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The following excerpt, expressing the views of a noted English investigator upon the subject of color as a panacea for human ills, is of genuine interest:
Colors are effective as a cure for disease and may even add ten years to the life of a human being, according to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, who has studied the action of light shades on vegetable growth for many years.
He believes that every disease can be cured by certain colors. Yellow is the restorer of the nerves, he finds, while green increases the vitality. He says:
"One shade of red is the most effectual in all cases of blood poisoning. Ultra-violet produces a fermentation in the body which reduces hardness of tissue and also builds up blood tissues.
"A particular shade of violet causes the growth of bone; an indigo produces muscular generation and strength.
"Then there is a shade of green which produces vitality and general energy of the system and also the growth of fat; yellow restores the nerves. But, of course, the greatest care must be taken that only the right shade of each color is used or opposite results may be obtained.
"The treatment would also benefit most people suffering from premature old age and mental worry produced by past illness. It could well add ten years to their lives. I do not claim that it can make people of 60 feel like 35, but it certainly can restore them to the state of activity enjoyed a dozen years before."
One of the most important phases of healing through color and tone is the awakening realization of the healer to the fact that mind and spirit are intimately connected with physical ills, and that in them lie the cause as well as the cure of the disease.
We have noted that the twelve signs of the zodiac are divided into four triplicities correlating to the four elements in nature and also that these same divisions correlate to man's lower quartenary or the threefold body, together with mind, which constitute the composite vehicle in which the Ego functions on earth. The same fourfold classification pertains to diseases, all of which fall into one or another of these four groupings.
To illustrate, infirmities caused by alcoholic excesses, fevers, high blood pressure and that most dreaded disease of all human scourges, cancer, all come under the element of Fire. All forms of insanity and drug excesses relate to the Air element. Diseases of the stomach, digestive tract, the assimilative and glandular systems come under the Water element. All abnormal growths and mal formations of the body belong to the element of Earth.
It will be understood, as previously noted, that each fundamental color has its sevenfold aspect in which it blends or unites with each of the other six colors of a new age science of color therapy or color psychology. Much experimentation and observation will be required in this new science in order to determine the varying effects of the many possible color combinations.
Persons who are highly sensitized will profit most by this innovation; also children of tender years and even those yet unborn can, in their prenatal stage, be influenced by the colors affecting the life of the mother.
We could quote at great length from medical authorities who are working along these fascinating lines of research. But these pages are devoted primarily to occult investigations, and it is in this field that the study of tone and color will ultimately be perfected. Both have their origin on levels higher than physical senses can pene trate, therefore we shall pursue our study in the light of extended perceptions of sight and sound.
In Letters on Occult Meditation Alice Bailey writes:
... lights are played on the body of the disciple and effect a shaking-out process and a simultaneous stimulation of the atoms. This cannot be done till further information is given anent the Rays; when a man's ray is known, stimulation will come from the use of his own colour, a building-in will be brought about by the use of his complementary colour, and disintegration of unwanted matter will be brought about by the use of an antagonistic colour. This knowledge will later on be communicated to the great bodies that hold custody of the Mysteries ... Wait, for the time is not yet.
Similar fundamental conclusions have been reached as regards color-therapy by all genuine investigators from Dr. Babbitt, as recorded in his famous Principles of Light and Color, to the emi nent Dr. George Starr White. Experimentations in color thera peutics are being tried in a number of large hospitals at the present time. Rooms have been set aside for color treatment in which the walls, ceilings and furnishings, including even the bed linen, are all of one specific color, in accordance with the malady to be treated therein.
Care must be taken in this method of treatment. It has long been known that the exclusive use of any color other than nature's own green, if continued over a long period of time, leads to insanity. From antiquity come records of color being used in penal institu tions for doing away with political prisoners. The high violet radiation produces the head-in-the-clouds type of mental imbalance; red the violent type — the two extremes of the spectrum.
Edwin M. Hale, M.D., observed:
In one of the French Insane Asylums not only the blue ray but others were tried, and the effect was very interesting — when violent and maniacal patients were placed in rooms where the red ray predominated they became worse. If the patients were removed to a room where the blue ray predominated, they became calm and quiet.
One of the Government's largest hospitals for the rehabilitation of nerve-shattered men returned from service is placing in its neuro-psychiatric section for decorative purposes the color patterns for the Grail music of Lohengrin. This theme is a transcription of heavenly music. It is the chorusing of angelic choirs. The spiritual scientist knows well that hospital wards and other beds of suffering are frequented by angels who bring healing and solace to the afflic ted. With the introduction of their own particular rhythms in the hospital environment, may not their presence become more clearly sensed and their ministry increasingly effective? Spiritual science and materia medica, each from its own point of view, are largely anticipating the perfecting of techniques and the further extension of the practice of color therapeutics.
Dr. Nyls R. Finsen, a Danish physician who was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1903, demonstrated that: Effects upon the body are due to chemical, or violet and ultra-violet rays. By filtering the light of the room through red glass, he shut off the chemical rays from smallpox patients. The result was that the vesi cles did not suppurate and scars and pitting were avoided.
In the June, '48 issue of Your Mind, was an article by W. R. Hunt entitled "New Possibilities for Energizing Feeble Minds." It reported on work done by Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Boos in the Boos School, Plano, Ill. Color, music and pictures are combined to release the mental processes in children who are not just "backward" but those classed as idiots and imbeciles, the so-called "hopeless" ones. It is a remarkable enterprise and points the way, psychiatrically, to techniques that penetrate beyond the mind to the child's subconscious and superconscious minds. Color and music become part of the magic equipment in this most important work of bringing undeveloped minds into a state of normalcy. Occultists will be especially interested in Mr. Hunt's interpretation of the pro cesses involved in this truly New Age therapy.
A color therapy program is being worked out in a veteran's hos pital in Oakland, California. Hospital rooms with interchangeable wall coverings are giving color relief to patients. Soothing com binations of soft green, blue, peach and "sunny" yellow have replaced the deadly monotony of white walls for the veterans.
The hospital staff fitted out a twenty-three-room ward with chintz drapes made to be easily movable from one room to another. The cornice boards were painted blending colors to harmonize with the various drape colors.
So now the veteran in his bed can see a "new" room every week.
— Corinne Heline
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