ich the creator of the thought
anticipates the revival of delightful reminiscences of days long gone
by.

[Illustration: FIG. 35. ON MEETING A FRIEND]

_The Appreciation of a Picture._--In Fig. 36 we have a somewhat complex
thought-form representing the delighted appreciation of a beautiful
picture upon a religious subject. The strong pure yellow marks the
beholder's enthusiastic recognition of the technical skill of the
artist, while all the other colours are expressions of the various
emotions evoked within him by the examination of so glorious a work of
art. Green shows his sympathy with the central figure in the picture,
deep devotion appears not only in the broad band of blue, but also in
the outline of the entire figure, while the violet tells us that the
picture has raised the man's thought to the contemplation of a lofty
ideal, and has made him, at least for the time, capable of responding to
it. We have here the first specimen of an interesting class of
thought-forms of which we shall find abundant examples later--that in
which light of one colour shines out through a network of lines of some
quite different hue. It will be noted that in this case from the mass of
violet there rise many wavy lines which flow like rivulets over a golden
plain; and this makes it clear that the loftiest aspiration is by no
means vague, but is thoroughly supported by an intellectual grasp of the
situation and a clear comprehension of the method by which it can be put
into effect.

[Illustration: FIG. 36. THE APPRECIATION OF A PICTURE]

FORMS SEEN IN THOSE MEDITATING

_Sympathy and Love for all._--Hitherto we have been dealing chiefly with
forms which are the expression of emotion, or of such thought as is
aroused within the mind by external circumstances. We have now to
consider some of those caused by thoughts which arise from within--forms
generated during meditation--each being the effect produced by a
conscious effort on the part of the thinker to form a certain
conception, or to put himself into a certain attitude. Naturally such
thoughts are definite, for the man who trains himself in this way learns
how to think with clearness and precision, and the development of his
power in this direction shows itself in the beauty and regularity of the
shapes produced. In this case we have the result of an endeavour on the
part of the thinker to put himself into an attitude of sympathy and love
towards all mankind, and thus we ha