E.M.

FRONTISPIECES.

I.—Portrait of Dr. Anna Kingsford.
Born, Sep. 16th, 1846; Died, Feb. 22nd, 1888.
II.—Portrait of Edward Maitland (B.A., Cantab).
Born, Oct. 27th, 1824; Died, Oct, 2nd, 1897.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

PAGE
[Preface to the First and Second Editions]v.
[Preface to the Third Edition]vii.-xiii.
[Introduction]xv.-xix.
[Table of Contents]xx.-xxii.
[Abbreviations]xxiii.
[Chapter I.]
THE VOCATION.
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
[Chapter II.]
THE INITIATION.
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
[Chapter III.]
THE COMMUNICATION.
"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
[Chapter IV.]
THE ANTAGONISATION.
"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
[Chapter V.]
THE RECAPITULATION.
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
[Chapter VI.]
THE EXEMPLIFICATION.
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
[Chapter VII.]
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

ABBREVIATIONS.

A.K., for Anna Kingsford.

B.O.A.I., for "The Bible's Own Account of Itself," by E.M.; second edition, 1905.

C.W.S., for "Clothed With The Sun," being the book of the Illuminations of A.K.; edited by E.M., 1889.

D. and D.-S., for "Dreams and Dream-Stones," by A.K., edited by E.M.; second edition, 1888.