Victorian Occultism and the Art of Synesthesia
“The music of Mendelssohn” / Project Gutenberg, Creative Commons Grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms (1901) is an odd and intriguing work. Benjamin Breen explores these “synesthetic” abstractions and asks to what extent they, and the Victorian mysticism of which[…]