THE ESOTERIC: A MAGAZINE OF ADVANCED AND PRACTICAL ESOTERIC THOUGHT
Book Details + Condition: Esoteric Publishing Company (Boston). First Edition, 1888. Scarce. Hardcover with marbled boards. 466 pages. Illustrated, and also includes timely advertisements. Volume 1 includes 12 individual monthly publications, ranging from July 1887 to June 1888. Illustrated. THE ESOTERIC ran from 1887 - 1889, and was a monthly magazine focused on a variety of occult topics, including astrology and supernatural phenomena, as well as broader subjects like philosophy, religion, psychology, and more. Edited by Hiram Erastus Butler and featuring writings by various well-known occult authors.
The author and editor, Hiram Erastus Butler (1841-1916) was a logger turned cult leader. "Butler emerged as a spiritual guru in Boston after a 14 year hiatus from public following the chopping off of a few fingers while logging. He was known by various names such as Adhy-apaka, alias the Hellenic Ethnomedon, and Enphoron, alias the Greco-Tibetan, Ens-movens, Om mane padmi Aum. His efforts to found an esoteric college failed under the attacks by Blavatsky and the Theosophists, leading to his arrest. In 1891, Butler moved with his followers and his magazine from Boston to Applegate, California, settling on 500 acre homestead where he continued to print and publish his own works. His most famous book was Solar Biology, a simplified astrological method for horoscopes which is still somewhat influential." [From a Peruse The Stacks review] Topics covered in this volume include:
- Immortality: Can It be Obtained Without Death?
- The Deathless City
- Philosophy of Astral Spectres
- Practical Instructions For Reaching the Highest Goal of Human Attainment
- The Sunlight of the Soul
- Solar Biology Versus Astrology
- Theosophy
- Man's Cyclic Unfoldment and New Birth
- Exercises for the Development of Will Power, Psychic Development and Aura
- A Psychic Circle
- Key to the Spiritual World
- The Art of Healing
- Instruction in Mental Healing
- Thoughts are Things
- What is the Aura
- Twelve Manners of People
- Esoteric Meditations
- Occultism with the American Indians
- Wherein Does the New Heaven Differ From Nirvana or Devachan
- And more.
Interior hinges cracked, but binding remains firm; rubbing to boards, corners and edges; wear to boards; binding tape to spine; antique Weiser and other bookseller stickers to inside boards; small inked number to ffep, which has chipping to edges; toning to pages; interior is clean and free of markings.
