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Thought-Forms

Annie 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.