Madame Blavatsky praised Anna in her obituary in Lucifer, March 1888.
"We have this month to record, with the deepest regret, the passing away from this physical world of one, who more than any other, has been instrumental in demonstrating to her fellow-creatures the great fact of the conscious existence - hence of the immortality - of the inner Ego....
"Mrs Kingsford's field of activity, however, was not limited to the purely physical, mundane plane of life. She was a Theosophist, and a true one at heart; a leader of spiritual and philosophical thought, gifted with most exceptional psychic attributes. In connection with Mr Maitland, her truest friend - one whose incessant watchful care has undeniably prolonged her delicate, ever-threatened life for several years, and who received her last breath - she wrote several books dealing with metaphysical and mystical subjects.
"...She was one the aspirations of whose whole life were ever turned towards the eternal and the true. A mystic by nature - the most ardent one to those who knew her well - she was still a very remarkable woman even in the opinion of the materialists and the unbelievers....The world in general has lost in Mrs Kingsford one who can be very ill spared in this era of materialism. The whole of her adult life was passed in working unselfishly for others, for the elevation of the spiritual side of humanity."
Her friend Lady Mount-Temple wrote to Maitland as follows:
"What a blow! I thought she would be restored to us. What will you do?Can you live without her? Where is she? Is she near you? I have told Broadlands to send a wreath. Will you lay it over her beautiful body, with love in every leaf? I long to pour it out warm and living from my heart over her, noble, lovely creature, the friend of God, woman, and the lowest creatures! What a dreadful loss to poor Earth! Dear Mr Maitland, tell me sometime that you are not in despair. Tell me if I can do anything for you. Count me your friend to the end of the chapter, and beyond, I hope. Yours ever, and hers."
A vegetarian magazine printed a memorial poem, the last verse reading as follows:
Thy works shall live, thy words shall burn,
Thy star shall ever shine,
Death cannot chill thy loving heart,
Nor quench the light divine.
Anna had a significant influence on various people. Macgregor Mathers of the Golden Dawn has already been mentioned. William Butler Yeats, also a member of the Golden Dawn, thought highly of her. Aleister Crowley, not one to give praise lightly, wrote that she did more for religion than anyone else for centuries. Mahatma Ghandhi was so impressed by her spiritual writings that he sold them in South Africa in the 1890s. Dion Fortune, arguably the leading occultist of the twentieth century, recommended Anna’s esoteric works. Uncounted mystics, theosophists, and other seekers of enlightenment have benefited from Anna’s writings. She also has an honoured place in the histories of vegetarianism and animal welfare.
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky