Color Magic for Beginners by Richard Webster

Author:Richard Webster
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: new age, color, magic, psychology, healing, aura, candle, chakra, ritual, crystal, gemstone, feng shui, flower, mandalas, meditation, numerology, visualization, winter35, spring35, summer35s
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2011-12-14T00:00:00+00:00

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9: Mandalas

Mandalas are designs that were originally drawn to symbolize the universe. They are described as sacred art because they symbolize spiritual, cosmic, and psychic order. They are used both for meditation and for sacred rites. Mandalas can be made in any shape, but are usually circular. This is not surprising, since the word mandala is a Sanskrit word that means circle. In effect, a magic circle is a form of mandala, as it contains the energy that is created during the ritual, while providing protection at the same time.

Mandalas are useful tools for focusing the mind. In the East they are frequently used in this way to help gain spiritual and clairvoyant insights. The person symbolically enters into the mandala in the course of his or her meditation and becomes spiritually renewed.

You may have seen or heard about the beautiful sand mandalas that Tibetan monks create. They are called dul-tson-kyil-khor, which means “mandala of colored powders.” The monks spend days constructing a magnificent, colorful mandala by pouring colored sand through a fine metal funnel. The process begins by consecrating the ground the mandala will be constructed on. The outline of the mandala is then drawn in white ink, and the mandala is constructed from the center outwards. This symbolizes creation from a single cell to an entire world. The traditional colors for Tibetan mandalas are white, red, yellow, green, and blue. Gold is sometimes used, also.

Typically, the mandala consists of an outer square that encloses one, two, three, or four concentric circles. The outermost circle is a symbolic ring of fire. This keeps the uninitiated out and also symbolizes the burning of ignorance. Inside this circle is a ring of diamonds that symbolizes illumination, another ring that symbolizes eight graveyards signifying perception, and an inner circle of lotus leaves that symbolize spiritual rebirth. Inside these circles is another square divided into four triangles by lines joining the opposite corners. Each triangle contains another circle inside it. A fifth circle is drawn in the center of the mandala. Inside these are placed symbols of five divinities.

The process of creating the mandala provides enormous healing energy. Once the mandala is complete, its role is over, and a ceremony is conducted to release the healing energy into the world. The mandala is destroyed by sweeping the sand in to the center of the circle and placing it into an urn. The sand is poured into a nearby river. From here it ultimately reaches the ocean and travels around the world spreading peace and harmony everywhere it reaches.

Mandalas are also used for therapeutic purposes. This is because they clearly reveal the artist’s moods and feelings at the time he or she created it.

Artists have always known this, of course, but Carl Jung (1875–1961), the great Swiss psychiatrist, was the first to discover just how beneficial it was for mental and emotional healing. His patients clearly revealed their most intimate feelings and moods inside the mandalas they created.

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