In this Section we present works directly linked to the message of Dr. Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, or to the “New” Gospel of Interpretation, which is the denomination of the main legacy, or message, of these true and great prophets, still very little recognized in our time – an era that is still characterized by the predominance of idolatry and materialism.
They are works, therefore, representing the prophesied restoration of the Old Esoteric Doctrine which, through the interpretation of the mysteries of religion, must reconcile faith and reason, religion and science, and effect the fall of that priestly system which – “making the word of God without any effect by their traditions” – has so far usurped and perverted the truth of Christianity.
The perspective of these works is that Christian doctrines, when correctly understood, are necessary and self-evident truths, which can be recognized as representing and grounded in the real nature of existence, incapable of being conceived as being something different from that, and constituting a a system of thought that is both scientific, philosophical and religious – absolutely unassailable (inexpugnable), and satisfying for the highest aspirations of the human being, whether intellectual, moral, or spiritual.
A few of these works are in Portuguese language, but most, especially the one that is the most important (The Perfect Way, or the Discovery of Christ), are in the original English. These complete works can be found on the Anna Kingsford website.
We added summary presentations of the contents of these works to facilitate a synthetic visualization of them. Below are the links to the selected works:
The Perfect Way; or, the Finding of Christ. Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1882. Second revised and enlarged edition: Field and Tuer, London, 1887; 3rd edition: 1890. Fifth edition, with additions, and long Biographical Preface by Samuel Hopgood Hart: John M. Watkins, Londron, 1923. 405 pp.
This work presents the “intellectual concepts” that form the basis of Christianity (but that its official exhibitors do not present, or are unable to present), and it demonstrates that Christianity is a symbolic synthesis of the fundamental truths contained in all religions.
Contents:
Prefaces – Introductory – The Soul; and the Substance of Existence – The Various Orders of Spirits; and How to Discern Them – The Atonement – The Nature and Constitution of the Ego – The Fall (Nº. 1) – The Fall (Nº. 2) – The Redemption – God as the Lord; or, the Divine Image – Appendices – Index of Subjects and Principal Words.
Clothed with the Sun: Being the Illuminations of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford. Anna Kingsford. Edited by Edward Maitland. Fist edition: John M. Watkins, London, 1889. Second edition: The Ruskin Press, Birmingham, 1906. Third edition: edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart, 1937. Sun Books (reprint), Santa Fe, 1993. 210 pp.
Contents:
Dedication (v)
Preface to the Third Edition (Samuel Hopgood Hart, xi-xvii)
Preface to the First Edition (Edward Maitland, xviii-xxxii)
Part the First
ILLUMINATIONS
No. I: Concerning the Three Veils Between Man and God (1-3)
No. II: Concerning Inspiration and Prophesying (4-7)
No. III: Concerning the Prophecy of the Immaculate Conception (7-9)
No. IV: Concerning Revelation (9-11)
No. V: Concerning the Interpretation of the Mystical Scriptures (11-15)
No. VI: Concerning the Mosaic Cosmogony (15-17)
No. VII: Concerning the Fall (17-19)
No. VIII: Concerning the Prophecy of the Deluge (19-20)
No. IX: Concerning the Prophecy of the Book of Esther (20-22)
No. X: Concerning the Prophecy of the Vision of Nebuchadnezzar (22-23)
No. XI: Concerning the Prophecy of the Time of the End (23-27)
No. XII: Concerning the Soul: Its Origin, Nature, and Potentialities (27-34)
No. XIII: Concerning Persephone, or the Soul’s Descent into Matter (34-35)
No. XIV: Concerning the Genius or “Daimon” (36-42)
No. XV: Concerning the “Powers of the Air” (43-46)
No. XVI: Concerning the Devil and Devils (46-47)
No. XVII: Concerning the Gods (47-48)
No. XVIII: Concerning the Greek Mysteries (48-52)
No. XIX: Concerning the Origin of Evil, and the Tree as the Type of Creation (52-54)
No. XX: Concerning the Great Pyramid, and the Initiations Therein (55-57)
No. XXI: Concerning the “Man of Power” (57-60)
No. XXII: Concerning the “Work of Power” (60-63)
No. XXIII: Concerning Regeneration (63-65)
No. XXIV: Concerning the Man Regenerate (65-68)
No. XXV: Concerning the Christ and the Logos (68-69)
No. XXVI: Concerning the Perfectionment of the Christ (69-70)
No. XXVII: Concerning Christian Pantheism (70-71)
No. XXVIII: Concerning the “Blood of Christ” (71-73)
No. XXIX: Concerning Vicarious Atonement (73-77)
No. XXX: Concerning Paul and the Disciples of Jesus (77-79)
No. XXXI: Concerning the Manichaeism of Paul (80)
No. XXXII: Concerning the Gospels: Their Origin and Composition (80-84)
No. XXXIII: Concerning the Actual Jesus (84-87)
No. XXXIV: Concerning the Previous Lives of Jesus (87-88)
No. XXXV: Concerning the Holy Family (89-90)
No. XXXVI: Concerning the Metempsychosis or Avatâr (90-92)
No. XXXVII: Concerning the Aeon of the Christ (92-93)
No. XXXVIII: Concerning the Doctrine of Grace (93-94)
No. XXXIX: Concerning the “Four Atmospheres” (94-95)
No. XL: Concerning the Hereafter (96-99)
No. XLI: Concerning the True Ego (99-101)
No. XLII: Concerning God (101-104)
No. XLIII: Concerning Psyche, or the Superior Human Soul (104-108)
No. XLIV: Concerning the Poet, as Type of the Heavenly Personality (108-111)
No. XLV: Concerning Psyche (111-113)
No. XLVI: Concerning Consciousness and Memory in Relation to Personality (113-116)
No. XLVII: Concerning the Substantial Ego as the True Subject (116-118)
No. XLVIII: Concerning the Christian Mysteries (120-123)
No. XLIX: Concerning Dying (123-124)
No. L: Concerning the One Life: Being a Recapitulation (125-130)
Part the Second
THE BOOK OF THE MYSTERIES OF GOD
“I AM” (133)
No. I: The Credo: Being a Summary of the Spiritual History of the Sons of God, and the Mysteries of the Kingdoms of the Seven Spheres (134)
No. II: The “Lord’s Prayer”: Being a Prayer of the Elect for Interior Perfectionment (134)
No. III: Concerning Holy Writ (135)
No. IV: Concerning Sin and Death (135-137)
No. V: Concerning the “Great Work,” the Redemption, and the Share of Christ Jesus Therein (137-140)
No. VI: Concerning Original Being; or, “Before the Beginning” (141-142)
No. VII: Alpha, or “In the Beginning” (142)
No. VIII: Beta, or Adonai, the Manifestor (142-143)
No. IX: Gamma, or the Mystery of Redemption (143-145)
No. X: Delta, or the Mystery of Generation (145-147)
No. XI: Epsilon, or the First of the Gods: Proem and Hymn to Phoibos (147-148)
No. XII: Zeta, or the Second of the Gods: Proem, Hymn to Hermes, and an Exhortation of Hermes to his Neophytes (149-153)
No. XIII: Eta, or (mystically) the Third of the Gods: Proem, and Hymns to the Planet God, to Hephaistos, to Demeter, to Poseidon and to Pallas Athena (153-163)
No. XIV: Theta, or (mystically) the Fourth of the Gods: Hymn to Aphrodite, and a Discourse of the Communion of Soules, and of the Uses of Love between Creature and Creature; being part of the Goldene Booke of Venus (164-169)
No. XV: Lambda, or the Last of the Gods; Being the Secret of Satan (169-173)
No. XVI: The Seven Spirits of God and Their Correspondences (173)
No. XVII: The Mysteries of the Kingdoms of the Seven Spheres (173-174)
Part the Third
CONCERNING THE DIVINE IMAGE OR THE VISION OF ADONAI
Concerning the Divine Image; or the Vision of Adonai (177-182)
APPENDIX
Notes (187-201)
Definitions and Explanations (201-210)
The Life of Anna Kingsford: Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work. Written by her great colaborator, Edward Maitland. Two volumes. George Redway, London, 1896. Thurd Edition, complete with additions. Ilustrated with photos, landscapes and reproductions, edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart: John M. Watkins, London, 1913. Vol. I, 442 pp.; Vol. II, 466 pp.
Contents:
Volume First
Preface to the Third Edition (v-xvii)
Preface to the First Edition (xviii-xix)
Early Life (1-25)
Our First Acquaintance (26-33)
Some Account of Myself (34-43)
Mutual Recognition (44-54)
To End of 1875 (55-68)
Student Life (69-89)
Spiritual Unfoldments (90-106)
VIII. The Celestial Opened (107-129)
A Cloud of Witnesses(130-169)
Persecuted of Apollyon (170-209)
The Baffled Sorcerer (210-240)
Manifold Experiences (241-275)
The First and Last of the Gods (276-294)
Warnings and Instructions (295-321)
Floods of Light (322-343)
Close of Student Course (344-373)
Among the Astrals (374-387)
Conversations with the Genii (388-415)
Continuous Illuminations (416-442)
Volume Second
The Perfect Way (1-21)
Numerous Experiences (22-43)
Varied Activities (44-71)
A Tour Abroad (72-94)
Winter at Paris (95-115)
The Theosophical Society (116-137)
A Time of Controversy (138-171)
Meditations on the Mysteries (172-184)
The Hermetic Society (185-211)
Letters and Illuminations (212-234)
Some Former Incarnations (235-251)
De Multis Rebus (252-271)
A Flight for Life (272-299)
A Melancholy Tour (300-322)
A Home to Die In (323-350)
The Withdrawal (351-363)
Priest versus Prophet (364-404)
Post Mortem (405-442)
Index (445-466)
The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the New Gospel of Interpretation. Edward Maitland. 1st Edition, 1893. 2nd Edition, 1894. 3rd Edition, edited by Samuel H. Hart: Ruskin Press, Birmingham, 1905. 204 pp.
Contents: Prefaces – Introduction – Vocation – Initiation – Comunication – Antagonisation – Recapitulation – Exemplification – Promulgation and Recognition.
The Bible’s Own Account of Itself. Edward Maitland. 1st Edition: Ruskin Press, Birmingham, 1891. 2nd Edition, complete with Appendix: Ruskin Press, Birmingham, 1905. 83 pp. 3rd Edition: John M. Watkins, London, 1913.
Contents:
Preface to the Second Edition (iii-viii)
Preface to the First Edition (ix)
CHAPTER I – The failure of Orthodoxy and Agnosticism to interpret the Bible due to their common error in assuming its standpoint to be literal, instead of that which the Bible itself claims – namely, the mystical. (1-5)
CHAPTER II – The sources of information whereby to determine this question are four in number, being (1) the Bible itself; (2) the consensus of qualified commentators; (3) the general usage in corresponding scriptures; (6-11) and
CHAPTER III – (4) The intrinsic nature of the case, as arising from the function of religion, and discerned by the spiritual consciousness. (12-15)
CHAPTER IV – The doctrine of the Bible in neither that of Orthodoxy nor of Materialism, but of Pantheism, in that it involves the divinity of inherency in such wise that evolution, which is the manifestation of inherency, is accomplished only by the realisation of divinity, the only barrier to which realisation is man’s own will. (16-22)
CHAPTER V – The necessary unity, duality, and trinity of Original, and therein of all, Being. The mystical “woman,” of the Bible, in the universal Substance; in the individual, the Soul. Her recognition and appreciation to constitute the “Woman’s Age.” The two trinities, of the Unmanifest and the Manifest, and the failure of Orthodoxy to distinguish between them. (23-26)
CHAPTER VI – The passage of Original Being from the static to the dynamic state, in which it is designated “Holy Spirit,” is followed by the “generation” of the gods and the world. (27-30)
CHAPTER VII – The narrative of the Creation, the Flood, and the Nativity. Divine incarnation, rightly defined, both a logical necessity and an actual fact. (31-36)
CHAPTER VIII – The divinity of inherency, evolution, immortality, regeneration, and re-incarnation, as indispensable to divine incarnation, implied in the promise make to Eve in the sentence pronounced on the serpent, and similarly in the declaration of Jesus to Nicodemus. (37-41)
CHAPTER IX – The “Divine Marriage.” The initial and final stages of man’s spiritual evolution, represented by “Adam” and “Christ,” “Eve” and “Mary,” “David.” Method of redemption purely spiritual. Unscriptural and blasphemous nature of the Orthodox presentations. The sacrifice alone of divine appointment, and efficacious, that insisted on by the prophets in opposition to the priests. These two orders in conflict throughout the Bible. How to “put on Christ.” The Higher Alchemy and the true Resurrection. (42-48)
CHAPTER X – The Soul’s Intuition, the interpreter deliverer, represented in the Bible as a woman, and symbolised also by the “ass.” Raab, Jael, Esther; David and Daniel; Balaam, Samson and Jesus. The ego in man, the problem of this the same as the as the God in the universe. “Christ” macrocosmic as well as microcosmic. The Church Invisible as “body” of the former. The love of God by which man is saved, the love of perfection. The Finding of Christ the completion of the Intuition and realisation of the Ideal. Jesus, why selected to be the new exemplar. (49-55)
CHAPTER XI – The mystic exodus from the mystic Egypt, a recovered ritual of the ancient mysteries. (56-61)
CHAPTER XII – The significance of the work represented by this exposition as indicative of the meaning of the Age. The “time of the end,” the “end of the world,” the “abomination of desolation,” the “budding of the fig-tree,” the coming to “sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of God,” the “drying up of the Euphrates and passage of the kings of the East,” the “Two Witnesses,” their resurrection and ascension, the “war in heaven” and “standing up of Michael,” the “coming of the Son of man” and descent of the “Holy City” – the intended sense of these expressions, and their present actual realisation in that sense. The Mystic and the Materialist, the former’s admonition to the latter, and exposition of the order of the Christ. (62-69)
APPENDIX –
Letter, “On the Trinity.” (70-75)
Extract from Letter, “The Church and the Bible.” (76-83)
Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism. The work combine texts by Anna Kingsford and by Edward Maitland. Edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. John M. Watkins, London, 1912. 227 pp.
Contents:
Biographical Preface (Samuel Hopgood Hart, 1-60)
BY ANNA KINGSFORD
YEAR
(1881) 1. Social Considerations (61-63)
(1881-2) 2. Letters on Pure Diet (64-76)
(1882) 3. A Lecture on Food (77-100)
(1884) 4. The Best Food for Men (101-112)
(1885) 5. The Physiology of Vegetarianism (113-118)
- Historical Aspects of Food Reform (119-123)
- Some Aspects of the Vegetarian Question (124-144)
- Addresses to Vegetarians (145-150)
- Evolution and Flesh-Eating (151-152)
BY EDWARD MAITLAND
(1877) 10. Extracts from “England and Islam” (153-158)
(1885) 12. Vivisection and Vegetarianism (170-174)
(1893) 15. The Highest Aspect of Vegetarianism (181-194)
- Vegetarianism – The Common Sense of It (195-201)
- Man’s Best Food (202-205)
- Vegetarianism and Antiquity (206-213)
- Vegetarianism and the Bible (214-224)
The next work contains teachings of the same quality as the above works as far as its origin and character, but also contains some ligther texts:
Dreams and Dream Stories. Anna Kingsford. Edited by Edward Maitland. Second edition: George Redway, London, 1888. 281 pp.
Contents:
Preface (pp. 7-14)
Part I:
DREAMS
The Doomed Train (pp. 15-18)
The Wonderful Spectacles (pp. 19-20)
The Counsel of Perfection (pp. 21-22)
The City of Blood (pp. 22-24)
The Bird and the Cat (pp. 24-25)
The Treasure in the Lighted House (pp. 25-26)
The Forest Cathedral (pp. 26-30)
The Enchanted Woman (pp. 30-36)
The Banquet of the Gods (pp. 36-38)
The Difficult Path (pp. 39-41)
A Lion in the Way (p. 41)
A Dream of Disembodiment (pp. 41-43)
The Perfect Way with Animals (pp. 43-44)
The Laboratory Underground (pp. 44-45)
The Old Young Man (pp. 45-49)
The Metempsychosis (pp. 49-51)
The Three Kings (pp. 51-53)
The Armed Goddess (pp. 54-55)
The Game of Cards (pp. 56-58)
The Panic-Struck Pack-Horse (pp. 59-60)
The Haunted Inn (pp. 61-63)
An Eastern Apologue (pp. 63-64)
A Haunted House Indeed! (pp. 64-69)
The Square in the Hand (pp. 70-76)
DREAM VERSES
“Through the Ages” (pp. 77-79)
1. A Fragment (p. 80)
2. A Fragment (p. 80)
Signs of the Times (p. 81)
With the Gods (pp. 81-82)
Part II:
DREAM-STORIES
A Village of Seers (pp. 85-116)
Steepside; a Ghost Story (pp. 116-147)
Beyond the Sunset (pp. 147-168)
A Turn of Luck (pp. 169-182)
Noémi; or, the Silver Ribbon (pp. 182-212)
The Little Old Man’s Story (pp. 212-242)
The Nightshade (pp. 242-270)
St. George the Chevalier (pp. 270-281)
To the above works we can surely add a few more – since they were recognized by the Esoteric Christian Union (founded by Edward Maitland) as appertaining to the “New” Gospel of Interpretation:
Intima Sacra; a Manual of Esoteric Devotion. Compiled by E.M. Forsyth from the writings by Anna Kingsford. David Stott, London: 370, Oxford Street, W. 1891. 163 pp.
Contents:
Preface (01)
The Credo (19)
The Lord’s Prayer (21)
Concerning Holy Writ (23)
Concerning Sin and Death (27)
Concerning the Great Work – The Redemption (35)
Concerning Inspiration (43)
Concerning the Immaculate Conception (47)
Concerning the Fall (51)
Concerning Idolatry (55)
Concerning the New Advent (57)
Concerning Prayer (65)
Concerning Creation (67)
Concerning Evil (69)
Concerning Atonement (73)
Concerning the History of the Soul and its Progress (79)
Concerning Re-incarnation (95)
God’s Voice or Nothing (99)
A Counsel of Perfection (103)
The Three Veils Between Man and God (109)
Hymn to Phoibos (Apolo) (123)
Hymn of Aphrodite (131)
Hymn of Love (141)
Meditations (155)
Benediction (161)
The “New Gospel of Interpretation”. Being an Abstract of the Doctrine and a Statement of the Origin, Object, Basis, Method and Scope of the Esoteric Christian Union. Edward Maitland. Published by the Esoteric Christian Union. London, Lamley & Co., 1892. 93 pp.
Contents:
Abstract of Argument and Leading Subjects of Sections (3-7)
I. Motive of the Society’s Formation. (9)
II. Distinction between the Esoterical and Ecclesiastical (9-11)
III. The Indictment of Ecclesiasticism, its Threefold Basis (11-12)
IV. The Bible Insists on the Esoteric Sense (12-16)
V. The Manifoldness of the Sense of Scripture (16-18)
VI. The Bible Throughout Denounces Ecclesiasticism (18-21)
VII. The Bible Charges Ecclesiasticism with Having Recourse to Sorcery (21-23)
VIII. The Bible Declares Ecclesiasticism to Be of Diabolical Origin (23-27)
IX. The “Woman” is Not a Woman, But the Soul, and the Intuition (27-32)
X. The Fall, Brought About by Ecclesiasticism Acting under Satanic Control, by Means of Depravation of the Spiritual Consciousness (32-38)
XI. The Esoteric and True Doctrine of Divine Incarnation (38-42)
XII. The Mystery of Redemption, and the Christ as the Supreme Result Thereof (42-49)
XIII. Christ, the Realisation in Man of His Own Divine Potentialities (49-52)
XIV. Man the Individuated Expression of Principles Subsisting in God (52-55)
XV. Ecclesiasticism Denied the Divine Duality and Suppressed Understanding (55-58)
XVI. Guilt of the Crucifixion of Christ Not Upon the Jews, But Upon Ecclesiasticism (58-62)
XVII. World’s Present State: Vivisection, the Total Extinction of the “Woman,” Intuition (62-68)
XVIII. “Revelation of that Wicked One,” the Controlling Spirit of Ecclesiasticism (68-72)
XIX. Expressions “Virgin-born,” “Twice-born,” “Sons of God,” All Imply Man Regenerate through a Pure Intuition (72-74)
XX. The Zodiac, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx and the Obelisk (74-78)
XXI. Present Restoration of Faculty and Knowledge Predicted in the Bible (78-82)
XXII. The Church of the Regeneration, its Characteristics: “the Dry Bones Live” (82-85)
XXIII. Present Disintegration of Society Preparatory to Re-integration on the Basis of the New Interpretation (85-91)
XXIV. Event Herein Declared Means Man’s Completion in His Proper Divine Image, by His Promotion to Spiritual Manhood (91-93)
The Esoteric Christian Union
“A Message to Earth”. Published anonymously. (Compiler’s note: Edited by Edward Maitland, since published by the Esoteric Christian Union together with the writings reconized as appertaining to the “New Gospel of Interpretation”). London (Lamley & Co., 1 & 3 Exhibition Road, S.W.), 1892. 93 pp.
Contents:
- Aspiration (p. 3)
- Faith (p. 4)
- God’s Kingdom (p. 6)
- Love (p. 7)
- Individuality (p. 8)
- Prayer (p. 9)
- Doubt (p. 11)
- (a) Communion of Souls, (b) Jesus the man (p. 12)
- The Holy Spirit (p. 16)
- Personality (p. 19)
- The Earth’s Coming Redemption (p. 21)
- The God in Man (p. 23)
- Love, the Redeemer (p. 25)
- The Meaning of the Age (p. 27)
- Evolution, the Individuation of God (p. 29)
- The Mission of the Christ (p. 31)
- The Work of Science (p. 32)
- The Work of Christ (p. 33)
- Individual Evolution, Reincarnation the Means, Regeneration the Result (p. 35)
- Love Manifested in Action (p. 38)
- Love Manifested in Action (2) (p. 41)
- Love in Life (p. 43)
- Christ the Demonstration of the Power of Love (p. 44)
- The Interpretation of Christ, the Second Coming of Christ (p. 46)
- Courage Born of Faith and Love (p. 47)
- Christ the Everlasting Type (p. 49)
- Materialism and Unbelief Due to Lack of Faculty (p. 51)
- Jesus the Vehicle, Christ the Spiritual Content (p. 53)
- The Sin Against the Holy Ghost (p. 55)
- Purpose of the Gospel Statement (p. 56)
- Intuition the Recognition of Man’s Indwelling Divinity (p. 60)
- The Ministry of Angels (p. 62)
- Christ the Joyous (p. 64)
- Christ Jesus, His Second and Spiritual Advent (p. 66)
- Prayer(2) (p. 68)
- The True Consciousness (p. 70)
- The Disposal of these Writings (p. 73)
- Relativity of Man’s Conception of Truth (p. 74)
- The Ministry of Suffering (p. 75)
- Love the Solvent (p. 77)
- Closing Admonitions (p. 79)
REPLIES RECEIVED FOR FRIENDS
- To Friend A – Concerning Devotion to the Personal Jesus (p. 82)
- To Friend B – On Expressing the Desire Similarly to Hold Spiritual Intercourse (p. 83)
- To Friend C – On Enquiring why the Term “Father” Only Is Applied to God, when, as Being both the Force and the Substance of Existence, God is Necessarily Mother as well as Father (p. 84)
- THE ESOTERIC CHRISTIAN UNION
The Credo of Christendom: and other Addresses and Essays on Esoteric Christianity. The work has texts by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. John M. Watkins, London, 1916. 256 pp.
Contents:
Biographical Preface (Samuel Hopgood Hart, 1-93)
LECTURES
- The Credo of Christendom (94-126)
- The Hermetic Fragment Koré Kosmou, the Virgin of the World (127-139)
- The Method of the Mystics (140-142)
- Karma (143-145)
- Bible Hermeneutics (146-156)
- “Violationism,” or Sorcery in Science (157-169)
- The Systematisation and Application of Psychic Truth (170-183)
ESSAYS AND LETTERS
- The Constitution of Man (184-190)
- Concerning Re-Incarnation (191-196)
- The Doctrine of “Shells” (197-202)
- Extraneous Spirits and Obsession (203-204)
- The Historic “Jesus” (205-219)
- Fate, Heredity, and Re-Incarnation (220-224)
- The Mystic Kings of the East (225-229)
- Christian Mysticism (230-235)
- Animals and their Souls (236-242)
- The Trinity (243-244)
ILLUSTRATIONS
“Via Crucis” (Frontispiece)
The Lower Triangle (104)
The Upper Triangle (105)
The “New Gospel of Interpretation”: Being an Abstract of the Doctrine and a Statement of the Origin, Object, Basis, Method and Scope of the Esoteric Christian Union. Edward Maitland. Published under auspice of the Esoteric Christian Union, whose President-Founder was Edward Maitland. London, Lamley & Co., 1892. 93 pp.
Contents:
Abstract of Argument and Leading Subjects of Sections (3-7)
Motive of the Society’s Formation (9)
Distinction between the Esoterical and Ecclesiastical (9-11)
The Indictment of Ecclesiasticism, its Threefold Basis (11-12)
The Bible Insists on the Esoteric Sense (12-16)
The Manifoldness of the Sense of Scripture (16-18)
The Bible Throughout Denounces Ecclesiasticism (18-21)
The Bible Charges Ecclesiasticism with Having Recourse to Sorcery (21-23)
The Bible Declares Ecclesiasticism to Be of Diabolical Origin (23-27)
The “Woman” is Not a Woman, But the Soul, and the Intuition (27-32)
The Esoteric and True Doctrine of Divine Incarnation (38-42)
The Mystery of Redemption, and the Christ as the Supreme Result Thereof (42-49)
Christ, the Realisation in Man of His Own Divine Potentialities (49-52)
Man the Individuated Expression of Principles Subsisting in God (52-55)
Ecclesiasticism Denied the Divine Duality and Suppressed Understanding (55-58)
Guilt of the Crucifixion of Christ Not Upon the Jews, But Upon Ecclesiasticism (58-62)
World’s Present State: Vivisection, the Total Extinction of the “Woman,” Intuition (62-68)
“Revelation of that Wicked One,” the Controlling Spirit of Ecclesiasticism (68-72)
The Zodiac, the Great Pyramid, the Sphinx and the Obelisk (74-78)
Present Restoration of Faculty and Knowledge Predicted in the Bible (78-82)
The Church of the Regeneration, its Characteristics: “the Dry Bones Live” (82-85)
The Living Truth in Christianity. Bertram McCrie. John M. Watkins, London: 21 Cecil Court, Charing Cross Road, 1915. 43 pp. Although this small book was not writen by Anna Kingsford or Edward Maitland, it was writen as an introduction to the message of the two prophet-souls.
Contents:
To the Reader (01)
Frontispiece (02)
Chapter I (02-07)
– Christ or Caiaphas?
– The Soul Outgrows Dogmas
– Stones for Bread
– An Ideally Perfect Religion
Chapter II (08-11)
– A House Built Upon Sand
– A New Birth for Christianity
– “Lo, I Am With You Always”
Chapter III (11-14)
– “I Am That I Am”
– “In the Beginning Was the Word”
– “Seven Spirits Before His Throne”
– The Divine Thought
Chapter IV (14-16)
– Creation and Redemption
– “All Life Is a Burning”
Chapter V (16-19)
– The Generation of the Soul
– “Know Thy Self”
Chapter VI (19-21)
– The Soul’s Memory
– “Thus Saith the Lord”
Chapter VII (21-22)
– The Fourfold River of Eden
– “Ye Are the Temple of the Living God”
Chapter VIII (22-25)
– “Whatsoever a Man Soweth”
– “Made Perfect Through Suffering”
Chapter IX (25-27)
– PURITY, the Key-Note of Religion
– “The Light of Asia,” and –
– “The Light of the World”
Chapter X (27-31)
– “All Ye Are Brethren”
– The Slaughter of the Innocents
– “Your Hands Are Full of Blood”
– “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
Chapter XI (31-33)
– “The Letter Killeth”
– “The Spirit Giveth Life”
Chapter XII (33-36)
– “Which Things Are an Allegory”
– “Arise, O Soul, and Fly”
– “Work Out Your Own Salvation”
Chapter XIII (36-40)
– An Odyssey of the Soul
– Iesous Chrestos, the Perfect Yes of God
– Worship God Only
Chapter XIV (40-42)
– “Three that Bear Record in Heaven”
– “Let Us Make Man in Our Image”
Chapter XV (42-43)
– “Unto a Perfect Man”
– “Be Ye Therefore Perfect”
Scriptures of the Future; the New Gospel of Interpretation (44-47)
– The Perfect Way: or, the Finding of Christ
– Clothed with the Sun; Being the Book of the Illuminations of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford
– The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland, and of the New Gospel of Interpretation
– Anna Kingsford: Her Life, Letters, Diary, and Work
– The Bible’s Own Account of Itself
– Addresses and Essays on Vegetarianism
– Dreams and Dream-Stories
[Added by the compiler of the Anna Kingsford Site:]
– Intima Sacra; a Manual of Esoteric Devotion
– The New Gospel of Interpretation
– A Message to Earth
– The Credo of Christendom: and other Addresses and Essays on Esoteric Christianity.
A Roda e a Cruz: Uma Introdução ao Cristianismo Budista (The Wheel and the Cross: An Introduction to Buddhist Christianity). Arnaldo Sisson Filho, with Viviane Pereira. Portuguese text writen by the creator of the Anna Kingsford website, interviwed by the journalist Viviane Pereira. This is the first work solely dedicated to the presentarion of Buddhist Christianity.
Conteúdo:
Nota da Edição
1. Ideias Iniciais
2. Os Profetas
3. O Evangelho da Interpretação
4. A Roda
5. A Cruz
6. A Roda e a Cruz
1. Reencarnação e Carma
2. Religião e Organização Sociopolítica
7. Textos Complementares
Ensaios Biográficos (de Samuel Hart)
1. Vida e Obra de Anna Kingsford
2. Vida e Obra de Edward Maitland
Interpretações (de “O Novo Evangelho da Interpretação”)
3. A “Mulher” Não é Uma Mulher, Mas Sim a Alma e a Intuição
4. A Queda, Ocasionada pelo Sacerdotalismo Atuando sob Controle Satânico, por Meio da Perversão da Consciência
5.Verdadeira e Esotérica Doutrina da Encarnação Divina
6. Mistério da Redenção, e o Cristo como o Supremo Resultado desse Mistério
7. Cristo, a Realização no Homem de Suas Próprias Potencialidades Divinas
Interpretações e Visões (de “Vestida com o Sol”)
8. Sobre a Interpretação das Escrituras Místicas
9. Sobre os Mistérios Cristãos
10. Sobre o “Sangue de Cristo”
11. Sobre a Sagrada Família
12. Sobre o Cristo e o Logos
13. Sobre o Aperfeiçoamento de Cristo
14. Sobre a Redenção Vicária
15. Sobre o Verdadeiro Jesus
16. Sobre os Evangelhos: Suas Origens e Composição
Bibliografia