W E Butler
Walter Ernest Butler (1898-1978), Born in East Yorkshire and thought to have been raised by his grandparents, He was a working occultist and esoteric author. His first training in the mysteries was with Robert King, a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church, who trained him as a medium. Butler later became a priest in the Liberal Catholic Church, himself. While serving with teh British Army in India, he studied with Indian mystics and also came into contact with Theosophist mystic Annie Besant, who politely rejected his requests to study with her, She told Walter to return to England and look for the “lady with the roses”. Upon his return to England he joined Dion Fortune’s Society of the Inner Light in 1925, where he continued to train and participate until sometime toward the end of World War II.
In 1962 Walter met Gareth Knight and began to develop a correspondence course in Qabalah for Helios Books. During this time Walter rejoined the Society of the Inner Light, where he met Michael Nowicki and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki. By 1973, the Helios Course in the Practical Qabalah had grown in popularity and was spun off to form the Servants of the Light, for which Walter was the first Director of Studies. He remained director of studies until shortly before his death, when he passed that responsibility to Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki.
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