The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of InterpretationMaitland, Edward
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The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation
Maitland, Edward
Kingsford, Anna Bonus, 1846-1888; Mysticism
And thy desire shall heal thy diseases; it shall bring streams for
thee out of the stony rock; it shall lead thee to Paradise.
Evoi, Father Iacchos, Jehovah-Nissi[78]; Lord of the garden and of
the vineyard;
Initiator and lawgiver; God of the cloud and of the mount.
Evoi, Father Iacchos; out of Egypt has thou called thy Son.
To vindicate the suppressed mysteries of the pre-Christian churches by
disclosing them as the true _origines_ of Christianity, and to replace
the false doctrine of the exclusive divinity of one man by the true
doctrine of the potential divinity of all men,--these are among the
foremost objects of the New Gospel of Interpretation. And it is
especially in order to reinforce the last named, that it has restored
the following hymn in celebration of the supreme results of
regeneration, which formed part of the ritual of the greater mysteries
of the Greeks. It is addressed to the first of the Holy Seven, the
Spirit of Wisdom, as represented by his "angel," the angel of the sun,
even "that light which Adonai created on the first day," "whose name is,
in the Hebrew, Uriel, and in the Greek, Phoibos, the Bright One of God."
Breathing both the Spirit and the letter of the Bible, from Genesis to
the Apocalypse, the hymns, of which this is one, indicate unmistakeably
the identity in source and substance of the Hebrew and the Christian
with the other sacred mysteries of antiquity, and the derivation of the
later through the earlier from their common source in the world
celestial when once again they have been restored. And they supply also
the motive which led the Christians to destroy the second Alexandrian
library, showing that motive to have been the desire to conceal, first,
the derivation of the Christian presentment from its predecessors, and
next, the perversion of their doctrine in the interests of an
unscrupulous sacerdocy.
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Taken in connection with its fellow-hymns, similarly recovered, to
others of the "Holy Seven," the hymn to Phoibos throws a flood of light
on the creative week of Genesis, showing it to be no mere proem to
Scripture, or concerned with the world physical merely, but an integral
portion of Scripture, being an epitome of eternal verities ever in
process, and appertaining both to Creation and to Redemption. The Hymn
to Her who is mystically the fourth, but really the third of the Gods,
the "Spirit of Counsel" of Isaiah, is especially notable for its
solution of the problem of the inversion of the order of the third and
fourth days of creation. These hymns, moreover, show indubitably that
the order of the solar system was no secret to the hierophants of the
sacred mysteries of antiquity.
(7) Hymn to Phoibos, the First of the Gods.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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