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A NEW POSTHUMOUS WORK OF DR ANNA KINGSFORD, 



FORMING A COMPANION BOOK TO 



"THE PERFECT WAY." 



Clothed with the Sun, 



BEING THE BOOK OF THE ILLUMINATIONS OF 

 ANNA (BONUS) KINGSFORD. 



WITH PREFACE, NOTES, AND APPENDIX, EXEGETICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL. 



EDITED BY EDWARD MAITLAND. 



"A worthy companion to 'The Perfect Way' as a lasting monument to 

 Mrs Kingsford's wonderful genius, great spirituality, and marvellous lucidity 

 of insight into the ' hidden things of Nature and Religion.' " Lticifer. 



" Of surpassing interest to the psychologist, who, it seems to us, will regret 

 that Mr Maitland has not taken advantage of the opportunity of prefixing to 

 the present volume a biographical sketch of a singularly gifted woman. That 

 Mrs Kingsford was a seer of the rarest lucidity and inspiration it would be 

 easy to demonstrate. Rarely has the faculty of mental vision been so mar- 

 vellously developed. Her book of ' Dreams and Dream-Stories ' contains 

 overwhelming evidence of some of the highest qualities of the poet ; nor did 

 she lack the power of adequate and beautiful expression. Of her in her 

 character of prophetess and ' foremost herald of the dawning better age ' 

 an age when the falsifications and corruptions of Christianity will have been 

 replaced by the restoration of the great original truths of the primitive gospel 

 we must confess ourselves by no means qualified to speak. . . . 



' ' Apart from these highest purposes which the volume is meant to serve, 

 there is much that is interesting to an ordinary mortal, though, as has been 

 indicated, it is in the main of a personal description. One is intrigtie, by 

 Mrs Kingsford herself, rather than concerned about her doctrines ; and yet 

 some of these see, for example, the very first chapter ' concerning the three 

 veils between man and God ' are presented in so poetic and luminous a 

 manner that, allowing always for varieties of interpretation, one cannot but be 

 struck by their truth. . . . The appendix contains an account, all too short 

 for the attention the subject awakens, of the overtures made to Mrs Kingsford 

 and the editor of the late Laurence Oliphant as the representative of that 

 arch- mystic Thomas Lake Harris. We have made no attempt to give any 

 indication of Mrs Kingsford's views on the more serious subjects of which she 

 speaks; they can be properly learned from the volume alone." Glasgow 

 Herald. 



" The pure, sublime, and raptly abstract Anna Kingsford, being dead, yet 

 speaketh. The pale, thin lady, the recondite student, the illumined seer, who 

 yet occasionally on public platforms grasped the problems of exoteric life by 

 the horns, has been gathered to her rest, the excalibar blade of the spirit 

 having worn out its somatic sheath ; but the visions that came to her by day 

 and the dreams that visited her by night are by a loving hand unfolded before 

 us. Happy was this gentle seer of visions and dreamer of dreams that her 



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