Course XXXVIII - Teaching 14: Vocalization and Colors

The mystic relation of John the Evangelist’s initiatic Gospel begins with these words: “And the word was made flesh…”. No better image for man than the voice of a man, which may express the quick movement of creative energy, emanated from the matrix mind to join matter and vivify it.
The Atlanteans learnt how to speak just after the half of their race cycle had passed; the Aryans, who learnt the holy language of the Divine Initiates, would speak by articulating so wonderfully, that their word was a true power of God, a true Incarnate Word. By means of their voice charged with energy, they controlled elements, calmed storms and drove away wild beasts of the desert; but their power diminished when they misused their power. Now man does not speak as before, to create, but simply, to speak.
The word is a mere Foat’s movement, directly charged on the deposit of cosmic energies and reflected on the aura of the Universe.
Then the auric color of the word is closely related to the seven Colors of the Great Element, for it takes its image and coloring directly from them.
Ordinary conversations, useless and trivial talks, have little color; wise is this motto: “a barking dog does not bite”; for at the end, any person who spends his vocal energies neither does good nor does evil. But there are words of power, words expressed with the whole of heart and mind, which rise like a living being, to do good or evil.
When an old man of the ancient temples would bless, his words were a current of orange color pervading the whole aura of the person blessed. Why even today the parents’ words are so valuable? Because they are charged with the whole force of love, and because they have power to charge them with their corresponding color, which helps, alleviates and comforts the son.
Once they asked a nun why she had changed her name when she made her votes and she replied, to have a luminous name, a name that every time it were uttered, lead to think with the clarity of light.
It is very important the choice of names because there are names that by articulating them always bring sad and unpleasant colors to the aura of their owner. Many words have been said about mantras and certain powerful formulae; but where is the power of these words but in the color they emit, which is beneficial or harmful?
When several persons together chant national anthems, many times it was observed little flames going out of their mouths, and these little flames, joined to the atmosphere, would give form to a protective dome of some kind.
Why did apostles, gathered in a cenacle, according to the New Testament, speak all languages? Because the power of their vocal prayers, emitted during forty consecutive days, had given to a vibration of so deep color that would enable them to understand the word by the simple vibrational movement. Certain prayers, repeated numerous times, like the rosary, by the same reiteration of the word, establish certain wave of color, which forcefully must be beneficial.
To increase the power of the word, it is indispensable to know the value and color of every word; to achieve it, you need the respiratory exercise. Vocal organs receive directly their energy from the energetic deposit placed in the lungs; so, by means of the respiratory exercise, one can see the color of words uttered and therefore know which are useful and which are useless; when a conversation was advantageous and when it was ineffective. During the respiratory exercise, you should think of a word by uttering it during the intervals; so you will see soon how its related sound goes out, like a vapor, from your mouth.