seem to be made of thousands of tiny hyper-brilliant points. For
example, there is a ‘blue-yellow-green’ in which shiny blue points,
yellow points, and green points can be seen, intricately woven.
Astral colours are rarely completely uniform. Their great variety
and amazing beauty is beyond any comparison with what is
observable in the physical world.
Due to the dissimilarity of the nature of astral and physical
colours, it is not necessarily relevant to try to label an aura ‘green’
or ‘blue’ or ‘yellow’. That is why one should be careful when one
reads in certain books that green in the aura indicates a particular
emotion, blue another, and so on. By oversimplifying, one can
sometimes end up making completely meaningless statements.
- The room in which you are practising appears darker, the
quality of the colours changes.
The background of the astral colours is what occultists have called
the ‘astral light’. It is the basic colour that pervades the astral
space, and it is no different from the purple light you see when
you meditate in the eye. It could also be called ‘astral darkness’, for
it appears as a semi-darkness, definitely dimmer than the daylight
of the physical world, but of a different nature than the darkness
of our nights. The physical darkness is an absence of light. The
astral darkness glows, hence the expression ‘darkness visible’ used
in the Masonic tradition.
When you are practising eye contact and the room around you
suddenly appears darker, even though it may be the middle of the
day, it means you are seeing the astral light. You are shifting
from the perception of the physical world into that of the astral
space. Very often, this will be accompanied by a different
perception of the colours: they will appear to you as indicated in
the previous paragraphs.
The astral space is neither unique nor uniform. As you advance in
your meditation and your travelling, you learn to jump from one
astral space to another. One of the references that allows you to
find your way is the quality of the colours and the basic hue of
the astral light, both of which vary depending on which space you
are in. In certain regions of the space the background of astral
light is milky, in others it is darker, nearly black, or even green-
blue as under the ocean. Even before reaching the actual stage of
travelling, you can observe these variations in the colour of the
space when you meditate in your eye.