Also known as Amanda Malvina Thorley-Gibson, Amanda Malvina Matthews and Amanda Malvina Cooper-Mathieson.

OCCUPATION

Australian metaphysician, healer, New Thought leader and practitioner, minister, mystic, feminist, lecturer, educational and literary utopian, operator of homes for unmarried mothers and war orphans, publisher, editor and author.

BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

The Reverend Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson FLLC (also known as (Mrs) Amanda Malvina Thorley-Gibson, Amanda Malvina Matthews and Amanda Malvina Cooper-Mathieson) was born Amanda Malvina Cooper in West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia on October 4, 1867 to parents Thomas Henry and Letitia Anna (née Dudgeon) Cooper. Her father, who was born in Stockport, Cheshire (now in Greater Manchester), England, was a Crimean War veteran and worked as a blacksmith. Her mother was born in Antrim, Ireland. They were married in Brisbane QLD on March 25, 1864. Amanda had two younger siblings, her brothers Albert and Oscar.

She is said to have been engaged initially in newspaper work before embracing New Thought. What is also known is that at some time prior to 1889 she was employed by Horton and Co, at Haymarket, Sydney, as a shorthand writer, typist and commercial correspondent. She was in the employ of that firm for two years before relinquishing the position of shorthand writer to become the official companion to Mrs Horton, wife of the proprietor of the firm, Ernest J Horton, taking it upon herself, at Horton's wish, the whole management of the Horton household. In September 1889 she gave evidence in the Bankruptcy Court in proceedings relating to Horton's bankruptcy. At that time, and during her employment with Horton and Co, she resided at 40 Castlereagh Street, Sydney.

She spent three years (from 1906 to 1909) in Great Britain and the United States studying metaphysics. While in Great Britain, in 1907, she worked as secretary to the Druce-Portland Company. A highly idiosyncratic, even eccentric, religious entrepreneur, during her lifetime she founded several New Thought centres in various states of Australia, namely, New South Wales (in Sydney and the Blue Mountains), Western Australia (in Perth) and Tasmania (in Hobart). Professionally, she became known as Sister Veni Cooper-Mathieson as well as Reverend Veni Cooper-Mathieson.

Her pioneering work commenced in 1903, lecturing on social and sexual reform in the Domain, Sydney, New South Wales under the auspices of The Woman's White Cross Moral Reform Crusade (of which she was the head), being a society to promote celibacy among young women. There was a companion group for young men which, not surprisingly, was not as successful. In 1903 she told a group of men at a Sydney meeting that, by engaging in sex, they were degrading and abusing their bodies and disgracing their 'manhood'. She advocated that men utilise their 'glorious pro-creative power' in more positive ways so as to live more spiritually attenuated lives. At least part of her concern related to venereal disease. In a lecture titled 'Purity' given at the Sydney Domain on Sunday, October 4, 1903, she said:

'Men and Brothers ! ... Curb your wilful, ungovernable passions; keep them on a leash as you would a vicious and ravenous dog. Subdue and conquer them, or they will conquer you in the end, and dire disaster must be the result.'

In that same year, she began offering a three years' lecture course in Sydney on 'The Truth Seekers' under the auspices of The Truth Centre and The Metaphysical College, founded in Sydney in 1903.

Clothed at times in a flowing white gown with a black stole draped around the neck and down the centre and a black overgown, and at other times in a loose purple gown with immaculate collar and cuffs, for almost 40 years thereafter she taught, wrote books and pamphlets, conducted lecture series and correspondence courses, and ran study centres and healing rooms in various States of Australia. Her first New Thought magazine, The Truth Seeker, was established in January 1905. In April 1909 she founded in Perth, Western Australia her New Thought Church Universal, with herself as president and minister. The Church had 'no creed but Truth; no sect but the Fatherhood of God, and the Brotherhood of Man'. (She was also a minister of the Aquarian Church of California.) After working as a metaphysician at the Perth Metaphysical Society (181 St Georges Terrace, Perth [as at 1910]; Empire Buildings, 158–160 Murray Street, on the north-west corner of Barrack Street, Perth [from 1911 to 1913]; Perth Truth Centre and Bethany Healing Rooms, Viking House, 49 William Street, Perth [from 1913 to 1914]) for some 5 years, she transferred her operations to Australia's east coast.

In 1911 The Woman's White Cross Moral Reform Crusade was reorganised in Perth and in November of that year Sr Veni announced a proposal for a 'White Cross Home', which appears not to have eventuated. In early 1913 she made a trip to Colombo, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka). In April 1914 she announced in the West Australian press that she had completed her Perth ministry and she put her Truth Centre premises in Perth up for auction owing to 'a planned departure for India and Europe'.

In December 1914 the Church Universal was moved to Sydney where she also established a Truth Centre. In 1915 the magazine The Truth Seeker was united with another titled The Healer (1912 to 1913) and became known as The Revealer: A Monthly Magazine of New Thought (1915 to 1918). In that same year (1914) she founded The Universal Truth Publishing Co of Australasia. A Home of Truth was also established that year. (See Horatio W Dresser, A History of the New Thought Movement (New York: Thomas Y Crowell Co, 1919).) In 1915 she went back to Perth briefly to speak at The Truth Centre. About 250 turned out to hear her speak. In 1916 she welcomed Dr Julia Seton (1862-1950), founder of the Church and School of the New Civilization), to Sydney where in February she presided at the first Australian New Thought Conference. Dr Seton also lectured in Sydney from January 20 to March 30, 1916.

Sr Veni was married twice. Her first husband--she was 16 at the time of the marriage--was Scottish-born inspector of police, Samuel Matthews Jr. They married in Brisbane QLD on February 29, 1884. He apparently divorced her on the grounds of adultery in 1896. Her second husband was a down on his luck barrister and solicitor-cum-inventor, Earlam Joshua Thorley-Gibson [aka Earlam Joshua Gibson] (c1870-1913), whom she married in Perth WA in 1902. Five years later, in August 1907, she petitioned for divorce while living in England but the petition was struck out in December of that year. Thorley-Gibson died in June 1913. She never remarried.

Sr Veni was the archetypal New Thought leader of the day---itinerant speaker, indefatigable teacher and writer, prolific self-publisher, self-proclaimed 'healer', and shameless self-promoter extraordinaire. She taught that Australia was the 'land of the dawning' and advocated female emancipation. With fellow Australian New Thought leader and practitioner Grace M Aguilar (1881-1964) she cofounded Australian New Thought Alliance (conferences 1916, 1928), and founded many other religious organisations including the abovementioned Women's White Cross Moral Reform Crusade, The Universal Truth Healing Fellowship, The Esoteric College and Home of Truth, The Bethany Healing Centre, The Church of Truth Universal (and Metaphysical College) [founded in Perth, Western Australia on October 4, 1911], The Truth-Seeker Publishing Company, The Universal Truth Publishing Co (of Australasia), The Truth Centre Book Depot, and The Order of the Prince of Peace. Needless to say, all of these organisations are long gone.

For many years her Sydney-based Truth Centre operated out of the IOOF Temple in Elizabeth Street. As of 1916, the Home of Truth and Esoteric College and was based at 39 Brown Street, Paddington ('A Home for Truth Seekers, Metaphysicians & New Thought Students', where full board and residence was available for Truth students who desired 'the advantage of Health Diet, combined with a true Mental and Spiritual atmosphere'). At that time Sr Veni was a district president of the International New Thought Alliance (INTA) for New South wales and Western Australia. Then, during World War I, she transferred her activities to the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

In 1926 she reopened at Mount Victoria, under the name of the Church Universal and Metaphysical College, work which she had begun in Sydney in 1903, but which had apparently ceased operation. According to Sands Directories and the electoral rolls, as of 1926 she was based at Mount Victoria but was apparently back in Sydney by 1928 (255 Elizabeth Street [Truth Centre and Metaphysical College, etc]). As of 1929, her several organisations were operating from headquarters at 47-49 Yarranabbe Road, Darling Point, but with the premises of The Truth Centre and The Metaphysical College being on the corner of George and Bathurst Streets, Sydney. Then, by 1930, she was back in the Blue Mountains (Wentworth Falls).

From the late 1910s to the early 1930s Sr Veni ran an organisation that cared for war orphans ('The Bethlehem Home for the Children of Universal Love and War Orphans', founded in 1916, and registered March 1, 1918, Mount Victoria NSW). For a time, the organisation, which for a time also cared for unmarried mothers, operated at Bethlehem Children's Home (also known as Bethlehem Babies) at 'Nioka', Bathurst Road, Little Hartley. She later moved to Mount Wilson (at either 'Sylvan Close' or 'Campanella' or both) and then to a house in Selsdon Street, Mount Victoria ('Upalong', from at least 1930). In or about 1915 she purchased the historic 'Closeburn House' [aka 'Closeburn'], a substantial late Victorian residence overlooking the Kanimbla Valley that had apparently been used for a time as a hospitality house, and moved her home for orphaned babies from the Selsdon Street premises to 'Closeburn', which she renamed 'Bethesda Home' (later known as 'Bethesda Retreat'). The drawing room was set up as a chapel with a portentous pulpit and homemade baptismal font, and there was a 'Room of Silence', filled with lots of books, used for 'absent treatment'.

A scathing article on Sr Veni and her Mount Victoria activities, written by Randolph Bedford, was published in Smith's Weekly on May 3, 1919. The article stated that the State Children's Department had withheld registration of her Mount Victoria 'Bethesda Home'. Unregistered, the Home was in existence for nearly a year, and 20 babies went through it, 8 of whom had come from the Salvation Army at Bathurst, New South Wales. Of the 20 babies, 2 died of pneumonia. Of the remaining 18, 3 were found by the Boarding-out Officer for State Children to be syphilitic and were removed to the Lady Edeline Strickland Home, 4 were re-adopted by their own mothers, 8 were taken by the State, and 3 were adopted privately. The article also stated that the NSW Government had not sought to destroy Sr Veni's activities and told her she could take not more than 12 children, but this she refused. She continued to solicit donations for future work allegedly involving 'thousands of children' and requiring 'thousands of pounds'. In his article Bedford referred to her Mount Victoria activities as 'a fiction factory which is doing no good to Australia'. As for the lady herself, she was said to have had 'deep-set eyes' and a 'broad-bridged nose' and to have possessed 'an endless knowledge of that most welcome subject for debate—Herself, a subject she treats without weariness or reticence'.

Sr Veni is said to have been assisted at 'Closeburn' by an 'Indian mystic'. The so-called 'Indian mystic' was probably the non-Indian Brother Ariel [Ariel Herman Adam] (1881-1952), who was Sr Veni's secretary and house servant (and secretary of The Order of the Prince of Peace, an esoteric order founded by her). He assisted Sr Veni in her metaphysical work and other activities right up until her death in 1943. In his article published in Smith's Weekly on May 3, 1919 Randolph Bedford described Brother Ariel as 'sleek' and 'indefatigable', 'a little man, all Christian-Israelitish air, and Nazarenic beard', 'an Aminadab Sleek with a nasal drawl'.

In 1923 Hugh Dalziell (1874-1960), a member of the prominent Scottish farming family in the Kanimbla Valley, and also co-owner with James Dalziell of 'Rose Vale' located at the southern end of Hartley Valley, purchased the property which was in time operated as a guesthouse under the old name of 'Closeburn'. However, there is some suggestion that by 1931 Sr Veni was back, albeit briefly, at 'Closeburn', operating a 'rest home and guest house', the 'Home of Truth Universal' [see Hotel, Guest-House and Tourist Guide in NSW, 1931, p88]. In any event, the Dalziells did use 'Closeburn' as a guesthouse. The use of as a guesthouse ended in 1934. However, in a letter dated July 22, 1932 addressed to the shire clerk of Lawson Shire Council, she requested information about the owners of property 'The Retreat' in Mount Victoria, hoping it may be available for renting. As at 1932-33, she was based in Springwood, on the Lower Blue Mountains, according to the Sands Directory, but by late 1932 she was residing at 'Fairholme', Lurline Street, Katoomba, according to the 1933 electoral roll and a letter she wrote to the editor of The Katoomba Daily (December 17, 1932). In that letter she suggested that the Three Sisters (an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley) be christened Mary, Martha and Bridget.

In early March 1933 Sr Veni travelled by ship (onboard the 'Esperance Bay') to Tasmania where she would in due course proceed to live and work for much of the next 10 years. Sadly, Sr Veni came to grief in Tasmania, the last Australia state in which she settled. In May 1934, being the month in which her mother died in Katoomba, New South Wales at the age of 94, she was prosecuted and fined £2, with costs, in the Hobart Police Court for practising as a physician in expectation of a fee or reward. According to newspaper accounts at the time, she claimed that she had Divine powers of healing through breathing on patients and could detect inward physical growths that X-rays wouldn't reveal (dubbed the 'Living X-Ray'). A second charge of obtaining money by false and fraudulent pretences was dismissed on the ground that the non-existence of a 'certain [alleged] growth' in the patient treated by Sr Veni had not been proved. She protested that she would not pay the fine on principle, but would prefer to go to gaol. It is not known whether she or someone else on her behalf paid the fine but she did not appear to go to gaol. She represented herself in the Court proceedings, stating to the Court that she was her own solicitor with Jesus Christ as her counsel. Sr Veni was a metaphysical or spiritual healer, and many such healers ran afoul of the law.

After the nasty incident in Court, Sr Veni kept a fairly quiet profile, retreating some time between 1937 and 1943 to Lunawanna, a very small settlement on the western side of Bruny Island, a 362 sqm island located off the south-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. Prior to that, she had lived at Eaglehawk Neck ('St Monance'), a narrow isthmus connecting the Tasman Peninsula with the Forestier Peninsula, and for a while in Rokeby ('Tranmere') and Lindisfarne, suburbs of Hobart's Eastern Shore, and at 9 King Street, Sandy Bay, a suburb immediately south of Hobart's central business district. (Strangely, in giving evidence on oath in the Hobart Police Court in the abovementioned legal proceedings, she stated that she lived in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, with her aged mother.)

Listings in the 'Church Services' section of The Mercury (Hobart, Tasmania) reveal that Sr Veni continued to lecture on a Sunday and Wednesday evening at the Metaphysical Lecture Hall, in Moran and Cato's Building, 107 Elizabeth Street, Hobart until at least January 1936. The title of her Sunday, January 5, 1936 talk was 'The Great Pyramid Prophecy Concerning this Wonderful Year, 1936'. She lectured throughout January 1936 on 'The Message of the Great Pyramid', the talk for Sunday, January 12, 1936 being titled 'Warnings for the Present Age'. (If there were any later lectures and talks by Sr Veni they do not appear to have been advertised in The Mercury.)

Sr Veni had an interest in Rosicrucianism, and she supported the English-born Australian occultist Frank Bennett (1868-1930) in his attempt to found a lodge of the Ordo Templi Orientis in Sydney New South Wales, in 1915. The English occultist Aleister Crowley (1875-1947) was the best-known member of the order. She delivered a series of lectures on Rosicrucianism, 12 of which were published as A Series of Rosicrucian Lectures on Spiritual Evolution (Mt Victoria NSW: Universal Truth Publishing Company, 1915-18). Another course of lectures of hers titled 'The New Creation' is particularly illuminating.

Some of her books and booklets include Woman's Emancipation: Thoughts on the Marriage Question (Sydney NSW: V Cooper-Mathieson, 1904 [written in 1896]), Australia! Land of the Dawning (Sydney NSW: Universal Truth Publishing Co of Australasia, c1904), The Heart of God; and Mirrors of the Infinite [Higher Thought Essays] (Perth WA: Truth-Seeker Publishing Company, c1907), A Marriage of Souls: A Metaphysical Novel (Perth WA: Truth-Seeker Publishing, 1914) [purportedly the first novel to have been published in Western Australia], A Series of Rosicrucian Lectures on Spiritual Evolution (Mt Victoria NSW: Universal Truth Publishing Company, 1915-18), The Soul's Immaculate Conception (Perth WA: Truth-Seeker Publishing Company, c1923), The Sword-Arm of the Lord: or The Mirror of Truth Held to the Nations (1923), The Universal Health Restorer (Sydney NSW: The Universal Truth Publishing Fellowship of Australia, 1929), and many short stories and pamphlets (eg 'The Woman's White Cross Moral Reform Crusade', 'Fallen Stars from Moral Heights', 'Individuals and their Spiritual Aura', 'The Psychology of the Solar-Plexus'). She also published and edited the Australian New Thought journals The Truth Seeker, The Healer, and The Revealer and wrote articles for the New Thought journal, appearing even in the first volume of that international journal. All in all, she was a very busy woman—and she was no doubt sincere in her beliefs.

In her work Australia! Land of the Dawning (1904) Sr Veni set forth her vision of Australia as a 'lovely virgin freshly risen from the waves', ready to lead the world in new philosophies, quickly to become a universal 'City of Refuge':

'Still no man knoweth thee, O! Virgin Land! No hand hath yet uncovered thy secret parts, nor eye searched out thy hidden mysteries. In thy fair bosom thou holdest treasures unknown and even undreamed of.'

In the first quarter of the 20th Century there was a fair bit of utopian thinking, writing and spirituality in Australia. For example, in a series of lectures delivered in Sydney in August 1915 Theosophist and Liberal Catholic Bishop C W Leadbeater (1854-1934) proclaimed 'Australia and New Zealand as the home of a new sub-race'. He had purportedly detected in Australia 'children and young people of a distinctly new type'. In her novel A Marriage of Souls (1914) Sr Veni expressed the same sentiment in these words:

'Australia shall be a second Nazareth, since out of her shall come the New Messiah—a great teacher—who shall prepare them for the Coming Kingdom and shall reveal unto the nations the great and glorious truths that are to be unveiled in these latter days—the same vital truths which Jesus taught the multitudes over nineteen hundred years ago in the cities of Judea.'

Even more esoterically, Australia was for Sr Veni a living symbol and object lesson of the latent, hidden powers of a human being (the 'Christ-Child Within').

Consistent with New Thought teaching Sr Veni emphasized the innate divinity of every human being. 'We are all Sparks of the One Eternal Flame, the Great Life Principle, which men call God.' And what of Jesus? Well, he is 'the revelator and demonstrator In her book A Marriage of Souls (1914), a novel which presents New Thought teaching in the narrative form of a story dealing with Australian city and country life and people, and which contains 'passages of wonderful beauty ... some of the descriptions of Australian life and scenery have not often been surpassed' (World's News (Sydney, NSW), June 2, 1923), she wrote:

'[I]f you are not prepared to go through the entire process [of spiritual transformation and psychological mutation] within your own souls, then the crucifixion of Jesus and the resurrection of Christ has no real meaning for you. ... Each one of us must go through every scene in that life tragedy as the Master did, till we attain to the final overcoming of the Christ-Man, Who is the model for our guidance.'

She also wrote, 'Mankind has worshipped the personal Jesus, and rejected the Universal Christ, which was individualized and so manifested in and through Jesus.' (Note. In New Thought and esoteric Christianity 'the Christ' is not a person per se but a power, a potentiality, and a presence for good in every human being.)

In A Marriage of Souls (1914) Sr Veni also wrote:

'Then, of course, all things are possible to us if we will but believe it. We shall have dominion and power over all things; indeed, the power is now latent within us, just as the full-grown man is lying hidden within the babe, only waiting to be developed and hence revealed. When we come to this stage of consciousness we naturally are able to do the works of a Son of God, just as His first-begotten, or eldest son, Jesus, did. He said we were His brethren, and that His Father was our Father, and that Truth is for all eternity and for all Humanity: not only for one people or one age; for God is no respecter of generations or nations any more than He is of persons, He is God of all the earth. This was so ... for it came from the Source of all truth, the Spirit within every man that giveth understanding. ...'

She advocated what she called 'free unions' (or 'spiritual marriages'), outside the control or legal sanction of the State, in which the children of love matches would be raised in a spirit of genuine affection, and which the couple could dissolve easily if they concluded that theirs was not, in fact, a 'spiritual marriage' in the eyes of God. She wrote that unless a marriage was a 'true spiritual union there is no marriage in the sight of the most High God, for He deals with us purely as spiritual beings'.

On the subject of sin, she wrote, 'Sin means "missing the mark" or falling short of the higher ideals of life which you have set up for yourself, and know to be your soul's true goal. To do or be, less than you are able or capable of doing or being, is sin.' She preached a 'Fourfold Way to Life Eternal'---right feeling, right thinking, right speaking, and right acting. Like all New Thoughters, she taught that 'every thought is a living force.' 'When you think a thought, you give life to a created idea. You have used the essence that brings forth a Word; then the Word becomes flesh in the earth of your being. It must produce according to tis quality and character.'

In 1929 Sr Veni wrote and published The Universal Health Restorer. That book, written more than 20 years before Dr Norman Vincent Peale's (1898-1993) classic book The Power of Positive Thinking was published, contains the following piece of New Thought wisdom: 'The positive thinker repels disease: the negative thinker invites infection.' There you have it--the 'power of positive thinking' (well, the principle, if not that exact same phrase which appears to be Dr Peale's alone).

According to INTA archives, as of 1943 Sr Veni was still listed as an INTA District President, purportedly residing at Lindisfarne (but actually on Bruny Island). However, Charles S Braden, in his seminal text Spirits in Rebellion: The Rise and Development of New Thought (Dallas TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 1963) quotes Arthur S Webb (Seekers' Christian Fellowship, 421 Wellington Street, Perth WA [journal, 'The Seeker']), another Australian New Thought leader, as saying that Sr Veni had withdrawn from the New Thought Movement (p 492). That may simply mean that she made a decision to retire from active work. Anyway, the inescapable conclusion is that she went to live out her remaining years on Bruny Island to retreat, if not escape, from her opponents and the secular world.

Sr Veni Cooper-Mathieson had a fall on Saturday, June 5, 1943 and died at her home at Lunawanna, South Bruny, Bruny Island, Tasmania at 9 pm on the following evening. Because of a fear of being buried alive (taphophobia), she had instructed Brother Ariel that, in the event of her death, he was not to inform the authorities till 3 days afterwards. This instruction was faithfully carried out by Ariel, then aged 62. Alone in the house with the body of his long-time friend, soulmate and boss, he kept vigil and did not report the death to the authorities until Wednesday, June 9, 1943 when he sent for the Government medical officer, Dr M A Walker, who was based at Snug, Tasmania, a small coastal town some 30 km (19 mi) south of Hobart. This was established by reports received by the police. The medical officer reported to the police (Superintendent M A English) that he had formed the opinion that Sr Veni had died from an epileptic stroke. A report was submitted to the Tasmanian Coroner in the unlikely event that an inquiry would be held. Sr Veni was 75 years of age. She was quietly laid to rest in the historic Lunawanna Cemetery on Thursday, June 10, 1943. The inscription on her small tombstone reads: 'In Memory of Our Beloved Sister Veni. Aged 75. Her Blessed Garment Interred Here June 10th 1943.'

Brother Ariel – Ariel Herman Adam – stayed on in Hobart for a few years before moving back to the Australian mainland. In 1947 he gave some talks on New Thought in Adelaide, South Australia at the Radiant Health Club (February 12, 1947) and the New Thought Centre (May 4, May 7 and May 9, 1947). By 1949 he was living in Chatswood, on Sydney's Lower North Shore, where he had relatives. He gave multiple leftover copies of Sr Veni's book The Universal Health Restorer as well as copies of her 'New Creation' literature to fellow New Thought leaders Grace M Aguilar (1881-1964) and her husband H George Paul (1902-2002) for distribution to their group's members and any others who might be interested. On March 30, 1952 Adam left his Chatswood home for his usual swim at Castle Cove, Middle Harbour. When he did not return, his relatives informed the police who found his clothes at the water's edge. While the police were dragging the area they saw a number of sharks swimming around. Adam is believed to have been taken by one of those sharks while swimming. He was 70 years of age.

'We have no creed but Truth; no sect but the unity of God and man.' Sr Veni Cooper-Mathieson.

'Veni, Vidi, Vici.' Motto of Sr Veni Cooper-Mathieson's Truth Centre. (She translated those Latin words as 'I can succeed, I will succeed, I am successful'. The words literally mean 'I came, I saw, I conquered'.)

'... [T]he real self, the Divine Man in each of us, never dies. ... These forms are but the fleshly tabernacles in which the Spirit of the Lord manifests Himself to grow to greater and greater perfection.' Sr Veni Cooper-Mathieson, A Marriage of Souls (1914).

See also Find A Grave memorial # 191168719 (Charles Webster Leadbeater).

NOTE. There are references to Cooper-Mathieson in the historical novel The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014) by Piu Marie Eatwell.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

This profile was written by the Rev Dr Ian Ellis-Jones of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, a member of the International New Thought Alliance and a former president and chaplain of a Unity centre in Sydney.