THE SPIRITUAL HERMENEUTICS OF ASTROLOGY AND HOLY WRIT.
Reading edition
Being a Treatise upon the Influence of the Stars on Man, and on the Art of Ruling them by the Law of Grace. Reprinted from the Original of 1649. With a Prefatory Essay on Bible Hermeneutics. By Anna Kingsford, M.D., Paris.
“It is well for Dr. Anna Kingsford that she was not born into the sidereal world four hundred years ago. Had that been her sorry fate, she would assuredly have been burned at the stake for her preface to ‘Astrology Theologized.’ It is a very long preface—more than half the length of the treatise it introduces; it contains some of the finest flowers of Theosophical philosophy, and of course makes very short work of Christianity.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“Mrs. Kingsford, amid many things which we do not understand, and some few which we think we comprehend afar off, gives a more detailed analysis of ghosts than we remember to have met with in any of the ancient hermetic writers.”—St. James’s Gazette.
“The only pleasing features of the book are the reproductions of a number of beautiful symbolical figures with which it is illustrated. That on p. 28, representing Christ surrounded by an elliptical glory and carried up to heaven by angels, is taken from an illuminated manuscript of the fourteenth century in the Bibliothèque Royale; and the figure of the Virgin in an aureole, on p. 94, is from a tenth-century illuminated manuscript in the same library. Some of the figures here reproduced are among the finest things in Christian iconography.”—St. James’s Gazette.
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