This was great. I looked into Goethe’s Color Theory in the past but never understood the implications till now. It is very intuitive. Thank you. I’d love to hear more about it.
This explanation of morality, will & color are illuminated brilliantly in these 2 essays. Thank you, Max, for adding much needed clarity as my own understanding of color perception had become a bit “blurred” in a “brain-fogged” mind. Relating color to gradients of consciousness working in the will in the way you have done is wholly engaging and refreshing to the soul.
Magenta as perception makes sense to me. The 1st light seen on the horizon just before the sun rises creates a subtle magenta glow and for me, correlates to an invocation of birth – a birth of a new day and a new perception/ vision which precedes from what was cloaked in the darkness of night. With that in mind & heart, a few Steiner words:
[Natural science of the present day] has the tendency to create a science, to create a view, that gives an understanding of the material world only…We shall be able to realize that within the last few decades a door has opened through which understanding can come to us…
If we can perceive this, we can perceive the whole significance of the new age that is just issuing forth from our own, we can perceive the dawn of a spiritual revelation that is to come within the next few centuries of the life of humanity upon earth; indeed, because humanity has become freer that it was in former times, we shall be able through our own will to progress so as to receive this revelation. – R. Steiner May 1913
I love all your discussions on Color. Someone recently showed me a diagram where red represented privacy and not necessarily aggression. In my personal life that makes more sense. As I see color around me; I’m always excited to see what other people make of it, especially how Mr. Steiner interprets it. Thank you, Max 🌹
This was great. I looked into Goethe’s Color Theory in the past but never understood the implications till now. It is very intuitive. Thank you. I’d love to hear more about it.
This explanation of morality, will & color are illuminated brilliantly in these 2 essays. Thank you, Max, for adding much needed clarity as my own understanding of color perception had become a bit “blurred” in a “brain-fogged” mind. Relating color to gradients of consciousness working in the will in the way you have done is wholly engaging and refreshing to the soul.
Magenta as perception makes sense to me. The 1st light seen on the horizon just before the sun rises creates a subtle magenta glow and for me, correlates to an invocation of birth – a birth of a new day and a new perception/ vision which precedes from what was cloaked in the darkness of night. With that in mind & heart, a few Steiner words:
[Natural science of the present day] has the tendency to create a science, to create a view, that gives an understanding of the material world only…We shall be able to realize that within the last few decades a door has opened through which understanding can come to us…
If we can perceive this, we can perceive the whole significance of the new age that is just issuing forth from our own, we can perceive the dawn of a spiritual revelation that is to come within the next few centuries of the life of humanity upon earth; indeed, because humanity has become freer that it was in former times, we shall be able through our own will to progress so as to receive this revelation. – R. Steiner May 1913
maybe I should have written proceeds from instead of "precedes from" 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
I love all your discussions on Color. Someone recently showed me a diagram where red represented privacy and not necessarily aggression. In my personal life that makes more sense. As I see color around me; I’m always excited to see what other people make of it, especially how Mr. Steiner interprets it. Thank you, Max 🌹