BIOGRAPHY OF
H.B. JEFFERY 
by, Nell Truesdell

     Harley Bradley Jeffery was born January 26, 1872, in Syracuse,New York, to George Adams Jeffery and  Ellen Clapp Jeffery. His  father worked in the printing trade, starting as compositor for the  Syracuse Herald; his mother was a member of the Missionary Society of the Christian Church. Harley was followed by two brothers: Haswell Clark Jeffery, born in  1873, and  James Clapp Jeffery, in 1876. The three boys were baptized into the Christian  Church, which they attended regularly. H.B. Jeffery graduate from high school in Syracuse and  then  went to work with a leading architectural office in the city. Later he went into partnership with an architect and still later went into the construction business for himself. He specialized in building private homes and housing projects.
       About 1903 Mr. Jeffery met Dr. Charles Brodie Patterson, a   member of     the Royal Society of Arts, Letters, and Sciences of Great Britain, who was doing healing work in New York City and giving a  series of lectures on what then was the new subject of “metaphysics.”  Dr. Patterson was so impressed by Mr. Jeffery that he asked him to  join him in the work. As Dr. Patterson’s lectures became more and  more time consuming, the ministry fell more and more to  Mr. Jeffery; and when Dr. Patterson returned to England, Mr. Jeffery took over his healing ministry in New York and opened a second office in  Philadelphia. Mr.Jeffery did specialized work in philosophy at Harvard University and Columbia; he also studied metaphysics with Dr. James Porter Mills of London.  About 1905 he met Mrs. Emma Curtis  Hopkins, the “teacher of teachers.” He worked with her in  producing her classic “High Mysticism”; and about 1910 and 1911 he gave a  series of lectures  in England and Europe on “High Mysticism.” In England Mr. Jeffery became acquainted with Sir  Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister, and with  Judge Troward; for a time he helped Judge Troward in his spiritual work. When Mr. Jeffery  returned  to the United States, he resumed his healing practice, and he was more and more in demand as a lecturer throughout the country. He died on January 19, 1954, in Santa Monica, California, where he was giving a series of talks. For fifty years he had engaged in healing, counseling, and speaking. At the demand of students, he had written  eight books, the copyrights of which are held by the Christ Truth League of Fort Worth, Texas.