[88] From an address given on the 17th July, 1883, by A.K. to the Theosophical Society, a full report of which is given in "The Life of A.K." Vol. II. pp. 124-128. [89] A term which signifies forethought. The remonstrance is against undue anxiety and alarm on the soul's behalf while in the path of duty, as implying distrust of the divine sufficiency. E.M. [90] Meaning that in such case the flesh itself is the impediment. [91] In a letter on "The Church and the Bible," in the "Agnostic Journal" of 5th January, 1895, E.M. says:-- "Among the fallacies to be discarded is the fallacy which consists in believing that the Church, so vehemently denounced in its own sacred books for its manifold, grievous, and fatal perversions of the truth contained in those books, and so ignorant as to be unaware either of the source or of the meaning of its own dogmas, must understand its doctrines better than I understand them, whose high privilege it is to have been one of the two recipients of the New Gospel of Interpretation, which has been vouchsafed expressly to correct those perversions, and who not only have that gospel by heart, but who know absolutely by my own soul's experience--as also did my colleague--the truth of every word of it." (A long extract from this letter, including the above, is printed in the appendix to B.O.A.I. p. 83.) S.H.H. [92] See also E.M.'s remarks to the same effect in the "Statement E.C.U." pp. 10-11. [93] See Life A.K. Vol. II. pp. 52-53. [94] See Life A.K. Vol. II. p. 241. "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.