ve a series of graceful lines of the
luminous green of sympathy with the strong roseate glow of affection
shining out between them (Fig. 37). The lines are still sufficiently
broad and wide apart to be easily drawn; but in some of the higher
examples of thought-forms of this type the lines are so fine and so
close that no human hand can represent them as they really are. The
outline of this thought-form is that of a leaf, yet its shape and the
curve of its lines are more suggestive of a certain kind of shell, so
that this is another example of the approximation to forms seen in
physical nature which we noted in commenting upon Fig. 16.

[Illustration: FIG. 37. SYMPATHY AND LOVE FOR ALL]

_An Aspiration to Enfold all._--In Fig. 38 we have a far more developed
example of the same type. This form was generated by one who was
trying, while sitting in meditation, to fill his mind with an aspiration
to enfold all mankind in order to draw them upward towards the high
ideal which shone so clearly before his eyes. Therefore it is that the
form which he produces seems to rush out from him, to curve round upon
itself, and to return to its base; therefore it is that the marvellously
fine lines are drawn in lovely luminous violet, and that from within the
form there shines out a glorious golden light which it is unfortunately
quite impossible to reproduce. For the truth is that all these
apparently intricate lines are in reality only one line circling round
the form again and again with unwearied patience and wonderful accuracy.
It is scarcely possible that any human hand could make such a drawing as
this on this scale, and in any case the effect of its colours could not
be shown, for it will be seen by experiment that if an attempt be made
to draw fine violet lines close together upon a yellow background a grey
effect at once appears, and all likeness to the original is destroyed.
But what cannot be done by hand may sometimes be achieved by the
superior accuracy and delicacy of a machine, and it is in this way that
the drawing was made from which our illustration is reproduced,--with
some attempt to represent the colour effect as well as the wonderful
delicacy of the lines and curves.

[Illustration: FIG. 38. AN ASPIRATION TO ENFOLD ALL]

_In the Six Directions._--The form represented in Fig. 39 is the result
of another endeavour to extend love and sympathy in all directions--an
effort almost precisely similar to that which gave