Manly Hall
In 1928, Manly Palmer Hall published The Secret Teachings of All Ages, the work most closely identified with his name across his career as a writer, mystic, philosopher, and astrologer.
Born on 18 March 1901 in Peterborough, Hall held Canadian citizenship and wrote in English. His notable works include The Lost Keys of Freemasonry, The Secret Destiny of America, and Spiritual Centers in Man, each produced across a career that placed him within the overlapping fields of mysticism, philosophy, and astrology. The Secret Teachings of All Ages, first published in 1928, stands as the title the facts most firmly associate with his name.
Hall was also connected to the Philosophical Research Society, which appears among his notable works alongside his published writings. As a writer, mystic, philosopher, and astrologer, he worked in the English language and produced a body of texts addressing esoteric and philosophical subjects.
Hall died on 29 August 1990 in Los Angeles, at the age of eighty-nine. Among all the titles connected to his name, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, first issued in 1928, remains the work the record identifies most directly with his output as a writer and mystic.
Quotes by Manly Hall
Manly Hall's insights on:
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man’s destructive tendencies.
Khem was an ancient name for the land of Egypt; and both the words alchemy and chemistry are a perpetual reminder of the priority of Egypt’s scientific knowledge.
Man’s status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.
We can only escape from the world by outgrowing the world. Death may take man out of the world but only wisdom can take the world out of the man. As long as the human being is obsessed by worldliness, he will suffer from the Karmic consequences of false allegiances. When however, worldliness is transmuted into Spiritual Integrity he is free, even though he still dwells physically among worldly things.
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
This tree is indeed a Tree of Life, for without the higher and finer sentiments man does not life; he merely exists. If any branch of that tree does not bear fruit, the Master tells us that it shall be cut off and cast into the fire. It is the duty of all living things to produce some truly constructive labor as recognition of the divine life which is within them. God is most glorified when His children glorify His spirit within themselves.