Thomas H. Burgoyne was born in Scotland on April 14, 1855. He grew up a gifted psychic and later became an ardent student of Hermetic Philosophy. After emigrating to the USA at the age of twenty-five, he met Norman Astley, who was himself an accomplished occultist. Impressed by the depth of Burgoyne's esoteric understanding, Astley persuaded him to set down his knowledge in a series of lessons. The Light of Egypt Vol 1, published in 1889, is the...