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Original fileThe image features five distinct, equilateral green triangles arranged in a dispersed pattern against a textured, earthy-brown field. The background has a soft, cloudy quality with varied depths of dark red and brown pigment. The triangles appear as flat, solid shapes with sharp edges, contrasting with the amorphous, organic quality of the surrounding space.
This image is a plate from the theosophical treatise 'Thought-Forms' (1901/1905), where the authors attempt to visualize human mental states as distinct geometric and chromatic phenomena. In their system, green represents sympathy or intellectual adaptation, and the arrangement is intended to depict the resonance of sympathetic vibrations.
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Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, 'Thought-Forms'
This work was originally published as a plate illustrating the authors' theories on the visualization of psychic and mental states.
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chromolithography
paper
Modernist
Theosophical Society
allegory
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Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
190 × 448 px
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