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

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

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!"--Instantaneous transfer of inspiration--"Woman, what have I to do with thee?"--The recovery of a Gospel scene, and its import--"The woman taken in adultery"--Vision of Adonai--Source of the opening sentences in St. John's Gospel--Chapter from the recovered Gnosis--The Generation of the Word. 37-70

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 John the Baptist--The "heresy of Prometheus"--The Fig-tree, a symbol of the inward understanding; the time come for it to bear fruit--The Seeress's faculty--Her relations with Hermes--"Thou art the Rock" addressed to Hermes--The parable of the Fig-tree--The Mystic Woman of Holy Writ--"Go thy way, Daniel.... Thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days"--The prophecy of the book of Esther--The Angel Genius, his account of himself and his office--Divine revelation the supreme common sense--The source and method of the New Revelation--Its chief recipient "not a medium or a seer, but a prophet"--An instruction and a caution concerning the survival of tendencies encouraged in past lives--Communion with souls of the departed--The conditions of such intercourse--An instruction concerning Inspiration and Prophesying--The prophecy of "the kingdom of the Mother of God." 71-108

"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 work and not your own"--Enforced silence--"The Powers of the Air;" their mode of attack--A strange visitant and his communication--A strained situation--Visions of guidance--The "refractory team," and the "Two Stars"--The promised land reached only through the wilderness--"The Word a Word of mystery, and they who guard it Seven"--"One Neophyte could not save himself"--A Horoscope--A descent into hell--Counsels of Perfection--A "Merry Christmas"--A timely arrival--Neoplatonic recognition of Hermes--The one Truth, never without a witness in the world--The key of knowledge restored--Problems solved--The mystic "Woman" of Holy Writ. 109-141

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 of the Soul--The Standpoint of the Bible--All that is true is Spiritual--The revelation of "that wicked one"--The seals broken and the books opened--The New Gospel of Interpretation--Sacerdotalism the "Jerusalem which killed the prophets"--The suppressed doctrines--Reincarnation the corollary and condition of Regeneration and implicit in the Bible--"Ye _must_ be born again of Virgin Mary and Holy Ghost"--The doctrines of the Trinity and Divine Incarnation as now interpreted, necessary and self-evident truths--Evolution the manifestation of a divine inherency; accomplished only by the realisation of Divinity--The process of regeneration, and therein of salvation, interior to the individual--Adam and Christ the initial and final stages in the spiritual evolution of every man--The "Christ within" of St Paul--The _Credo_ an epitome of the spiritual history of the Sons of God. 142-162

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 death; (4) The Twelve Gates of Regeneration; (5) The Passage of the Soul; (6) The Mystic Exodus; (7) The Spiritual Phoibos and the order of the Christs; (8) The Previous Lives of Jesus, and Reincarnation; (9) The Work of Power; the land and tongue of the New Revelation, why ours. 163-183

THE PROMULGATION AND RECOGNITION.

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 Kabalists, Mystics, Occultists and Divines, Catholic, Anglican, and others--Spiritualism, Theosophy, and the New Gospel of Interpretation as fellow-agents in the unfoldment of the world's spiritual consciousness, and the unsealing of the world's Bibles, prophesied to take place at this epoch--"Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob," the Hebrew equivalents for Brahma, Isis, and Iacchos, to denote the mysteries of India, Egypt, and Greece, the Spirit, the Soul, and the Body, and therein the Gnosis of which the Christ is the fulfilment and personal demonstration, and the restoration of which was prophesied by Jesus as to mean the Regeneration of the Church and the establishment of the divine kingdom on earth--Mysticism and Occultism, the distinction between them, and the necessity of both physical and spiritual science to a perfect system of thought and rule of life--Conclusion. 184-204

A.K., for Anna Kingsford.