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Heretic · 11-15-2008, 01:56 AM

Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, published in 1928 when he was 27 years old.

He was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco in 1953, although he was not raised until 22 November 1954 into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , San Francisco. He later received his 32° in the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ). In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33º Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite), at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8th.

In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles.

In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, metaphysics, and the occult.[6] PRS maintains a research library of over 50,000 volumes, and also sells and publishes metaphysical & spiritual books, mostly those authored by Hall.

Selected Major Works

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), Meditation Symbols In Eastern & Western Mysticism-Mysteries of the Mandala, The Philosophical Research Society,Inc.,1988.

Other Books & Texts

LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: An Introduction to Practical Ideals, The Adepts Series, Lady of Dreams: A fable in the manner of the Chinese, THE BLESSED ANGELS: A Monograph, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy—An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure, Introduction to Max Heindel's Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine, 1933

Essays
ATLANTIS, An Interpretation, Symbolic Essays, Noah and His Wonderful Ark

Links between this movement and early secret societies?

11-15-2008, 01:56 AM	#8
Heretic Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Now Posts: 371	Re: Are Our Religious Idea's Our Own? Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, published in 1928 when he was 27 years old. He was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco in 1953, although he was not raised until 22 November 1954 into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , San Francisco. He later received his 32° in the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ). In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33º Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite), at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8th. In his over 70-year career, Hall delivered approximately 8,000 lectures in the United States and abroad, authored over 150 books and essays, and wrote countless magazine articles. In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, a non-profit foundation dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, metaphysics, and the occult.[6] PRS maintains a research library of over 50,000 volumes, and also sells and publishes metaphysical & spiritual books, mostly those authored by Hall. Selected Major Works The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), Meditation Symbols In Eastern & Western Mysticism-Mysteries of the Mandala, The Philosophical Research Society,Inc.,1988. Other Books & Texts LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: An Introduction to Practical Ideals, The Adepts Series, Lady of Dreams: A fable in the manner of the Chinese, THE BLESSED ANGELS: A Monograph, Lectures on Ancient Philosophy—An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure, Introduction to Max Heindel's Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine, 1933 Essays ATLANTIS, An Interpretation, Symbolic Essays, Noah and His Wonderful Ark Links between this movement and early secret societies?