The herald., 1897-04-04
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I KEEP YOUR AURA BRIGHT !
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MrS. Annie 6ebdnt, the lHeo5oPhiee'
lectured in Chickering hall Sunday night
on "A Glimpse Into the Unseen World;
the Human Uura the Difference Be-
tween the Developed and Undeveloped
Man." Mrs. Besant lectured In a soft
white silk gown, with an India shawl
caught about the waist and draped
over the left shoulder.
Science, she said has been recently
advancing into the realms of the invisi-
BILE world, and has come to recognize
ethereal matter and forces not percepti-
BILE except by their manifestations. The
osophy goes further in this line dealing
not only with the physical and etheric,
but also with the astral, which is one
fight up; the next plane of existence
Immediately above this, the plane to
which we pass after DEATH and with the
casual plane, or plane of abstract
thought. In science the action of in
visible forces is demonstrated by their
perceptible action on some substance,
but the 'Theosophist develops his pow
ers of perception until he sees by a
physical clairvoyance the bodies that
go to make up the human aura.
After the introduction, of which the
above is very brief outline, Mrs. Be
SAINT turned on magic lantern pictures
of aura and thought forms. The first
was the picture of the health" aura,
which was shown as radiant etheric
emanation surrounding the physical
body, of oval shape and about twice
the dimensions of the body. The next
was colored selection of the astral body
of North American savage, in which
splashes of dark brown represented bru-
tality and sel1shness; lighter brown the
process of evolution going on; red, love
of some kind; and blue (devotion), a
dawning sense of higher self The
next was the aura of an average man;
1t was lighter and more delicate in col
oring. had more blue in 1t, showed a
growing intellectually indicated by
yellow, less dark brown brutality and
higher grade of emotions; a dark,
plumelike appearance on the side of the
head represented "dusky outflow from
the seat of acute physical pain" The
aura of developed man showed in still
lighter tints, indicating greater bright
ness. The aura of an average man in
state of mild anger, directed at no
one in particular. showed great splashes
of black and red that greatly darkened
and obscured the whole aura. The next
picture was of a definite thought of
anger; it was a reproduction of one hap
PLY observed emanating from brutal
fellow In the east end of London just
before he struck woman. 1t was of
irregular shape and of a dull red color.
The picture of explosive anger looked
literally like an explosion; the presence
of some yellow Qntellectuality) made it
more dangerous. A really dangerous
though, one that had power to kill, was
a pencil of color, brown at the base and
changing to deep red at the point. All
these thoughts have a bad effect upon
aura that are in a similar state of feel
ing, but when directed against one in
an opposite state recoil upon the aura
from which they originated.
Love as an emotion simply suffuses
the whole aura In rose tint but
definite thought of love assumes bull
let-like shape A concentrated thought
of devotion and self-sacrifice was shown
as pale blue. having the form Of lotus
flower
The thought bodies, as shown by the
lantern. were hardly distinguishable
from the aura. but Mrs. Besant ex-
planned that their brightness was as
that of an electric light to tallow can
die. The brightness and delicacy of
their tints increase with development.
and the various colors tend to become
localized-blue about the head. yellow
about the body, and rose about the
thighs. The form of the thought of an
Indian Theosophist on "Cosmic Law"
was the double triangle of matter and
union, bright yellow in color and sharp
and definite in outline. 1t was surround
ed by radiant lines not unlike those of
the aura of health.
Casual bodies were next shown, but
their brightness was beyond the power
Of the limelight, and they did not differ
much from those that had gone before
These bodies are practically unlimited
as to size. and that of Buddha is said
to have extended for many miles on
all sides of him.
Mrs. Besant closed her lecture by say
ing that her purpose in her lecture was
to preach the. necessity of developing
our own aura. and of extinguishing evil
thoughts, which would otherwise exist,
until they worked evil upon ourselves
as well as our neighbors-NewY York
Sun.