Thought-Forms
A 75-page annotated edition of Thought-Forms (1901), Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater’s illustrated Theosophical exploration of thought, colour, emotion, sound and the aura.
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Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater
Annie Besant (1847–1933) was a British lecturer, writer and social reformer who became president of the international Theosophical Society in 1907. Charles Webster Leadbeater (1854–1934) was a British Theosophist and prolific writer whose clairvoyant accounts of subtle bodies and thought-forms were influential in later Theosophical imagery. Their work is presented here as historical Theosophical writing, not as established scientific or medical knowledge.
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