The Perfect Way (book)

The Perfect Way is a book written by Anna Bonus Kingsford and Edward Maitland, offering an esoteric interpretation of the Christian teachings.

Editions and publication

This book was published in London in 1888.

The revised American edition is available from the Canadian Theosophical Association website.

The third edition, edited by Samuel Hopgood Hart, was published in 1913 and is available at Internet Archive.

The Master's comments

Master K.H. commented positively on the book writing to A. P. Sinnett:

Well may you admire and more should you wonder at the marvellous lucidity of that remarkable seeress, who ignorant of Sanskrit or Pali, and thus shut out from their metaphysical treasures, has yet seen a great light shining from behind the dark bills of exoteric religions. How, think you, did the "Writers of the Perfect Way" come to know that Adonai was the Son and not the Father; or that the third Person of the Christian Trinity is — female? Verily, they lay in that work several times their hands upon the keystone of Occultism. Only does the lady — who persists using without an explanation the misleading term "God" in her writings — know how nearly she comes up to our doctrine when saying: — "Having for Father, Spirit which is Life (the endless Circle or Parabrahm) and for Mother the Great Deep, which is Substance (Prakriti in its undifferentiated condition) — Adonai possesses the potency of both and wields the dual powers of all things." We would say triple, but in the sense as given this will do.