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Edward Maitland (October 27, 1824 - October 2, 1897). English humanitarian, writer, and seer. He is best known for his collaboration with Dr. Anna Kingsford on their 1882 book, The Perfect Way, or the Finding of Christ.
Personal life
Maitland was born at Ipswich, England, on October 27, 1824. His father, Charles David Maitland, a noted preacher, and Edward Maitland was brought up among strict evangelical ideas, and rigorous theories about original sin and atonement.
He was educated at Caius College, Cambridge, from which he graduated B.A. in 1847. Although his family expected him to take orders, he did not, due to doubts about faith and church. Maitland died on October 2, 1897.
Involvement with Theosophical Society
On January 3, 1883, Maitland was admitted as a member of the Theosophical Society in London.[1]
Hermetic Society
Clairvoyance
In 1857 he took up an advanced humanitarian attitude and also claimed to have developed a new sense by which he was able to discern the spiritual condition of people.[2] He said had succeeded at. . .
. . . developing the intuitional faculty as to find the solution of all problems having their basis in man's spiritual nature, with a view to the formulation of a perfect system of thought and rule of life.[3]
In one of his letters, Mahatma K.H. recognizes the fact that Maitland was clairvoyant. However, because he had not been systematically trained, his visions were not accurate. The Mahatma comments on the fact that, although "Jesus and John the Baptist" as well as "Hermes the first and second and Elijah" were clearly visible and audible to Maitland, these visions were the creation of what he believed in and wanted to see.[4]
Writings
The Perfect Way
Maitland's best-known work was co-authored with Anna Bonus Kingsford. The Perfect Way, or, The Finding of Christ
- 1st edition - London: Field & Tuer, 1882. Available at Hathitrust and Google Books. Also published in 1882 - New York: Scribner & Welford.
- 2nd edition - London: Field & Tuer ; New York: Adams, 1887. Revised and enlarged. Also published in Boston - Boston: Esoteric Pub. Co., 1888.
- 3rd edition - London: Field & Tuer; New York, Scribner & Walford, 1890. Available at Hathitrust.
- 4th edition - London: J.M. Watkins, 1909. Available at Internet Archive and [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7177438M/The_perfect_way
- 5th edition - London: J.M. Watkins, 1923. With additions and a biographical pref. by Samuel Hopgood Hart.
- 7th edition - New York, Macoy Pub. & Masonic Supply Co., 1919. Available at Hathitrust and Internet Archive.
Other work with Anna Bonus Kingsford
- The Virgin of the World of Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus. London: George Redway, 1885. 154 pages,
Fiction
- By and By: an Historical Romance of the Future . London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1973. Available at Internet Archive, Hathitrust, and other sources. London: Tinsley Bros, 1876 edition is available at Hathitrust. Many other editions, such as New York: Putnam, 1893 and a reprint Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. 460 pages, illustrations. Science fiction.
Other nonfiction
- Anna Kingsford, Her Life, Letters, Diary and Work. London : George Redway, 1896. 3rd edition - London: John M. Watkins, 1913 - is available at Hathitrust, Internet Archive, WellcomeCollection, and other sources.
Periodicals
The Union Index of Theosophical Periodicals lists 12 articles by Edward Maitland and 24 articles about him.
Notes
- ↑ Theosophical Society General Membership Register, 1875-1942 at http://tsmembers.org/. See book 1, entry 1584 (website file: 1A/49).
- ↑ Margaret Conger, Combined Chronology for use with The Mahatmas Letters to A. P. Sinnett and The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky to A. P. Sinnett, (Pasadena, CA: Theosophical University Press, 1973) 24.
- ↑ George Smith et al., The Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 22 (London:The MacMillan Company, 1909) 1004.
- ↑ Vicente Hao Chin, Jr., The Mahatma Letters to A.P. Sinnett in chronological sequence No. 38 (Quezon City: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 109.
