What do ideas look like? This clairvoyant view of the shape, color, and atmospheric effect of mental energy includes black-and-white drawings and color plates to convey a graphic representation of the power of thought.
His worldwide lectures presented a new viewpoint to thousands of people..
He unfolded and perfected his own psychic faculties under the guidance of his Adept teacher and in 1893 began his clairvoyant investigations, on occasion collaborating with Annie Besant , the second President of the Theosophical Society.
He was a highly developed clairvoyant and the author of over thirty books on the spiritual life and on the psychic nature of man.
He spent some years in Sri Lanka working for the revival of Buddhism, and later became the Presiding Bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church, which seeks to combine the preservation of the Catholic sacraments with the widest measure of freedom of thought and interpretation of the scriptures.
Charles Webster Leadbeater (1847-1934) was a Church of England clergyman until he joined the Theosophical Society in 1883.
About author(s): Annie Besant (1847-1933), early president of the Theosophical Society, fought for women\'s rights in Britain, supported the self-determination of India, translated the Bhagavad Gita, and sponsored Krishnamurti.
With this belief and hope we send it on its way.
Annie Besant herself describes the book\'s purpose as being to serve as a striking moral lesson to every reader, making him realize the nature and power of his thoughts, acting as a stimulus to the noble and a curb to the base.
Based on the authors\' clairvoyant vision, its illustrations suggest the form thoughts take in relation, for instance, to anger, fear, intellect, sympathy, devotion, and a meditative state.
Discussion includes the meaning of color, thought forms built by music, and the nature of helpful thoughts.
It lucidly sets forth a way to conceive of the invisible realms within and around us, with implications both for how we view the world and how we act in it.
Simple in style and clearly written, Thought-Forms is a classic of the Theosophical tradition that has as much to say in our own day as it did a century ago.
It had an impact far beyond the circle of its primary readers and greatly influenced leading artists such as Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky.
Originally released in 1901, Thought-Forms is a seminal work on what thoughts look like.
Leadbeater were pioneers in asserting that thoughts are, indeed, things.
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What do ideas look like? This clairvoyant view of the shape, color, and atmospheric effect of mental energy includes black-and-white drawings and color plates to convey a graphic representation of the power of thought
