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Many schemes, many meanings

Because colour is used across so many systems, the same colour bears different meanings in each, and the atlas sets these schemes side by side rather than reducing them to one: the planetary colours of astrological magic, the four colour scales Kabbalists assign to the sephiroth in the four worlds, the chakra spectrum, the liturgical calendar's colours. Each is internally coherent.

The atlas gives each colour its meanings across the traditions that use it. The planets, elements, chakras and sephiroth the colours are keyed to are treated in their own categories, within Elements & the Natural World.

Sources Divinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptions with Rainbow Body: A History of the Western Chakra System from Blavatsky to BrennanKurt Leland, The Golden Dawn: The Original Account of the Teachings, Rites, and Ceremonies of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, 6th editionIsrael Regardie, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)

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