Category: Biographies

The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation

The Instruments--Their early lives--Their consciousness of a special mission, and intimations of a call--Their training in respect of circumstance, character, and faculty, until brought together for their Joint work. 1-36

Chapters

10. CHAPTER III.

A striking feature for us was the exquisite tenderness and poetic delicacy, both in matter and manner, which characterised all that we received. Nor was there the intrusion of a...

8. CHAPTER I.

My colleague in the work, the history of which I am about to render some account, was the late Anna Kingsford, _née_ Bonus, M.D. of the University of Paris.

9. CHAPTER II.

My visit to the rectory resulted in an intimacy which made me to such extent a member of the family as to remove all obstacles to the collaboration required of us. It was soon m...

11. CHAPTER IV.

Even had we been disposed, which happily we were not, to exalt ourselves on the strength of the loftiness of our mission, the constant proofs afforded us of the paucity of our k...

14. CHAPTER VII.

As will readily be imagined, the interest was intense with which we watched the progress of our work, in order to see whether the crucial event of its promulgation would coincid...

13. CHAPTER VI.

This chapter will be devoted to some examples of the recovered Gnosis, bearing chiefly upon the supreme doctrine of Regeneration. As with all else received by the Seeress, they...

12. CHAPTER V.

The first compendious statement of the doctrine which it was intended to restore, was given to us at Paris in the summer of 1878, in the form of an exposition of the principles...

7. CHAPTER VII.

Accordance of all the dates with those prophesied--Other coincidences--Why our work has remained so long unknown to the generality--Notable recognitions, by representative Kabal...

3. CHAPTER III.

The perfect love that casts out fear." In the presence of celestial visitants--A parable of the Intuition--"The Wonderful Spectacles"--The Greek element in the work--Hermes and...

5. CHAPTER V.

The key to the mystery of the Bible; the "Veil of Moses" withdrawn--The secret laid bare of the world's sacrificial system, and the feud between priest and prophet--The Memory o...

4. CHAPTER IV.

"Ye are not yet perfected"--Our respective _Auras_--An exhortation--The Seven Spirits of God, their co-operation necessary for a perfect work--"You belong to us now, to do our w...

2. CHAPTER II.

A baptism of the Spirit--"At last I have found a man through whom I can speak!"--Intimation of the nature and aim of their work--The Doomed train, "No one on the engine!"--Insta...

6. CHAPTER VI.

Spontaneity of the Seeress's faculty--Specific illuminations, in illustration, chiefly, of the process of Regeneration; concerning (1) Holy Writ; (2) Redemption; (3) Sin and dea...

1. CHAPTER I.

The Instruments--Their early lives--Their consciousness of a special mission, and intimations of a call--Their training in respect of circumstance, character, and faculty, until...