02883cam a22003133u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000330011324500280014626400510017430000470022533600260027233700260029833800360032450000310036050801900039152017860058153400610236765300240242885600550245285600430250799900190255076422UtSlPG20260610134752.0mcr n260607r20251921utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aBF1 aMcCaffery, Ellen,d1886-195314aThe symbolism of colour 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2025-07-01  aPeter Becker, BlueDiamondHead and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)  a"The symbolism of colour by Ellen McCaffery" is an esoteric nonfiction treatise written in the early 20th century. It explores how colours function as a shared symbolic language across religions, myth, poetry, art, healing, and nature, presenting colour as both a spiritual sign and a practical force.  The book begins by asserting that colour is power—vibration linked to sound—with real effects in healing, agriculture, and weather lore, and that true symbols rest on correspondences. It then surveys each hue: red (life, health, courage, sacrifice, love; in debased form, passion and violence), pink (healing inspiration and service), yellow (sun, unity, wisdom, glory; also deceit and decay), green (hope, immortality, knowledge; also jealousy and omens of death), blue (truth, devotion, heavenly vision; also sadness and coldness), purple/violet (humility, patience, and wisdom born of love and truth; also pomp), white (purity and the joy of the redeemed; also cowardice and hypocrisy), black (mystery, eternity, sacred silence; also evil and black magic), and brown/grey (rest, ripeness, contemplation; with grey signifying resurrection in sacred art). A chapter on the rainbow gathers all hues as a sign of universal blessing and multiple paths to the divine, illustrated with examples from Egypt, India, China, Greece, the Norse, the Bible, and modern poets. Appendices detail “schools of colour,” planetary and liturgical palettes, sky-colour weather signs, the forms implied by primary colours, and plant-growth experiments under coloured light. The work concludes by urging a renewal of symbolic vision, noting the human aura as a key to colour meanings, and calling for future healers who serve both body and soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cLondon: William Rider & Son, 1921  aSymbolism of colors4 uhttps://archive.org/details/symbolismofcolou00mcca40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76422  c117147d117147