To The Reader : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. vii TO THE READER. He that thinks to know the contents of this book by glancing through it, will know nothing about it. To the literary critic we would say that there has been no effort toward literary excellence, but the effort has been to obt...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxii : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 290 CHAPTER XXII. EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. PART II. In the chapter on "The Image and the Likeness" we have portrayed the high plane designed by the Divine Purpose for the people at the closing cycle of the Christian era. Many after reading...
Chapter Xv. The Miraculous Conception : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 180 CHAPTER XV. THE MIRACULOUS CONCEPTION The reader has no doubt inferred from what has been said that in order to have a correct knowledge of Jesus, his mission and our relation to him as our Savior, it is absolutely essential to believe that he...
Chapter Viii. The Likeness Of God. Three Steps : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 219 CHAPTER XVIII. THE LIKENESS OF GOD. "THREE STEPS". In the preceding chapter we viewed man as dependent upon the earth and being "of the earth, earthy," and also in some of his relations to the Divine Likeness. We shall now consider some...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxiv : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 320 CHAPTER XXIV. EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. PART IV. "Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." If we are members of the church, or the children of church members, we have been taught from our early childhood...
Chapter Xix. The Likeness Of God. Man Becoming : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 234 CHAPTER XIX. THE LIKENESS OF GOD. "MAN BECOMING YAHVEH ELOHIM". In Established Theology there have been two great points of conflict, between "Predestination" or "Foreordination," on the one hand, and what is known as "Free-Agency"...
Chapter Xx. The Image And The Likeness : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 249 CHAPTER XX. THE IMAGE AND THE LIKENESS. In bringing before your minds this wonderful ultimate of the purpose of God in the creation of the world and of its inhabitants, man, the most that we can do is to call your attention to certain laws...
Chapter V. Evolution : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 35 CHAPTER V. EVOLUTION. There are many difficulties in the way of the universal acceptance of evolution as an established fact, as an obvious law of nature; and, at the foundation of these difficulties, is the Christian belief, which underlies our...
Chapter Viii. The Great Name, Yahveh : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 85 CHAPTER VIII. THE GREAT NAME, Yahveh. We have seen in preceding chapters that the physicists have searched diligently into the character and nature of matter from a physical standpoint; but in their last analysis, viz., their investigations...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxiii : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 306 CHAPTER XXIII. EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. PART III. The prophet said, "Lord, thou wilt ordain peace for us: for thou also hast wrought all our works in us." While this in itself is true, yet there is another side to it, the purpose being...
Title Page : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. i THE GOAL OF LIFE OR SCIENCE AND REVELATION BY H. E. BUTLER Author Of Seven Creative Principles, Solar Biology, Narrow Way Of Attainment, Practical Methods, Et Al. Knowing is transcendently above all attributes. Reason is the dividing line between...
Chapter Xvii. The Likeness Of God. The Office : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 206 CHAPTER XVII. THE LIKENESS OF GOD "THE OFFICE OF THE CHRIST". The mystery of the ages is involved in the consummating of the purpose of God--to make man in his "image" and "likeness", in the preparing of man to become heir of God and joint-heir...
Chapter Vi. Other Worlds Than Ours : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 50 CHAPTER VI. OTHER WORLDS THAN OURS. A subject of so vast proportions as the title of this chapter indicates, naturally suggests exhaustive study of the investigations of scientists, ancient and modern; but for the sake of brevity, and because...
Preface : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. iv PREFACE. Our excuse for offering this book to the world in a time when books have become a drug on the market, will be found in the following: In the history of Christianity we believe that knowledge of God and of the Christ has never been so...
Chapter Ii. The Existence Of Higher Faculties : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 12 CHAPTER II. THE EXISTENCE OF HIGHER FACULTIES. Man in his developing has become overbalanced in the direction of the reasoning faculties, and, as suggested in the preceding chapter, the harmony of a well-rounded maturity demands th...
Chapter Xvi. The Image Of God : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 192 CHAPTER XVI. THE IMAGE OF GOD We read in Genesis i. 27, that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." If we are to consider "The Image of God" in man, as the physical expression or form of man, then we must...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxv. Part V : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 328 CHAPTER XXV. EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. PART V. In view of the fact that God is the Creator of all things, it follows that it is the same Mind working under all circumstances that continues to work in the higher spheres, even...
Chapter Xiii. Jesus Of The Order Of Melchisedek : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 155 CHAPTER XIII. JESUS OF THE ORDER OF MELCHISEDEK In the preceding chapter we considered references in early Biblical history to the physical manifestation of the Order of Melchisedek. The unequivocal declaration in Hebrews that Jesus was of th...
Chapter Xi. The Elohim : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 122 CHAPTER XI. THE ELOHIM It was the Elohim that the Lord Jesus called his Father, and he made the astonishing statement that "no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the S...
Untitled : * Hiram Butler, a 19th Century American occultist best known (if at all) for the book Solar Biology, started the Esoteric Society in Boston in the late 1880s. He fled Boston in 1891 after a murky dispute with the better-known Theosophical Society. He ended up in Applegate, California, a small town...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxvi : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 344 CHAPTER XXVI. EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW. PART VI. PRAYER. In bringing the thought of Yahveh, the God of the universe, the Formless Former of all things, and his manifestation in Elohim, to the mind of the public, it is apt to cause confusi...
Chapter Vii. The Immensity Of The Universe : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 72 CHAPTER VII. THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast ordained; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him?" Some little...
The Personal Application : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 266 p. 267 THE PERSONAL APPLICATION p. 268 p. 269 "We introduce the following chapters to aid those whose minds are reaching out for methods by which to attain the ultimate that has been set forth in this work. We have not attempted to give...
Chapter Iii. Reason And Religion : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 20 CHAPTER III. REASON AND RELIGION. In considering the underlying and causative principles governing the two factors that give power, the one, the "Reason," or the intellect, and the other, the sentiment that we call "Religion," we necessarily...
Logical Structure Of This Work : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. iii LOGICAL STRUCTURE OF THIS WORK. The facts in nature are the foundation out of which all consciousness and knowledge grow. Science is the outgrowth of these facts through careful investigation and study. Revelation is facts derived...
Chapter X. Mind Centers : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 113 CHAPTER X. MIND-CENTERS We read in Genesis that "God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him." We know that the image of a thing is the form, the general order, the construction, the external appearance, of that thing...
Chapter Iv. Conscience : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 29 CHAPTER IV. CONSCIENCE. This selfhood, this consciousness that is conscious without the effort of thinking, this something that is the man, that thinks without his volition, this vital-principle, we must admit, has been derived...
Chapter Xii. The Eternal Order Of Melchisedek : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 135 CHAPTER XII. THE ETERNAL ORDER OF MELCHISEDEK Before proceeding directly to the evidence in the Bible of the existence of this Eternal Order, we make the following statement: We find evidences from the beginning of Genesis to the time of Christ...
Exit From The Old To The New. Chapter Xxi. Part I : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 270 p. 271 EXIT FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW CHAPTER XXI. PART I. Our Lord Jesus said, "Narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few be they that find it." No doubt since the time of Christ, these words have brought...
Chapter Ix. The Manifestation Of Yahveh : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 97 CHAPTER IX. THE MANIFESTATION OF YAHVEH. In the preceding chapter we considered the great name "Yahveh, I will be what I will to be," from its historic point of view. We will now endeavor to consider it in its manifestation in, and in its...
Chapter Xiv. The Angels Of God : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 167 CHAPTER XIV. THE ANGELS OF GOD The foregoing presentation of an idea of God within reach of the reasonable conception of the human mind, should bring to us a joy in the realization that God is not a myth, an incomprehensible something...
Chapter I. Development : * "The Goal of Life", by Hiram Butler, [1908], p. 1 THE GOAL OF LIFE OR SCIENCE AND REVELATION CHAPTER I. DEVELOPMENT. The beginnings of organized life act from instinct without brain-power to define and guide the impulse. The insect moves about apparently without aim, a little way in one...
