Even in the material realm, a whole palette of colors emerges from the blending of a basic set of energies of light.  People strive to explain its fascinating complexity through additive color combination, subtractive color combination, or the primary triad of the color wheel.

The additive scheme assumes red, blue, and green as its primary colors, while its secondary colors, cyan, magenta, and yellow are the primary colors of the subtractive.  These ideas underlie the immense and intriguing enterprises of graphic design, computer visualization, and printing.  But when the essence of colors penetrates to the core of the human being, an ancient and visceral foundation is revealed, a foundation of uncreated and unalterable ideas—the blue, red, and gold.  Artists and philosophers have pondered and grappled with these colors for ages; they have built, torn down, and rebuilt.  Beautiful cities, communities, art, music, and science have emerged from combining the elementary ideas in creative ways.  From the beginning, many have tried to redefine the colors, engendering discord with the visceral foundation.  But the three ideas persist unchanged, the primal reason of our existence.

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