Hiram E. Butler Exoteric Christianity

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>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. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Butler passed away on 3 Nov 1916 in Applegate at the age of 75.</span></p>