Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth

1884 [Ouseley, Rev. Gideon Jasper Richard] (1875-1906). Palingenesia; or, The Earth’s New Birth. By Theosopho and Ellora [pseud.]. 2 vols. Glasgow, Scot.: Hay Nisbet. The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers. L, PSt

An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep. The Irish author was born in Portugal. He was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, which he left, and the Catholic Apostolic Church, which expelled him. He campaigned against alcohol, meat-eating, tobacco and as a vegetarian.