Esoteric & Exoteric Christ & Church - Paperback

by Erica Georgiades (Editor), Juliet Bates (Editor), John William John William Brodie -Innes (Author)

This volume features "The True Christ of Church," written by John William Brodie-Innes (1848-1923); "The Esoteric Christ," written by Edward Maitland (1824-1897); and "Ecclesiastical Christianity," written by S. E. G. (Susan E. Gay?).

John William Brodie-Innes was a member of The Theosophical Society and an influential member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn's Amen-Ra Temple in Edinburgh. Blavatsky published his paper entitled "The True Church of Christ, Exoteric and Esoteric," was published seriatum, in Lucifer magazine. It focuses on both the material (visible), exoteric and spiritual (invisible) esoteric aspects of the church. Esoteric Christ, written by Edward Maitland, was a member of the Theosophical Society, occultist and humanitarian discusses, among other things, the "Rival Christs, explaining that there, at least, are three different Christs: "the Orthodox Christ representing a belief form that is unrelated to mind; the negative or Agnostic Christ, midway between orthodoxy and materialism; and the positive or Esoteric Christ, indicated as the Christ within." In Ecclesiastical Christianity."S.E.G. deals with the history of crimes the church committed, bringing them to public attention for the "cause of truth and reform."