Author Description

"Sarah Stanley Grimké (1850-1898) is best known as the mother of poet and playwright Angelina Weld Grimké (1880-1958) and wife of journalist and diplomat Archibald Henry Grimké (1949-1930). Her writings collected in this volume reflect three phases of her thought. Personified unthinkables (1884) attempts to ground the emerging Mind Cure movement in Transcendentalist philosophy. First lessons in reality (1886) reveals Sarah as a writer of New Thought lessons under the influence of a group called Light, Love, Truth led by Elizabeth Stuart, a Christian Science dissident. A tour through the Zodiac, published posthumously in 1900, followed her collaboration with astrological writer Thomas H. Burgoyne (1855-1943) on The light of Egypt (1889) after her previous studies became part of the official curriculum of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (HBL) in the United States. This scholarly edition of Gremké's works includes new introductions to her three texts, extensive annotations, and appendices that illuminate Grimké's connection with HBL.