Project Gutenberg 2025-07-01 Public domain in the USA. 253 McCaffery, Ellen 1886 1953 McCaffery, Ellen Conroy Conroy, Ellen The symbolism of colour $aLondon :$bWilliam Rider & Son, $c1921. Peter Becker, BlueDiamondHead and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "The symbolism of colour by Ellen McCaffery" is an esoteric nonfiction treatise written in the early 20th century. It explores how colours function as a shared symbolic language across religions, myth, poetry, art, healing, and nature, presenting colour as both a spiritual sign and a practical force. The book begins by asserting that colour is power—vibration linked to sound—with real effects in healing, agriculture, and weather lore, and that true symbols rest on correspondences. It then surveys each hue: red (life, health, courage, sacrifice, love; in debased form, passion and violence), pink (healing inspiration and service), yellow (sun, unity, wisdom, glory; also deceit and decay), green (hope, immortality, knowledge; also jealousy and omens of death), blue (truth, devotion, heavenly vision; also sadness and coldness), purple/violet (humility, patience, and wisdom born of love and truth; also pomp), white (purity and the joy of the redeemed; also cowardice and hypocrisy), black (mystery, eternity, sacred silence; also evil and black magic), and brown/grey (rest, ripeness, contemplation; with grey signifying resurrection in sacred art). A chapter on the rainbow gathers all hues as a sign of universal blessing and multiple paths to the divine, illustrated with examples from Egypt, India, China, Greece, the Norse, the Bible, and modern poets. Appendices detail “schools of colour,” planetary and liturgical palettes, sky-colour weather signs, the forms implied by primary colours, and plant-growth experiments under coloured light. The work concludes by urging a renewal of symbolic vision, noting the human aura as a key to colour meanings, and calling for future healers who serve both body and soul. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/symbolismofcolou00mcca 20230122094505mccaffery 1921 gb Reading ease score: 67.6 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Symbolism of colors BF Text Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore Category: Religion/Spirituality 149078 2025-09-30T07:41:57.249594 text/html 124007 2025-07-01T12:56:40 text/html 242098 2025-09-30T07:42:01.679564 application/epub+zip 240789 2025-09-30T07:41:58.308589 application/epub+zip 157821 2025-09-30T07:41:57.797589 application/epub+zip 474505 2025-09-30T07:42:04.184529 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 450258 2025-09-30T07:42:01.269616 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 109691 2025-09-30T07:41:56.829561 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 89796 2025-07-01T12:56:40 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16102 2025-09-30T07:42:04.316541 application/rdf+xml 10437 2025-09-30T07:41:57.993577 image/jpeg 1909 2025-09-30T07:41:57.892571 image/jpeg 231894 2025-09-30T07:41:57.263603 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog