(COLOURS)[9th April 1987]

[Redbook3:157-158][19870409:1345m](COLOURS)[9th April 1987]

19870409.1345.

[continued]

Colours are a continuing problem. I think I first started to work out this one when I was at the London College of Printing* on an evening Small Offset Litho course.

I have always been reasonably happy with the horizontal red-blue polarity between +K and +M (although references to Red for Action and Blue for the Virgin Mary have made me think a bit)**. The problem lies in between, and particularly with Black, White, Grey and Green on the vertical polarity; after you have sorted this one out the rest tend to fall into place, at least once the basic idea of White at the top and black at the bottom (+Mk) is accepted: because from Red and Blue, Purple and Mauve tend 'outwards' (i.e. towards the Separation, +Mk) and Yellow and Light Blue tend 'inwards' i.e. towards unity; and the Archetypes tend to adopt their colours very happily.

So the problem is really where Black, White, Grey and Green – and Clear – fit in. I suppose it may arise because of the limitations of a two-dimensional drawing (and of symbolism).*** I am relatively happy with Black for Outer Circle +Mk (Distraction); Green seems sensible for Diversity (Inner Circle +Mk)****; Grey seems explicable for Outer Circle +C as a veiled White, although not very attractive, if White is Inner Circle +C#. (For Circle, one should perhaps read Disc.) The Clear Light at the Centre is the original One 'behind' (or at the central Singularity of) the Disc from which White and Black arise; and from White, of course (by Black?) all other colours are split. This is supposition: I don't know.

Colour charts in two dimensions might help. The trouble is that it does not seem quite right in relation to the actual layout of the colour spectrum. Should it? It might help to introduce a third dimension in the colour chart, making it more like a sphere#* or raising the visible centre of the disc to a shallow cone.#** I'm not sure. In any case, I believe that the colours as placed symbolise reasonably well the qualities etc. they are attached to, on the whole (Sorry about the blue Lion)#***.

*{c1980/1981}[Actually academic year1981/82: cf. [Redbook2:202-203][19810914:1900a]{An Epileptic Fit}[14^th September 1981]; or on an Appreciation of Printing Processes course the previous year/term(s).]

**(but Red for Danger and Revolution.) [I believe the crux of this may be how one understands Action.] (but Virgo.)

***{cf. Booklet (S&C): R-1 note.}

****{or for Outer Circle +C (Attraction)!}

#{Then Black should be Inner Circle +Mk.!}

#*Ball (see p.156 [[Redbook3:156][19870409:1345k](SPIRITUAL ETHICS [continued(5)])[9th April 1987]]). 

#*{See later and [S&C?] Booklet R-1 note.}

#**{cf. XVI:15-25.}

#***Still a problem: cf [2], & S&C (Booklet) L-1. <930418>

{See IV; also II.237 [[Redbook2:237-238][19820809:0845b]{A Dream: The Unfinished Cathedral/Church}[9^th August 1982];

&cf. [Redbook2:239A][19820809:0845c]{A Dream: The Unfinished Cathedral [continued]}[9^th August 1982];

[Redbook2:241-242][19820813:1945a]{A Dream: The Unfinished Cathedral [continued]: Circles}[13^th August 1982]],

& esp. II.240 Red Note [=?];

& cf. III.196[=?].}

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