Esoteric Lesson

But we can go even further with the reversal and include the human being himself. Let us imagine a human face that has a lighter or darker color, with lighter or darker hair, and now let us imagine the light face as dark, the dark hair as light, and so on. Furthermore, where the face protrudes, we should imagine cavities, and where it recedes, we should imagine it puffed up. At the same time, the skin color changes: where it is rosy, we imagine it dark green; where it is pale, we imagine it light green.[^1] If we could feel this, we would be able to recognize this person according to his inner nature. The dark green color, for example, would show us that we are dealing with someone who is strongly rooted in the life that works in the three lower realms of nature; if the color appears light green, he would be more inclined toward the spiritual. And where one sees blue, the highest spiritual qualities would be revealed in a person. But if we first imagined the color and then transferred it in our minds to the face as it stands before us, we would come to the worst possible conclusions.