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Manly P. Hall Quotes

1901–1990 Canada

Manly Palmer Hall (18 March 1901 – 28 August 1990) was a Canadian-born American 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 (1928).

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Also known as: Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of all Ages

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Philosophy is the science of estimating values.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship?

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry (1923)

The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

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.

Think on These Things (1998)

The alchemical tradition assumes that every physical art or science is a body of knowledge which exists only because it is ensouled by invisible powers and processes.

Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism (1988)

European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

The yoni and phallus were worshiped by nearly all ancient people as appropriate symbols of God's creative power.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

It was also believed that snakes swallowed themselves, and this resulted in their being considered emblematic of the Supreme Creator who periodically reabsorbed His Universe back to Himself.

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients.

The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

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