ANNA KINGSFORD: IN MEMORIAM (1) (Born 1846 – Died 1888) Samuel Hopgood Hart “I have spoken unto the prophets, and I have multiplied visions.” (Hosea 12:10) The late Mme. Isabelle de Steiger, speaking of those whom she regarded as “the three greatest women of the day” – with each… Read More
VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE — Book (2)
2. ANNA KINGSFORD – HER LIFE AND WORK (1) Samuel Hopgood Hart [Part of which is contained in articles in Light, September 1930, pp. 472, 486 and 508.] ANNA KINGSFORD was born at Maryland Point, Stratford, in Essex, on the 16th of September 1846. It is now nearly forty-three years since she was with us… Read More
VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE — Book (1)
VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE Edward Maitland, Anna Kingsford, Samuel Hart, Bertram McCrie and Arnaldo Sisson Filho Organization: Arnaldo Sisson Filho Collection Wheel and Cross 2026 Anna Kingsford (1846 – 1888) Edward Maitland (1824 – 1897) © by Arnaldo Sisson Filho – 2026: – All rights reserved. No part of this book may be… Read More
Glimpses of a True Catholic and Scientific Religion: The Buddhist Christianity
Arnaldo Sisson Filho [Interviewed by Viviane Pereira. Part of the work A Roda e a Cruz: Uma Introdução ao Cristianismo Budista (The Wheel and the Cross: An Introduction to Buddhist Christianity).] [Note: The quotations in bold and italic are for illustrative purposes and are also part of the work The Wheel and the Cross: An… Read More
The Religious Man and the Fragmentary Response
It is only the religious man that can bring about a fundamental revolution; but the man who has a belief, a dogma, who belongs [sectarianly] to any particular religion, is not a religious man. The religious man is he who understands the whole process of so-called religion, the various forms of dogma, the… Read More
Serene and Placid Surface of the Unruffled Mind
“It is upon the serene and placid surface of the unruffled mind that the visions gathered from the invisible find a representation in the visible world. Otherwise, you would vainly seek those visions, those flashes of sudden light which have already helped to solve so many of the minor problems and which alone can bring… Read More
‘Humanity’ Is the Great Orphan
“For it is ‘Humanity’ which is the great Orphan, the only disinherited one upon this earth, my friend. And it is the duty of every man who is capable of an unselfish impulse to do something, however little, for its welfare. Poor, poor humanity! It reminds me of the old fable of the war between… Read More
Between Degrading Superstition and Still More Degrading Brutal Materialism
“Those ‘intellectual classes,’ reacting upon the ignorant masses which they attract and which look up to them as noble and fit examples to follow, degrade and morally ruin those they ought to protect and guide. Between degrading superstition and still more degrading brutal materialism the white dove of truth has hardly room where to rest… Read More
Synthesis of Humanitarianism
Although we have a website dedicated to the social philosophy of Humanitarianism, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of Humanitarianism. Humanitarianism is based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity. Besides this synthetic presentation, we have… Read More
Synthesis of the Democracy of the Future
Although we have a website dedicated to the Democracy of the Future, we have chosen here a work and a part of a chapter of another work as a synthesis of the Democracy of the Future. Humanitarianism is a social-political philosophy based in the Perennial Philosophy and in the Law of the Universal Brotherhood of Humanity.… Read More