Walter Ernest Butler

Walter Ernest Butler (* 1898 ; † 1978 ) was an English parapsychologist , magician , occultist and writer .

Butler, known by his friends as "Ernie", was born in East Yorkshire to an extended family with many siblings. In England he devoted himself to occult studies as a member of Dion Fortune's Fraternity of the Inner Light , in which he was initiated in 1930 . Butler was also a student of parapsychologist Robert King .

In 1965, Butler founded the occult school "Servants of the Light School of Occult Science", or SOL for short. Until shortly before his death he was the first director of studies at SOL

His books are still considered classics in the field of occultism in professional circles .

Works

English:

• How to Develop Clairvoyance .
• How to Read the Aura and Practice Psychometry, Telepathy, and Clairvoyance .
• Magic and Qabalah .
• Magic It's Ritual Power and Purpose .
• Practical Magic and The Western Mystery Tradition .
• The Magician: His Training and Work .
• The Path to Magical Attainment .

German:

• The aura - seeing and interpreting . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937392-58-5 .
• Clairvoyance - The way to extra-sensory perception . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937392-60-8 .
• Telepathy - The Secrets of Spiritual Communication . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-937392-59-2 .
• Magical Lessons - The Master and His Disciple . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937392-63-9 .
• Holy Magic - The Master's Path of Light . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937392-81-3 .
• The magical Kabbalah - the gates of light . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937392-64-6 .
• The Magic - The Practice Book of the Magician . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-937392-82-0 .
• Psychometry - reading and understanding the aura of objects medially . Aurinia Verlag, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-937392-88-2 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Walter Ernest Butler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Walter E. Butler at Servants Of the Light School of Occult Science

Other sources

• Helmut Werner: Lexicon of esotericism .