Agnes Pelton imbued her paintings of nature and flowers with personal spiritual meaning, carrying ideas about spirituality in nature into the twentieth century. Divinity Lotus is an abstracted form of the lotus flower, which carries divine meaning in Hindu, Buddhist, and Egyptian traditions.

As a founding member of the Transcendental Painting Group, based in Taos, New Mexico, Pelton adhered to the principle, "to carry painting beyond the appearance of the physical world, through new concepts of space, color, light and design, to imaginative realms that are idealistic and spiritual.