encompasses all living beings. Articles on the subject are appearing in
papers unconnected with the Theosophical Society, and a medical
specialist[1] has collected a large number of cases in which the colour
of the aura of persons of various types and temperaments is recorded by
him. His results resemble closely those arrived at by clairvoyant
theosophists and others, and the general unanimity on the subject is
sufficient to establish the fact, if the evidence be judged by the usual
canons applied to human testimony.

The book _Man Visible and Invisible_ dealt with the general subject of
the aura. The present little volume, written by the author of _Man
Visible and Invisible_, and a theosophical colleague, is intended to
carry the subject further; and it is believed that this study is useful,
as impressing vividly on the mind of the student the power and living
nature of thought and desire, and the influence exerted by them on all
whom they reach.

[Footnote 1: Dr Hooker, Gloucester Place, London, W.]




THE DIFFICULTY OF REPRESENTATION


We have often heard it said that thoughts are things, and there are many
among us who are persuaded of the truth of this statement. Yet very few
of us have any clear idea as to what kind of thing a thought is, and the
object of this little book is to help us to conceive this.