Savitri
A Legend and a Symbol

Chapter 11Colours · Golden Light

Book 4. Part Two: The Opening of the Inner Senses · Section Two: Lights and Colours

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* The golden light is the light of the Divine Truth which comes out from the supramental sunlight and, modified according to the level it crosses, creates the ranges from Overmind to higher Mind.

* The golden light is usually a light from the supermind — a Truth-Knowledge turned into overmind or intuitive Truth).

* It [golden light] always means the light of Truth — but the nature of the Truth varies according to the plane to which it belongs. is the concentration or source of the Light.

* The sunlight is the light of the Truth itself — whatever power of Truth it may be — while the other lights derive from the Truth.

* The Light of the Sun descending into the heart (the Sun of the Knowledge) turns upon the physical and purifies it.

* The golden light is the promise of the higher knowledge. For the coming of that knowledge the silence of the frontal exterior mind is necessary.

* Gold is always the symbol of the higher Truth.

* The hand with the gold pen writing golden letters was perhaps an indication of the Mother writing the things of the Divine Truth in you, — for gold in these visions is the symbol of the Divine Truth.

* The spiritual Power is naturally more free on its own level than in the body. The golden colour indicates here Mahakali force which is the strongest for the working in the body.

* The different parts [mind, life and body] are naturally coloured by the lights of the powers that come down (golden of Overmind and Intuition, blue of higher, illumined and intuitive mind) while keeping their own characteristic shade as an element.