This is a special edition, autographed by the Managing Editor.
EDITOR'S NOTE
Hiram E. Butler was born in Onieda County, New York on 29 Jul 1841. After a stint in the Army, he had migrated to Boston in 1885 for a short time wherein he gave lectures on a variety of metaphysical subjects to the Esoteric Society of Boston. Butler would not remain long in Boston and had moved to Applegate, California.
There, he founded the Esoteric Fraternity on a five-hundred-acre homestead, building an 18-room house for him and his fraternity members in 1887. They established a farm for self-sufficiency as well as a printing press.
Butler published several interesting books such as "The Seven Creative Principles" and his most recognized work, "Solar Biology" in which he simplified astrology by basing horoscopes on sun and moon signs.
We have compiled his speeches to the Esoteric Society of Boston as well as some papers he wrote on various topics, sprinkled throughout. We found his work quite interesting in an exoteric sense and believe it would be just as interesting to the general public.
Butler passed away on 3 Nov 1916 in Applegate at the age of 75.
6 x 9 Trade Hardcover, Page Count: 140
IB+SBN: 979-8-88556-047-4
Book Contents
INTRODUCTION 11
MAN AND HIS CAPABILITIES 13
Delivered to the Society of Esoteric Culture, Boston Mass. 1887
THE POWER OF CREATIVE THOUGHT 24
Delivered before the Society for Esoteric Culture, of Boston 1887
WHO SHOULD STUDY ESOTERIC SCIENCE 36
A Lecture delivered before the Society for Esoteric Culture 1887
IN HIM WAS LIFE, AND THE LIFE
WAS THE LIGHT OF MAN 46
THE MYSTERY OF SIN 58
Delivered before the Society for Esoteric Culture, of Boston
GOD RULES 67
Delivered before the Society for Esoteric Culture, of Boston
I KNOW I KNOW 78
Delivered before the Society Esoteric of Boston
THE MIND OF WISDOM 88
Delivered before the Society of Esoteric of Boston
UNITY OF DESIRE 97
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RACE 102
Delivered before the Society Esoteric of Boston
IMMORTALITY; CAN IT BE
OBTAINED WITHOUT DEATH 111
AN OPEN LETTER
SUGGESTIONS OF THOUGHT FOR MUSINGS 113
SIGNS OF THE TIMES 117
FAITH IN GOD 122
THE COMING KINGDOM 129
AUTHOR AND MANAGING EDITOR 135
BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR 136
THE ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR 137