ducing
definite results. An appearance by no means unlike this frequently
surrounds a gently purring cat, and radiates slowly outward from the
animal in a series of gradually enlarging concentric shells of rosy
cloud, fading into invisibility at a distance of a few feet from their
drowsily contented creator.

[Illustration: FIG. 8. VAGUE PURE AFFECTION]

_Vague Selfish Affection._--Fig. 9 shows us also a cloud of affection,
but this time it is deeply tinged with a far less desirable feeling. The
dull hard brown-grey of selfishness shows itself very decidedly among
the carmine of love, and thus we see that the affection which is
indicated is closely connected with satisfaction at favours already
received, and with a lively anticipation of others to come in the near
future. Indefinite as was the feeling which produced the cloud in Fig.
8, it was at least free from this taint of selfishness, and it therefore
showed a certain nobility of nature in its author. Fig. 9 represents
what takes the place of that condition of mind at a lower level of
evolution. It would scarcely be possible that these two clouds should
emanate from the same person in the same incarnation. Yet there is good
in the man who generates this second cloud, though as yet it is but
partially evolved. A vast amount of the average affection of the world
is of this type, and it is only by slow degrees that it develops towards
the other and higher manifestation.

[Illustration: FIG. 9. VAGUE SELFISH AFFECTION]

_Definite Affection._--Even the first glance at Fig. 10 shows us that
here we have to deal with something of an entirely different
nature--something effective and capable, something that will achieve a
result. The colour is fully equal to that of Fig. 8 in clearness and
depth and transparency, but what was there a mere sentiment is in this
case translated into emphatic intention coupled with unhesitating
action. Those who have seen the book _Man Visible and Invisible_ will
recollect that in Plate XI. of that volume is depicted the effect of a
sudden rush of pure unselfish affection as it showed itself in the
astral body of a mother, as she caught up her little child and covered
it with kisses. Various changes resulted from that sudden outburst of
emotion; one of them was the formation within the astral body of large
crimson coils or vortices lined with living light. Each of these is a
thought-form of intense affection generated as we have described,