The Rays: The Coat of Many Colors

Introduction

Throughout history, different colors have been used to change people's moods, to heal them of disease, and for divinatory purposes. There is an enormous body of scientific evidence for the efficacy of color therapy, which we'll examine here soon.

There is great disagreement among occultists on how many rays there are, and what their colors are: conflicting opinions were even written be Alice Bailey in her own books! Many systems only employ seven rays, usually an indication those systems derive from Theosophy.

We point out here that since white contains all colors, one could use only white and no other color for the vestments, candle gems, etc. But we also point out the glaring inconsistency of incorporating differently colored vestments and paraments (rotating through the Wheel of the Year), yet steadfastly refusing to use their corresponding gems, which robs the children of God of much of the treasure of their inheritance.

While it would be impossible to consciously include every color of the spectrum, we think our approach is pretty good. Natural stone in the size of the raylights we use will usually contain some of the other shades, and the use of the other colors neglected by so many other systems gives us a larger grid of colorful blessing. You can view at a glance how we fill out this grid better by looking at this chart. Granted, it only contains 216 colors, but you can see how deficient a system which leaves such large gaps in the grid must be.

The Ray Colors

Clicking the smaller differently-colored spheres above will show you the qualities of most of the rays The Avalonian Catholic Church uses: green, brown, red, purple, grey, violet, sky (Marian blue) and blue. Note that we're referring to the premouseover colors! Also clickable are the larger sphere in Venus' right hand, orange, and the ray in her left hand, yellow.

This leaves black, white, and pink.

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