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Illuminations of Anna (Bonus) Kingsford. Anna Kingsford. Edited by Edward Maitland.
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“CLOTHED WITH THE SUN”
BEING THE BOOK OF THE ILLUMINATIONS
OF
ANNA (BONUS) KINGSFORD
EDITED BY
EDWARD MAITLAND
(B.A. CANTAB.)
"Illumination is the Light of Wisdom, whereby a man perceiveth heavenly secrets.
Which Light is the Spirit of God within the man, showing unto him the things of God."
[Clothed with the Sun, Illuminations (Part I), No. 9-10.]
JOHN M. WATKINS
1889
[Page number in the original.]
(p. vi)
“And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal gospel to
proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation, and tribe,
and tongue, and people; and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him
glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the
heaven and the earth, and sea and fountains of waters.” (Apoc. 14:6-7)
(p.
vii)
TABLE OF 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)
(p. viii)
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
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)
(p. ix)
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
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