Spiritual Meaning Of Colors: White
White: White contains the entire light spectrum, blending all the colors into one. This might seem opposite of what one would think, but it’s true. White represents pure love, goodness, kindness, helpfulness, and positive power. White is commonly known as a color of purity and cleanliness. White is symbolic of virginity and new life. The color white is stands for patience, purity, protection, and peace. White is the strongest of all color vibrations. White is known as the purest form of light. White is the containment of all colors, with all their aspects and properties. It is perfection, enlightenment, and fulfillment of all personal quests for self-realization. This is as perfect as a human can get. It represents a state of reaching the heights of goodness, wisdom, maturity, fairness, and other such positive attributes that are associated with perfection of the human being. It is a color of accepting all spiritual truths and being able to apply them to daily life and physical reality in a practical manner. White is the color of the master, wholeness of the self, one with all that is, and superhuman powers. White also cleanses and repels disharmony or harm. It creates immunity to unpleasantries and self doubts. It is a very stabilizing influence and is a place of no-fear. Inadequacies vanish in the color white, fears are non-existent, and ignorance is no longer a factor. It is a place of all-knowingness.
According to Richard Cavendish, editor in chief of Man Myth And Magic, Vol 2 (1985), white represents a death wish. White is symbolic of mourning in countries across the world. Angels are usually seen wearing white robes. A white candle can be put in place of any color in ceremony. Giving a white rose is symbolic of innocence, humility, and sympathy. The white color in the aura indicates health issues and depicts a lack in inner harmony.
White is a color that signifies health, wholeness and completion so it is fitting that many health and spiritual organizations wear white. It heals all illnesses and wounds in every level of human existence, including physical, mental, emotional and spiritual harm. White can be used medicinally to take away pain and bring peace to a victim. Ted Andres, in his book How To Heal With Color (1992), states, white “is strengthening… It can awaken great creativity. When in doubt as to what color to use, you can seldom go wrong with white light.” White can also be used at the beginning and end of a healing session with colors to amplify the effect of any color. The gemstone used to represent the qualities of white is clear quartz crystal.