Ideas for a Better World

15. ANNA KINGSFORD, BUDDHIST CHRISTIANITY AND VEGETARIANISM (1) Arnaldo Sisson Filho [Presentation by Viviane Pereira] “Raised in a Roman Catholic family, Arnaldo Sisson Filho began his search early for answers to the questions that guide our existence. He studied at Roman Catholic schools and, in his late teens, questioning everything he had learned up to… Read More

14. VEGETARIANISM AND CHRISTIANITY (1) Arnaldo Sisson Filho In your opinion, regarding religious matters, why is it important to be vegetarian? Within the type of Christianity I practice, based on the mystical interpretations and illuminations of Dr. Anna Kingsford, I would highlight two aspects; the first is within the phrase of the apostle Paul when… Read More

13. LIVING FOODS: MY EXPERIENCES WITH THESE FOODS Dr. Kirstine Nolfi Summary 1. Editor’s Foreword 2. My Experience with Living Foods 2.1 Physician, Heal Thyself! 2.2 I Became a Doctor Who Tries to Cure Patients… and Was Convicted 2.3 Healing Without Medication 3. Details on Regenerative Nutrition 3.1 No Leukocytosis with Raw Foods 3.2 Acid-Base… Read More

PART III COMPLEMENTARY TEXTS AND QUOTATIONS The Banquet of the Gods (Anna Kingsford) The Living Foods: My Experiences with these Foods (Kirstine Nolfi) Vegetarianism and Christianity (Arnaldo Sisson Filho) Anna Kingsford, Buddhist Christianity and Vegetarianism (Arnaldo Sisson Filho) Glimpses of a True Catholic and Scientific Religion: The Buddhist Christianity (Arnaldo Sisson Filho) Quotations on Interpretation… Read More

11. UNSCIENTIFIC SCIENCE: MORAL ASPECTS OF VIVISECTION (1) Anna Kingsford Apologists of the practice appear to think that the desire of knowledge is in itself sufficient to vindicate all the cruelties and injustices imaginable. They do not seem to recognize the fact that every branch of intellectual research has its moral limits, and that the… Read More

10. The Bible and Flesh-Eating (1) Bertram McCrie There are many worthy Christians in the world today who regard the Bible as a sort of divinely appointed city of refuge, to which they may flee at sundry inconvenient seasons. However much they may ignore the Bible in ordinary affairs, they promptly fall back upon it… Read More

9. VEGETARIANISM AND THE BIBLE (1) Edward Maitland There are very many persons for whom the arguments scientific, social, economic, and even moral, in favour of a vegetable diet, do not suffice, but who require in addition the sanction of the Bible. As we are prepared to meet inquirers at this point also, I have… Read More

8. THE FOOD OF MAN: REGARDED AS A SPIRITUAL BEING (1) Samuel Hopgood Hart We read in the Psalms, (civ. 15), “He bringeth forth grass for the cattle: and herb for the service of men; that He may bring food out of the earth.” That is a Vegetarian diet, apart from which no food reform… Read More

7. THE BEST FOOD FOR MAN (1) Anna Kingsford I have said that the French peasantry live much more in accordance with the dictates of Nature than do the English, and that consequently they are, as a rule, far more prosperous and well off. It is a very rare thing indeed for a French peasant… Read More

Parts of the Lecture: Some Aspects of the Vegetarian Question (1) Anna Kingsford (…) Do we not find, as a matter of fact, that the more earnest and the more advanced a man is in the study and practice of wisdom, the simpler and the more frugal become his habits of diet? Cast your eye… Read More