Art, Symbol & Imagination
Helpful Thoughts: Figures 48–50
Three numbered designs belong to the book's account of one person sending helpful thoughts to another at appointed times. The text describes a sender and receiver, identified as A and B, comparing the sender's intention with sketches the receiver made and posted, using the authors' colours for intellectual strength, devotion and sympathy. It distinguishes the clearer designs made during deliberate concentration from smaller or broken forms associated with sending while walking. These plates document the authors' private claim about thought transmission, not a controlled demonstration of telepathy, and the three printed panels are retained as one complete design.
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"Helpful Thoughts: Figures 48–50" [editorial title]. In Thought-Forms, Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater. 1905, Theosophical Publishing Society. Source scan leaf 56. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/art-thought-helpful-experiment
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Figure order follows the plate: 48 above 50 and 49. The reported correspondence experiment is historical testimony rather than independently verified scientific evidence.
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Helpful Thoughts: Figures 48–50. Thought-Forms. Scan leaf 56. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/art-thought-helpful-experiment