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Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater
On the left (labeled 23), a sharp, straight, bright red streak moves diagonally downward, representing a focused, sustained feeling of anger. On the right (labeled 22), a dark brown, cloudy mass emits a jagged, lightning-like red bolt, representing an outburst of sudden, explosive anger. The forms are rendered in a simple, illustrative style against a void-like black field to emphasize their energetic, non-physical nature.
These images are plates from the 1901 Theosophical treatise 'Thought-Forms,' which attempted to visualize human emotions and thoughts as distinct geometric and colored entities in the astral plane.
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Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, 'Thought-Forms' (1901)
This image is a plate from their foundational Theosophical study on the visual representation of clairvoyant observations of the astral plane.
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