Aura, astral body, and color mysticism

Pat Macpherson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly Wikipedia edit

The Buddha as envisioned and presented by Theosophist Florence Fuller (wiki).

Theosophical art is profound. This is "The Path" in Machell's influential style, 1895.

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Theosophical color mysticism [15][16]

"Vision of the New Day" by Machell

The Theosophical teaching on the human aura was elaborated by Charles W. Leadbeater and Rudolf Steiner in early 1900s [20][Note 4].

Both Leadbeater and Steiner stated that clairvoyants (clear-seers) are gifted with the ability to see so-called "thought-forms" [23] and "human auras."

They wrote the "impressions" received by such people from the "higher worlds" are similar to the "color phenomena observed in the physical world" [24][25][Note 5].

Theosophist Charles W. Leadbeater

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Frontispiece of Thought-Forms

Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke pointed out that Leadbeater (in collaboration with Irish-English Annie Besant) published an "influential book" entitled Thought-Forms [28], a record of clairvoyant investigation [29].

The frontispieces of both Thought-Forms and Man Visible and Invisible [30] contain a table for "the meanings of colors" of thought-forms and human aura associated with feelings and emotions.

The meaning of aura colors

It begins with "high spirituality" (light blue, in the upper left corner) and ends with "malice" (black, in the lower right corner), with 25 colors in all [31][Note 6].

According to Besant and Leadbeater, feelings and thoughts shape specific forms. For example, "lightning-like shapes" emerge in connection with "anger" [33] and "malice" [34], zig-zag lines show fear, and so on [35].

The average human astral body aura

Thanks to Leadbeater and Steiner, "Theosophical color mysticism," as Finnish Professor of Art Sixten Ringbom has formulated [36], became a subject in which modern artists have been particularly interested [Note 7].

In addition, they were attracted by the Theosophical concept of a "universal harmony underlying the apparent chaos" of the physical world [3]. More