Christopher Hills identifies this faculty with the colour yellow,  Barbara Ann Brennan also describes the etheric mental body as yellow in colour.  The yellow in question would be  a bright cadmium yellow, not a dull yellow

glyph by Rowena Pattee Kryder  from her Gaia Matrix Oracle

Reason pertains to the head, rather than the heart.  As such, reason allies itself with science, but does not sit comfortably with religion.

The tools of reason are philosophy and science

In esoteric cosmology, reason is a faculty of the Mental Plane, and specifically of the middle mental body.

Christopher Hills identifies this faculty with the colour yellow.

Concerning the personality type dominated by this faculty he gives the following insghtful summary

Intellectual thinking type

"This type analyses everything and must know what and where. Uses intellect to cut nip events into true or false, past or future; and remains detached from the immediate now. Must know logical framework before capable of understanding anything, yet seeks originality and change. Accepts conclusions based on theoretical content and temporary proofs in order to justly putting "content" Into an ideal or hypothetical form. Often feels emptiness and coldness in relationships develops zealousness to compensate. Experiences time at continuos flow of process. Insists on details and logical supremacy in all matters.  Is self-assertive and relates to intellectual thinking.  Drive towards change.  Love of novelty and mental excitement."

This is the Introvertive or Extravertive sensation-Thinking type of Carl Jung.

Both Christopher Hills and Barbara Ann Brennan identify the yellow intellect with the navel or Manipura chakra.  The only reason for this association is that the yellow is the third colour in the spectrum and the middle mental body the third etheric body, therefore the corresponding chakra has to be the third one from the bottom, the manipura.  This association is however quite at variance with the consciousness that is usually associated with the gut, which is primarily instinctual and lower emotional.

The Middle Intellect, being the function of the brain and thus head centered, is best associated with the Ajna or brow chakra.

Corresponding astrological planets and signs

It is important to realise though that this is the modern mercury of humanistic astrology, not teh Hermes/Mercury of  Hellenistic Hermeticism and medieaval, rennaisance, and post-rennaisance alchemy.

Corresponding kabbalistic sefirah

In traditional Judaic Kabbalah, especially the Hassidic Kabbalah of the Chabad movement, the corresponding sefirah is Daat - knowledge.  (Daat or Daath however has a totally different menaing in Hermetic Qabalah - there it refers to the higher intuitive mind)..

Mind

The Mental Body

back to typology page

Persona-Purusha index page

page history