Thought Forms: Sympathy and Pride

The image features two abstract, ribbon-like forms rendered in shades of orange and yellow against a stark black void. The upper form is a simple, horizontal sine wave, while the lower form is more complex, looping back on itself to create a coiled, spiral motion. Both shapes possess a luminous, vaporous quality typical of early 20th-century occult attempts to visualize psychic phenomena.

This image is plate 19 from the seminal Theosophical text 'Thought-Forms' (1901), in which the authors claimed to clairvoyantly perceive the colors and shapes of human thoughts and emotions. The upper form represents the vibration of sympathy, while the lower form represents the vibration of pride.