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291. Colour: The Luminous and Pictorial Nature of Colours 07 May 1921, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Taking the colours we found yesterday, we may say as follows: By its own nature green always allows us to make it with definite limits. Green can be enclosed or limited: in other words it is not unpleasant to us if we paint a surface green and give is a circumscribed area.
If you have a sense of colour, you can feel that. If, for instance, you think of a green—you can easily think of green card-tables. Because a game is a limited pedantic activity, something very Philistine, one can think of such an arrangement—a room with card-tables covered in green.
It would promptly dissolve the lumps, for it always strives for uniformity. If you have an extra green on green, that is a different matter; green has to be applied evenly and has to be outlined. We cannot imagine a radiating green.
277b. The Development of Eurythmy 1918–1920: Eurythmy Address 20 Sep 1918, Dornach

Rudolf Steiner
Thinking / Libra / Willing / Aries Saturn Jupiter Mars Sun Venus Mercury Moon Thinking / Willing Aries red / orange / yellow / green / indigo / blue / violet-blue Libra / dark blue-violet / darker light violet-purple / violet-purple peach-blossom / lighter violet-purple / reddish nuances Willing Saturn blue / Feeling Jupiter green orange / Mars red / Thinking Sun white / Venus orange green / Feeling Mercury yellow / Willing drive Moon violet Jupiter green orange / Venus green indigo orange yellow green / Mars red / violet-blue / Sun / Saturn blue / Mercury yellow green thinking / indigo thinking / blue thinking / blue-violet feeling / dark purple feeling / dark purple willing / purple peach blossom willing / reddish-light purple willing / reddish willing / red feeling / orange feeling / yellow thinking willing to feel thinking in the circle The following note, written by an unknown hand for Mieta Waller, is probably related to the above documentation.
The planets have the following sounds and colors: W u-a blue V o-e orange U i-i red Q i-au white T e-o green S a-u yellow R i-ei violet Im Tierkreis macht sodann am Platz jeder seinen Laut + zwar wie folgt: A w rot / B A orange / C H gelb / D V grün / E T blau / F B indigo / G c violett / H z violett / I g violett in Absyufung bis zum J / J L Pfirschblüt / K M Pfirschblüt / L N Pfirschblüt / abgestuft bis zum A a blue b indigo c violet d light blue V e orange f green g violet h yellow i violet j k dark violet l peach blossom m peach blossom n peach o green p darker than B. q like K darker r red s lilac t blue u yellow v green w red x y broader violet z violet
324a. The Fourth Dimension (2024): Fourth Lecture 24 May 1905, Berlin

Rudolf Steiner
The square 5 has sides that are blue and green, so the square 6 must look the same. Now only the squares 2 and 4 remain, and if you imagine them unfolded, it follows that the sides will be red and green.
So, if you imagine that the green fog colors the red-blue square, both sides – red and blue – will appear colored. Blue will take on a blue-green hue and red a cloudy shade, and only where the green stops will both appear in their own color again.
To make these squares reappear on the other side, we let them disappear into the third color. Red and blue disappear into green, red and green have no blue, so they disappear into blue [and green and blue disappear into red].
276. Colour: Colours as Revelations of the Psychic in the World 18 May 1923, Oslo
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Then all visible colour becomes a revelation of the psychic in the world. Let us look at the green of the plant. When a plant puts on its green we cannot regard the green colour as something subjective and see vibrations in the plant as the physicists do.
In reality we cannot imagine the plant without its green, if we use our living imagination. The plant creates its green out of itself. But how? Now, lifeless substances are incorporated in the plant, but these lifeless substances are made to live.
We perceive plants because they contain the lifeless substances. And because of this they are green. The green is the lifeless image of the life that exists on earth. Now let us look at the green, since in a way we have in it a kind of world-word which tells us how life in the plant weaves and flows.
291. Colour: The Phenomenon of Colour in Material Nature 08 May 1921, Dornach
Translated by Harry Collison

Rudolf Steiner
Now it is a question perhaps of examining this vegetable green in order to find the character, the essence of green. And here we must enlarge the problem contrary to what is usually recognized today.
And we shall find a connection,—superficially a connection,—between the absence of green colour in certain plant parts and the sun. The sun metamorphoses, one might say, the green. It brings the green to another condition.
If we consider vegetation, we get an interplay of lunar and solar influences. But at the same time we get an explanation why green becomes an image, and why green in plants is not luminous like the other colours. The other colours in plants are lustrous.
320. The Light Course: Lecture VII 30 Dec 1919, Stuttgart
Translated by George Adams

Rudolf Steiner
You then see green where you formerly saw red, though there is nothing there. You yourself, as it were, see the green colour on to the white surface.
And so in this case: when I darken the source of light to red, you see the shadow green. What was mere darkness before, you now see green. And now I darken the same source of light to green,—the shadow becomes red.
I will produce the phenomenon and you must now look through on to the green strip. It stays green, does it not? So with the other colour: if I engendered red by means of green, it would stay red.
9. Theosophy (1971): Thought Forms and the Human Aura
Translated by Henry B. Monges, Gilbert Church

Rudolf Steiner
In persons with more subtle passions there appear in the same locations brighter reddish-yellow and green shades. One can notice that as intelligence increases the green shades become more frequent. Persons who are very intelligent, but who give themselves over entirely to satisfying their animal impulses, show much green in their aura, but this green will always have an admixture more or less of brown or brownish-red.
Where the desires are passionately bent on some goal beyond the reach of the capacities already acquired, brownish-green and yellowish-green auric colors appear. Certain modern modes of life actually breed this kind of aura.
A bright yellow mirrors clear thinking and intelligence; green expresses understanding of life and the world. Children who learn easily have much green in this part of the aura.
9. Theosophy (1965): Thought-forms and the Human Aura
Translated by Mabel Cotterell, Alan P. Shepherd

Rudolf Steiner
In persons with more delicate emotions there appear in the same places tones of brighter reddish-yellow and green. It is noticeable that as intelligence increases the green tones become more and more frequent. People who are very intelligent, but who give themselves up to the satisfying of their animal impulses, show much green in their aura.
The brownish and reddish tones recede, and different shades of green become prominent. In strenuous thinking the aura shows a pleasing green undertone. These natures know how to find their bearings in every condition of life.
Bright yellow mirrors clear thinking and intelligence; green is the expression of understanding of fife and the world. Children who learn easily have a great deal of green in this part of the aura.
266-II. From the Contents of Esoteric Classes II: 1910–1912: Esoteric Lesson 19 May 1910, Hamburg
Translator Unknown

Rudolf Steiner
Now we know that all colors produce their counter color in us, which for red is green. So the sight of the black cross awakens the white, radiant sunlight of Christ in us, and the red roses stimulate a force so that green life can sprout out of the Christ-force's bright light.
One would be able to see that the soul is then immersed in green … Living, sprouting, shooting green is the working of the Christ-spirit in the earth. The earth is permeated with it, as it were, and it's literally true that we on earth are walking on Christ's body. And the green is his etheric body. By meditating the rose cross, it also becomes light in us, and the Christ-force will awaken the working of green in our soul, which was also awakened in the earth by this same force.
276. The Arts and Their Mission: Lecture III 02 Jun 1923, Dornach
Translated by Lisa D. Monges, Virginia Moore

Rudolf Steiner
Picture to yourselves that I hold in my left hand a red sheet, in my right a green one, and that with these colored sheets I carry out certain movements. First I cover the red with the green, then the green with the red, making these motions alternately; and in order to give them more character do something additional: move the green upward, the red downard.
And inasmuch as our eye is an organ imbued with phantasy, we cannot perceive a green gem in any other way than that in which, in the immeasurably distant past, it was spiritually constructed out of the green color of the spiritual world. The moment we confront a green precious stone, we transport our eye back into ages long past, and green appears because at that time divine-spiritual beings created this substance through a purely spiritual green.

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