GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY;
Reading edition
or, The Science of Representation.
Being the Theories and Diagrams of B. W. Betts explained by Louisa S. Cook.
“His attempt seems to have taken a similar direction to that of George Boole in logic, with the difference that, whereas Boole’s expression of the Laws of Thought is algebraic, Betts expresses mind-growth geometrically; that is to say, his growth-formulæ are expressed in numerical series, of which each can be pictured to the eye in a corresponding curve. When the series are thus represented, they are found to resemble the forms of leaves and flowers.”—Extract from “Symbolic Methods of Study,” by Mary Boole.
The Pall Mall Gazette, in a characteristic article entitled, “Very Methodical Madness,” allows that “Like Rosicrucianism, esoteric Buddhism, and other forms of the mystically incomprehensible, it seems to exercise a magnetic influence upon many minds by no means as foolish as its original inventor’s.”
“This work is the result of more than twenty years’ application to the discovery of a method of representing human consciousness in its various stages of development by means of geometrical figures—it is, in fact, the application of mathematical symbology to metaphysics. This idea will be new to many of our readers; indeed, so far as we know, Mr. Betts is the only man who has tried to work out a coherent system of this kind, though his work unfortunately remains imperfect.”—Theosophist, June, 1887.
In demy 8vo., cloth, price 10s. 6d.