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At a street acident - Annie Besant Thought Form - Project Gutenberg eText 16269

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At a Street Accident (Thought Form)

At a street acident - Annie Besant Thought Form - Project Gutenberg eText 16269

Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater

1901

About This Work

The image is set against a solid black background, featuring two distinct, luminous forms. At the top, an oval shape with a pale, mint-green center is enclosed by a vibrant, thick magenta ring. Below it sits a larger, roughly spherical mass characterized by mottled, blended patches of moss-green and saturated magenta, suggesting a pulsating or gaseous quality. The textures appear soft and atmospheric, rendered with a watercolor-like transparency.

This work is a primary visual document of Theosophical attempts to map the human psyche and the 'astral plane' through clairvoyant observation. It stems from the 1901 study 'Thought-Forms', where Besant and Leadbeater argued that human emotions and thoughts manifest as semi-autonomous energetic entities observable by those with developed psychic senses.

Connected Texts

Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, 'Thought-Forms' (1901)

This image is an original illustration plate from the foundational text on Theosophical clairvoyance.

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