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Thought Forms

By Annie Besant

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Annie Besant and C. W. Leadbeater, the authors of Thought-Forms, wrote that "each definite thought produces a double effect — a radiating vibration and a floating form." The radiating vibration "conveys the character of the thought, but not its subject." For example, serenity or devotion radiating from one person can stimulate similar vibrations in a nearby person who is receptive. The floating form is a strong and definite thought that has attracted energies from the mental and astral plans, and has become, for a time, a kind of independent living being.

Foreword
Introduction
The Difficulty Of Representation
The Two Effects Of Thought
How The Vibration Acts
The Form And Its Effect
The Meaning Of The Colours
Three Classes Of Thought-Forms
Illustrative Thought-Forms
Intellect
Greed for Drink
At a Shipwreck
On the First Night
The Gamblers
At a Street Accident
At a Funeral
On Meeting a Friend
The Appreciation of a Picture
Sympathy and Love for all
An Aspiration to Enfold all
In the Six Directions
An Intellectual Conception of Cosmic Order
The Logos as manifested in Man
The Logos pervading all
Another Conception
The Threefold Manifestation
The Sevenfold Manifestation
Intellectual Aspiration
Helpful Thoughts
Forms Built By Music
Mendelssohn
Gounod
Wagner