y onward towards a definite object, for it will be
observed that the central part of it is as definitely a projectile as
Fig. 10. Fig. 21, on the other hand, is a floating form, and is strongly
indicative of general acquisitiveness--the ambition to grasp for the
self everything that is within sight.

[Illustration: FIG. 21. SELFISH AMBITION]

ANGER

_Murderous Rage and Sustained Anger._--In Figs. 22 and 23 we have two
terrible examples of the awful effect of anger. The lurid flash from
dark clouds (Fig. 22) was taken from the aura of a rough and partially
intoxicated man in the East End of London, as he struck down a woman;
the flash darted out at her the moment before he raised his hand to
strike, and caused a shuddering feeling of horror, as though it might
slay. The keen-pointed stiletto-like dart (Fig. 23) was a thought of
steady anger, intense and desiring vengeance, of the quality of murder,
sustained through years, and directed against a person who had inflicted
a deep injury on the one who sent it forth; had the latter been
possessed of a strong and trained will, such a thought-form would slay,
and the one nourishing it is running a very serious danger of becoming a
murderer in act as well as in thought in a future incarnation. It will
be noted that both of them take the flash-like form, though the upper is
irregular in its shape, while the lower represents a steadiness of
intention which is far more dangerous. The basis of utter selfishness
out of which the upper one springs is very characteristic and
instructive. The difference in colour between the two is also worthy of
note. In the upper one the dirty brown of selfishness is so strongly
evident that it stains even the outrush of anger; while in the second
case, though no doubt selfishness was at the root of that also, the
original thought has been forgotten in the sustained and concentrated
wrath. One who studies Plate XIII. in _Man Visible and Invisible_ will
be able to image to himself the condition of the astral body from which
these forms are protruding; and surely the mere sight of these pictures,
even without examination, should prove a powerful object-lesson in the
evil of yielding to the passion of anger.

[Illustration: FIG. 22. MURDEROUS RAGE]

[Illustration: FIG. 23. SUSTAINED ANGER]

_Explosive Anger._--In Fig. 24 we see an exhibition of anger of a
totally different character. Here is no sustained hatred, but simply a
vigorous explosion