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(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]
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.).