Higgins, Godfrey

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Godfrey Higgins

(English: Godfrey Higgins)

(10 November 1773 − 10 November 1833)

*Anacalypsis, an Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis, etc. 2 vols. London: Longman, etc., 1836. Very scarce. (BCW 1:468).

The bibliography lists Anacalypsis in its two-volume London edition (1836), Glasgow second edition (1878), and New York reprint (1927). A biography is referenced in BCW VIII, 458-459. (BCW 2:531-532).

His The Celtic Druids was published in London by R. Hunter in 1827 and reprinted by the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles in 1977. (BCW 3:511).

Author of Anacalypsis, an Attempt to Draw aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis, cited in the two-volume London edition of 1836. (BCW 7:374).

English scholar. Only son of Godfrey Higgins, a gentleman of small independent fortune belonging to an old, respected Yorkshire family, and Christiana Matterson (BCW).

The bibliography refers readers to a biographical account elsewhere in the Collected Writings (BCW 11:578).

Some links:

• Quotes: Zirkoff, Boris
• CTD article in Russian: Хиггинс, Годфри
• Other resources: Theosophy World Encyclopedia

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Lifetime: 1773-1833
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• Anacalypsis, an Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis, etc. 2 vols. London: Longman...