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"CLOTHED WITH THE SUN"

BEING THE BOOK OF THE ILLUMINATIONS

OF

ANNA (BONUS) KINGSFORD

EDITED BY

EDWARD MAITLAND

(B.A. CANTAB.)

Illumination is the Light of Wisdom, whereby a man perceiveth heavenly secrets.
"Which Light is the Spirit of God within the man, showing unto him the things of God."

ILLUMINATION (PART I) No. II.

London, John M. Watkins

[1889]

Second Edition Edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart [1906]

Scanned at sacred-texts.com, February, 2002. J.B. Hare, Redactor. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.

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DEDICATION

To the numerous and world-wide circle of genuine students of Divine things, who recognised in Anna Kingsford a Seer, an Interpreter, and a Prophet of the rarest lucidity and inspiration, and a foremost herald of the dawning better age: and especially to the Friend whose instant and enthusiastic appreciation proved an invaluable support in a position of peculiar difficulty, and beneath whose roof some of the illuminations herein contained were received, but who desires to remain unnamed: and also to the "friend, disciple, and literary heir of the renowned magian, the late Abbé Constant ("Eliphas Levi")"--namely, to the Baron Giuseppe Spedalieri, for manifold tokens of high approbation and devoted friendship-this book is affectionately inscribed.

"And I saw another angel flying in mid-heaven, having an eternal gospel to proclaim unto them that dwell on the earth, and unto every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people; and he saith with a great voice, Fear God, and give him glory; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made the heaven and the earth, and sea and fountains of waters."

APOC. xiv, 6, 7 (R.V.).

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