THEOSOPHY - THOUGHT-FORMS - ASTRAL PLANE [Right] Occult vision of what vague religious feeling looks like on the astral plane: such blue forms are frequently seen hovering in a cloud over the heads of the congregation, during a church service. [Left] Occult vision of what a may be seen on the astral plane on the occasion of a feeling of self-renunciation - an act of higher religious devotion. Paintings of thought-forms were originated by a group of Theosophists, towards the end of the nineteenth century. The paintings were done, following the occult observations of such 'thoughts' or 'visi
THEOSOPHY - THOUGHT-FORMS - ASTRAL PLANE [Right] Occult vision of what vague religious feeling looks like on the astral plane: such blue forms are frequently seen hovering in a cloud over the heads of the congregation, during a church service. [Left] Occult vision of what a may be seen on the astral plane on the occasion of a feeling of self-renunciation - an act of higher religious devotion. Paintings of thought-forms were originated by a group of Theosophists, towards the end of the nineteenth century. The paintings were done, following the occult observations of such 'thoughts' or 'visions' on the astral plane, by Charles Leadbeater (Besant claimed such an astral vision, but it is unlikely that this was genuine), by John Varley (a descendant of the John Varley who taught William Blake astrology), Mr. Prince and Miss Macfarlane, all three of whom painted 'in earth's dull colours the forms clothed in the living light of other worlds'. The paintings were reproduced, and discussed, in Annie Besant and Leadbeater, Thought-Forms, 1901 edn, from which these plates are photographed.
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