There
has been an increase of interest in the life and work of Anna Kingsford
in the last five years, especially in the areas of feminism,
vegetarianism, Victorian history, animal rights, and influence on
modern magick.
Of her writings, Blavatsky stated: 'The first and most important was The Perfect Way, or the Finding of
Christ, which gives the esoteric meaning of Christianity. It sweeps away
many of the difficulties that thoughtful readers of the Bible must
contend with in their endeavours to either understand or accept
literally the story of Jesus Christ as it is presented in the Gospels.' She
brings to an interestingly eclectic mix of Christian mysticism, Greek
Hermetism, Christian Alchemy and Kaballah a wider appreciation of
comparative religion, especially Hindu and Buddhist notions of karma and
reincarnation along with modern theosophical notions of spiritual
evolution. Although firmly rooted in a traditional Christian mysticism,
she embraces more open notions of perennialism and evolution.
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34 • Anna Kingsford Conference Report
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière
36 • Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created?
Arnaldo Sisson
41 • Anna Bonus Kingsford & Edward Maitland
Elaine Bailey
Muriel Pécastaing-Boissière
36 • Why the “Anna Kingsford Site” Was Created?
Arnaldo Sisson
41 • Anna Bonus Kingsford & Edward Maitland
Elaine Bailey
She was well versed in the classics and had studied the neo-Platonists, the Christian mystic Jacob Boehme, and many other 17th Century esotericists including the magician astrologer William Lilly, Anna had also studied the Kabbala, and much more. Anna Kingsford had also studied Emanuel Swedenborg, read Joseph Ennemoser’s History of Magic, Mme Blavatsky’s Isis Unveiled and Eliphas Lévi’s works.
Christine Ferguson, Aries, 22(1), 114-135
From the late 1870s onwards, Kingsford and Maitland had been working
together to perfect their intuitive capacity through the production of The Perfect Way
(1882), a work of Hermetic Christian exegesis written via ‘the
operation of the mind’ which allowed the pair to ‘gain access to the
interior and permanent region of our nature, and there to possess
ourselves of the knowledge which in the long ages of her past existences
the soul has made her own.’
Natasha Rebry Coulthard, Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 50 , Issue 2 , Summer 2022 , pp. 325 - 353
Through a blend of Theosophy, dietetics, and chemistry, Kingsford promoted vegetarianism as gastro-ethical becoming-with
whereby one could generate respectful multispecies kinships and
alternative nonanthropocentric identities, promising (to use Eva
Giraud's terms) material and symbolic changes to human being.
Vegetarians, Vivisection and Violationism: Gender and the Non-Human Animal in Anna Kingsford’s Life and Writing
Ruby Ekkel Lilith: A Feminist History Journal: Number 28, 2022
In foregrounding Kingsford’s vegetarianism, a movement frequently overlooked in existing scholarship on Victorian reformism and politics, this article challenges accounts that subsume the nuanced ideas of vegetarians and other animal protectionists within purportedly more significant causes.
The Unfinished Business of Anna Kingsford – Towards an Enchanted Animal Ethic
Mitch Goldsmith, Vol. 7 (2021): Trace: Journal for Human-Animal Studies
This article takes seriously the claim made by 19th century
antivivisectionist Anna Kingsford that experiments on animals constitute
a type of malevolent sorcery, more specifically a demonic blood
sacrifice. In so doing, the paper follows the work of Pignarre and
Stengers in their explication of sorcery and how to “get a hold” of its
operations despite its stupefying powers.
Anna Kingsford’s Spiritual Thunderbolt
the Journal of Victorian Culture Online
Conversations about Kingsford today often focus separately on her animal
rights activism, her Theosophical beliefs, or her career as a medical
doctor, but these different aspects of her life were deeply intertwined.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste... someone with...
Victorian Occultist
Dee Cunning January 5, 2018
What
would Claude Bernard and Paul Bert tell us if they dropped by to the
séance room? They sure as hell weren't the victims of psychic
assassination. Bert died of dysentery in Hanoi while Bernard had been in
ill health for some 17 years, with a disease of the very organs he
spent his whole career studying, the pancreas and the liver, ironically
leading to his slow demise.
Chris Hallam, May 23, 2022
None of the nineteen figures lived to see their arguments become
popular. Some of their outlandish notions, such as gender equality,
freedom of the press and the notion of cremating the dead, have become
widely accepted since. Others, such as socialism, vegetarianism and
republicanism remain significant minority opinions, which are at least
tolerated today.
Making magic Happen Selected Essays from the Inaugural Magickal Women Conference 2019
Anna Bonus Kingsford, the Woman Clothed with the Sun – Elaine Bailey “The Magickal Women Conference held on 1 June 2019 was a
major international gathering in London celebrating women in the occult,
witchcraft, and esoteric traditions.
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| Manga Anna Kingsford |
Being made into a manga character is the official sign that you've been un-cancelled
A manga adaptation by Chuya Kogino began serialization in Monthly Shōnen Gangan since April 2007. J.C.Staff produced two 24-episode anime
series between 2008 and 2011. An animated film was released in February
2013. A 26-episode third season aired between 2018 and 2019. Several
spin-offs and other adaptations have also been made, including several video games.
A Certain Magical Index, Toaru Majutsu no Indekkusu
Brian McAllister, the Lost Letters of Edward Maitland
https://imagier.co.uk/books/lost-letters-of-edward-maitland-by-b-g-mcallister/ Anna Bonus Kingsford and her Circle
Dr James Gregory July 2007
Good biographical overview, with useful references
Anna Kingsford Web Site
Biographical Information and Biographies
The Virgin of the World [review by T. Subba Row]
Review by T. Subba Row of translation of the ancient Hermetica text, with answers by Anna Kingsford and Edward
Maitland, and the answer to them by T. Subba Row.
Blavatsky & Anna Kingsford
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