Destiny Publishers is a small publishing company that publishes and sells the Ferrar Fenton Bible

Ferrar Fenton Bible

The Holy Bible in Modern English, commonly known as the Ferrar Fenton Bible, was one of the earliest translations of the Bible into "modern English" .-Origins:...

, some Apocryphal

Biblical apocrypha

The word "apocrypha" is today often used to refer to the collection of ancient books printed in some editions of the Bible in a separate section between the Old and New Testaments...

 scriptures, a few books on miscellaneous topics such as chemurgy

Chemurgy

Chemurgy is a branch of applied chemistry that is concerned with preparing industrial products from agricultural raw materials. The word "chemurgy" was coined by chemist William J. Hale and first publicized in his 1934 book The Farm Chemurgic, the concept was mildly well-developed by the early...

 and pyramidology

Pyramidology

Pyramidology is a term used, sometimes disparagingly, to refer to various pseudoscientific speculations regarding pyramids, most often the Giza Necropolis and the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt...

, and most notably several books on British Israelism

British Israelism

British Israelism is the belief that people of Western European descent, particularly those in Great Britain, are the direct lineal descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The concept often includes the belief that the British Royal Family is directly descended from the line of King David...

, many of them by Howard B. Rand. They are based in Merrimac, Massachusetts

Merrimac, Massachusetts

Merrimac is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States, and on the southeastern border of New Hampshire, approximately northeast of Boston and west of the Atlantic Ocean. It is situated along the north bank of the Merrimack River in the Merrimack Valley. The population was 6,504 in 2008...

.

History

Howard Benjamin Rand, a lawyer, inventor, and three-time candidate for Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 state office on the Prohibition Party

Prohibition Party

The Prohibition Party is a political party in the United States best known for its historic opposition to the sale or consumption of alcoholic beverages. It is the oldest existing third party in the US. The party was an integral part of the temperance movement...

 ticket, headed the former Anglo-Saxon Federation of America

Anglo-Saxon Federation of America

The Anglo-Saxon Federation of America, founded in 1933, is the oldest and largest group in the British Israelism movement.In 1928, Howard B. Rand, a lawyer and Bible student, started conducting a small Anglo-Saxon group in his house. In 1933, he met W. J...

, a British Israelist group. He served from 1937 to 1968 as editor of its Destiny Publishers, which put out Destiny magazine (distinct from the magazine of the same name about Black culture). Boston Globe 1991