Edward Maitland
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.
He was born at Ipswich, England, on 27 October 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.
Maitland 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. 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.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 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.