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toward applying that particular therapy. These differences will be discussed and compared with one another within the individual section. In conclusion, a summary of the information presented in this dissertation will be discussed and compared with each light and colour healing modality, as well as their connection to the philosophy of Homoeopathy. 1.2 Introduction 1.2.1 The Use of Light and Colour as Therapy in Antiquity Colour and light have been used in many different ways throughout history. To primitive man, its use was mainly symbolic with a simplistic idea of what each colour represented. Paints were created form from certain mixtures of plant resins and crushed rocks. Different colours were assigned to their various gods and to the elements of nature. During war or worship, these colours were used to paint their faces and bodies to inspire ferocity, protective or devotional powers. The Ancient Egyptians used mineral compounds to create six colours: green, red, blue, yellow black and white. Each colour had a specific symbolic meaning. For example blue, made by combining iron and copper oxides with silica and calcium, represented birth, creation and connection to the sky/divine realms and black pigments, created from carbon compounds such as soot, ground charcoal or burnt animal bones, symbolised death, the underworld and paradoxically, rebirth or renewal. Each of these colours had great significance in all forms of worship and art (Leven, 2000). The use of light and colour as a healing agent also appears to have appeared in the ancient Egyptian and Greek eras. According to four thousand years ago, in the ancient healing temples of Greece (at Heliopolis: “helios” meaning Sun, “opolis” meaning city) and Egypt (also named Heliopolis), sunlight and colour were considered Divine and used in both in temple rituals and as a Divine healing agent. The priests performed healing rituals using different coloured crystals to separate white light into one of the seven colours of the rainbow/spectrum to shine onto a sick patient. Sick individuals were bathed in a specific colour, according to what was deemed necessary for their healing. It is claimed that the priests primarily treated the spiritual difficulties a patient was presenting with and this would then, in turn, cure the mental and physical ailments (Leven, 2000). The Greeks referred to the sunning of the body as heliosis, after their sun god Helios, and they used to take sand baths in the sun, which they called arenation to cure diseases of the body and soul (Hobday, 1999). 2PDF Image | THE USE OF LIGHT AND COLOUR AS A HEALING MODALITY
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