Throughout this time Dresser was writing and publishing. In 1896 he began the publication of a monthly magazine, Journal of Practical Metaphysics, with the avowed principle of

"being helpful in the conduct of life,
to prepare the way for a better, more harmonious, rational, and ethical life, and to derive this help from all the resources of human thought."

He welcomed all to share who

"believe that the time has come to place the study of mind in its relation to health and happiness upon a firm scientific basis."

The magazine was published only until November, 1898, when it was merged with Arena, and Dresser became associate editor of this influential magazine.

Soon Horation followed his popular book The Power of Silence with The Perfect Whole, and by 1897 a publisher published major extracts from those two books under the title The Heart of It, the same year Horation publisched In Search of a Soul. In 1898 came Voices of Hope; in 1899, Voices of Freedom and Methods and Problems of Spiritual Healing; in 1900, Living by the Spirit, and Education and the Philosophic Ideal. At thirty-four years of age Horation was writing and editing magazine articles, was a major New Thought writer, yet was also active in the Boston Metaphysical Club and the International Metaphysical League.