Besant, Annie; Leadbeater, Charles W.: Thought-Forms (London, 1905)

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THOUGHT-FORMS

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At the present time observers outside the Theo-
sophical Society are concerning themselves with the fact
that emotional changes show their nature by changes of
colour in the cloud-like ovoid, or aura, that encompasses
all living beings. Articles on the subject are appearing
in papers unconnected with the Theosophical Society,
and a medical specialist1 has collected a large number of
cases in which the colour of the aura of persons of
various types and temperaments is recorded by him.
His results resemble closely those arrived at by clair-
voyant theosophists and others, and the general
unanimity on the subject is sufficient to establish the
fact, if the evidence be judged by the usual canons
applied to human testimony.

The book Man Visible and Invisible dealt with the
general subject of the aura. The present little volume,
written by the author of Man Visible and Invisible, and
a theosophical colleague, is intended to carry the
subject further; and it is believed that this study is
useful, as impressing vividly on the mind of the student
the power and living nature of thought and desire, and
the influence exerted by them on all whom they reach.

1 Dr Hooker, Gloucester Place, London, W.