In earlier times, some people believed that the firmament
was an enormous blue sapphire in which the Earth was embedded. Could there be a
more apt image to describe the beauty of an immaculate sapphire? And yet this
gem comes not in one but in all the blue shades of that firmament, from the
deep blue of the evening sky to the shining mid-blue of a lovely summer's day
which casts its spell over us.
However, this magnificent gemstone also comes in many other
colours: not only in the transparent greyish-blue of a distant horizon but also
in the gloriously colourful play of light in a sunset – in yellow, pink, orange
and purple. Sapphires really are gems of the sky, although they are found in
the hard ground of our 'blue planet'.
Blue is the main colour of the sapphire. Blue is also the
Sophire favourite colour of some 50 per cent of all people, men and women alike.
We associate this colour, strongly linked to the sapphire as it is, with
feelings of sympathy and harmony, friendship and loyalty: feelings which belong
to qualities that prove their worth in the long term – feelings in which it is
not so much effervescent passion that is to the fore, but rather composure,
mutual understanding and indestructible trust.
Thus the blue of the sapphire has become a colour which fits
in with everything that is constant and reliable. That is one of the reasons
why women in many countries wish for a sapphire ring on their engagement. The
sapphire symbolises loyalty, but at the same time it gives expression to
people's love and longing.
Perhaps the most famous example of this blue is to be found
in music, in George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue". And the blue of
the sapphire even appears where nothing at all counts except clear-sightedness
and concentrated mental effort. The first computer which succeeded in defeating
a world chess champion bore the remarkable name 'Deep Blue'.
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