Manly Palmer Hall

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Manly Palmer Hall (born March 18, 1901 in Peterborough , Ontario , † August 29, 1990 in Los Angeles ) was a Canadian author , mystic and founder of the Philosophical Research Society. He is known for his 1928 work "The Secret Teachings of All Ages". Over a period of more than 70 years, Hall gave around 8,000 lectures and wrote, in addition to various newspaper articles, more than 150 books and essays. Since 2016, there has been a work by him in German for the first time with The Initials of the Flame . This work was followed by "Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire" and the "Star Lore of Babylon".

Life

Painting by Jens Rusch

Hall's parents were dentist William S. Hall and chiropractor Louise Palmer Hall. In 1919, Hall, who had never known his father, moved his maternal grandmother from Canada to Los Angeles to meet his birth mother, who lived in Santa Monica . Meeting his mother and Sydney J. Brownson sparked his interest in mysticism , esoteric philosophies and the principles underlying them. It was Brownson, a phrenologist who soon emerged as a mentor to the fledgling Hall, and less than a year later Hall gave his first lecture on reincarnation .

In 1919, the Church of the People accepted him as a preacher at the Trinity Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles. He was informed about "comparative religion , philosophy, sociology and psychology " and "was seemingly overnight ... for extensive source of an amazing selection of eclectic , spiritual materials that both the mind , and with the subconscious mind in resonance stand. " He was ordained a priest in the Church of the People on May 17, 1923 , and "was elected permanent pastor of the ward a few days later ."

His first publications were two small brochures, "The Breastplate of the High Priest" (1920) and "Wands and Serpents". Between 1921 and 1923 he wrote three books: The Initiates of the Flame (October 1922), The Ways of the Lonely Ones (1922) and The Lost Keys of Freemasonry (March 1923).

In the early 1920s, Carolyn Lloyd and her daughter Estelle - members of a family who owned a valuable oil field in Ventura County , California - began "transferring a significant portion of their oil revenues to Hall," which used the money to travel and acquire an extensive personal library of ancient literature. Hall's "first trip around the world to study the life, manners and religions of countries in Asia and Europe ," which began on December 5, 1923, was paid for by donations from Carolyn Lloyd and his community.

In 1928 he published An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy: Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals , Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages, better known as The Secret Teachings of All Ages "The most important books that followed are The Dionysian Artificers (1936), Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians (1937), and Masonic Orders of Fraternity (1950).

Hall had been a member of the Federation of Freemasonry since June 28, 1954 (Jewel Lodge No. 374, San Francisco). A year later he became a member of the Scottish Rite . On December 8, 1973, he was honored by the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry for the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States of America with the 33rd degree of General Inspector.

The Secret Teachings of all Ages

Hall was best known and valued as a lecturer and interpreter of the ancient scriptures and the most useful and practical elements of classical idealism , which he successfully availed through advertising and word of mouth for the means to fund the book, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. The original cost of publication in 1928 is estimated at $ 150,000, although the price of individual copies varied. According to the original subscription terms on the Philosophic Research Society files , the issues were sold by subscription of $ 75 on a pre-release basis, but "the price of that issue after it was delivered to the printer will have been one hundred dollars." Among the subscription conditions 15 US dollars were paid as upfront payments, and were considered "compensation sixty dollars in four equal monthly payments ever." The H. S. Crocker Company in San Francisco said he wanted to publish the book, "if Hall's interest the book designer John Henry Nash, who once worked as a printer for the Vatican. "

After The Secret Teachings of All Ages was published, Hall “went from just another seriously young preacher in the City of Angels to an icon of the increasingly influential spiritual movement that overran the country in the 1920s. His book challenged the assumptions about that the spiritual roots of society and made people see it in a new way. " He dedicated The Secret Teachings of all Ages "the proposition that within the emblematic figures, allegories and rituals of antiquity a secret teaching about the inner secrets of life is hidden, and that this whole teaching has been preserved among a small group of initiated spirits. " One author put it: "The result was of mythical creatures who climb out of the sea a wonderful, wonderful book mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful illustrations, angelic beings with lion heads that, in torches lit temples of the cultures of our ancestors gloomy initiation rites conduct and who had mastered hidden powers beyond the reach of modern man. "Hall himself wrote in 1988:" The greatest knowledge of all time should not only be written in small print in the twentieth century and shabbily bound in a shilling edition of the Bohn library , but in a book that would be a memorial instead of a coffin . John Henry Nash agreed with me ".

literature

  • Louis Sahagun : Master of the Mysteries . Process, Port Townsend 2008, ISBN 978-1-934170-02-1 .
  • Manly P. Hall, Jimmy Deix: The Initiates of the Flame. 2016, ISBN 978-3-9524616-0-0 . (German first publication of "The Initiates of the Flame")
  • Manly P. Hall, Jimmy Deix: The Mystery of Fire. 2017, ISBN 978-3-9524616-1-7 . (German translation of "Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts")

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Manly P. Hall: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy: Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages. (= Diamond Jubilee ed. ). The Philosophical Research Society, Los Angeles, California 1988, ISBN 0-89314-830-X . (Reprint of the 1928 edition)
  2. ↑ Manly Palmer Hall. Retrieved August 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Manly Palmer Hall - The Mystery of Fire. Accessed November 15, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Manly Palmer Hall - Babylonian astronomy. Accessed November 15, 2019 (German).
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Louis Sahagun: Master of the Mysteries: The Life of Manly Palmer Hall. Process Media, Port Townsend, Washington 2006.
  6. ^ William R. Denslow, 10,000 Famous Freemasons, vol. 2nd, Grand Lodge of California records
  7. ^ Royal Arch Mason Magazine, 1958. p. 165. Missouri Lodge of Research / Educational Bureau
  8. ↑ PRS Journal Spring 1974
  9. ↑ Several original subscription records were discovered on August 6, 2012 by Edie Shapiro, Librarian for the Philosophical Research Society. Ms. Shapiro stated, "It appears that the price was $ 50, $ 75, or $ 100 (or free as the case may be)," so it will not be possible to reconstruct an accurate record of the cost.
  10. ↑ Manly P. Hall: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy: Being an Interpretation of the Secret Teachings concealed within the Rituals, Allegories and Mysteries of all Ages . Subscribers' edition. HS Crocker & Co. , San Francisco, California 1928 ( sacred-texts.com ).
  11. ↑ Manly P. Hall: The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Reader's Edition. Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penguin, New York 2003, ISBN 1-58542-250-9 .
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Manly Palmer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian author and mystic
DATE OF BIRTH March 18, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Peterborough , Ontario , Canada
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1990
Place of death Los Angeles , United States