrote: › I haven't experimented with any particular colour schemas to date, but do use colour when building astral images. When using the LBRP, for instance, the quarterly pentagrams are visualised in colour using the straightforward attributions of yellow at East, red at South, blue at West, and black at North. I used similar colours twenty years or so ago with Reguli too.

DCXVI wrote: › It is not Typhonian, but Alice A. Bailey & Djwahl Khul set forth color schematics that differ greatly from the traditional correspondsnces...I believe it is discussed at length in their book 'A Treatise on Cosmin Fire'.