Theosophy, Besant and Leadbeater
Aspiration to Enfold All
Besant and Leadbeater place this example among forms associated with deliberate meditation. The thinker seeks to enfold humanity and draw it toward a high ideal. The authors connect that intention with a looping form, fine violet lines and golden light that they say printed colour cannot fully reproduce.
Also known as An Aspiration to Enfold all · Meditation to enfold humanity
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In the sources
A meditation associated with an earlier example
ReportedThe authors introduce figure 38 as a more developed example of the sympathy-and-love meditation discussed for figure 37. They place both within consciously formed meditative attitudes.
An embracing intention and a looping form
ReportedThe account describes a wish to enfold all humanity and draw it toward an ideal. It associates this with a form curving outward and back, luminous violet lines and a golden light.
Context & interpretation
This entry concerns figure 38 and its account in Thought-Forms, rather than merging it with the separate six-direction figure or every practice of compassion. The perceived colours and generated shape are reported assertions. The ribbon artwork is the book's representation, not independent evidence of a force surrounding humanity.
Original passages
Source 1
Thought-Forms
a far more developed example of the same typeOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Forms Seen in Those Meditating, printed p. 66
Read directly from the active prepared scan; line breaks and spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0021-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0021-E001-P0048
- Original scan leaf
- 47
- Recorded leaf number
- 48
- Current Reader position
- 48
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
Thought-Forms
an aspiration to enfold all mankindOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: An Aspiration to Enfold All, printed p. 67
Read directly from the active prepared scan; line breaks and spacing normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0021-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0021-E001-P0050
- Original scan leaf
- 49
- Recorded leaf number
- 50
- Current Reader position
- 50
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Illustrations
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Sympathy in the Six Directions
The meditation on extending love and sympathy in all directions represented in Thought-Forms.
Shared illustrationThought-forms
The coloured shapes that Besant and Leadbeater describe as expressions of thought and feeling.
Same subject and traditionDevotional Feeling
The quality of attention during worship that Thought-Forms contrasts with distraction and represents through blue forms.
Same subject and traditionHelpful Thoughts
The practice of directing supportive thought toward another person, as described and illustrated in Thought-Forms.