As stated in the preface, this present book is intended but as an epitome and instalment of the far larger book in course of preparation. For, as with the old Gospel of Manifestation, so with the New Gospel of Interpretation, the excusable hyperbole is no less appropriate to it,—"I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books which might be written."
For the human soul is a theme as inexhaustible as it is paramount. And, as never in the world's history have the need and the desire for the knowledge of it been so urgent as they now are, so never in the world's history has there been a revelation of it comparable with that which has been vouchsafed in our day, and is contained in the narrative, the completion of which, and this alone, will enable me to "depart in peace," having no apprehension of after disquietude on the score of having left unaccomplished a portion so important of the task committed to me.
The End.
"SCRIPTURES OF THE FUTURE."
Books rapidly coming into use in the Roman, Greek and Anglican communions as the text-books which represent the prophesied restoration of the Ancient Esoteric doctrine which, by interpreting the mysteries of religion, should reconcile faith and reason, religion and science, and accomplish the downfall of that sacerdotal system, which—"making the word of God of none effect by its traditions"—has hitherto usurped the name and perverted the truth of Christianity. Their standpoint is that Christian doctrines, when rightly understood, are necessary and self-evident truths, recognisable as founded in and representing the actual nature of existence, incapable of being conceived of as otherwise, and constituting a system of thought at once scientific, philosophic and religious, absolutely inexpugnable, and satisfactory to man's highest aspirations, intellectual, moral and spiritual.
The Perfect Way; or The Finding of Christ. By Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland. Third English Edition, Price 6s. net.
The Life of Anna Kingsford; by Edward Maitland. A new edition in preparation.
The New Gospel of Interpretation; being an Abstract of the doctrine and Statement of the objects of The Esoteric Christian Union, founded by Edward Maitland, Nov., 1891.