This (Lisbon-born) Irish cleric (he became a priest in 1870 in the Catholic Apostolic Church, but was eventually excommunicated; he had long advocated abstinence from meat, tobacco and alcohol) claimed to have obtained, in 1881, through spiritistic means (dreams and visions), the original behind the Four Gospels in an Aramaic manuscript that had been placed for safekeeping in a Tibetan monastery by Essenes. He himself never claimed to have traveled to Tibet. He called it "The Gospel of the Holy Twelve," among still other names. It "expounds the doctrines of Christ on universal compassion, vegetarianism and kindness to animals (involving abolition of animal sacrifices)."
He wrote several other books, which seem not to be so well known, including one on cosmic rays, auras, and healing with colors. He was especially connected with the anti-vivisectionist and occultist writers Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland.
