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Figure 38 represents, in Besant and Leadbeater's account, a meditator's wish to embrace all humanity and draw it toward a higher ideal.
A small device trails a great fan of fine lines above a broad flower with curled dark petals.
A narrow mechanical device projects a wide fan of fine marks in the upper drawing.