Green

• “Blue am I and gold in the light of my bride: but the red gleam is in my eyes; & my spangles are purple & green.” -Liber AL II:50
• “Purple — the ultra-violet (v.51), the most positive of the colours. Green — the most negative of the colours, half-way in the spectrum.” -New Comment AL II:51
• “I passed into the mountain of lapis-lazuli, even as a green hawk between the pillars of turquoise that is seated upon the throne of the East.” –Liber LXV II:1
• “Describes the passage of the Divine Consciousness (the Hawk) coloured by love (green) into the world of starry space (lapis lazuli, which is blue with specks of gold) by a balanced path from earth to heaven (the pillars of turquoise).” -Crowley’s commentary on LXV II:1
• “Verily and Amen! I passed through the deep sea, and by the rivers of running water that abound therein, and I came unto the Land of No Desire. Wherein was a white unicorn with a silver collar, whereon was graven the aphorism Linea viridis gyrat universa.” –Liber LXV III:1-2
• “Until one has passed through the totality of possible experience (as divined by estimation of the actualities available in one’s own case) one cannot reach the state in which all Desire is recognized as futile. Only when this is fixed can one perceive the Unicorn—de Astris—the single pure Purpose (it is white) whose name is written in the way now to be explained. The collar represents completeness—the “infinity” or “eternity” symbolized by a ring. It is round the neck, i.e., the seat of knowledge (Death—the Visuddhi cakkra) and made of silver—the metal of the Virgin Isis-Urania, who informs Pure Aspirations. The name of this Unicorn (whose horn signifies the creative power) is “The Green Line winds about the Universe.” Note the etymology of Viridis, connected with vir and vis; also the idea of gyrat, reminding one of of the aphorism “The Green Line winds about the Universe.” Note the etymology of Viridis, connected with vir and vis; also the idea of gyrat, reminding one of the aphorism “God is He with the Head of the Hawk, having a spiral force.” The Green Line, here chosen to connote the Limit of the Universe, suggests the Girdle of Venus. The boundary of Existence is thus not a fixed idea, but an ever-growing Vegetable Principle of Life, of the nature of Love. Summing up the doctrine, one may say that the intelligible expression of the pure creative Idea is the omniform principle of Growth.” -Crowley’s commentary on LXV III:1
• “Then I beheld myself compassed about with the Infinite Circle of Emerald that encloseth the Universe. O Snake of Emerald, Thou hast no time Past, no time To Come. Verily Thou art not.” –Liber LXV, III:17-18
• “The Adept now realizes himself as bounded only by the Green Line of verse 2. This Line is recognized as equivalent to the Negative — to Nuith Herself” -Crowley’s commentary on LXV III:17-18
• “Also Thy coils are of infinite range; the Heart that Thou dost encircle is an Universal Heart.” –Liber LXV, III:20
• “The Angel also is identified with this Green Line, and thereby the consciousness of the Adept expands to include the Universe.” -Crowley’s commentary on LXV III:20
• “I came to the house of the Beloved, and the wine was like fire that flieth with green wings
• through the world of waters.” –Liber LXV IV:30
• “‘with green wings’ (Daleth, Love)” -Crowley’s commentary on LXV IV:30
• “Thou art like a beautiful Nubian slave leaning her naked purple against the green pillars of marble that are above the bath.” –Liber VII II:11
• “Terraces of ilex, and tiers of onyx and opal and sardonyx leading up to the cool green porch of malachite.” –Liber VII III:8
• “There shall be a fair altar in the midst, extended upon a black stone. At the head of the altar gold, and twin images in green of the Master. In the midst a cup of green wine.” –Liber Stellæ Rubeæ, lines 7-9
• “I fly and I alight as an hawk: of mother-of-emerald are my mighty-sweeping wings. I swoop down upon the black earth; and it gladdens into green at my coming.” –Liber Tzaddi, lines 2-3
• “Now I see the figures on the wheel, which have been interpreted as the sworded Sphinx, Hermanubis and Typhon. And that is wrong. The rim of the wheel is a vivid emerald snake; in the centre of the wheel is a scarlet heart; and, impossible to explain as it is, the scarlet of the heart and the green of the snake are yet more vivid than the blinding white brilliance of the wheel.” –The Vision and the Voice, 4th Aethyr
• “For as thy blood is mingled in the cup of BABALON, so is thine heart the universal heart. Yet is it bound about with the Green Serpent, the Serpent of Delight.
• It is shown me that this heart is the heart that rejoiceth, and the serpent is the serpent of Daath, for herein all the symbols are inter changeable, for each one containeth in itself its own opposite.” –The Vision and the Voice, 5th Aethyr
• “L. the green fertile earth… L is Earth, green and fertile, because Venus, the greenness, fertility, and earthiness of things is the Lady of Libra, Lamed.” –Liber 333: The Book of Lies, ch. 86
• “And who is this Pure Fool? Lo, in the Sagas of Old Time, Legend of Scald, of Bard, of Druid, cometh he not in Green like Spring?” –Liber Aleph
• “Netzach. Emerald is Chesed and Tiphereth mingled. It is also the colour of Venus… Emerald represents the most brilliant aspect of Venus… Venus—the emerald of vegetable life and growth… Emerald is the colour of Venus in the King Scale (Column XV).” -777
• “[Earth.] Green is the middle colour of the spectrum and therefore the balanced receptacle of the totality of vibration…. The pure earth, known to the ancient Egyptians in that Equinox of the Gods over which Isis presided, was green.” –777, Elemental Attributions
• “The green of Venus suggests the vibration of vegetable growth. It is the intermediate stage between the definitely spiritual and the definitely intellectual and emotional type of vibration. In the rods and cones attribution green is the central colour, the pure passivity absorbing all: as Venus combines all the Sephiroth in one symbol.” –777, Planetary Attributions
• “Virgo has the yellowish green of young grass.” –777, Zodiacal Attributions
• “Libra is emerald green, being pre-eminently the house of Venus.” –777, Zodiacal Attributions
• “Scorpio is the greenish blue—Prussian blue—whose psychological effect upon the sensitive mind is to suggest a poisonous or putrafactive vibration. It contains the idea of life and death interpenetrating each other and reproducing each other continuously; always with the accompaniment of a certain morbid pleasure. It is the identification which one finds in Swinburne‘s best poems: ―The Garden of Proserpine, Dolores, Illicet, Anactoria, and others. The natural correspondence is the blue-green sea.” –777, Zodiacal Attributions
• “The Emerald is of the green of Venus in the King Scale.” –777, Zodiacal Attributions
• “The new doctrine set forth in this present Essay makes the primary colour of Earth not black, but green; it insists that every Disk is a living and revolving symbol. The central thesis of the Book of the Law asserts the Perfection of the Universe. In its pantheistic conception all possibilities are equal in value; each and every Point-Event is ‘a play of Nuit’, as it is written in the Book of Wisdom or Folly, ‘Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt. But whose availeth in this, let him be the chief of all!’ (AL I:22). Or, yet more comprehensively and simply: ‘Every number is infinite; there is no difference.’ (AL I:4).” –The Book of Thoth
• “But the New Aeon has brought fullness of Light; in the Minutum Mundum, Earth is no longer black, or of mixed colours, but is pure bright green.” –The Book of Thoth
• “[Atu 0] The ‘Green Man’ of the Spring Festival. ‘April Fool’. The Holy Ghost. This tradition represents the original idea adapted to the under- standing of the average peasant. The Green Man is a personification of the mysterious influence that produces the phenomena of spring. It is hard to say why it should be so, but it is so: there is a connection with the ideas of irresponsibility, of wantonness, of idealization, of romance, of starry dreaming.” –The Book of Thoth
• “0. The Fool… He is clad in green, according to the tradition of Spring; but his shoes are of the phallic gold of the sun.” –The Book of Thoth
• “V. The Hierophant… The upper ring is marked with scarlet for Horus; the two lower rings with green for Isis, and pale yellow for Osiris, respectively.” –The Book of Thoth
• “IX. The Hermit… It seems that he is contemplating—in a certain sense, adoring—the Orphic egg (greenish in colour) because it is conterminous with the Universe, while the snake which surrounds it is many-coloured to signify the iridescence of Mercury. For he is not only creative, but is the fluidic essence of Light, which is the life of the Universe.” -The Book of Thoth
• “XII. The Hanged Man… The legs are crossed so that the right leg forms a right angle with the left leg, and the arms are stretched out at an angle of 60° so as to form an equilateral triangle; this gives the symbol of the Triangle surmounted by the Cross, which represents the descent of the light into the darkness in order to re deem it. For this reason there are green disks — green, the colour of Venus, signifies Grace — at the terminations of the limbs and of the head. The air above the surface of the water is also green, infiltrated by rays of the white light of Kether. The whole figure is suspended from the Ankh, another way of figuring the formula of the Rose and Cross, while around the left foot is the Serpent, creator and destroyer, who operates all change. (This will be seen in the card which next follows.) It is notable that there is an apparent increase of darkness and solidity in proportion as the redeeming element manifests itself; but the colour of green is the colour of Venus, of the hope that lies in love. That depends upon the formulation of the Rose and Cross, of the annihilation of the self in the Beloved, the condition of progress. In this inferior darkness of death, the serpent of new life begins to stir.” -The Book of Thoth
• “XIV. Art… The robe of the figure is green, which symbolizes vegetable growth…” -The Book of Thoth
• “XIX. The Sun… The green mound represents the fertile earth, its shape, so to speak, aspiring to the heavens. But around the top of the mound is a wall, which indicates that the aspiration of the new Aeon does not mean the absence of control.” -The Book of Thoth
• “XXI. The Universe… The general colour of the traditional card is subfusc; it represents the confusion and darkness of the material world. But the New Aeon has brought fullness of Light; in the Minutum Mundum, Earth is no longer black, or of mixed colours, but is pure bright green. Similarly, the indigo of Saturn is derived from the blue velvet of the midnight sky, and the maiden of the dance represents the issue from this, yet through this, to the Eternal. This card is to-day as bright and glowing as any in the Pack.” -The Book of Thoth