Sacred Bones Books has reissued this 1905 occult classic by Theosophical Society leaders Annie Besant and C.W. Leadbeater, which documents clairvoyant investigations into thought-forms—visual patterns and colors allegedly generated by thoughts and emotions in the human aura. The book contains 58 illustrations created from the authors’ clairvoyant descriptions and profoundly influenced early modernist abstraction, including artists Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky. This high-quality clothbound reprint includes three new scholarly introductions contextualizing the work’s overlooked role in art history and women’s contributions to modernism. Besant’s concurrent activism as an early suffragist and political thinker situates the text within broader feminist intellectual history. The reissue recovers a foundational but marginalized text at the intersection of occultism, artistic development, and esoteric philosophy relevant to dark alternative cultural genealogies.
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