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But the scales aren't meant to accurately portray the "true" colors, which don't, strictly speaking, exist on this plane, but merely to serve as an X factor to us lowly humans. Even by their own admission, the tables don't portray the "Limitless Light" (the purest they get is the unportrayable "brilliance" of the King scale) but a representation of a representation.
I guess thats the 'magical color theory' but I feel it does little for its application as a magical technology as I see influence of a color, on a psyche in more subjective terms, in relation to the processes in the observer more than I see the validity of a color being able to instill an influence by some power or enrgy of its 'own' .... but both ideas seem to have magical validity and Crowley never seemed to give one presidence over the other.
I have often heard people on LSD "hear" color and "taste" sound, although my own limited experience in the area showed no such results, unfortunately (although colors did seem "newer" somehow, but that's a story for another time).
It depends on whether the LSD gets into your cognitive pathways inside your brain. The same effect can come about by synesthesia, ( particularly color-graphemic synesthesia), other psychedelic drugs, physical trauma (e.g. a stroke) or 'cross-wiring' ( e.g. a temporal lobe epilepsy seizure).
It is highly probable Mathers experimented with such things, and that the scales were influenced by these experiments.
Maybe with Hashish in Paris but I think the time scale is wrong for Mathers to be on acid or mescaline or any A.L. that Crowley developed from mushrooms (as I think that was after the Mathers period )