The Hermetic Kabbalah of Anna Kingsford, The Credo of Christendom & other addresses and essays on Esoterica, by Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland represented for the 21st century enquirer. In 1883 Anna Kingsford was made President of the Theosophical Society, promoted a Western and Hermetic Esoterica. She claimed to recieve mystical insights in trance states and sleep. Mahatma Gandhi is said to have sold her books.