Watchers of the Seven Spheres

About this book

Figures of radiant colour appear against immense, unfamiliar landscapes. H. K. Challoner paints spiritual beings she understood as devas, giving form to presences associated with realms beyond ordinary sight.

Published in the early twentieth-century Theosophical milieu, the book brings together visionary artwork and descriptions of higher worlds. The paintings are its greatest attraction, with luminous figures and carefully arranged colours suggesting different orders of existence. Challoner presents these images as spiritual experiences. Their unusual visual language gives shape to a world that ordinary landscape painting could never contain.