Buckland’s Practical Color Magick

What it takes is knowledge and practice. Color magick is the most effective, yet most simple method of knowledge and practice of all approaches to psychic and spiritual development. The knowledge can easily be gained through this book; the practice, which only you can provide, will start the process of developing your psychic abilities.

In this book you will find full instructions on how to meditate more effectively, and how to use color to stimulate the psychic centers or chakras that are like psychic muscles to be developed. Color meditation may also be used to unfold specific psychic abilities like ESP, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, etc. You will also learn to use color in divination, as in crystal gazing, numerology, the Tarot, and dice rolling, and you are offered basic forms of getting the answers to your questions with enhanced psychic abilities.

Also included are techniques of placket magick, the use of poppets (dolls), the making of talismans, sigils and magick squares, the use of treasure maps, and healing, all enhanced with color. You can also learn how to use color in your home and work environment, and in your clothing in relation to numerological analysis of any date and occasion.

Color magick is powerful, safe, creative and enjoyable!

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For Tara

who brought color and magick into my life

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Introduction

In the pink ... Feeling blue ... Green with envy ... Red with anger ... Purple passion ... Rose-colored spectacles ... A jaundiced view ...the list goes on, showing color is very much a part of our lives. If we look closer at those opening phrases, we realize that color is also a part of our health. Since the beginning of time, colors have been endowed with magick. The ancient Egyptians used color in their Temples of Healing. The Chinese and the Chaldeans used it, as did the mystics of India, who associated colors with the chakras. Pythagoras used it for healing. You cannot live without color; it is your omnipresent companion throughout life.

But what is color? How can it be used?

Until the seventeenth century, it was believed color was created directly through refraction of sunlight. Sir Isaac Newton was the first man, in 1666, to break down sunlight into its component colors, as it were, using a prism and producing a spectrum. The prism diffracted the white light and divided it into seven bands of color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. In actual fact, there is an enormous, if not infinite, number of perfectly distinct colors in light. These seven colors, however, are often referred to as the primary colors; other tints and shades being produced by mixing them. Here again, though, in the strictest sense there are really only three primaries: red, green and blue-violet. These cannot be resolved in any others (1). These three colors, or kinds of light, when mixed together produce white. Further, the combination of any two gives the complementary color to the third, e.g., red and light green produce yellow, which is complementary to the blue-violet.

Light travels at 186,000 miles per second. As it travels, it vibrates. Light is, in fact, radiant energy traveling in the form of waves. The rate of vibration can be measured in units known as Ångström units (Å), measuring one-ten-millionth of a millimeter. For example, the color red has a wavelength varying from 6200 to 6700A. Orange from 5900 to 6200; yellow 5600 to 5900; green 5100 to 5600; blue 4700 to 5100; indigo 4500 to 4700; and violet 4000 to 4500.

Our bodies select, from the sunlight, whatever colors are needed for balance, the vibrations being absorbed into us. Animals and plants do the same. Our bodies themselves, of course, vibrate, for all things radiate energy. A chair, a table, a house, a flower, a bird; everything is vibration. This can be seen in the Aura and can be photographed through the Kirlian technique.

Science is still researching the exact way in which light penetrates the body. One school of thought holds that light is admitted through the eyes and thereby stimulates the pituitary gland, causing it to secrete certain hormones. It is a proven fact, however, that there is reaction from the body to light even without vision. It is possible the skin senses radiation through certain cells. My own feeling — which seems to be endorsed by the science of Radionics — is that when color rays strike the skin they produce complementary vibrations within the body which signal the brain and, whether by secretion of hormones from glands with resultant distribution in the blood or however, cause reaction of the body.

The principle of healing with color (Chromotherapy or Chromopathy) is to give the ailing body an extra dose of any color(s) lacking. The application can be done in a variety of ways, as we shall see. Basically, the red end of the spectrum stimulates, while the blue calms.

There are any number of experiments being conducted today, around the world, involving the use of color in such circumstances as work environment, living environment, education, nursing and so on. For example, the use of red, or even orange, in mental hospitals is asking for trouble. Blue, as a stimulant, has a cooling, soothing effect. Already, the stark white clothing of surgeons and their operating room assistants has given way to pastel shades of blue and green (also soothing).

The study of color, for both therapeutic and magickal use, I term Chromology (from the Greek kroma, color; logos, discourse). The actual use of color for therapy I term Chromopathy (Gr. kroma, color; pathos, suffering). One of the joys of color, whether used for therapy work or magick, is its practicability. It is a tool which anyone can use, inexpensively, with little instruction and — perhaps more importantly — with no danger. As with Candleburning (2) there are no entities invoked in basic Color Magick. It is the use of a natural element in a practical way.

Color can be enormously helpful not only therapeutically and in the working of magick, but also in such areas as meditation, crystal and mirror - gazing, tarot reading, absent healing, clairvoyance — in a myriad of ways embracing the full spectrum of the occult. We will explore some of these in the pages which follow.

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Color in Meditation

These days, when talk turns to meditation, there is always mention of TM — Transcendental Meditation. TM’s results have been excellent, though those of many other forms of meditation have been equally so. But more and more, recently, I have been told by people in all forms of meditation, I don’t seem to be getting anything out of my meditation anymore. This is a comment from those who have been meditating for years and also is a reason for those who have now given up. Well, now the magick can be put back into meditation. Now you can get something out of it again; for now we can go a step further with CM! CM is Color Meditation, or Color Magick; and it transcends even TM, as many people have discovered.

Meditation itself opens the door to individual growth and spiritual advancement. It is probably the most effective method of advancement in all fields of psychic and spiritual development and, at the same time, the most simple. It can be done in a group or it can be done alone.

What exactly is meditation? The short answer is: it is listening — listening to your Inner Self, to your Higher Being, to the Collective Unconscious, the Creative Force, to the Gods Themselves. It can be all these things. And, through these things, it can bring you joy and peace, strength and understanding, life and enlightenment. It is a very ancient art, found throughout history and probably even pre-history. It is a quieting of the mind from the hubbub of everyday living, enabling you to get away, to separate yourself from your problems, your worries, hopes and fears. It can be a longed-for passive island in the midst of a sea of frenzied activity. That is not to say that meditation is not constructive. It is. In fact, it is far more constructive than passive.

The late, great psychic Edgar Cayce, in one of his readings (No. 281-13) said:

"Meditation is emptying self of all that hinders from the creative forces rising along the natural channels of the physical man to be disseminated through those centers and sources that create the activities of the physical, the mental, the spiritual man; properly done (meditation) must make one stronger mentally, physically ... And as we give out, so does the whole of man physically and mentally become depleted,