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Form13

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Form13

Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater

1901-01-01

About This Work

A dark, void-like background is punctuated by faint, white speckles resembling distant stars. Dominating the center is a sweeping, curvilinear form rendered in shades of deep magenta, which tapers to a point on the left and expands into wave-like, layered arcs of light on the right. The form lacks solid physical boundaries, appearing instead as a nebulous, translucent energy field or gaseous cloud.

This image is a plate from the Theosophical study 'Thought-Forms', in which the authors attempt to codify the supposed clairvoyant observations of human emotions and thoughts as objective, observable phenomena in the astral plane.

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Connected Texts

Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, 'Thought-Forms'

This image is one of the illustrative plates contained within the 1901 publication defining Theosophical concepts of mental emissions.

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Theosophical movement

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British

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allegory

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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

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640 × 268 px

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