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Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater
This image shows a singular, claw-like object colored in muted shades of brownish-pink and grey, floating in a dark, empty space. The structure begins as a sturdy, unified shaft on the left and radiates outward into several distinct, hook-ended fingers or filaments that curve toward the right. Its texture appears somewhat fibrous or fleshy, and the composition is sparse, emphasizing the isolated, barbed morphology of the shape.
This image is part of the Theosophical study 'Thought-Forms', which argues that human emotions and thoughts manifest as semi-autonomous entities with distinct colors and shapes, visible to clairvoyants. It reflects the intersection of late 19th-century occultism and early 20th-century experiments in visualizing the non-material 'astral' realm.
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Besant, Annie and C.W. Leadbeater, 'Thought-Forms'
This print is an original plate from the 1901 publication detailing the authors' clairvoyant observations of thought-vibrations.
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lithography
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Modern
British
allegory
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
640 × 340 px
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