• The Living Truth in Christianity. Bertram McCrie. John M. Watkins,
Information: This little book was written as an introduction to the message of
the two soul-prophets – known in this age as Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland – namely, to the recovered New Gospel of Interpretation, the doctrine which they were instrumental in restoring to the West,
where the Christ is risen again from the sepulchre of historical tradition, to
live and reign in the undying soul of man.
Below you have the complete text of the book:
THE LIVING TRUTH
IN CHRISTIANITY
By
Bertram McCrie
A Summary of
the
ESOTERIC CHRISTIAN DOCTRINE
given to the West
in the
GOSPEL OF
INTERPRETATION
JOHN M. WATKINS
1915
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Threepence
CONTENTS
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– Christ or Caiaphas?
– The Soul Outgrows Dogmas
– Stones for Bread
– An Ideally Perfect Religion
– A House Built Upon Sand
– A New Birth for Christianity
– “Lo, I Am With You Always”
– “I Am That I Am”
– “In the Beginning Was the Word”
– “Seven Spirits Before His Throne”
– The Divine Thought
– Creation and Redemption
– “All Life Is a Burning”
– The Generation of the Soul
– “Know Thy Self”
– The Soul’s Memory
– “Thus Saith the Lord”
– The
Fourfold
– “Ye
Are the
– “Whatsoever a Man Soweth”
– “Made Perfect Through Suffering”
– PURITY, the Key-Note of Religion
– “The
Light of
– “The Light of the World”
– “All Ye Are Brethren”
– The Slaughter of the Innocents
– “Your Hands Are Full of Blood”
– “Thou Shalt Not Kill”
– “The Letter Killeth”
– “The Spirit Giveth Life”
– “Which Things Are an Allegory”
– “Arise, O Soul, and Fly”
– “Work Out Your Own Salvation”
– An Odyssey of the Soul
– Iesous Chrestos, the Perfect Yes of God
– Worship God Only
– “Three that Bear Record in Heaven”
– “Let Us Make Man in Our Image”
– “Unto a Perfect Man”
– “Be Ye Therefore Perfect”
Scriptures of the Future; the New Gospel of Interpretation (44-47)
– The
– 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.
(p. 01)
THIS little book is specially addressed to that large and ever-growing class of thoughtful men and women who, instinctively recoiling from the void of materialism and agnosticism, yet find that they cannot satisfy the understanding or adequately nourish the soul on the literalism and dogma dealt out by the orthodox Church. Such persons seek in religion something deeper than “morality touched with emotion”; their supreme need is to find within that Christian faith into which they have born all the essential elements of divine revelation.
Now valuable as the study of eastern religions may be to such, it will help them most to know that the West has already its own esoteric Christian doctrine, a vital nucleus of religious truth, set forth in certain writings which truly constitute a “Gospel of Interpretation.” Out of storm and struggle the writer was lifted by that inner light which two soul-prophets – known in this age as Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland – cast in the recovered Gospel upon the very springs of being and deepest enigmas of life. In the doctrine which they were instrumental in restoring to the West the Christ is risen again from the sepulchre of historical tradition, to live and reign in the undying soul of man.
That this little book may lead some to “the Finding of Christ,” is the earnest hope of the writer.
BERTRAM
MCCRIE.
“At the present moment two things about the Christian religion must surely be clear to anybody with eyes in his head. One is that man cannot do without it; the other, that they cannot do with it as it is.” (MATTHEW ARNOLD, in God and the Bible; Pref. p. xiv.)
“The
key-note of Religion is sounded in the words ‘My kingdom is not of this world.’ All her mysteries, all her oracles, are conceived in this spirit,
and similarly are all sacred scriptures to be interpreted. For anything in
Religion to be true and strong it must be true and strong to the Soul. The Soul
is the true and only person concerned; and any relation which Religion may have
to the body or phenomenal man is indirect, and by correspondence only. It is
for the Soul that the Divine Word is written, and it is her nature, her
history, her functions, her conflicts, her redemption, which are ever the theme
of sacred narrative, prophecy, and doctrine.” (ANNA KINGSFORD, in The
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