Man Visible and Invisible by C. W. Leadbeater

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Man Visible and Invisible is a book by C. W. Leadbeater, first published in 1902. In this compact, illustrated work Leadbeater presents the results of what he describes as trained clairvoyant observation of the subtle bodies, auras, and inner constitution of human beings. Written for a general readership rather than for specialists, the book lays out a layered model of the human constitution (physical, etheric, astral, mental, etc.), describes characteristic colourations and forms of the aura as they relate to temperament and moral development, and offers case-like examples of different “types” of people as seen by the author’s claimed inner vision. The prose is didactic and often descriptive, aiming to make occult anatomy intelligible to readers coming from a Victorian/Edwardian background of spiritual inquiry. Placed within early twentieth-century theosophical literature, the book helped popularise certain visual metaphors for the aura and for soul-development that would be widely reproduced in later occult and New Age writings. Its influence is primarily as a clear, illustrated handbook of Theosophical clairvoyant anatomy rather than as an experimental or scientific text.

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