Color Your World:
Maybe someday we will know more about the de Danaan and most scholars will drop their silly insistence there were no adepthoods or 'cells' of advanced people who actually helped others. In the meantime I always enjoy the minstrel's art of the Bardic tradition and hope to add a little of the jesters' for your pleasure from time to time. It is depressing to read about all the incest and genocides our history of recent date is so proud of. I grew up on these war-heroes and other scum too. The jester would become a minstrel before he/she became a 'baird' it was only about ten years ago that I learned that means a lot more than a simple poet or bard. The art and education known as the Bardic Tradition will be dealt with in greater detail later but allow me the pleasure of treating you with one I have massaged in a style to fit our need to integrate if we ever hope to become close to the Christ light and our soul. This illustration of story-telling includes colour therapy and the Luscher colour test or chart. I have borrowed it from my manuscript 'Columbus, the Itinerant Cathar' which details a lot more about the 'octopus' of Masonry and the Christian mystery schools influence on our society.


The old wives' tales are more insightful than the scholarly Bible thumpers who argue over the merit of sacred theological epistemics or 'how many angels fit on the head of a needle'. Warmth and hopefulness are blended in layers of greater depth and appreciation of the beauty that nature provides. One of these 'beauties' is the rainbow and the half-legendary Fianna include the leprechaun that a Cherokee mystic I almost married saw at Findhorn. You may regard this as you wish, and I can assure you I trust her honesty. The 'pot of gold' you may attain through introspection and integration of these truths is more than a box of chocolates but you will have to 'grok' its' full meaning first.


The rainbow was always visible to man and animals that he drew his genetic growth from. There came a point when the lava of the earth provided lenses for watching the heavens and creating rainbows when there was no rain. We say the spectrum of colours that together make white light are included in the anagram 'VIBGYOR'. Each of these colours has something real and meaningful for our day to day existence. Violet or the purple that arch-Druids wore and was taken by royals and the Pope for their tonsure became an important area of trade and commerce for the Phoenicians who used the Murex sea shellfish in later times. The Arabs call it 'Farfir' and one wonders if 'Fir' comes from the far away island of the people known to call themselves Fir 'this' and Fir 'that'. For example the Fir Bolg brought bags (Bolg) of Irish soil to Greece in order to ward off snakes in ancient Greece long before the fakir St. Patrick claims to have rid their island of these 'venomous brothers' of his. Violet is a spiritual colour of the highest order and in it the Philosophers find a final stage in making their Stone, according to the Arabs who are less inclined to say they are the pre-eminent or first race among men. Their people have suffered much but never did their leadership fully Inquisite them during the 'Dark Ages'.


Close to purple and what makes it lighter in the rainbow is the colour blue; which you all know from the saying or phrase 'true blue'. It represents the special relationship you must retain with all things of God if you ever hope to be one with his 'SPIRIT'. That special virtue or value which the Keltic Creed holds near to its green heart and fertile wellspring is HONESTY!


The color green of the Emerald Isles is also a stage in the 'Stone' which is called 'Vitreole' and from which the 'Elixir' may be made from should you aspire to avoid going to the higher realms in your physically oriented usual time: the forces known as 'fate' would naturally demand. Those who pursue this route may inherit the earth and yet not aspire to the spiritual things herein possible. It will be noted that in today's cultural climate that 'green' has a very material connotation due to some currency having that colour. That was not and should never be a primary goal for the initiate on the path towards enlightenment. Blessings will come here and in the hereafter - when you are ready for them. Money will take your effort and focus away from recognizing these potential blessings. That is not to suggest you should not appreciate what you earn and cautiously handle what you have. Beware the people who might value you only for what 'green' of land or currency that you possess. In the final analysis no one but God/Nature is the owner of land such as our beloved Emerald Isles. It is important to find balance and harmony between passion and spirit. Notice that green is situated in the center of the rainbow and you will seek to find the center of most things of this material world to provide the fertile opportunities you must enjoy, before you can tire of returning to this plane of reference known as Earth. The diplomatic nurturing force of Gaia the Earth-Mother is here to hold you in her arms when the extremes of passion or spirit take your soul to places you do not yet understand.


Yellow is not often 'mellow' despite our friend Donovan's song. It is a powerful energy like the Sun and we know the sun represents Osiris who must need be close to his Earth-Mother Isis. Positive energy and dynamic force will help in moderation. You will use the warrior's energy in other ways too. The joy it may bring your mind and intellectual processes can fool the ego so be careful to remember that Osiris too had to stay close to his equal Isis who also enjoyed his closeness. He is one step closer to the original animal passion that she can help him to direct through her magic associated with the moon. Yellow is the mineral sulphur that contains the secret of fire for the Philosopher in search of the Stone whether actual or metaphoric. The truth of that pursuit requires both the metaphor and the chemical or the spiritual balance and the earthly ingredients. If you see there are those among you who are in need of energy give them the force that yellow offers to uplift them and remember 'In giving you receive'. There is no need to, expect or feel obligated at either end of this transaction.


Orange is a fruit which is closer to the heart and its' passions that lie next to the red colour of your hearts' desire that courses through your veins and fills your sexual organs to enable the procreation of your tribe or clan. There is great need to remember the energy of the positive and knowing yellow or mind when feeling what passion the heart may bring. Here is the fruitfulness of balance that orange obtains for the person whose urges may dominate. Your emotions are good but must allow your other potentials to express themself or you will lose yourself in the oranges of the flame that the oak offers in its dying gasps, before the virgin earth or blackness engulfs it. This absence of sense(s) will last only as long as you want; so do not fear.


In cinnabar the Philosopher finds his greatest challenge. From it comes the all important mercury or tincture no longer red as the earth that brings it forth. It may be a beginning or an end depending on your level of wisdom. Just as we could have the anagram begin with red and get ROYGBIV. Unfortunately this is the way our children often come oriented when born and we must direct or correct their perspective else the spirits of the interstitiary realms may seek and find their energy useful. Do not let these spirits know your child’s magic name until your child is independent and strong in the knowledge that they are more than just the product of your shared passions and loins. Know that they are close to you but you are also sent them to learn from and with. Allow them their space and they will make you proud. Hide them from the light and they will not. The clan you call your extended family will guide these processes and their laws must be followed or you will find unhappiness in your emotional passion. Sir Isaac Newton, (an alchemist) in his early physics experiments decided the colors of the rainbow were Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Many of us remember them as ROY G BIV. Hence the color code RGB.

The spirits we regard as allies exist near the rainbow surrounded by the beauty of it and nature. Go to them for guidance and listen not with your ears which may deceive. In the essence of their knowledge or the trees and rocks they live inside are the wellsprings of your soul.


"And so, to grasp the full value of the mythological figures that have come down to us, we must understand that they are not only symptoms of the unconscious (as indeed are all human thoughts and acts) but also controlled and intended statements of certain spiritual principles, which have remained as constant throughout the course of human history as the form and nervous structure of the human physique itself. Briefly formulated, the universal doctrine teaches that all the visible structures of the world-all things and beings-are the effects of a ubiquitous power out of which they rise, which supports and fills them during the period of their manifestation, and back into which they must ultimately dissolve. This is the power known to science as energy, to the Melanesians as 'mana', to the Sioux Indians as 'wakonda', the Hindus as 'shakti', and the Christians as the power of God. Its manifestation in the psyche is termed by the psychoanalysts, 'libido'. And its manifestation in the cosmos is the structure and the flux of the universe itself.


The function of ritual and myth is to make possible, and then to facilitate, the jump - by analogy... Therefore, God and the gods are only convenient means - themselves of the nature of the world of names and forms, though eloquent of, and ultimately conducive to, the ineffable. They are mere symbols to move and awaken the mind, and to call it past themselves." (8)


The ‘magic mirror’ comes in various forms in many ancient cultures. The ‘skulls’ you see in movies are related to very ancient ancestor worship and at least a million years of shamanic practices.


'Themselves’ as he uses it in this quote is reminiscent of the Mayan saying I enjoy - 'Do not put yourself in front of your SELF!'. The whole quote reflects intense understanding of the nature of reality and the reality of nature, with all its symbols, archetypes and programmed behaviour. I LOVE Campbell’s work! I can see 'AUM' being sung by the African natives with their hunting weapons as they came upon Carl Jung: or his story of the Himalayan valleys and sunsets or sunrises. His experience with the Yamabushi (shaman/Shinto) 'firewalkers' was made possible by this understanding and the faith or openness required to effect the healing he experienced in those flames and embers. I recollect my own feelings of the times I apprehended beauty in people or nature, he touches me and makes me feel I am not alone. His Melanesian 'mana' reminds me that quantum physics and Deepak Chopra or Werner Heisenberg are on the path or in the World Mind with me. There is probably an aspect of my genetic Kelthood that allows these things I feel to seem so very special. It is unlikely that all people are unable to know this 'special' one-ness. Still the Catholics tell us and Fukayama maintains the Christians do not allow all of us (except a few high prelates) to have this 'divine' freedom and connection 'within'. There certainly is no racial aspect that I have found that limits one from knowing. It seems rather a limitation that is made possible only through deprivation and manipulation. The Kabbalists are ‘twisted’ manipulators of the ethereal realm but there are some Qaballists that know what they have done who I work with.

Joseph Albers – German Geometric Abstraction

· Employed precisely defined forms and carefully balanced colour schemes.
· Was a Bauhaus teacher.
· Emigrated to the U.S. in 1933.
· Taught the likes of William de Kooning, Robert Rauchenburg, and Motherwell.
· Combined theoretical concerns with artistic practice
· Wrote “Interaction of Colour” in 1963.
· It was based on the premise that colour was governed by its own, intrinsic laws, and he argued that “if artists were to use it successfully, they would have to grasp its continually deceptive, illusory nature.
· Employed the single form of the square, a basic element of constructivist art since Kazimer Malevich.
· One and the same colour can apparently change in hue, depending on the value of the adjacent colour, and that colours appear to recede or advance in space.
· The interaction of colour (physical fact and mental effect).
· Stimulate the visual imagination by appealing simultaneously to our sense of objective proportions and to our ability to enter contemplatively into the illusion of depth and motion induced by deceptively simple means.
· Colour is the most relative medium in art.
· Colour deceives continually.
· Colour evokes innumerable readings.
· Implying laws and rules of colour harmony.
· Help develop an eye for colour, seeing colour action as well as feeling colour relatedness.
· Physiology of visual perception: In visual perception there is a discrepancy between physical fact and psychic effect.
· What counts here is seeing, with fantasy and imagination.
· The simultaneous influence from too many directions, from left and right, above and below.
· Structural Constellations.
· The square means itself and is a factual fact.
· Colour intensity/brightness.
· Everyone has preference for certain colours and prejudices against others. This applies to colour combinations as well.
· Afterimage or simultaneous contrast.
· No normal eye is foolproof against colour deception.
· One theory maintains that the nerve ends on the human retina are tuned to receive any of the three primary colours (red, yellow, blue).
· Colours pull and push each other.
· Yellow and blue make green. They become mixed in our perceptions.
· A complimentary is a colour accompanied by its afterimage.
· Colour intensity may compete with and balance each other.
· In studying colour, we are studying mainly ourselves and the action and interaction as registered on our minds.
· Replace retrospection (looking outward) with introspection (looking inward).
· To honour the masters creatively is to compete with their attitude rather than with their results.

Al Held – Formalism/Contemporary Geometrics, Post-painterly Abstraction

· Wants to revive non-objective paintings.
· Makes wholly abstract images that look somehow representational.
· He crafts a pictorial domain in which he is architect, set designer, utopian visionary and ultimately, magician.
· Employed interlocking geometric forms.
· He was uncompromisingly abstract.
· Contained no trace of the artist’s own feelings of individuality.
· Valued social dialogue.
· Colour field painter.
· Valued the use of universal symbols.
· Revelations of ego in paintings (abstract expressionism).
· Childs developing spatial perception (Jean Piaget).
· A comprehension of space in perspective as the individual develops a point of view.
· Shallow layered space.
· An abstract understanding of space in three dimensions.
· Gradual evolution toward a more conspicuously geometric image.
· Employed both horizontal and vertical formats.
· Wanted to give gesture structure and logic.
· Implied elemental geometries – triangles, squares, circles, rectangles, etc.
· Which alluded to their-own manifestly physical constitution. depicting neither landscape nor figure, but depicting both.
· Self-awareness, impulse and order, fabricated space, bright, primary colours, diffused forms, implied depth, planes of colour, coloured shapes, stacked depth, secondary hints, coexist tentatively, forced colours together, biomorphic images, juxtaposition of colours, illusory space, visionary colour sense.
· Bringing order to things.
· Adjusting form, colour, and gesture toward a goal of balanced yet highly active iconography.
· Forms are compounded and superimposed on one another.
· Showing vestiges of previous shapes.
· Increasing idiosyncratic bend.
· Complicated almost to the point of contradiction.
· Symbols come from continuing fascination with psychology.
· Evince multiple under-layers.
· By name a piece of art becomes something.
· Frontal and lateral spatial effects.
· Employ illusions.
· Compress the paintings atmosphere.
· Static space.
· You might call this the geometric surreal, Candy Land for grown-ups (children permitted). This is retinal art to the max, curiously uplifting and enormously fun to look at, a trip without drugs.

Note: Donald Judd, Anges Martin, Gerhard Ricter, Robert Ryman, Robert Smithson, Kenneth Noland, Gorky, Pollock, Motherwell, Picasso, Vasarelly, Riley, Rauchenburg, Richard Serra, Paul Klee, Vassilly Kandinsky, Clement Greenburg.