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Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Ancient Mysteries and Secret Societies: Which Have Influenced Modern Masonic Symbolism (24)
The second division was that of Bard (Beirdd). Its members were robed in sky-blue, to represent harmony and truth, and to them was assigned the labor of memorizing, at least in part, the twenty thousand verses of Druidic sacred poetry. They were often pictured with the primitive British or Irish harp--an instrument strung with human hair, and having as many strings as there were ribs on one side of the human body. These Bards were often chosen as teachers of candidates seeking entrance into the Druidic Mysteries. Neophytes wore striped robes of blue, green, and white, these being the three sacred colors of the Druidic Order.
The Works of Dionysius the Areopagite
The Celestial Hierarchy, Caput XV (4)
The shining and glowing raiment, I think, signifies the Divine likeness after the image of fire, and their enlightening, in consequence of their repos...
The Secret Doctrine of the Rosicrucians
The Aura and Auric Colors (23)
The Blue Group . Blue represents the religious, or spiritual nature, and its presence always indicates the existence and activity of that part of the...
Pyramid Texts
Texts Of Miscellaneous Contents, Utterances 540-552 (549)
1349 To say: Back, Bbwi, red-eared, with coloured hind-quarters, 1349 pass thou the cutlet, from thy chapel (or, of thy lady), over thy mouth.
The Conference of the Birds
Invocation (13)
He gave it the black robes of the Abbasides and a garment of unwoven brocade worthy of the peacock.
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book I: Introductory Instructions Concerning the Experiencing of Reality During the Third Stage of the Bardo, Called the Chonyid Bardo, when the Karmic Apparitions Appear (3.1)
If not liberated even by that, then that called the third Bardo or the Chonyid Bardo dawneth.
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXII (5)
O thou who art called aloud ( bis ), second verse. Thy head is ... woven by a woman from Asia; thy face shines brighter than the moon; the top of thy...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CLXXII (8)
O thou who art called aloud ( bis ), third verse. Thy neck is adorned with gold, it is girt with electron; thy throat and thy lungs are like Anubis;...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Introductory Verses (21.1)
Above, in the Great Bardo-Thodol, The Bardo called Chonyid was taught; And now, of the Bardo called Sidpa, The vivid reminder is brought.