These shapely flowers come from one of the most peculiar texts from the late 19th-century Western world. _Geometrical Psychology, or the Science of Representation_, by Louisa S. Cook, smashes together mathematics, evolution/eugenics, Vedanta Hinduism, and Spiritualism. Shakespeare is also in there too, for good measure. Cook’s aim was as ambitious as physicists today who are working on the Grand Unified Theory, only except with spiritual stuff. Cook elaborated on the ideas and diagrams of Benjamin Betts, an expat from Britain who, after spending time in India, thought that he could use mathematics to diagram human consciousness . . . Cook systematized Bett’s work, discussing lines, graphs and angles right alongside vibrations, clairvoyance, and the evolution of the ego with a nod to eugenicist Francis Galton. The incredible confidence in the ability to unlock occult truths about spirituality with the use of science achieved one of its greatest expressions in this text.
Source(s): The 1887 book is available for free download on Google Books as well as @ krishnamurti.abundanthorpe.org/index_htm_files/Geometrical-Pshychology-or-the-Science-of-Representation.pdf .
