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PSYCHOLOGY
GEOMETRICAL
OR
B.
W.
LOUISA
BETTS
S.
COOK
LONDON
GEORGE REDWAY
rORK STREET COVENT GARDEN
1887
CONTENTS.
Preface
..........
PART
SECTION
I.
SECTION
Scheme of Evolution
II.
.
SECTION
Duality.
.11
III.
etc.
14
......
SECTION
Principles of Representation
IV.
SECTION
SECTION
16
Y.
I.
Subject proposed
The Great
PAGE
of Sensefigures
26
VI.
Eurther
explanation
.31
..........
SECTION
Variation
me-
the
of
VII.
PART
its
SECTION
53
I.
Mathematical Equivalent
II.
50
II.
SECTION
Negative Morality and
37
Philanthropy
or
.56
CONTENTS.
PAGE
SECTION
The Polar- Opposite forms
and Onde Corollas
III.
The Ond
SECTION
Horn
Bi-axial Corollas
SECTION
SECTION
VI.
of Life
SECTION
64
.71
....
76
VII.
.80
..........
standing-ground of Life
Appendix
V.
fifth
Corollas.
.
.58
IV.
The
89
DIAGRAMS.
Part
I.
II.
3, 4.
PREFACE.
Benjamin Betts was born in the year 1832. He
was educated in England as an architect, and showed
considerable promise of success
but no system of
;
architecture not
satisfy him,
fully
and he
felt
be
of
conventionalisation.
scientific
His mind
quiet
abstruse
nature
of
his
studies
required,
but
the
having lived so
very
difficult for
others.
Auckland,
New Zealand,
as
Trigonometrical Computer
PREFACE.
in.
An analogy used
Decorative and Architectural Art.
in " The Science of Knowledge," of the
by Fichte
circle
with modes
and
their
When
significance
is
the
science
of
sciences."
made
attempting some
physical science.
new departure in Art, not in metaLater, when Mr. Betts had also
work
mind
required.
Government Post.
his
PREFACE.
him,
besides
that
the
evident,
of
representative
his
so his manuscript
Man
inspired in
him than
likely to
assist
Mr. Betts in
PREFACE.
preparing his
make an
work
abstract of
though no
undertook to
for publication,
it,
leisure,
work beyond
of
the
learned
Rajah
Rammohun
Roy,
through his extensive acquaintance with Eastern philosophy, has been of the greatest help in clearing up
the obscurities of Mr. Betts's symbology.
So curiously
double
illustration, for
not only has his male thought been taken up and com-
pleted by a
found
East.
its
late
SEP 6
- 1927
I.
SECTION
I.
SUBJECT PKOPOSED.
New
Zealand.
the evolution of
human
consciousness.
He
attempts
by
These
means of symbolical mathematical forms.
forms represent the course of development of human
consciousness from the animal basis, the pure sense-
man
Mr. Betts
that
we
felt
human
that consciousness
all
is
evolution.
other objects of
tion
Then
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
10
conception.
supplies
"
The
sentation
evolution
by
of
life,
is
plane
after
plaoe.
"Number,"
essence,
passion, are
by
different people, or
times.
science,
applied
they must be in
strict
correspondence with
mind
rejects
them.
meaning
II
scientifically
many
distinct
sub-
classes.
The
fact that
SECTION
II.
SCHEME OF EVOLUTION.
Mr. Betts's Representative diagrams
of the
monad through
basis,
the
which he takes
human
scale
five planes
or standing-grounds
He commences
of human evolution.
of
progression,
and
proceeding
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY,
12
human
possibilities
man, and
OR,
must be
as a
being on
it
might
be called divine.
All attempts to trace the course of the evolution of
arrive
is
the
man.
The symbolic
two
whose apex
is
in
The
first
human standing-ground
is
that of rational
sense-consciousness.
Self-gratification is
minant motive on
ground.
series of
this
It is
the predo-
represented by a
They
leaf-
which he
calls positive or male forms usually have an apex less
than a right angle, and those which he calls female or
negative an apex greater than a right angle.
forms.
is
tion
first,
Self-control
13
is
The
which
is
now not
Commonly, however,
this
as at
first,
activity, repressed.
ground
consists rather in
be death), which
for
its
own
now no
is
sake, but as a
means
Thus
to an end.
life,
circumference, for
The
it is
standing-ground
third
Betts calls
it
rather psychical
ground of
than truly
of the
ground.
Work
ground.
fifth
The sensuous
is
circle.
Mr.
is
the
being that
activities are
now
allowed free
The
the consciousness
extension.
flowers,
now
the male
series
trumpet-shaped,
and the
The
life,
fourth
is
from the
first.
from which
It is
sacrifice it is
Mr. Betts
life
on
this
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY,
14
OK,
The motive
ground
The
fifth
intuitive
is
standing-ground
As
knowledge.
we were
it
is spiritual,
the spiritual
the ground of
now becomes
able
of
is
limited
of consciousness in themselves.
occult
It is
the Supernatural.
SECTION
THE GREAT DUALITY.
III.
The
Take away
tion.
point
we have
this attribute
is
that
and
it
marks
posi-
in the unposited
noumenon, that which underlies every mode of phenomenal manifestation, every form of existence. It is at
once All and Nothing, at once Absolute Consciousness
and Unconsciousness.
All
since
it
Nothing
since having
no form, no
contains the
and to come.
limit,
it
is
non-
15
and
existent,
quoad
yet
is
it
nos.
It is
is
Consciousness
itself,
nothing beside
itself for it
to
tion
to
is
arise.
great
He
Being.
represents this
first
of
polarisation
duality as
circuit
of
activity tending
point
is
at
towards a point.
As
the unposited
is
expressed
mining.
They
their union
From
by the
are
comes
the
first
all
Sanscrit
shall exist"
Mr.
is
to
be manifested in
finite
ex-
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
16
it
the source of
infinite
all things,
SECTION
IV.
PRINCIPLES OF REPRESENTATION.
which
differs
multitudinous,
from
all
chaotic,
we
the
Whereas
rest.
changing,
comparatively unchanged.
It
it
may be
is
we
call
are
alone,
One, and
they
one,
The
all
the
We
call
multitu-
The
sciousness.
lowest plane
on the
sense,
faculty,
I
is
17
I see, I think
of,
times
of consciousness are,
the objects
as
con-
is
is
noumenonis unchanged.
itself to be different from
The ego
what
of
manhood
feels
it
consequently
moviDg
its position,
in
it
an
is
and
reasoning that
we become
besides,
we
We
were
fixed,
activities are
and
so
far
concerned
only by
is
it
as
it is
feel as
its
if
discover
our centre
relation to
The ego
fixed.
its
is
own
always
may
be located.
From
ment of
life-energy in
the abstract
is its
the
endow-
particular
the great
(alpha).
It
is
impulse, desire,
itself.
It has
no
is
That
is
to say Existence
circumference of Prakriti.
itself is
limited
by the
abstract ideas of
Time and
B
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OB
18
Space
the ego
tion, for
is
the fruition of
its
desires.
is
he begins, instead
great cause, with the proximate
of with the
first
determining cause.
a definite expres-
The
is
diagrams
The amount
of
The
first
sensation produced
determining cause
To
of being alive.
by the
action of a
is
this
succeed touch,
sight, hearing,
and smell and on the hypothesis of the Septenary law of perfectness there must still remain the
possibility of two latent senses not yet determined.
Every sensation alternates with a pause or blank of
non-sensation, the ebb from the state of consciousness
taste,
again.
This agrees
All activity whose condition is determined or differentiated Mr. Betts calls " real" activity, and he reprein the diagrams
by an ordinary
line.
Undiffe"
rentiated, unconscious energy he calls
ideal" activity,
sents
it
and represents
It will
it
by a dotted
line.
it
connotes
first
19
reality, that
or realisation
felt
i.e.,
belonging to things.
things, appearances,
is
more
consciousness
interiorly as
Reality
first
developes through
is
perceived as
At
first
sight
it
may
little
is
as
much
a necessary element
the
life-energy
itself.
objective activity,
existence
must
Without
complementary
be
merely
potential,
all
not
activity,
actual.
proximate deter-
whose root
is
Causation
acts, as
was shown,
on
For
must be
as a determinant
effect
at
all
it
arise, interaction
being impossible.
pulsation,
its
ultimate analysis
vibration.
For
is
instance,
its
resolvable
vibrations
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
20
It
whose
external vibrations
we
call
not
is
inconceivable
appear differently, so that the determinant that produces the sensation of sight in us might excite the
sense of hearing in them
thus sight would be indeed
"
the
music of the spheres," or with a changed relation
;
again,
sound might be
Coleridge pictures
visible, as
Khan"
"
Or
who
Light
an immense
we
may be
Some
the explanation of
evidence.
We know
21
violet rays,
colour.
violet or
It
is
rays.
modern
occultism in
we
science that
should resort to
blue and indigo, which are nothing but pale and dark
blue, in order to preserve the mystic
when
really
we
number
seven,
spectrum.
The
is
twofold.
It causes
sensation
existence
is
but a vibratory
line,
Thus
far
a string of individual
Such probably is
the form of the consciousness of a young infant or of a
total idiot
a one-dimensional consciousness, the warp
isolated instants of consciousness.
of time
is
it.
though
slightly
varying
in
form,
the
individual
Mr. Betts
Imagination, using
As
it
it
is
this
the counterpart
is
power of ideation
a prism receives a
rays,
calls
beam
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
22
so
Ima-
Comparison
angle-;
is
Let us suppose a
two
is
to a surface.
state of consciousness in
sensation of touch
expanded
is
sight
and touch
being perceived
which but
and that a
at
the present
proceeding
which
at the present
moment
exists only as
sight,
an idea,
And
is
represented by a line at
complementary colour
therefore
duplicated
by
of a
it
the
colour,
moment
is
dual
a counterpart line
gram
is
When
In the dia-
them
23
Although
it
the form
itself
it
is less
by a smaller
in
amount, as
When
cately discriminative.
to
be the sense of
Imagination,
Besides
activity.
whereby ideas
this
its
is
a polar
and distinguished,
combining them
we
unity, so that
This
is
Mr. Betts
calls
has
it
into a
to be unbroken.
by the
seems
taste.
of the figure.
of Experience would be
by Memory he means the recording
line
Experience
remembered
activity,
because
is
facts
The
they originate
activities,
its
at their
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
24
and manifold.
They
are recombined
by the
The same
the
particular
entity.
own
object
by an ordinary
e.g.,
I see, represented
outwards
Perception,
the
an object.
Perception
consciousness
is
of a not-I
I see
AB cannot be
drawn without its polar opposite the line BA becoming determined. Then follows the after consciousness of Imagination.
I form an idea which combines my seeing and the object and I distinguish it
from other ideas by Comparison. The formation of
an idea is represented by the reflection of the line
in a new direction, and the Comparison of it with
previous ideas is represented by the angle through
which it is turned. The combining of this idea with
of the line of sensation, for a line
previous ideas in
life
is
figure.
the
represented
There
is
unity of the
by the boundary
consciousness to be represented.
been present
experience
line
of
of
the
in consciousness dies
25
or unconscious state
it
recognise
it,
is
sometimes called
is
contained, as in
is
potentially
contained.
The
causal consciousness
felt
is
as
a permanent
between
The
idea.
for
we
realised forms
its
causal
form
cannot realise
activity itself
which
is
is
it
life,
and
objectively,
of the ideal
it
is
life.
As
it
reflex
arises
gives
we
perceive.
The
we
We
infer
have no senit
from the
of sense.
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
26
SECTION
V.
The
numbered
figures
1, 2, 3,
human
the
rational sense-consciousness.
Mr. Betts
and distinguishes
the
Mr. Betts
calls
8, 9, 10, 11,
indifferently
human
alpha form of
calls it
it
or
the
by
figures 4, 5, 6, 7,
positive,
male or
and figures
or
sense-consciousness,
these, the
varying proportion of
whence they are evolved. This variation is represented by the introduction of a numerical scale for
dividing the lines of perception and angles of
imagination.
In the
Onden
a scale
is
used, having a
measure-
Onde
the scale
site direction.
is
The
having increasing
marks the
distinction
sense, the
amount of
27
e.g., if 1,1,
1,1, l,etc,
cave-dweller but
little
1, 15, 2, 2-5, 3,
vanced consciousness, perhaps that of a member of a
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
would seem
as if in the
we
thesis of
if
the five
the hypo-
five,
He
Per-
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
28
Numbers
are discontinuous.
numerical scale of
terms.
as
A line is
the representation
of a
may be
taken
continuously increasing
is
broken up into
discontinuous portions.
limit of possible
Ond
diagram,
by a dotted
smaller
circle enclosing
each
circle,
mode
each diagram)
and each
of sense-consciousness,
is
ratio of proportion).
diagram, a
to
number to it.
The interaction of the
THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.
produces
Each
29
several
consciousness adds
of consciousness realised.
domain of the
It is so
the
from the
Such interaction
is
That of the
ego which
its
it
cognises
intension
is
added
its
to
existence.
objective
itself as
modifica-
Thus
subjective
extension
of con-
sciousness.
is
cation of consciousness
is
itself subjectively
ad infinitum.
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
30
their relations to
each other,
yet, considered
man
the active
is
and woman the receptive or passive form, the moulder of human existence.
In the Onde the activities are measured by the scale
in the reverse direction to those of the Ond, viz., from
form, the originator,
form is always the same, a neutral form the androgene from which sex is evolved.
The apex of the Ond is less than a right angle, and
as more and more terms are added to the scale and
as the ratio of acceleration is augmented, the angle
and
guishable from a
becomes
less until
less
determine the
a straight
straight line.
Ond
line,
the form
scarcely distin-
is
Were
it
possible to
it
Conversely the
right angle,
and
Ond
ratio,
the
to
become
Onde would be
circular.
Determined to
resolved into a
circle,
the
Onde
it
is
or causal form
polar
to
as
is
31
also neutral or
quality.
all
with
SECTION
VI.
METICAL, GEOMETRICAL,
determined as to kind.
Greek symbol
f or j or
or
is
some
number of terms
On
other.
f stands for
six,
and
for eight,
arithmetrical progression,
1,
2,
3,
&c.
difference
"1
common
difference 1.
i.e.,
1,
1*1, 1*2,
&c.
For Geometrical
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
32
to
is
otherwise specified, as g x
be understood unless
The Harmonical
3.
is
y, J,
-|,
-J-,
^,
|-,
scale
-J,
1.
from a
strike the
mean between
circle.
these
They
and
fast
by gradation
comprise the
much
Like the
THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.
stance and have but
little
definite
The Geometrical or
feeling.
prises the
purpose or deep
life
in
them
is
mensely increased.
narrowed, but
its
The Harmonical
leaders,
The
of
33
men
of
superficies
intensity
is
im-
or Hedonic class
the
element predominates.
aesthetic
As
whom
typical of
Mr. Betts
asserts, so
much
the looking at
them
is
the meta-
perhaps
physical interpretation.
Tor
The
figure
1,
Circles of possible
ideation
are
described through
5, 6
line.
is
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
34
may be
decimal fractions
thus the
measurement becomes
as near
"166
333
500
660
1-000
division
"010.
easily
Subdivisions
The
measured
off to the right and the negatives to the left from
zero.
A considerable number of scales reduced to
sufficient correctness.
it
is
They
are
inconvenient to
make
point,
The
circles of differentiation.
is,
in a sense, inclusive
left
A protractor
of this work.
are
and separated by
The
It should
circle cut
from
THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.
35
Figure
is
same
exactly the
figure
as
1,
but
The Ond,
manner,
figure 4,
is
drawn
in a precisely similar
scale
having proportionate
except that a
i.e., it
arithmetical progression
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, or,
be found
1, h.
used.
it is
the scale
The decimal
figure 5,
is
i.e.,
1, 2, 3,
1, 3, 6,
way as
The Ond,
It is
kind
is
in
in exactly the
same
hence
it
Onden.
The Ond
is
but
little
removed
figure
is
scales.
The Ond,
in
in a
;
scale
H,
figure 7,
'1
of eight
h, in the list of
is
in a scale of
Any other
scales
may be
selected,
and an endless
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
36
8,
of perception
is
divided by scale
and
left
and separated by
The contour
is
that
is
Ond,
figure 6
represented.
SECTION
37
VII.
VARIATION.
attained,
men on
already
the discord,
power
and yearning seeking satisfaction that impel
It is
is
and the
enjoyment of externals.
The
original
simple perfectness
of
Adam
may
and Eve
in
in
their
earthly Paradise
types
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
38
dissatisfaction
is
so unrealised that
it
upon the attention. It lies latent in the consciousness, and hence is not represented in the diagrams. But the perfect type must be broken through,
the serpent of dissatisfaction must bring discord into
itself
Eden that
may be
innocence
realised,
that
of purity which,
This disproportion at
on unconsciously,
as
his
desires
increasingly
new
and
expand,
difficult,
first
leads a
fruition of desire.
their
But
gratification
disproportion
the
is
becomes a
thrill
of unsa-
tisfaction
man
activity,
new
means of
self-gratification,
directions for
perfect
....
would
require,
if
permanent
every wish as
fast as
it
rose
....
it
is
always there
is
shadow of ourselves."
Imperfect determination causes a hiatus to be
felt
which
39
The
consciousness.
child
or
The
himself.
realisation
is
have relation to
of imperfection
causes a
now
his
own.
of
consciousness
in
each variation
in
detail.
He
widow
is
possible with
that if he
let
worked out
some flaw
in the symbolisation,
we
should be landed,
may
still it is
it
in a clear
he
As James Hinton
The
figures 12
and
is
remarks, "
it is
well
Of all the
known that
13,
17,
are
two
latter
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
40
Excess occasions a
new
ideas
is
spiral overlapping of
dant diffuseness,
of character.
The
semi- circle
may
<f>.
The
activity of Imagination
This symbol
is
and
is
formularised
<j>2
<f)5
denotes that
half, </>*33
is
The next
class
producing
figure.
18 and 19, 20 and 21, 22 and 23, show the really vital
variation of consciousness.
renders possible
They
higher perfectness
is
it
the
discord
harmony.
In
to
which
of the
conscious-
is
represented by the
41
the choice
On
is
is
is
included in
contour.
The compound
scale
is
The
limitation which
from being fully
realised produces the consciousness of sin and short-
rest.
is
the foundation of
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
42
of self-gratification.
It
its
conflicting desires.
and
except, perhaps,
root found,
their
two
as if the
thus
it
would appear
though reversed,
under consideration
this
it
is
not
so.
The explanation of
when any idea is rea-
lised the
it
is
more
ception
is
realised
One may
whom
often
it is
impossible to
make them
by
may be
Possibly this
reverse an optimistic,
disposition.
compound
scales.
In
The
negative as
may be governed by
the negative
as well
as
the
43
positive realisation,
laws.
oscillation
Where
occur
decided
is
arbitrarily
on
this
line
its
two
resemble
the breaks
ground.
first
method
hover round
it,
life
proceeds,
law of determination
for
the
as
evolu-
can be determined by
activity
What we
an
as real
An
effect
activity that
some object of
might be absolutely
love,
its
somewhat
similar
principle
of
reaction
Any
or
all classes
We
of variation
may be combined
in
also
we may have
a combination of different
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
44
The
the contour.
may be
and variations of
are formularised as xi
Mr. Betts has reserved these also for the diagrams of
last
class
So
far
from finding
satisfaction in
the increasing;
life
Ye
Who
lifted
things,
As away from
your wings.
Fret and confusion and sorrow, struggle and anger and fight,
Tea, the form of man's life is as seas that rave in the darkness
of night
Fear and deadness and doubt in the outermost borders from me,
Yet his birthright's place is my heart, and his glory to come
back free."
The mechanical
The Ond,
figure 12,
common
arithmetical progression,
angular expansion
little
taken as
is
further explanation.
is
difference
-
< 5,
The
*5.
or one-half the
list
scale,
must be divided by
Onde, figure
but with
<f>
and
13.
figures
-33,
2,
3.
scale,
but with
<j>
2,
The
figures
multiplied by
45
measurement must be
2.
dis-
in the contour,
occur.
From
it is
quite
life,
to look
back and
Or it may be that this could not be discovered by studying the individual evolution, but
would become apparent as a law of sociology a law
ground.
governing the
case
it is
association
of individuals
in
which
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
46
be
left
science of sociology
it
would be premature
to expect that
we should be
of
is
no true
human
is
this lowest
ground
evolution.
developed
on
as
future building.
tion of
forces at work,
he,
some student of
his
Law
of Freewill.
In
Ond
figure 18, an
common
difference
in arithmetical progression,
eg. A
compromise is effected between the scale of five
terms and that of seven terms. Mr. Betts draws five
circles of differentiation and seven radii of realised
positive ideation,
is
governed by the
scales
THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.
47
pressed
lower
necessity
would
have
The contour of
the nature.
+ 1 + 1-1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 7. It might
have been 1 + 1 -1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 7 i.e.
progress again,
equally well
any
total of
ing.
The
tion, is
ner.
seven links, whether ascending or descendleft side of the figure, the negative idea-
governed by the
The contour
The counterpart
is 1
scales
d f
in a similar
+ 1 + 1-1 + 1 + 1=
man-
6.
dentations.
which it might gain. The positive side is determined according to scales of g and e. g is now the
dominant scale, and governs the circles of differentiation, and e the comparison of the radii, consequently
life
incomplete,
and
is
The
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
48
very marked.
indeed from a
would be the
plane of
life.
full realisation
The omega
counterpart
is
on
this
similarly
determined.
The
entire
Ond
of conscious existence.
as a
whole
we
life
will
it
If
Or, taking a
Onds,
still
may be regarded
life,
the
stem of
life
which we
call
uK
Up
Fig. 1.
Pig. 2.
Uz
Fig. 3.
Ah
Ah
Ai
Ax
Fig. 4.
Ah
Fig. 5.
Ah
&
Hi?. G.
Eg.
7.
Qh
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Ai
Ai
Kg.
rig. 8.
3.
Qh
Qh
Fi. 10
Tig.
11.
Ap0"5
As
Af0\93
Are
Fig. 13.
Fig. 15.
A.V0ZV
As
Qt0ZV
As
Fig. 16.
Fig.
17.
Qde
Al
Ax
Fig. 18.
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53
PART
II
SECTION
I.
NEGATIVE
EQUIVALENT.
The second
life
plane or standing-ground of
a reaction
The
increased
strife
human
from the
first
briefly, as it is
by diagram.
pursuit of pleasure
ego
is
itself.
less
prolonged experience of
life
dim
feel-
and which
life-energy
is
is
his
from the
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
54
He
of pleasure.
through
an insoluble
the senses, is
The more
infinite
and he withdraws
his
problem.
in,
At this
crisis
some
in disgust of
life,
have committed
life
to the extremest
becomes a
The
ego,
to act
In the "
scribing circle.
first
consists in the
mere point
at
first,
repressed, allowed
and
ground
circumscription
former
this
and
I will
not" of renunciation
becomes a
persistent
volition of the
is
life as life.
standing-
first
at
all,
and no
is
of those egos
who have
The degree
in
life is
Some never
get
of this ground
it.
Life never
"the
eternal
nay,"
becomes anything
to
Carlyle
calls
55
life,
is
hardly
Perhaps in
felt at all.
Self-conquest becomes
vanquished.
is
ground
first
owing
to this
some tendencies
will
and
be
rest,
The circumscribing
circle,
is
actually an
circle,
irregular
circumference.
Its
an
growth to the
Mr. Betts
unnecessary to give
simple a form.
illustration of so
plant
It is
transition
It
corresponds
The motive of
life
is
but a
law
it
itself,
save
own
satisfac-
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
56
Though
tion.
morality, alone
it is
dition, a consciousness
little
own
result,
impulses, consequently
creasing through
till
it
is
a negation of
life
repression, bursts
its
self-imposed
SECTION
II.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE HIGHER MORALITY PHILANTHROPY OR ALTRUISM. ITS PRINCIPLES OF REPRESENTATION.
The
cannot
lower
last.
life
It is
second standing-ground
of the
death-in-life
to a higher one, to
its free
by reason
of the limitation of
new
outlet for
of
new
its
its
ideal
life.
As
the
first
ideal
was
imperfect impulse of
sacrifice,
now
first
57
but work,
is
made
the aim of
And
life.
virtue
is
no
The new
activity,
circle
which
rational
sense-
perception
that of soul,
pansion.
The
circuit of the
new
activity (every
activity
is
infinite.
The
The second
life-centre repre-
to
In some minds
it
may
life
is
voluntarily dedicated,
As
of.
ego for
its fulfilment.
life
on the lower
requires a non-
The determinant
in this case
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
58
is
Mankind
supplies the
For
its
personal aspi-
rations to be realised
with
it.
work
objects of sense,
The ego
as
is
the busy
it
all
is
begins to
life
realise that
"
of
good
And
This
is
to live
and
let
of humanity."
SECTION
III.
The
starting-point
of the
evolution
of the
first
59
moving upwards
activity
in
a straight line, and the form developing from the starting-point of this line
a progressively increasing
scale of progression
being equal,
circle
line in
1, 1, 1, 1, etc.
first
The
ground.
faculties
longer compared
among
all
subor-
as
the
servants or
instruments
of the higher
life.
This higher
life is
of appropriate
pulse
to
progressively realised by
determinations.
The
the
scale
means
blind im-
rationalised
in
according pretty
of rationality the
first
The
ego had
antithesis of
The
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
60
but they
may
its
height,
other.
figures,
and
and Onde.
r,
Ond
A 1, that
it is
arithmetical,
common
1.
Frequently not
the
all
life- energy
of the form
is
In such a
the
remaining
activity
falls
of the Divine
will,
subordination to
in
forms
3,
5,
7,
and
life
cence
may be taken
as
representing an inclination
towards
social pleasures
61
form
this
is
This
tion of 3 to 4.
is
may
When
When
is
ward
action.
five
any
it
may
life is
"
the reverse
is
main
differentiations of pleasure
sented as equal.
It
must be borne
in
mind
that the
differ,
divided, but
sometimes
slightly,
Scale d represents
impulse of
the
between d and h
difference
Figs 5
is
duty.
The
determined as pleasure.
sions
Ond forms
is
divi-
arithmetical,
of progression.
first
by
ground.
common
The
difference
Altogether this
scale of progression
*1,
pair
of diagrams
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
62
ground.
the same
manner
as 5
and
their formula
is
xh
<f>2
Al.
consequently they show a slight advance on the former
pair.
The
and
in
This
is
Ond
for the
Onde
is,
scale,
Corollas,
Corollas.
no
They
subordinated
positive or
dominant element
in consciousness.
life,
life,
Ond and
accelerating
inwards for
the Onde.
Just as the impulse of the lower
life
was progres-
determined forms of
intellect
life
the consciousness.
of the ego
is
determined by the
internal
activit}/"
altruistic
law of
activity
is
In
react
63
upon the
sifting,
and thought
The impulse
Ond
Corolla
governed by a scale
is
it is
law,
which
it
become
Onde
The
re-
Corolla has
may be measured
according to scale.
lie flat
The
circles
of
Fig. 16,
which
is
an
He makes
form.
but
would be
cir-
in reality the
cular,
elliptical,
or
irregular,
Such
in
Ond on
accordance with
as
the types
without
it.
can
be
sufficiently
well
represented
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
64
SECTION
IV.
first
dawn
soul
the ego
life
first
and the
possibility of realising
it.
its
between
It
new
of the
its
ideal
its
ideal of
duty
realised, but it
is
suffering,
faithful
feels its
becoming a
local benefactor.
to patriotism
The dotted
line
of activity
higher
life
and
it
may be regarded
as
which yields
up to be determined by
be divine. As the activity
itself
feels to
spreads outwards
is
But
these impulses.
65
time a disproportion
moment
ticular
is
determining law.
demand upon
as 1, the
its
it
would be
if
duty
is
to
Consequently
it
it would.
Some compromise has to be effected
between the' two. The ideal axis, the aspiration,
remains unchanged, but the real axis of the consciousness and the form along with it becomes bent or
warped from the direct line. The best actions are
thing
seen to
fall
short
of the
An
standard.
incurable
manifestation of activity.
Thus
place
as
The
evolution.
Figure 10
is
its
factor in the
is
The
are developed in scales k m.
between the scales is determined as plea-
The expansion
external
life
is
to
of
the
form
the internal in
is
<j>'4<,
or the
the proportion
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
66
of
"4
to
1.
The
main groups of
tiated
contour,
activity,
^f,
which
is
forms,
The
m.
difference
m k
instead
of
is
The man's
spon-
and reaction.
The activity of Thought and its outward reflection
in Work have also their negative element and negaWhen any particular line of Thought
tive results.
and Action is pursued in addition to its positive
results it has the negative result that some opposite
line of Thought and Action has not been pursued.
But besides this the particular line which has been
pursued, or rather the particular capacity which
has been manifested in a certain way, may be made
up of positives and negatives; for the form of an
individual life is determined not only by the positive
negative elements,
action,
its
principles of action
by inaction, by
mistaken action, by wrong action. As the evolution
of the third ground developes, this opposition becomes
The axis
increasingly manifest in the consciousness.
fection, is yet
were,
it
67
split into
These
two poles might, perhaps, be called Struggle and
On
Repentance.
the proportion
strange
twists
corolla forms.
In the
tion
is
Onde
is
Both
110.
the
common
taken as
difference
is
r,
The expansion
5.
unbroken ^
1,
is
of the form
is
is
activity
arithmetical progression,
<f>'5,
The contour
and negative
positive
real
the axis
It
not
is
2T5
"
bears that
i.e.,
easy
either to
follow the
"
The
8 2*15,
is
tracing having
as simple
formula
divide
gression,
and
f according to scale
set
-.
<f>5
x1
f'
off
at
right
divisions, lines 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Draw
the major
and the minor
f of A'5 pro-
angles
through the
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
G8
which
12
and placing
to a part),
end along
12
f 6
then
10*3,
the intersections
o)
<j>5,
Upon
used
12 1,
12
is
half 12
X mark
f,
off a
half-inch
11
&c, and
2,
and draw
and draw 12 6,
reached
is
to
it
12
give
to
103
until
advance
is
its
1',
f,
2',
&c,
will
A"5, enlarged
point
x" equal
to 2 '15 of scale
I call the
sion
as yet
it
make
is
indefinite,
cyme.
To
illustrate this
may
by the
at liberty to
Now
this
pursuit,
or
Upon
object,
the
first
and
so
first
ground
we
it
it
by
may.
till
the
afterwards,
of form until
69
if
fact,
two
activities
of the form
and
delineated corollas
conflict,
it
we
life, all
therefore,
the
f
If,
real.
x,
off
(but
if
a flower
as near as
from the
mark
O 110
on the
co
6,
fields
On
will
as
cyme
these
Q 103
you
curves
and
the curves
About
centres on
These
o>
from scale
OF
The contour
of the form, ^, is
unbroken, f being a simple scale. Draw in the vertical
scale.
complete."
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
70
scales are
The method of
construction
semicircles
elliptical
as
scaffolding
the form
for
is
The use of
instead
of
of the
first
work done
in
It corresponds
Onden
If the
life.
phantom of sense-production,
He
a higher plane.
blooming corolla of
shrivelling
left
if so
away
his idea
become
realised.
may
find
it,
the
way
of
life
The
and perishes,
and man is
all,
and
to seek,
truth.
SECTION
71
V.
Before proceeding
ground,
it is
attentive
observation
is
never con-
wheel
is
seen in
endeavoured in
this
have
intervals
not
is
not con-
our consciousness
vi-
positive,
this material
....
and,
it
is
conceivable that he
what ?
at
...
Since three
it
can be
which he
is
habitually familiar.
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
72
mena
any record
of,
all
we have
of seeing, hear-
senses.
with which
senses
we have
we
perceive
more
the
taste,
interior
clair-
i.e.,
and smell on
Our Saxon
fore-
inwyts, but
by the inwyts,
in all
With
and the
interior sense,
we might infer
as a
ma-
be impossible to us.
ledge of
it
might
although
we
might
still
so to speak, of a
now
mere
surface appearance,
more transcendental
state, just as
we
it
is
only an external
child's
73
the
toy,
Wheel of
attention.
ing on a pivot.
A series of pictures are arranged
round the wheel with a black bar between each.
When the wheel is revolved slowly we are conscious
cessively.
ficient rapidity
we
lose
revolved with
is
sight of the
suf-
black dividing
Now
hoops.
tations
were painted
black bars,
light,
when we made
we should
see
the
series
By
we
on the
of
representations
series
on the
bars.
we
We
should
now
and not-see
know that
there were two sets of representations, and we should
apprehend them ideally as existing together, but we
should
sort
of
thing
occurs
with clairvoyants
who
occa-
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
74
An interesting
titled "
ception
the motion
of a
sciousness
space,
is
square,
sciousness
with
our
own
states of con-
three-dimensional
state,
ness.
of
perception,
which they
but
subsist
the
four-dimensional
would
not
yet
have
unity in
become
apparent.
some extent from the received mathematical one which Mr. Howard Hinton makes use of.
According to Mr. Betts's system the activity of a point
generates the line as a positive activity and negative
The
re-activity which are the ground of polarity.
simple line has no direction, for direction implies relaBut
tion, and there is nothing yet to be related to.
sions differs to
Sonnenschein
&
Co.
75
ideally or potentially,
its
as
Just
surface.
dimensional state
is
existence
it
so
implied in the
is
existence
of a four-
mathematical point
three opposite
modes of
"Now, can we
activity.)
con-
I think
we
sphere of existence.
Would
amount to?
The
new dimen-
not this be a
?
What would
started,
it
is
has
not
now
contracted to a point
that
is,
and
your
central
point
of
consciousness
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
76
around
you."
The
possibility of such
a projection
of the con-
the
fifth
ground, which
is
is
only a negative
and
life,
inter-
mediate one.
SECTION
VI.
surface of a solid,
LIFE.
and unable
would imagine
and would ascribe
surface
had
a real existence,
certain qualities
solid
that
to
it
but as
it
is
Similarly,
when
that
It is
the con-
we may
mode
is
in
The
each of us and
?
this
may be
life,
77
life,
And
The
is
all
the
stage,
fourth standing-ground of
life,
players."
the
abstract
subjectivity
must remain
But,
for ever
subjective
state
is
its
opposite
but
as
proportion, for
never to
On
dimly
all
the
It
is
only a difference of
the physical.
By the time
is
life
than
attained
of direct perception.
The
The
interior senses
exterior senses
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
78
ground.
fifth
ego
feels to
ideal through
work has
The hope
of realising his
ing nay."
The
In the
Will.
the
life
first
was
perfect satisfaction
to
it
activity,
seemed
be gained on
as
when
though
this plane,
but
An
element of
success.
effort
life,
failure
became
increasingly manifest.
An
of usefulness.
The
set in again,
and the
chasm yawned
and the actual accom-
ever- widening
possibility
bloomed
Reaction
so brightly
as the
Onden was the germ, and the Ond the leaf, and the
form of the third ground the flower, so the next stage
may be compared to the pistil and stamens flung up
into the infinite with an infinite yearning.
The
personality
THE SCIENCE OF REPRESENTATION.
nor
virtue
may be
fourth ground
of
busy
activity,
is
no longer
The
The
third
of doing.
The
sorrowful passivity,
desire
in personal
negative impersonality.
state of
79
of
ground was a
fourth
not-doing,
to the act,
is
a state
because the
become instinctive.
one word sacrifice. The
may be summed up
itself
in
the personal
up,
are
desires
its
is poured
knowledge life.
and when the soul, from
when
the
of
battle
Spiritual perception
is
life
seems
lost,
all
of that
unutterable bliss
then,
won.
self-forgetfulness
is
of
In the
that reunion,
is
the
sacrifice
complete.
is
Man
which
unity.
is
This transition
Regeneration
the
new
has
Birth
the
Beatific vision
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OE
80
SECTION
VII.
LIFE.
i.e.,
the activities
of the sense-life.
to
man
As
life
became
eco,
the
am, which, as
for
it is
Egotism,
of
the third
evolution of the
Humanity,
is
fifth
self,
makes man
AM,
everywhere and in
first
ground
is
it
the
All.
Having or
Doing or Altruism.
The
Being or Unity.
The
three grades of
after
81
by
faith
life,
has perceived
its
first
its
intellectual
ness
The
lies
finite
being,
infinite.
though
its
The
lesser
identity of
still
circle of Prakriti.
substance,
it
exists within
the circumscribing
the possibility
of
eternal
progress,
through ever-
heightening cycles of objective manifestation, alternating by reason of polarity with ever intenser states
of subjectivity.
And
instead
of
an everlasting
progress
towards
light,
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
82
life,
personalities
on
transcendent a plane of
He
for its
own
that
is,
by personal
not
act,
sake, for
He
desire.
does
all
men
of the One.
AM.
He
He
He
draws
all
men up
When
accomplished,
mankind
will
pass
is
thus
fully
83
bliss,
humanity,
still
union of our
own humanity
may
it
be, in the
in
development,
series of
new and
infinite
merged
the
antithesis
is
man
is
blinded
No
representation
is
the
for
when
it
it
dim
short-
seeks to pene-
Beyond.
were able
life,
although
would be representable
conceive of
We
it.
if
we
by some
make a repretherefore if we
understood
the
on a
surface,
appearance of matter
in
a four-
at
the condition
He
of four-dimensional
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OR
84
crystals,
corollas
he
according
Hence he
uses.
infers
merged
of
the
objectivity probably
resistant.
made some
interesting experi-
scales
and when
more transcendent
in a
ments
the
to
also
which undeterminateness predominates produces chiefly waves of green, which he regards as the
He conceives
colour of infancy and incompleteness.
that an entrancing colour-music, might be derived
form
in
arrangement
from a suitable
of revolving forms.
Some
is
a symbol,
and
if
we understood
we might
the
read in every
tion
the
key
its
which each
natural rank in a
thinks
it
possible that
to
neglected
He
in
85
Science
Horoscopes not
he has
un frequently with
success.
He
to be the
Omega
it
will
Science,
be chiefly
each individual
shades
for so
of
Omega
colour in
we might
The psychic
the
is
sense being
sense,
exterior, Alpha.
human
consciousness,
may
not
only the
activities
of
similarly be represented
by
diagram.
human
ones.
sense-con-
Also he
has
mark
He
considers that
GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY, OE
86
Gravitation
tional
lie
and not
pendent force in
He
and repulsion.
as
an inde-
itself.
by which
he means the invisible form of the activities immediately concerned in its production, and of which
certain points are marked by the position of the
planets, to be a nine-petaled lily similar to the Ond
Corollas. Every Solar System in the sky he supposes
to be the counterpart of some flower at our feet. Our
Solar System is an Alpha or male universe.
Others
he believes may be Omega or female forms. The
systems with dual suns he thinks may resemble his
believes the form of the Solar System,
diagrams of bi-axial
corollas.
16
is
may
selected out of an
an ordinary elevation of an
Ond
shows very clearly the coil of undeterminateness, which is coloured red, winding through the
form, and the spiral lines of experience or memory
tion.
It
These
lines
Figure 17
is
its
antithetical
form or
Figure 18
is
the nine-petaled
lily
representing our
universe,
and
figure 19
87
be represented by
Ond
forms of the
ground.
first
Diagrams.
mathematics
make
handmaid of
as the
In
lies
clear the
this
union
he puts
it
forth as the
first
step in a
new
tion in our
than himself,
more
successfully
Af
Ai
Fig.
1.
Fig.
2.
Fig.
Hfh^x
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3.
Fig. 4.
Fig.
5.
Fig.
7.
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Fig.
9.
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Fig. 12.
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APPENDIX
Mrs. Boole made some
Mr. Betts'
" Symbolic
Methods of Study," and quoted passages from some
of his letters.
Some further quotations from letters
are appended here which may be found to be interesting and to throw light on his System of
diagrams
unpublished
allusions to
her
in
book,
Representation.
Do
own
If you could
you would find that
spirit.
spirit
see the
it
could
is
spirit (its
why
To
transparent thought
when you
they
humanity
inculcate,
it will
when you
look
at
any forms of
Ideal,
which
giving them
unhappy
*****
would almost
is
fain be
undisturbed.
It
seems clear to
me
To
which
obtain a type
is
really
results in a
it
is
neces-
APPENDIX.
90
and
scheme is
set in
essentially the
has eventually
is
of nature
it
we have been
that humanity
may advance
From
Thought.
is
this it
would
its
universe.
The
-K-
by means of Thought
immediately provokes the question, Does physiology bear it
out ?
To answer this in detail would require an essay on
many subjects. Yet we may throw some light on the subject
by a bold hypothesis with which many things agree.
The
generation
of
the
life-cell
The
in the
growth
us
we have
as oxygen, which, as
a supporter of combustion.
may
is
and gives
carries
on,
the
opposite
activities of
when
the equilibrium of
felt,
in
is
as oxygen
That which,
condition
Life.
Thoughts,
off,
APPENDIX.
It
91
is
and
composing water
lose
is
all
human
race.
form
to
elementary composition,
Panorama widens
and
by Thought,
it
Form
or Life
Light
as revealed in colour,
is
is
may be
its
merge
its
we
in
see in our
own
form
itself
(which
we
are)
will
essence (as
would be
would no longer
It
is
it
and rendered
an Infinite harmony.
wandering about on
itself
is
it is
APPENDIX.
92
carries its
relation
ground
as it
own world
with
it,
between
my world and
exists in
you or me
is
T^
be united or merged
sonality if life
is
in its
again to be
these diagrams
There
is
The
history.
is
-tF
see,
Have
-7p
much we can
This
is
determined in the
Onde
by giving
this to
be
form.
is
The
change of
this
Divine
ment of the
if
is
regarded in
activity,
we go on
is
its
first
aspect.
we
as the
a Universe.
This
Love
is
is
the Substance of
all
it is
Science
when
I repeat that
this, too, is
which gives
and unites
all
together, so that
standing-ground
we think we
see the
same
world, hear the same sounds, walk the same path, clasp the
APPENDIX.
our communication
This
is
that the
is
93
clearing the
movements
when
commenced my
studies,
forms have
all
it
became
at length
me
as very
to arrive at
viz.,
all
fested in existence.
which
but
for ever.
life,
day
As
a continuous, never-ending line doubtless, but the unchanging personality remaining through the whole (which
personality.
not
define
would appear
other than
as a mere
round a centre, your
to gyrate
carrying
its
daily
it
resolves
shown
Was
it
God
leaf,
and
first
APPENDIX.
94
may fill
men to
Science
in spired
us at our
by Conquest.
in
feet.
We
We
it is all laid
(not
Will of
A grain
it
gravitation.
The negation of
mentary
a colour
is
colour.
&
A straight
line
infinite
determination of activity.
Garden
we
of
in the
abruptly expelled.
Only
AlJ iJ ENDlX.
the second act of the " I
am
95
And
that I am."
Cotyledons on which
this
has
idea
as
I have found
were,
it
the
during
subsisted
its
unfolding.
It seems to
me
is
life, for
jg.
-3F
4t
Jfc
-St*
Vf
Human
it
culminates in the
astronomical motions
By
Corolla form.
we observe
reference
to
mathematical
microcosm of the
solar
system
of which
we
personality.
is
solar system,
human
intelligence
is
this
also the
But this
as individualisation,
harmony
the
and thereby
aspire.
APPENDIX.
96
Therefore, also,
and
we
if
Wisdom
is
racteristics of
them
evolution to show
how each
Thought
is
is
of the other.
n-
-n*
5F
starry universe,
them
specialise
perhaps
discover links
JUL,
It
may
J.
JO.
Jg.
the highest, but what about the multitude that has to plod
the road thither
We
concerning
whom
not one
is
to
be lost?
speed,
and telegraphs
to
spiritual
engines have yet been thought out to speed the soul onwards ?
W
The
action
"JP
9P
a true symbol of
itself, is
it
body on
more or less
spirit
and rendering
it
Take any
us.
The
#
life is,
could only be
it
to
swerve
now
in this direction,
now
conflict,
in that,
which
APPENDIX.
I think
is
97
which
all
when
The main result
the conflict
passed
is
of this teaching
and a new sphere is attained.
would be the lesson inculcated by our forefathers, that of
courage, for to the coward they assure us there is nothing in
store but Night and the Pool.
Our
power of
system
whom we
is
are symbols
Onden matter
reaction of Thought.
to the possible
On
solar
Earth
or Planetary con-
which
this subject I
dislocation of
attention
an advanced
state
may be
a sign of a
still
human
It
may
yet be pos-
survive,
fittest.
%
#
*
*
" Esoteric Buddhism'' appears to me to be the very book
needed to complement my studies.
But I must now
commence with an extract from " Esoteric Buddhism" to show
-x-
how
it so
On
" The
one imperishable
is
that which
may
be regarded
motion, not as
which
is
Now
what
is
this
which
as-
APPENDIX.
98
Further than
this,
we
actually discover
sentation,
is
is
Space, or
mode
attributes
reaction
the
Omega
method or
activity, or that
of representation, and
those
in this or that
of representation.
Thinking
= duration or Time
Time determinable
par
as
matter
Space,
in
is
may be termed
it
Omega
the
excellence, while
excellence,
These laws of intuition are not inherent in someitself, and thus the basis of our life is
eternal and imperishable as the universe.
But can you
carry the idea of the
across that gap in the fifth round
of humanity (about mid career) where only the really spiritual
thought can climb ? It is visible in every corolla you examine it is the transition of petals into stamens and pistil,
through which metamorphosis alone the
and O spirit
evolutions.
AO
Here
same
Omega
he
ideal in the
root.
The laws
and
within
final
sentation
is
absolutely uncertain
before stated)
best
Form
(as
hence
I have
am
till
then.
all
sickness
and constitutional
to
APPENDIX.
the patient and the others concerned
99
all
mainly strengthened or
may be so, and I think sickness might almost take the place
human evolution that natural selection does in the animal
in
world.
X-
There appears
to
me
to
-K-
-X-
all
existence, without
which
Western Thought
Existence would lapse in Being
has sprung from the Hebrew " I am," crude and arbitrary at
its
first
promulgation,
spiritualised
in
its
latest
announcement,
demand
so that
now
this
harmony, and is
breaking out on all sides as emotional activity, and is even
getting quite unanswerable in its demand, but let but the
Western idea
is
taking root as a
for
Lily show herself and you will find a wonderful change come
over modern history.
her horizon;
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31
34
18
30
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11
Arundale, Miss
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24
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Antiquarian Study
Astrologer's Guide
Archaology and Occultism
Adams, F. W. L
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Baughan, Kosa
Blavatsky, H. P
33,35
10, 29, 38
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Leolinus Siluriensis
Life of
18
30
Leicester
Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess
Maitland, E
Mathers
Machen,
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31
Marchant,
Bonatus
Browne, Hablot K.
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...
Betts, B.
...
34
21
11
32
10
Cosmo
de'
Medici
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Colman
Comedies and Farces
Cruikshank, George
Church, W. E
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Cardan
Cook, Miss Louisa S
Collette, C.
Chatterji, Mohini
Clarke, H.
Dickens
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3,
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Dickensiana
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Drummond
Eliphas Levi's Writings
Ellis,
W. A
Forlong, Major-General J. G. B.
Forty Vezirs
Folk-Songs
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Geometrical Psychology
George, G. M.
Gibb, E. J.
Greville-Nugent, Hon.
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Mrs
Hernies
Ingram, John
Jonnson, C. P
Jones, Ebenezer
15
23
11
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29
10
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"Phiz"
21
35
Poe
M.
Paterson,
Pat7i'T7ie)
Phallicism
Praise of Ale
Raven (The)
29
22
27
25
Eideal, C.
Rueing of Gudrun
Sheykh-Zada
Swinburne, A. C
Sinnett, A. P
Spiritual Hermeneattics
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11 17,23
10, 13
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24,38
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28, 31.
7,39
7
11
32,37
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17
24
20
31
34
3
19
35
29
Two Tramps
28
24
Sithron
Scott, J.
Studies of Sensation and Event
Serjeant, W. C. Eldon ...
Story, A. T
Thackeray
Thomas Cranmer
Trumbull
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6, 14,
13
Falley of Sorek
Firgin of the 'World
Watford's Antiquarian
Westropp, H.
Walford, E.
Waite, A.
Word for
21
3
10
United
TFellerisms
J.
24
27
...
Sphinx
White, C. H. Evelyn
W.
25
33
26
Transactions L. L. T. S
24
21, 23, 33
38
27
Kabala Denwlata
Kent, Charles
Kingsford, Mrs. Anna, M.D.
Lamb
25
31
31
39
12
Judge, W. Q
Jennings, Hargrave
Lilly
26
29
9
39
12
36
14, 15
Sumner
Leech
Linton,
Pope Joan
39
6
History of Tithes
Keightley,
Kitton, F.
Paracelsus
34
4
Hartmann, F.
Jones,
11
26
24
6
27
13
E.
Panton, J.
14,15
Heptameron
Home,
34
28
8
25
Mints to Collectors
Hubbe-Schleiden, J. TJ
38
19
18
Physiognomy
16
3
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Phenomena
Primitive Symbolism
Palmistry
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Fifine...
15
21
21
22
9
24
...
22
Illumination
9
36
34
26
32
37
37
East Anglian
New
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W. T
H. "W
Nesfield,
16
15, 39
Batty, John
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...
38
13
Mysteries of Magic
Blood Covenant
28
20
...
30
...
Low Bourn
Burma
..
Cranmer
the
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28
39
5
25
5
27
22
9
Navy
23