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and protect those whom we love, and many an unselfish earnest wish for
good produces such a form as this, though all unknown to its creator.

[Illustration: FIG. 12. PEACE AND PROTECTION]

_Grasping Animal Affection._--Fig. 13 gives us an instance of grasping
animal affection--if indeed such a feeling as this be deemed worthy of
the august name of affection at all. Several colours bear their share in
the production of its dull unpleasing hue, tinged as it is with the
lurid gleam of sensuality, as well as deadened with the heavy tint
indicative of selfishness. Especially characteristic is its form, for
those curving hooks are never seen except when there exists a strong
craving for personal possession. It is regrettably evident that the
fabricator of this thought-form had no conception of the
self-sacrificing love which pours itself out in joyous service, never
once thinking of result or return; his thought has been, not "How much
can I give?" but "How much can I gain?" and so it has expressed itself
in these re-entering curves. It has not even ventured to throw itself
boldly outward, as do other thoughts, but projects half-heartedly from
the astral body, which must be supposed to be on the left of the
picture. A sad travesty of the divine quality love; yet even this is a
stage in evolution, and distinctly an improvement upon earlier stages,
as will presently be seen.

[Illustration: FIG. 13. GRASPING ANIMAL AFFECTION]

DEVOTION

_Vague Religious Feeling._--Fig. 14 shows us another shapeless rolling
cloud, but this time it is blue instead of crimson. It betokens that
vaguely pleasurable religious feeling--a sensation of devoutness rather
than of devotion--which is so common among those in whom piety is more
developed than intellect. In many a church one may see a great cloud of
deep dull blue floating over the heads of the congregation--indefinite
in outline, because of the indistinct nature of the thoughts and
feelings which cause it; flecked too often with brown and grey, because
ignorant devotion absorbs with deplorable facility the dismal tincture
of selfishness or fear; but none the less adumbrating a mighty
potentiality of the future, manifesting to our eyes the first faint
flutter of one at least of the twin wings of devotion and wisdom, by the
use of which the soul flies upward to God from whom it came.

[Illustration: FIG. 14. VAGUE RELIGIOUS FEELING]

Strange is it to note under what varied circum