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Anna Kingsford
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Selected Texts
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Quotes
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Glossary
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Hermes, Hermetic and the
Hermetic Society.
Anna Kingsford.
Taken from
The Life of Anna Kingsford: Her
Life, Letters, Diary and Work.
Edward Maitland. Two volumes. George Redway, London, 1896. 3rd
Edition, edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart. John M. Watkins,
London, 1913. Vol. I, 442 pp.; Vol. II, 466 pp.
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The Banquet of the Gods.
Anna Kingsford.
From
Dreams
and Dream-Stories. Edited by Edward Maitland. Second
Edition: George Redway, London, 1888. 281 pp. (pp. 36-38)
[This text gives in a condensed form the requisite diet for those who feel
themselves called to the highest spiritual path.]
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The
Credo of Christendom.
In:
The
Credo of Christendom: and other Addresses and Essays on Esoteric
Christianity.
Anna Kingsford e Edward Maitland. Editado por Samuel
Hopgood Hart. John M. Watkins, Londres, 1916. 256 pp.
[The text presentes the meaning of several passages of the Credo of
Christendom, with special attention to its true catholicity, when the
Credo is correctly interpreted.]
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Vegetarianism and the Bible. Edward
Maitland. From
Addresses
and Essays on Vegetarianism. Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Edited by
Samuel Hopgood Hart. John M. Watkins,
London, 1912. 227 pp. [This text gives in a condensed
form the mystical teaching of Christianity, with emphasis on the fact that
vegetarianism is an integral part of the Bible’s teachings.]
Quotes:
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“Adam,” “Eve,” “Christ,” and “Mary” and the Rest – Denote
the Various Spiritual Elements
Constituting the Individual
• Anna Kingsford
“Apologia”; or, a Brief Presentation of Her Religious Views
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Appealing to the Intellectual as well as to the Devotional
Side
• Awful Results of Roman Catholic Conventual System
• Bacchic
Mysteries Are the Immediate Source and Pattern of the
Mysteries of the Catholic
Christian Church
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Baron
Spedalieri on “The Perfect Way”
and “The Credo”
• Buddhism and
Christianity Are Not Antagonistic or Rival Systems
• Buddhism (Pure)
Is in No Radical Respect
Different from Pure Christianity
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Church’s Dogmas Have No Physical Reference
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Church’s Toleration of Vivisection – Earth Has Become a Hell
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In Catholic
Christendom
the Creatures Endure Every Species of
Torment
• Common Sense
• Christian
Religion Existed Among the Ancients (St. Augustine)
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Christianity: Materials for Revising the Theology of
• Conditions [of
Health] under which her Work was Performed
• Convert the
Material, Idolatrous, Interpretation of Ancestral Doctrine
into a Spiritual One
• Current
Christianity (Position in Regard to the)
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Divine Order of Chivalry Is the Order of the Christ
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Doctrine of Caste, Teach It Above All Things
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Dry
Bones Shall Live: Symbols Remain as Forms to Enclose the
Living Spirit
• Edward
Maitland: Testimony by Samuel Hopgood Hart
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Esoteric Christianity and Esoteric Buddhism Are
Complementary Systems
• Faculty of
Knowing Intuitively Possessed by Anna Kingsford
• Faith That Is
Without Understanding Is Credulity
• Flight of
the Seagulls on a Glorious Day: – the Happiness and the
Shock
• Hold Fast to
the Truth as Your Lamp – Gautama Buddha
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I Thought to
Have Helped in the Overthrow of the Idolatrous Altars
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Immaculate Conception and the
Assumption Have no Physical Reference
• Interpretation
of the Passage (Parable) of the Multitude of Fishes
• Interpretation
of Your Bibles
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Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord; who is Conceived by the Holy
Ghost, Born of the
Virgin Mary
• Knowledge Is
the Prime Minister of Faith
• “Life
of Anna Kingsford”: the Great Biography by Edward Maitland
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“Life of
Anna Kingsford”: Testimony by Madame Isabel de Steiger
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Man’s Supreme Function is
Knowledge
• Masonic System
against the Catholic Church
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Memory,
the Poet, the Soul and the Knowledge of the Divine Self
• Message Will
Become the Religion of Great Nations
• Mystical Sense, and Not the Literal Sense
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Mystics, Mysticism and the Materialistic School
• Nature of the
Faculty Possessed by Anna Kingsford
• Neither of Them
Separately Is Man
• No
Contradiction between Reason and Revelation
• No Single
Ecclesiastical Creed Is Comprehensible by itself Alone
• Not the
Crucifixion Eighteen Centuries Ago that Can Save Us
• Objects of the
Hermetic Society
• Our
Position in Regard to the Historical Jesus
• Our System
Relates to the Living Today, and to the Ever-Present
Testimony of Thought, and
of Intuition
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“Philosopher’s Stone”: Signifies the Pure Spirit (Wine, Blood) and
Soul-substance (Bread,
Body) of which the Regenerated Selfhood – the “Christ
within” – Consists
• Primitive
Christian Church Understood Her Faith Esoterically
• Profanation of
the Mysteries to put such Doctrine before Those who are
Content with
Present Christianity
• Qualities
Essential to High Achievement
• Reform of
the Christian System
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Religion
and the Hermetic Interpretation
• Sins, “Avidya,”
Ignorance, Karma, and Karma Must be Reaped
• St. Augustine:
Christian Religion Existed Among the Ancients
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Saint Augustine: the Virgin Mary and the
Soul
• Sin,
Karma, Enlightenment, “Man Made Perfect” or “Raised from the Dead”
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Suicidal to the Whole Sacerdotal System
• Testimony of
Baron Spedalieri on “The Perfect Way”
• Testimony of
Lady Caithness on “The Perfect Way”
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Testimony of S.L. Macgregor
Mathers on “The Perfect Way”
• “The Perfect
Way” and the Dogmas of the Church
• “The Perfect
Way,” Mr. Sinnett and Reincarnation
• “The Perfect
Way,” Present Gospel of Christendom and the Needs of the Age
• “The Perfect
Way” Restored the Meaning of the Symbols of All the
Churches, pre-Christian
as Well as Christian
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“The Perfect Way,” Spiritism
and Illumination by the Inner Divine Spirit
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“The Perfect Way” Will Be
Found to Be an Occult
Library
• Thought is
Substance
• To Labour Is to
Pray
• True
Woman
• Two Things
about the Christian Religion
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Universal
Peace is Absolutely Impossible to a Carnivorous Race!
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Vegetarian Movement: Redeemer of the World
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“Woman”:
Mystical Representation of the Soul
• Work in
Christian Lands
Glossary:
• Adam and Eve
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Athena
(Pallas-Athena), Patron of Horses, Horses Signify the
Intellect
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Christ Jesus within Man
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Common Sense
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Creation: Not from
Without, but from Within
• God, the Father
• Fall (The)
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Fig-Tree
• Fruit and
Bread
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Hermes
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Horses Signify the
Intellect
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Idolaters and Idolatry
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Jesus: the Man
Who Realises It (Christhood) Actively Is a Jesus
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Maya:
Everything
Passes, Flits By, and Vanishes
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Memory, Remembrance and the Knowledge of the Divine
Essential Self
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Philosopher’s Stone
• Salt
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Soul
and the Blessed Virgin Mary
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True
Religion, Gnosis and Wisdom (Sophia)
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“Woman”: Mystical Representation of the Soul
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