Article selections by M. L. Brainard | Notes by H.P.B.
We have now discovered a triangular key—light, music, form—which will disclose to us the exact relations which colour sustains to the interlaced triangles, the six-rayed star, universal symbol of creative force acting upon matter. 1 This triangular key is simply three modes of one being, three differential expressions of one force—vibration.
1. Hence in Kabalistic symbolism the pentacle, or the six-pointed star, is the sign of the manifested “Logos,” or the “Heavenly man,” the Tetragrammaton. “The four-lettered Adni (Adonai, “the Lord”), is the Eheieh [אהיה] (the symbol of life or existence), is the Lord of the six limbs (6 Sephiroth) and his Bride (Malkuth, or physical nature, also Earth) is his seventh limb.” (Ch. Book of Numbers viii. 3-4.)—Ed. [H.P.B.]
The culmination of light resides in the yellow ray, and hence to that colour is given the East point in our symbolised centre of radiation. 2 The others follow in the order of the solar spectrum.
2. It is the secret of the great reverence shown in the East for this colour. It is the colour of the Yogi dress in India, and of the Gelukpa sect (“Yellow caps”) in Tibet. It symbolizes pure blood and sunlight, and is called “the stream of life.” Red, as its opposite, is the colour of the Dugpas, and black magicians.—Ed. [H.P.B.]