Colour Therapy

COLOUR THERAPY
T H E S C H O O L O F N A T U R A L H E A L T H S C I E N C E S

LESSON TWO
THE HISTORY OF COLOUR Colour healing is as old as mankind itself. Early cultures were aware of how the colours in nature affected them. They spent their entire life amongst nature, absorbing and breathing its living colours. To these people colours were an integral and important part of their lives.They realised that the colours of their environment also provided them with their health and vitality. Lights and colours also connected them to nature and to the heavenly bodies and rhythms of the universe. It was only when people moved indoors, out of the natural daylight, that many of his ailments appeared. People began to realise that the colours of the food they ate affected their well-being andcould also be used for protection and to encourage good fortune. By the time the legendary Atlantian and Lemurian civilisations developed, healing skills had advanced. It is thought that they had a powerful knowledge of Colour Healing. The Atlantians are believed to have developed a system of healing using colour and crystals that was so advanced that, according to some stories, people could livevery long lives indeed. It is said by some, that their ability to use genetic engineering enabled their bodies to regenerate organs and limbs. There are many legends about Atlantis and most are probably highly exaggerated, however there is probably a spark of truth, enough to give us food for thought at any rate. It is thought that all their knowledge was not lost, but that some of it survivedand was passed on to the Egyptians The ancient Egyptians knew of the power and influence of colour. In many of their great temples, notably Heliopolis, they built healing halls of colour. A person who needed healing would go to the temple and was placed in a colour healing room. These rooms were constructed so that the sunlight entering them was refracted into a spectrum of colours. Each room wastuned to a certain colour frequency. The importance of colour and shape has been found in many cultures, from the Mayans to the Native Americans. Manuscripts from these early times show that in India, China and Egypt, the healer priests had a complete system of colour science, based on the law of correspondence between the sevenfold nature of man and the sevenfold division of the solar spectrum.Hebrew and Christian law also abounds with colour symbolism. Blue is the colour of Lord Jehovah. The Virgin Mary is cloaked in royal blue. The Holy Grail was green. Some Christian priests wear purple to show high spirituality.

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COLOUR THERAPY
T H E S C H O O L O F N A T U R A L H E A L T H S C I E N C E S
The halos surrounding christian saints in old paintings show that the church oncerecognised of the auric emanations from these spiritually developed souls. Buddha's colour was yellow or gold. To a Mohammedan, the colour of all colours is green. Buddhist tradition used Mandalas and colours for meditation and the ancient Greeks also practised healing using colour and music. Hippocrates the father of modern Western medicine used Colour and knew of the importance of healing the body,mind and spirit. Unfortunately, his followers homed in on the physical aspects of his practice and left out the more subtle forms of medicine he used. Western medicine then developed along this scientific approach, focussing on healing the physical body alone. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote his comprehensive book on the theory of Colour, which pavedthe way for the work of many modern esoteric teachers and philosophers interested in colour. It was not until the late 1800's that the first modern book on colour therapeutics was written, entitled Blue and Red light by Dr. S. Pancoast, and the following year 1878, Dr. Edwin Babbitt published his monumental work The Principles of Light and Colour describing the effects of the different colours of...