Kingsford, Anna

Anna Kingsford
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Name	Kingsford, Anna Gender: F
Birthname	Annie Bonus
born on	16 September 1846 at 17:00 (= 5:00 PM )
Place	Essex, England, 51n48, 0e40
Timezone	LMT m0e40 (is local mean time)
Data source	Bio/autobiography Rodden Rating B Collector: Rodden
Astrology data	23°25' 10°21 Asc. 16°38'

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Anna Kingsford

Biography

British physician who became an impassioned antivivisectionist and a spiritualist.

The daughter of a rich merchant, she was a talented and pretty child. At 20, her dad died and she became financially independent with an annual income of 7,000 pounds a year. High spirited and willful, fond of hunting and sports, she married a clergyman, William Kingsford in 1867. On 12/31/1867; they had one daughter. Though physically frail and often troubled by organic and Victorian ailments, Annie was not confined by a Victorian temperament in her husband and she was allowed freedom to pursue many interests. She converted to Catholicism and owned and operated a London journal (which soon went bankrupt).

With a lifelong proclivity for Causes, Anna was campaigning on behalf of married women’s property rights when she was given a spiritualist periodical. This led to a lifelong involvement in alternative religion. She and her husband shared an interest in the occult, he becoming a spiritualist minister. Leaving female suffrage and women’s rights, Anna’s passion turned to the animal and spiritual kingdoms and she devoted the rest of her life to religion and the anti-vivisection movement. She studied medicine in Paris to qualify as a doctor in 1880, with her dissertation "L'Alimentation Vegetale de Homme" later published

in England as "The Perfect Way In Diet" after she began her practice in London.

In 1882 she published "The Perfect Way," or "The Finding of Christ," which "made an enormous impression on contemporary London society and MacGregor Mathers, not usually one to praise another's work, described it as "one of the most deeply occult works that has been written for centuries" and confirmed its compatibility with the Qabalah. Her pioneering work on the Qabalah and the Greek and Egyptian mysteries later played a major role in the Golden Dawn rituals.

In May 1882, Kingsford became president of the London Branch of the Theosophical society, a position that she willingly turned over to A.P. Sinnet the following year. She and Blavatsky were both strong women with a male following and bound to clash, and their descriptions of each other were scathing. She left the internal quarrels in the London Lodge in order to form her own Hermetic Society, founded on 4/09/1884.

Though she heard voices and saw visions of the ascended Masters, Anna insisted that she was a prophet, not a medium. She had risen above the vulgarities of spiritualism and clairvoyance to the divine grace of straight-knowledge.

Combining her interest in the occult and anti-vivisection, she declared on 11/12/1886, after their deaths, that she "had killed Paul Bert and Claude Bernard, as she would kill Louis Pasteur…" for their animal testing, with the strength of her will." She organized a petition to the Pope to change Catholic doctrine about animals having no souls, but this was met with such a lack of Vatican sympathy that she became quite discouraged.

Kingsford's death from consumption on February 22, 1988 did not give her enough time to adequately establish her own religion.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Bernard, Claude (born 12 July 1813)

• opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Bert, Paul (born 19 October 1833)

• opponent/rival/enemy relationship with Blavatsky, Helena (born 12 August 1831). Notes: Rival, spiritual competitor

Events

• Relationship : Marriage February 1867 (Married William early 1867)
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• Family : Change in family responsibilities 31 December 1867 (Had her only child)
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• Social : End a program of study 1880 (Earned medical degree)

• Social : Joined group May 1882 (President of Theosophy Lodge)
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• Social : Joined group 9 April 1884 (Founded her own Society)
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• Misc. : Mystical Experience 12 November 1886 (Declared that she had killed with "her will.")
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• Death by Disease 22 February 1888 (Of tuberculosis, age 39)
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Source Notes

LMR quotes Edward Maitland "Anna Kingsford," 1913, p.1. (Formerly, Maitland gave 5:00 AM in May 1896; in a later magazine he corrected that to 5:00 PM.)

Biography: Peter Washington, "Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums, and Misfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America," Schocken Books, New York, 1995.

Categories

• Traits : Personality : Personality robust (Declared that she killed people "with her will.")

• Traits : Personality : Vain/ Self-absorbed (Full of herself)

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Tuberculosis

• Lifestyle : Financial : Gain - Inheritance (Financially independent)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Mystical experience (Voices and visions)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Spiritualist (Since 1867)

• Personal : Religion/Spirituality : Theosophy/Vedanta (Theosophy for a year)

• Personal : Death : Illness/ Disease

• Vocation : Medical : Nutritionist

• Vocation : Medical : Physician

• Vocation : Occult Fields : Psychic/ Medium/ Spiritualist

• Vocation : Politics : Activist/ social (Ardent Antivivesectionist)

• Vocation : Writers : Metaphysics/ Parapsychology