Hall, Manly Palmer

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^[1][2] when he was 27 years old.

It is claimed that Hall was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco in 1953, although he was not raised as a Mason until 22 November 1954 into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , San Francisco. He later received his 32° in the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ).^[3] In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33° Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite), at a ceremony held at the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) on December 8, 1973^[4][5]). The definitive Manly Palmer Hall Archive states that Hall received the 33°, "despite never being initiated into the physical craft."^[6]

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. He appears in the introduction to the 1938 film WHEN WERE YOU BORN, a murder mystery that uses astrology as a key plot point.

[edit] Philosophical Research Society

In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, a profit orientated organization dedicated to the study of religion, mythology, metaphysics, and the occult.^[7] PRS maintains a research library of over 50,000 volumes,^[8] and also sells and publishes metaphysical and spiritual books, mostly those authored by Hall.^[9]

[edit] Works

• Selected Major Works
  • The Secret Teachings of All Ages, 1928 PRS
  • Meditation Symbols In Eastern & Western Mysticism-Mysteries of the Mandala, The Philosophical Research Society,Inc.,1988. ISBN 0-89314-543-2
  • The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry, 1923
• Other Books & Texts
  • • LECTURES ON ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY: An Introduction to Practical Ideals
    • The Adepts Series PRS
  • Lady of Dreams: A fable in the manner of the Chinese (Los Angeles, 1943)
  • THE BLESSED ANGELS: A Monograph
  • Lectures on Ancient Philosophy—An Introduction to the Study and Application of Rational Procedure, The Hall Publishing Company, Los Angeles, First Edition, 1929, Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins (chapter 19)
  • Introduction to Max Heindel's Blavatsky and The Secret Doctrine, 1933 [2],
  • The Secret Destiny of America (Los Angelas, 1944)
  • America's Assignment with Destiny (Los Angelas, 1994)
• Journals
  • Catalogs of articles in The All-Seeing Eye, Horizon, and PRS Journal [3]
• Essays
  • ATLANTIS, An Interpretation
  • Symbolic Essays
  • Noah and His Wonderful Ark
  • The Fraternity of the Rosecross From: The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall. PRS., 1928 ^{www.fraternidaderosacruz.org}

[edit] See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Sahagun, Louis (2008). Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall. Process. ISBN 193417002X. 

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