Liber 777 (revised) (pdf) - Holy Order of the Golden Dawn Canada

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777 REVISED
5. The orange suggests the energy as opposed to other qualities of
the Sun.
6. The rose is that of dawn. The attribution therefore asserts the
identity of the Sun and Horus and is thus implicated with the doctrine of
the New Æon.
7. Amber represents the electric voluptuousness of Aphrodite. It
suggests the tint of the skin of those women who are most
enthusiastically consecrated to Venus.
8. Violet-purple. Should this not be lavender? Meditate.
9. The indigo is that of the Akasa (ether) and of the throat of Shiva.
It represents the night sky blue of the nemyss of Thoth. This nemyss is
the mysterious yet pregnant darkness which surrounds the generative
process.
10. The yellow indicates Malkuth as the appearance which our
senses attach to the solar radiance. In other words, Malkuth is the
illusion which we make in order to represent to ourselves the energy of
the universe.
THE ELEMENTAL COLOURS
These may be naturally derived from what has been said about
Column XI, lines 1-10. Scarlet naturally represents the activity of Fire,
blue the passivity of Water, while yellow is the balance between them.
Green is the middle colour of the spectrum and therefore the balanced
receptacle of the totality of vibration. Observe that the complementary
of each of the pair of the colours of the active elements is the third.
Thus red and blue make violet, whose complementary is yellow; and so
on.
For the citrine, olive, russet, and black of earth, see the explanation
under 10, Malkuth, in the Queen Scale (Column XVI). The pure earth,
known to the ancient Egyptians in that Equinox of the Gods over which
Isis presided, was green.
THE PLANETARY ATTRIBUTIONS
They follow the colours of the spectrum. They are the transparent
as opposed to the reflected colours. They follow the order of the