Seven Colors of the Spectrum of White Light

[HARK!]

There are seven visible colors of the spectrum.

A member here at CF just pointed out this rudimentary fact

It got me to thinking.

All of the colors are contained in white light; and darkness is the absence of light.

When we break down white light into its' components; red is at the low end of the spectrum, with violet at the high end of the spectrum.

אדם means red; and violet is associated with royalty.

Years ago, at my Messianic congregation, one of the members brought forth a teaching.

He claimed that red represents Yah's fury; and that blue represents Yah's love.

In color mixtures, mixing true blue with true red will yield purple.

Comments?

Thoughts?

 

[Laodicean60]

darkness

What colors make black?

 

[Yahudim]

What colors make black?

I am so glad that you brought this up. Black is not a color in the technical sense. Black is scientifically defined as an absence of reflected light. This will go a long way to clarifying this topic. Thank You!

 

[daq]

There are seven visible colors of the spectrum.

A member here at CF just pointed out this rudimentary fact

It got me to thinking.

All of the colors are contained in white light; and darkness is the absence of light.

When we break down white light into its' components; red is at the low end of the spectrum, with violet at the high end of the spectrum

אדם means red; and violet is associated with royalty.

Years ago, at my Messianic congregation, one of the members brought forth a teaching.

He claimed that red represents Yah's fury; and that blue represents Yah's love.

In color mixtures, mixing true blue with true red will yield purple.

Comments?

Thoughts?

Tekeleth-blue represents the Zeal of the Most High.
As we know from Exodus 28:31 the m'iyl, (מעיל), is all of tekeleth-blue.

Isaiah 59:15-17 KJV
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke [H4598 m'iyl].

The cloke in the above is a m'iyl and represents the Zeal of the Most High according to the statement.
Thus we have: tekeleth-blue = zeal.

 

[Yahudim]

Tekeleth-blue represents the Zeal of the Most High.
As we know from Exodus 28:31 the m'iyl, (מעיל), is all of tekeleth-blue.

Isaiah 59:15-17 KJV
15 Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.
16 And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.
17 For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloke [H4598 m'iyl].

The cloke in the above is a m'iyl and represents the Zeal of the Most High according to the statement.
Thus we have: tekeleth-blue = zeal.

On the other end of the spectrum we have Red which I'm sure you know relates to Adam via adamah and Esau via Edom. This is going to be a great asset to the Seven Matrix thread! Thanks!

 

[daq]

On the other end of the spectrum we have Red which I'm sure you know relates to Adam via adamah and Esau via Edom. This is going to be a great asset to the Seven Matrix thread! Thanks!

Sad to say, but I suspect that the blue will be the easiest, and that is because so much confusion has been created concerning the colors mentioned in the scripture. It would probably be best to use some image files for easy reference, the first and most logical being of course an image file of a typical rainbow: and from that we have various clues from the Prophets including the Apocalypse.

We can see from this that in the middle of the heavenly bow are the colors yellow, which would be the closest to the white light of the sun, and green, which would most likely be referred to as emerald. The light of the sun is more white than yellow, and so bright that we cannot even look directly at it for more than an instant, (and much longer than that, and we can even be blinded).

We have some colors mentioned in the Apocalypse where the rainbow is included, in the first reference therein, and both of these colors are intended, the bright white color is called iaspis, (the Hebrew transliterated would be yashpheh), and sardine, but neither of these colors seems to be correctly understood by most of the commentators I have read regarding these things, and the other color is the bow of emerald which is said to be roundabout the throne.

Revelation 4:2-3 KJV
2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
3 And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper [G2393 ιασπις, iaspis] and a sardine stone: [G4555 σαρδινος, sardinos] and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald [G4664 σμαραγδινος, smaragdinos].

Jasper is typically thought to be red but this is not the case in the text where the stones of the breastplate of judgment are named, at least not according to the Septuagint rendering of those names into Greek. In Exodus 28:20 we have the Hebrew word yashpheh as the third color of stone mentioned in the fourth row, however, the LXX produces onyx, (ονυχιον), for that color of stone, and although onyx does come in various colors, including shades of red and pink, this almost surely means white onyx as the most abundant and common color of onyx.

Exodus 28:20 KJV (Hebrew text)
20 And the fourth row a beryl, and an onyx, and a jasper: [H3471 יָשׁפֵה yashpheh] they shall be set in gold in their inclosings.

So the third stone in the fourth row is yashpheh, which the KJV renders as jasper, but in the LXX it is rendered as onyx.

Exodus 28:20 OG LXX
20 και ο στιχος ο τεταρτος χρυσολιθος και βηρυλλιον και ονυχιον περικεκαλυμμενα χρυσιω συνδεδεμενα εν χρυσιω εστωσαν κατα στιχον αυτων

Exodus 28:20 Brenton Septuagint Translation
20 and the fourth row, a chrysolite, and a beryl, and an onyx stone, [ονυχιον] set round with gold, bound together with gold: let them be according to their row.

Why is this important? Scholarship says that sardinos does not come from the fish, a sardine, but I would strongly suggest that it does indeed come from the fish, that is, the belly portion which is a creamy and silvery bright white color: and this can indeed be described as white onyx, and thus we have two colors mentioned in the Apocalypse passage quoted above that describe, by color, the purity and bright-shiny white light and cleanness and holiness of the One seated upon the throne.

Now look at this catch of Kinneret Sardines:

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A bright white belly underside with a bow of emerald on the top portion of the fish? Is this an original or ancient species to Kinneret? I don't know, but sardines were certainly there in the first century, and most have the same silvery-shiny white underbelly, although there are varying colors and stripes on the top half of the fish depending on their classifications. The silvery-white shiny underbelly of the sardine is the most likely white color of the Greek words sardinos, iaspis, and onuxion, and probably also the Hebrew word yashpheh. It's a shiny white onyx color which is like the white light of the sun.

 

[daq]

We find the second reference to the rainbow in the Apocalypse in chapter ten, and therein we see a Mighty Messenger, and surely it is the same One who is clothed in clean bright white linen in Daniel 12, who stands upon the waters of the Yor, for both raise the hand(s) and swear by the One Living forever and ever, (Dan 12:7, Rev 10:5-6). And in the Apocalypse he is clothed with a cloud, (the clean bright white garment of the heavens), and he has the rainbow upon his head, and his face shines as the sun: brilliant white light that cannot be looked upon with the natural eyes of man, (and if you now look back at the image file of the rainbow in my previous post, the face of the Mighty Messenger would be the bright white in the center of the rainbow in this imagery: for the bow is upon his head and his face shines as the brilliant white light of the sun).

Revelation 10:1 KJV
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

This one is not one of the seven because the seven are on his head:

 

[Yahudim]

We find the second reference to the rainbow in the Apocalypse in chapter ten, and therein we see a Mighty Messenger, and surely it is the same One who is clothed in clean bright white linen in Daniel 12, who stands upon the waters of the Yor, for both raise the hand(s) and swear by the One Living forever and ever, (Dan 12:7, Rev 10:5-6). And in the Apocalypse he is clothed with a cloud, (the clean bright white garment of the heavens), and he has the rainbow upon his head, and his face shines as the sun: brilliant white light that cannot be looked upon with the natural eyes of man, (and if you now look back at the image file of the rainbow in my previous post, the face of the Mighty Messenger would be the bright white in the center of the rainbow in this imagery: for the bow is upon his head and his face shines as the brilliant white light of the sun).

Revelation 10:1 KJV
1 And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire:

This one is not one of the seven because the seven are on his head:

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Shalom Daq,

I hate to be a spoil-sport, but have you considered the obvious? How about the natural order of white light refractions?

1. Adam - Red
2. Noah - Orange
3. Abraham - Yellow
4. Jacob - Green
5. Moses - Light Blue
6. David - Blue
7. Yeshua - Purple

And White? 'There is only One Who is good...' (Light & Darkness, Good & Evil, Blessings & Curses, Life & Death)

Just thinking out loud, so to speak...

In His Love,

 

[daq]

Shalom Daq,

I hate to be a spoil-sport, but have you considered the obvious? How about the natural order of white light refractions?

1. Adam - Red
2. Noah - Orange
3. Abraham - Yellow
4. Jacob - Green
5. Moses - Light Blue
6. David - Blue
7. Yeshua - Purple

And White? 'There is only One Who is good...' (Light & Darkness, Good & Evil, Blessings & Curses, Life & Death)

Just thinking out loud, so to speak...

In His Love,

I'm not saying that I have not been speculative, for it is practically impossible not to speculate when it comes to such a topic, so I'll take your offering with a grain of salt too: but I would also like to ask, what about Yitzhak? why skip him in your list?

I understand that you wish to fit this into the revelation you are sharing in your other thread but wasn't the land promise/oath to Yitzhak also? Isn't that what we keep reading over and over again in the Torah? In fact the statement begins with Yoseph in Genesis 50:24.

That would mean that the color corresponding to Yitzhak would be green, (the promised seed, which is Meshiah according to Paul), and the color corresponding to Yakob would then be light blue, and the color corresponding to Mosheh would be zeal blue, and the color corresponding to king David would be purple for royalty, (and Meshiah is also called Son of David).

???

Did I leave out Meshiah? No, I didn't, for Paul calls him the last Adam, (1 Cor 15:45), and also the second man from the heavens, (1 Cor 15:47), so he is likened to the first, but without sin, and Savior of the world. If he is likened to the first, but is not the first, then he is a new beginning, and thus, the eighth in a count of seven which is a return to the first, (and he restores Eden in the supernal way).

So then, as for seven covenants, he first expounds the Torah and Prophets to the full, adding the Grace and the Truth which were missing in the interpretations of the rulers of the people: then he confirms all seven covenants, and that is the eighth.

Do you see the same pattern in my previous posts? The seven covenants would correspond to the seven colors of the rainbow on the head of the Mighty Messenger in Revelation 10:1. The Messenger himself is not one of the seven messengers, just as his covenant is not one of the seven covenants, but is the eighth covenant, which includes the seven and is authoritative over all. I always try to note and keep in mind the patterns, stereotypes, and typologies, and keep them in alignment in all things regardless of the subject matter, and this is also very helpful with parables.

 

[Laodicean60]

 

[HARK!]

Sad to say, but I suspect that the blue will be the easiest, and that is because so much confusion has been created concerning the colors mentioned in the scripture. It would probably be best to use some image files for easy reference, the first and most logical being of course an image file of a typical rainbow: and from that we have various clues from the Prophets including the Apocalypse.

Thanks Daq,

I had already copied a spectrum image to paste in the OP; but it's obvious that I forgot to paste it. I like yours more than the one I found; so I'll add yours to the OP.

 

[HARK!]

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As was already explained, this is what happens when paints are mixed. Red paint absorbs all of the frequencies of the visible spectrum, except for red. Red is reflected; so that is why we see red. It works the same way for the primary colors of yellow and blue.

When it comes to black, "none" of the frequencies that compose white light are reflected.

However, here is what we see when we superimpose the the primary colors of light onto a white screen:

The addition of the primary colors of light can be demonstrated using a light box. The light box illuminates a screen with the three primary colors - red (R), green (G) and blue (B). The lights are often the shape of circles. The result of adding two primary colors of light is easily seen by viewing the overlap of the two or more circles of primary light. The different combinations of colors produced by red, green and blue are shown in the graphic below. (CAUTION: Because of the way that different monitors and different web browsers render the colors on the computer monitor, there may be slight variations from the intended colors.)

Physics Tutorial: Color Addition

The production of various colors of light by the mixing of the three primary colors of light is known as color addition. Color addition principles can be used to make predictions of the colors that would result when different colored lights are mixed. For instance, red light and blue light add...

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[HARK!]

I'm not saying that I have not been speculative, for it is practically impossible not to speculate when it comes to such a topic, so I'll take your offering with a grain of salt too: but I would also like to ask, what about Yitzhak? why skip him in your list?

I understand that you wish to fit this into the revelation you are sharing in your other thread but wasn't the land promise/oath to Yitzhak also? Isn't that what we keep reading over and over again in the Torah? In fact the statement begins with Yoseph in Genesis 50:24.

That would mean that the color corresponding to Yitzhak would be green, (the promised seed, which is Meshiah according to Paul), and the color corresponding to Yakob would then be light blue, and the color corresponding to Mosheh would be zeal blue, and the color corresponding to king David would be purple for royalty, (and Meshiah is also called Son of David).

???

Did I leave out Meshiah? No, I didn't, for Paul calls him the last Adam, (1 Cor 15:45), and also the second man from the heavens, (1 Cor 15:47), so he is likened to the first, but without sin, and Savior of the world. If he is likened to the first, but is not the first, then he is a new beginning, and thus, the eighth in a count of seven which is a return to the first, (and he restores Eden in the supernal way).

So then, as for seven covenants, he first expounds the Torah and Prophets to the full, adding the Grace and the Truth which were missing in the interpretations of the rulers of the people: then he confirms all seven covenants, and that is the eighth.

Do you see the same pattern in my previous posts? The seven covenants would correspond to the seven colors of the rainbow on the head of the Mighty Messenger in Revelation 10:1. The Messenger himself is not one of the seven messengers, just as his covenant is not one of the seven covenants, but is the eighth covenant, which includes the seven and is authoritative over all. I always try to note and keep in mind the patterns, stereotypes, and typologies, and keep them in alignment in all things regardless of the subject matter, and this is also very helpful with parables.

Is there a covenant with the day?

Is there a covenant with the night?

Is there a covenant with the Levites?

(CLV) Jer 33:20
Thus says Yahweh: If you could annul My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night so that daytime and night fail to come about in their proper time,

(CLV) Jer 33:21
then also My covenant could be annulled with David My servant, so that he should not come to have a son reigning on his throne, and that with the Levites, the priests, My ministers.

 

[daq]

Is there a covenant with the day?

Is there a covenant with the night?

Is there a covenant with the Levites?

(CLV) Jer 33:20
Thus says Yahweh: If you could annul My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night so that daytime and night fail to come about in their proper time,

(CLV) Jer 33:21
then also My covenant could be annulled with David My servant, so that he should not come to have a son reigning on his throne, and that with the Levites, the priests, My ministers.

Yeah, that's a good point. In my remarks you have quoted I was trying to stay within the parameters of what Yahudim is presenting in his other thread. There is also the covenant of peace for the covenant of an everlasting priesthood with Phinehas the son of Eleazar but I didn't mention it because at this point I can only assume that Yahudim has those things covered or plans on covering them at some point.

 

[daq]

As was already explained, this is what happens when paints are mixed. Red paint absorbs all of the frequencies of the visible spectrum, except for red. Red is reflected; so that is why we see red. It works the same way for the primary colors of yellow and blue.

When it comes to black, "none" of the frequencies that compose white light are reflected.

However, here is what we see when we superimpose the the primary colors of light onto a white screen:

The addition of the primary colors of light can be demonstrated using a light box. The light box illuminates a screen with the three primary colors - red (R), green (G) and blue (B). The lights are often the shape of circles. The result of adding two primary colors of light is easily seen by viewing the overlap of the two or more circles of primary light. The different combinations of colors produced by red, green and blue are shown in the graphic below. (CAUTION: Because of the way that different monitors and different web browsers render the colors on the computer monitor, there may be slight variations from the intended colors.)

Physics Tutorial: Color Addition

The production of various colors of light by the mixing of the three primary colors of light is known as color addition. Color addition principles can be used to make predictions of the colors that would result when different colored lights are mixed. For instance, red light and blue light add...

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Thanks for the link, and, from that link:

Primary Colors of Light
The subject of color perception can be simplified if we think in terms of primary colors of light. We have already learned that white is not a color at all, but rather the presence of all the frequencies of visible light. When we speak of white light, we are referring to ROYGBIV - the presence of the entire spectrum of visible light.

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Let's think about this for a moment: what are the chances or possibility that the ancients understood this much about light? Is it even possible that they might know that all seven colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, produce white light? I would think that most would probably say that there is almost no way they could have had this much knowledge and understanding of light physics.

How is it therefore that the scripture and Prophets appear to know all about this?

There are seven stars in the right hand of the Word, the Torah scroll, (in the kephalidi-header of the Sefer, Breshiyt 1, which is on the right hand side). Moreover the same seven are the seven Spirits before the throne. Moreover there are seven Spirits mentioned through the scripture, Ruach haYom, (Gen 3:8), Ruach Mishpat, Ruach Ba'ar, (Isa 4:4), Ruach Chokmah, Ruach 'Etsah, Ruach Da'ath, (Isa 11:2), and Ruach Chen, (Zec 12:10, Heb 10:29). Moreover they also have names in the writings which correspond, such as Uriel, Light of El or Flame of El, and so on.

Moreover there are seven "I am" statements in the fourth Gospel account, and they also correspond to the seven Messengers, who also correspond to the seven colors of the rainbow.

1) I am the Light of the world, (Uriel, Light of El, Henok 20).
2) I am the Bread of Life, (Raphael, Healing of El, Henok 20).
3) I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life, (Reuel/Raguel, Friend of El, Henok 20).
4) I am the Good Shepherd, (Miykael, set over the heart, Henok 20, over the holy people, Daniel 12:1).
5) I am the Vine, (Seruqael/Soreqael, Vine of El, Henok 20).
6) I am the Door, (Gabriel, Gaber/Geber of El, Henok 20).
7) I am the Resurrection and the Life, (Remiel, whom El set over those who rise, Henok 20).

If you are all seven, which color of light are you?
That would be the Pure White Light which isn't even a color!

 

[Yahudim]

Hi @daq

I did not mention Isaac because he was under the covenant of his father Abraham concerning the land. In some ways, Isaac was more of a pass-through concerning the covenant. When Adonai spoke to Isaac, he did not alter the terms of His covenant with Abraham. Instead, the promises made to Abraham was repeated nearly word for word and attributed by Adonai to Abraham due to Abraham's obedience. (see Genesis 26:1-5

• He is the only patriarch that did not journey outside Canaan, in fact was ordered by Adonai remain in Canaan.
• Both Abraham and Jacob journeyed in areas from the Euphrates to the Nile as specified in the promise.
• He was the only Patriarch that Adonai did not change his name.
• It was under the promises in Abraham's covenant that Moshe brought Israel out of Egypt. (See Genesis 15:12-19)

 

[HARK!]

Thanks for the link, and, from that link:

Primary Colors of Light
The subject of color perception can be simplified if we think in terms of primary colors of light. We have already learned that white is not a color at all, but rather the presence of all the frequencies of visible light. When we speak of white light, we are referring to ROYGBIV - the presence of the entire spectrum of visible light.

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Let's think about this for a moment: what are the chances or possibility that the ancients understood this much about light? Is it even possible that they might know that all seven colors of the rainbow, ROYGBIV, produce white light? I would think that most would probably say that there is almost no way they could have had this much knowledge and understanding of light physics.

I suppose that they had prisms back in those days.

I suspect that they had some understanding of science back in those days too; but maybe they weren't as easily deceived.

Indeed, let's think about this for a moment, as opposed to just taking scientific consensus as a substitute for critical thinking.

There is much evidence that the Ancients knew that the earth was a sphere, long before consensus was reached that it was flat.

Let's get started.

Photons in the visible spectrum, at a specific frequency, are perceived as a specific color.

If we change the frequency; the perceived color changes.

If we add a second frequency of visible light, to a existing frequency, of light; the perceived color changes.

By changing the intensity of either of those two light frequencies, the perceived color will change.

Add a third light source, at yet a different frequency, and the perceived color will change again.

By superimposing the correct three frequencies of light, at varying intensities, all colors can be presented.

It's just a matter of achieving the right balance of those three frequencies.

The balance of those three frequencies of light, determines the color.

Remember, there are three light sources in this model.

Now let's set up this model in a dark room, in a theoretically ideal environment; where all of the surfaces, of the dark room completely absorb all light. With our three lights suspended from the ceiling, the floor will appear pitch black. If the lights are turned off; the floor will still appear pitch black.

Pull out a white sheet of paper; place it on the floor; and project the light onto it.

As this theoretically ideal room reflects no light; all that can be seen on the floor, is the paper, and only when a light is on.

By creating different balances of intensity of those three lights all colors can be achieved.

However, according to scientific consensus, when the balance of those lights achieve the non-color of white; the paper on the floor wont be visible; because white isn't a color.

 

[HARK!]

When we speak of white light, we are referring to ROYGBIV

For many years now, I have found it puzzling that indigo is not represented here:

Nor here:

Outside of the primary and secondary colors, there are countless colors, including indigo.

Why do you suppose that indigo gets special treatment?

 

[daq]

For many years now, I have found it puzzling that indigo is not represented here:

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Nor here:

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Outside of the primary and secondary colors, there are countless colors, including indigo.

Why do you suppose that indigo gets special treatment?

Without looking it up to find an answer I do not know, nor do I know if there is even an answer, but it sounds like you may have an answer so I would defer back to you, if you know.

 

[HARK!]

Without looking it up to find an answer I do not know, nor do I know if there is even an answer, but it sounds like you may have an answer so I would defer back to you, if you know.

I don't know. I'm still puzzled.