The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-03-22
EACH HAS AN AURA
Mrs. Annie Besant Says GA
Color Effect Resultant
From Vibrations of Waves OF
Psychic Ether"
SURROUNDS THE BODY
Of Every IndiVidua1-1S 1ndl-
cation of Character.
She Has Located the Soul Of
Madame BlaVatsky.
SURROUNDS THE BODY

New York, March 22.-The western
world is richer than it was; not in the
possession of worldly treasures, but in
the knowledge of the possession of a
very wonderful thing, which knowledge
was absent until Mrs. Annie Besant
landed in New York.
Mrs Besant. who is the high priestess
of the theosophica1 cult, proposes to
confer upon many American an aura,
the fit and suitability of which she
guarantees in each individual case
An aura is very beautiful as well
as a very wonderful thing. At least it
looks pretty in picture, done in water
colors on dull, fiat paper by such an
eminent artist as Mr.. John Marley Of
London, the famous painter of Egyp-
tan and Oriental landscapes and scenes.
Mrs. Besant showed a great number of
auraAthat is the correct adept" plu-
ral-at the Jeffersonian hotel this aft
ernoon. She also exhibited the mystic
signet ring which Nine. BlavatSky be-
queathed to her as next in the dynasty
of theosophical faith when she died and
a large number of magic lantern slides
bearing colored reproductions of aurae
with which she proposes to illustrate
her pictures in this country.
Mrs. Besant first explained that the pa
per and paint aurae which she exhibit
ted were not real aurae at all, but
painted similitudes done by the master
hand of Marley from the described i'm
members of the London Philosophical
society, who all bent their psychic forces
in contemplation at the same time and
then checked off each others impress
sions.
THE real aura, which surrounds eve
ry individual said Mrs. BeSant, in lu-
cid explanation, lis a color effect re-
Sultant from the vibration of waves of
psychic ether emanating from the soul
of that individual The aura is not
necessarily sign of spirituality, for
rounded with this nebulous vapor of
character-eXpression 1t may indicate
emotion, intellect, passion, devotion 1t
expresses them all. In the lower forms
the aura even expresses the physical
temperament and indicates the state of
its possesSOr'S health
One of the iIlustra tons shows the
health-aura as painted by Mr.. Varley
from the described impressions of
number of theoSophical adopts.
when the lines of the aura are
straight, shooting direct from the fig
ure,' said Besant, they indicate the
healthfulness of the subject. In a con-
dition of illness they will droop and
have a tangled appearance"
Mrs Besant exhibited a number of
other full-fgure aura plates the radiant
surrounding nebulae of which were col
ored in all the hues of the chromatic
gamut. The shadings were delicately
beautiful They reSembled nothing so
much as the sky studies or water and
sky studies of Millais or others of the
masters of the impreSSiOniStic school of
painting.
The dominance of blue" said Mrs.
Besant tossing the end of an embroid-
cred Indian scarf over her shoulder SO
that it fell in aesthetic folds, Indicates
devotion Red is the psychic color of
anger. This dirty brown indicates bru-
tality. Green shows great menetal ac-
tivity of the lower kind-that sort
which is always plotting ana working
for material or purely intellectual ends
and objects.
Gladstone, I should say-certainly
the London editor, Mr. w. F. Stead
be surrounded with very green aura,
she continued refectively.
OR Emperor William of Germany"
she was asked.
His aura would be very green,
should say; very green"
This light rose color" pointing to
picture, indicates affection of a high
order. This is the aura of young wife
"a most tender, loving person.
ITO the adept mind definite thoughts
take definite shapes and their aurae are
plainly discernible The lines of vibrant
either follow as direct courses as do
those of geOmetrical calculation and
demonstration
Here" continued Mrs. Besant, pick
ing out a card upon which the tail of
pea green serpent was vividly depicted,
lis an aura of jealous instinct or
thought. It is particularly clear. This,
the beautiful orange center with the
wing-like projections of pale blueis the
aura of a mothers prayer for her son.
It clearly indicates deep love, trust and
devotion.
These three plates show aurae of
three types of anger. The first"-a zig
gag of lightning colored to the hues of
an angry sunset after a tOrnado-''is
the expression of an impulse which led
a brutal man to strike down a woman
The second''- dull, flame-colOred flash,
straight and pointed as a sword blade
depicts anger long sustained by a
II Sr1fa tod
against a single object That would fit
the pugilist, FitZsimmons.i in a measure.
The third''-it looked like a splash of a
sponge soaked in red and brown water
color-"is the picture sensa ton of an
outburst of sudden rage because of
some trivial cause"
Can any eyes save those of an adept
detect the aurae?" Nine. Besant was
asked.
mo. MOI No more than they can de-
tect the infinite shades of light and col
or given by ether vibrations above or
below the gamut represented in the So
lar spectrum. Still, we. who are adopts
detect them readily, and that the ex-
pressionS are immutable and absolute
as those of geometry is proved by the
fact that all these pictured aurae were
observed by al least two, usually more,
adopts at the same time. Their de-
ScriptiOnS agreed in every instance. The
pictures I look upon as scientific dem
onstration of certain psychic truths
which we hope will go far to help en-
ln6 OF I4e unIauSnt In
regard to the beauties and purposes of
occult investigation.
1T is possible for one sufficiently ad-
vanced to perceive and study the aura
of an Individual" said Mrs. Besant
but it is not well to do So The strain
is too great. Our physical bodies are
not equal to it, long sustained, and
when the psychic force is subjected to
the strain too constantly, an hysterical
condition is apt to result, which distorts
and obscures the psychic vision. lead
ing to incorrect conclusions and i'm
pressions'
Speaking of the reported reincarna-
ton of Nine. Blavatsky, Mrs. Besant
said that it was undoubtedly true that
the soul of the departed Russian leader