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Thought-Forms

Annie Besant hacia 1897
byAnnie Besant

It describes the shapes and colours which, according to the authors, thoughts and emotions generate in astral and mental matter: each definite thought produces a radiating vibration and a floating form. The 58 plates—colour abstractions for devotion, anger, the music of Wagner or Gounod—circulated among avant-garde painters: Kandinsky, Kupka, Mondrian and the first abstract artists knew them, as Sixten Ringbom showed. It is today the Theosophical book most cited by art history.

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Written in collaboration with Charles Webster Leadbeater; the colour illustrations were made by John Varley, Prince and McFarlane from 'clairvoyant' descriptions.

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  • Open Library, autora Annie Wood Besant (OL16933A): registros de obras y ediciones con ISBN consultados el 2026-10-22; primeras ediciones digitalizadas en Internet Archive.

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