Manly Palmer Hall

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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, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, published in 1928^[1][2]when he was just 27 years old.

He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, and the occult.

Carl Jung, when writing Psychology and Alchemy, borrowed material from Hall's private collection.

In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, dedicating it to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems.

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,^[3][4]), despite never being initiated into the physical craft.^[5]

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.

[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
• 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],
• Essays
  • ATLANTIS, An Interpretation
  • Symbolic Essays
  • Noah and His Wonderful Ark

The references in this article would be clearer with a different or consistent style of citation, footnoting, or external linking.

[edit] References

1. ^ Sub Rosa Magazine - Issue 6, October 2006, includes a profile of Hall that mentions a "sole biographical record" called Growing Up With Grandmother; ISBN 0893144207.
2. ^ Manly P Hall, "The Secret Teachings of All Ages , The Diamond Jubilee Edition" ISBN 0-89314-830-X, page VI
3. ^ MPH Biography
4. ^ Manly P. Hall's Obituary, Scottish Rite Journal, November, 1990, p. 22. [1]. (Note: archives don't go back this far so this reference is in question. However, the Philosophical Research Society Manly Palmer Hall biography states this (word-for-word) except the text on this page claimed the 33º was the second highest honor, which has since been corrected. The Supreme Council - Is It True What They Say About Freemasonry? - The Methods of Anti-Masons questions Hall's Mason authority status.
5. ^ (Hall, The Lost Keys of Fremasonry p. 6)

[edit] External links

• The Manly P. Hall Archive
• Hall, Manly P. The Lost Keys of Freemasonry. New York: Penguin Books, 2006. Originally published 1923.
• Library of Congress holdings
• Philosophical Research Society - Manly Palmer Hall biography
• The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
• - The Secret Teachings Of All Ages at sacred-texts.com