Manly Palmer Hall 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 when he was 27 years old. He was made a knight patron of the Masonic Research Group of San Francisco in 1953, although he was not initiated until the 22nd of November 1954 into Jewel Lodge No. 374 , in San Francisco.
He later received his 32° degree in the Valley of San Francisco AASR (SJ). 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 of Freemasons), at a ceremony held on December 8th. 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. If your into the mysticism of ancient cultures and subjects like Alchemy, spanning from Egypt to India, Manly P Hall is recognized as the author whose books it is you should read.
His work is rather extensive and he delves into some very deep subject matter...
For example, some of his theories are as follows:
1. THE ORIGIN OF THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL
World democracy was the secret dream of the great classical philosophers. Thousands of years before Columbus they were aware of the existence of our Western Hemisphere and selected it to be the site of the philosophic empire. The brilliant plan of the Ancients has survived to our time, and it will continue to function until the great work is accomplished. The American nation desperately needs a vision of its own purpose.
2. THE WORLD'S FIRST DEMOCRAT
The leader who had the first social consciousness in the administration of a nation was a Pharaoh of Egypt, Akhnaton...born several thousand years too soon, he was the first realist in democracy, the first humanitarian, the first internationalist. He saw that the duty of the ruler is to protect for all the right to live well, to think, to dream, to hope, and to aspire. For his dream of the Brotherhood of Man he cheerfully gave his life.
Lecture: Alchemy as a Key to Social Regeneration Pt 1/5
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