I first became interested in Masonic colours when listening to a podcast2 from the Digital Freemason.
The podcast was a paper written by W Bro. Kenneth Tuckwood (Ontario), and briefly detailed some observations on colours in Freemasonry.
I discussed my interest with a close friend and he recommended I look into the subject with a view to doing a paper expanding on the broadcast.
My first point of reference was to look at what is colour?
It is simply light of different wavelengths and frequencies, and light is just one form of energy that we can actually see that is made up from photons. We are surrounded by electromagnetic waves of energy, of which colour is just a small part.
The visible spectrum of colour as we see it consists of seven main colours: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red.
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2010 - An Illumination of Masonic Colours - Kevin Allen.