Manly P Hall Quotes

Manly P Hall Quotes.
41. "This surrender seems a very strange and difficult thing for us to understand. And yet, just as the life of man
here in this world can suddenly be greatly altered by a strong affection, so his total life can be greatly and
permanently altered by a supreme affection, which is the love of God as the embodiment or personification of
man’s love of truth. He discovers, for example, that as this mystery unfolds within his own nature, what we call
the end of knowledge is strangely and wonderfully attained in itself. Man becomes internally appreciative of true
value."
- Manly P. Hall, The Dark Night of the Soul: Man's Instinctive Search for Reality
42. "San Juan points out that the two great enemies of integration within man are his mind and his emotions."
43. "Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that
strange dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of
God. This silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the
dynamic silence of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds
forever fashioning."
44. "And in this great struggle to survive as an individual entity, the soul burdens itself with all the errors and
illusions of mortality. Thus it happens that though men believe in God and in a universe of infinite benevolence,
they still live in fear and constant anxiety, being far more inclined to cling to this flesh to the last possible
moment, than to take a chance of going into the unknown, even though they accept it intellectually as a better
state. Thus the struggle for the preservation of the known causes man’s greatest confusion, for it causes him
to cling to the evils he now has, rather than to fly to others he knows not of. There is a total lack of the true
faith and insight that enable man to move out into space, realizing that this space is God, and that there cannot,
therefore, be any evil thing in it. By faith, man should know that as surely as he himself exists, so surely is his
existence essentially good, if he knows how to attain this goodness; and the evil of his existence is in his own
fears and uncertainties. He is not really in danger of losing anything real, but only what he has fashioned
himself, which has no foundation in reality."
45. "San Juan points out that the life of mysticism begins with this great love which in itself overcomes all
confusion, both of the soul and of the body. He says that the dark journey of the soul is man’s soul gradually
striving toward its goal, which is the pure and complete power to love. For as the mind gives man the power of
reason, so the psychic life gives him the power of perpetual emotional activity. It gives him the power to feel so
great and inevitably an intensity that everything else is overwhelmed."
46. "A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to
religion."
- Manly P. Hall, THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES
47. "When confronted with a problem involving the use of the reasoning faculties, individuals of strong intellect
keep their poise, and seek to reach a solution by obtaining facts bearing upon the question. Those of immature
mentality, on the other hand, when similarly confronted, are overwhelmed. While the former may be qualified to
solve the riddle of their own destiny, the latter must be led like a flock of sheep and taught in simple language.
They depend almost entirely upon the ministrations of the shepherd. The Apostle Paul said that these little
ones must be fed with milk, but that meat is the food of strong men. Thoughtlessness is almost synonymous
with childishness, while thoughtfulness is symbolic of maturity. There are, however, but few mature minds in
the world; and thus it was that the philosophic-religious doctrines of the pagans were divided to meet the needs
of these two fundamental groups of human intellect--one philosophic, the other incapable of appreciating the
deeper mysteries of life. To the discerning few were revealed the esoteric, or spiritual, teachings, while the
unqualified many received only the literal, or exoteric, interpretations. In order to make simple the great truths
of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were personified, becoming
the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While the ignorant multitudes brought their offerings to the
altars of Priapus and Pan (deities representing the procreative energies), the wise recognized in these marble
statues only symbolic concretions of great abstract truths. In all cities of the ancient"
- Manly P. Hall, THE SECRET TEACHINGS OF ALL AGES

48. "The South Node is karmic and relates to the unfinished business brought forward from the past."
- Manly P. Hall, Astrology and Reincarnation
49. "All things manifesting in the lower worlds exist first in the intangible rings of the upper spheres, so that
creation is, in truth, the process of making tangible the intangible by extending the intangible into various
vibratory rates."
- Manly P. Hall, The Qabbalah
50. "To those capable of seeing the light of these spiritual orbs, there is no darkness, for they dwell in
the presence of limitless light and at midnight see the sun shining under their feet."
- Manly P. Hall, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts Manly P.
Hall Quotes.
51. "Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified."
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Reader's Edition: Unabridged
52. "Man’s threefold lower nature—consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental
faculties—reflects the light of his threefold Divinity and bears witness of It in the physical world. Man’s three
bodies are symbolized by an upright triangle; his threefold spiritual nature by an inverted triangle. These two
triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews the Star of David, the Signet of
Solomon, and are more commonly known today as the Star of Zion. These triangles symbolize the spiritual and
material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature and
Divinity. Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of the
mediator."
- Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Reader's Edition: Unabridged
53. "They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness"
- Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
54. "Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The
world is a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear
these bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes
lighted by that presence"
55. "Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the
monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the
strength they do not possess"
56. "Words are vehicles of ideas, and unless they are understood properly misunderstanding is inevitable."
- Manly P. Hall, Reincarnation: The Cycle of Necessity
57. "The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a
complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence."
- Manly P. Hall, Esoteric Wisdom for Modern Living
58. "Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things."
- Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
Top 25 Enlightening
Quotes by Manly P. Hall:
The Possessor of Secret
Spiritual Knowledge
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Wechuli Isaac
Manly P. Hall, mainly known for his book, ‘The Secret Teachings of All Ages’ was a mystic,
astrologer, and author. He loved studying ancient secret societies and religions since he wanted
to discover hidden ancient knowledge. Manly P’s works are enlightening, and they have
encouraged me to work towards uniting with my divine-self.
Here are the top 25 Manly P. Hall quotes I gathered from his books.
1. ‘Philosophy reveals to man his kinship with the All/God. It shows him that he is a brother
to the suns which dot the firmament; it lifts him from a taxpayer on a whirling atom to a
citizen of the Cosmos. It teaches him that while physically bound to earth, there is
nevertheless within him a spiritual power, a diviner Self, through which he is one with the
symphony of the whole.’
2. ‘The word ‘union’ which we find so much in Near Eastern religious philosophy, derives
from the original Sanskrit for, Yoga, which simply means – to remove the interval
between man and Deity. This is removed by man redeeming the lesser nature of his own
being and restoring its luminosity.’
3. ‘It is inconceivable and impossible that any nation should have endured as Egypt did for
thousands of years without tremendous spiritual potential.’
4. ‘Humans are caught in a predicament wherein the limitations imposed by physical
existence are combined with a triple ignorance; ignorance of our origins, of our true
nature, and of our ultimate destiny.’
5. ‘All definitions define natures according to their limitations. Axiomatically, definition is
limitation.’
6. ‘All truth-seeking is motivated by the impulse that if the truth is found and applied
naturally to all works of man, the result will be universal peace, happiness, and security.’
7. ‘Always seeking inward, always working to penetrate the veils between the obvious and
the real, always seeing in nature a fragment of the Eternal and recognizing that every
form that exists in the world is in some way a symbol of something deeper, leads to
enlightenment.’
8. ‘Because man has this power within himself to interpret, to open gates, to solve the riddle
of the sphinx and to come gradually into the possession of all knowledge, he is
represented as the magician, the sage, the saint and the scholar.’
9. ‘Man is not the insignificant creature that he appears to be; his physical body is not the
true measure of his real self. The invisible nature of man is as vast as his comprehension
and as measureless as his thoughts. The fingers of his mind reach out and grasp the
stars; his spirit mingles with the throbbing life of the Cosmos itself.’
10. ‘If the Infinite had not desired man to become wise, He would not have bestowed upon
him the faculty of knowing. If he had not intended man to become virtuous, He would not
have sown within the human heart the seeds of virtue. If he had predestined man to be
limited to his narrow physical life, He would not have equipped him with perceptions and
sensibilities of grasping, in part at least, the immensity of the outer universe.’
11. ‘Ignorant of the cause of life, ignorant of the purpose of life, ignorant of what lies beyond
the mystery of death, yet possessing within himself the answer to it all, modern man is
willing to sacrifice the beautiful, the true, and the good within and without, upon the
blood-stained altar of ambition.’
12. ‘Through ignorance, man falls; through wisdom, man redeems himself.’
13. ‘Life is the great mystery, and only those who pass successfully through its tests and
trials, interpreting them aright and extracting the essence of experience therefrom,
achieve true understanding.’
14. ‘Both God and man have a twofold constitution, of which the superior part is invisible and
the inferior visible.’
15. ‘The ancients did not believe that spirituality made men either righteous or rational, but
rather that righteousness and rationality made men spiritual.’
16. ‘This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the ancient
mysteries; that man shall become aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine
source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.’
17. ‘The Pythagoreans believed that everything which existed had a voice and that all
creatures were eternally singing the praise of the Creator. Man fails to hear these divine
melodies because his soul is enmeshed in the illusion of material existence. When he
liberates himself from the bondage of the lower world with its sense limitations, the music
of the spheres will again be audible.’
18. ‘Man is thus surrounded by a supersensible universe of which he knows nothing because
the centers of sense perception within himself have not been developed sufficiently to
respond to the subtler rates of vibration of which that universe is composed.’
19. ‘The sages of old studied living things to a point of realization that God is most perfectly
understood through a knowledge of His supreme handiwork – animate and inanimate
nature.’
20. ‘The story of Jonah is really a legend of initiation into the mysteries and the ‘great fish’
represents the darkness of ignorance which engulfs man when he is thrown over the side
of the ship (is born) into the sea (life).’
21. ‘We, therefore, affirm that man must first gain knowledge, virtue, and understanding; then
all other things may be added unto him.’
22. ‘Today man, a sublime creature with an infinite capacity for self-improvement, in an effort
to be true to false standards, turns from his birthright of understanding-without realizing
the consequence-and plunges into the maelstrom of material illusion.’
23. ‘Men must learn that happiness crowns the soul’s quest for understanding. Only through
the realization of infinite goodness and infinite accomplishment can the peace of the
inner Self be assured.’
24. ‘Right action, right feeling, and right-thinking are prerequisites of right-knowing, and the
attainment of philosophic power is possible only to such that have harmonized their
thinking with their living.’
25. ‘The religious world of today is almost totally ignorant of the fact that science and biology
is the fountainhead of its doctrines and tenets.’
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While he could have made himself famous had he cared to commercialize his knowledge, he preferred
the companionship of God to the esteem of men.
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.
God is best defined as the first manifestation of Infinite Existence, the limitation of Limitlessness.
Honesty is a jewel of priceless value, and the forces of evil have little power over a life lived true to
principle.
Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbols men have ever sought to communicate to each
other those thoughts which transcend the limitations of language.
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.
There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the
heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the
brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy
currents in the aura or super physical bodies.
It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The
young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes
and behavior of living beings.
It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective
of which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the
expense of the human soul, mind, and body.
There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger
world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death
is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.
Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing
outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know!
Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in
which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and
opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical
experience.
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about
to religion.
An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.
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.
Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.
There is no place for little minds in a great work.
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.
Man's security comes from within himself.
The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by.
If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of
knowing.
Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible
world.
They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness.
The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger
conception of living.
Love is an experience of consciousness, an experience in the soul of man.
It is the exact experience of mathematics. Not merely the adding up of your grocery bill, or the daily uses
that we make of number. But the great concept of a universal exactitude, that numbers are an
instrument of magic. And by means of them, men can unlock all the wonders of the world.
Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded
history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree
of political influence.
To those capable of seeing the light of these spiritual orbs, there is no darkness, for they dwell in the
presence of limitless light and at midnight see the sun shining under their feet.
Moderation is the secret of survival.
It is for this reason that the candidate assumes the vows of celibacy, for the close connection existing in
the advanced disciple between the brain and the reproductive system necessitates an absolute
conservation of all life energies.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in
chaos.
Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me.
Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.
Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression.
Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.
The South Node is karmic and relates to the unfinished business brought forward from the past.
In ancient times men fought with their right arms and defended with their left arms... ...the right side of
the body was considered masculine and the left side feminine.
Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was
greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and
avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth.
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.
Which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of
the true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.
Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development
of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.
People are eternally trying to walk out of difficulties, instead of trying to work out of them.
The headdresses of the Egyptians have great symbolic and emblematic importance, for they represent
the auric bodies of the superhuman intelligences, and are used in the same way that the nimbus, halo,
and aureole are used in Christian religious art.
The primitive mind, recognizing the beneficent power of the solar orb, adored it as the proxy of the
Supreme Deity.
Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread.
Wisdom, not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended
above the world of illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-
realization.
For some inexplicable reason, however, religion has ever regarded intellectualism--in fact every form of
knowledge--as fatal to man's spiritual growth.
THE Tree of the Sephiroth may be considered an invaluable compendium of the secret philosophy which
originally was the spirit and soul of Chasidism.
The words Qabbalism and Hermeticism are now considered as synonymous terms covering all the
arcana and esotericism of antiquity.
Love is religion, and hate is atheism...ethics is philosophy.
The world knows many religions, but Nature has but one Truth.
It is also extremely significant that by inserting the letter ‫ש‬, Shin, in the middle of the name Jehovah, the
word Jehoshua, or Jesus, is formed thus:
We must learn to realize that the greater the knowledge, the greater the penalty for abusing it. The sin
that is excusable in the child is unforgivable in a man.
Once men died for Truth, but now Truth dies at the hands of men.
An intellectual fact is not necessarily a truth.
The instinct of reverence for the Unknown is implanted in all human life.
The most powerful of the alchemical organizations were the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, and certain
Arabian and Syrian sects.
A true occultist, be he student, disciple, or initiate, never discloses his position to any except those
equally interested and equally sincere along similar lines.
Wealth, therefore, impoverishes man, deprives him of time, absorbs his interests, depletes his strength,
and leaves him incapable of becoming wise.
The purpose of alchemy was not to make something out of nothing but rather to fertilize and nurture
the seed which was already present. Its processes did nor actually create gold but rather made the ever-
present seed of gold grow and flourish.
According to esoteric philosophy, blue is the true and sacred color of the sun. The apparent orange-
yellow shade of this orb is the result of its rays being immersed in the substances of the illusionary
world.
The word zodiac is derived from the Greek ζωδιακός (zodiakos), which means "a circle of animals," or, as
some believe, "little animals."
In addition to the colors of the spectrum there are a vast number of vibratory color waves, some too low
and others too high to be registered by the human optical apparatus.
The apricot and quince are familiar yonic symbols, while the bunch of grapes and the fig are phallic.
He [Paracelsus] was the first man to write scientific books in the language of the common people so that
all could read them.
In all probability, the so-called talking trees were merely strips of wood with tables of letters upon them,
by means of which oracles were evoked. At one time books written upon wood were called "talking
trees.
Astrology has crystallized into astronomy, whose votaries ridicule the dreams of ancient seers and sages,
deriding their symbols as meaningless products of superstition.
When a disciple of the alchemical arts had learned the supreme secret, he guarded it jealously, revealing
to no man his priceless treasure. He was not permitted to disclose it even to the members of his
immediate family.
The most powerful of the alchemical organizations were the Rosicrucians, the Illuminati, and certain
Arabian and Syrian sects.
Apparently but few of the mediæval alchemists discovered the Great Arcanum without aid, some
authors declaring that none of them attained the desired end without the assistance of a Master or
Teacher.
For how could He have had His disciples, if He did not teach? And how could He have taught, unless He
had reached the age of a Master?
Manly P. Hall > Quotes
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“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.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
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“Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.”
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“If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“The true Mason is not creed-bound. He realizes with the divine illumination of his lodge that as Mason his
religion must be universal: Christ, Buddha or Mohammed, the name means little, for he recognizes only the
light and not the bearer. He worships at every shrine, bows before every altar, whether in temple, mosque or
cathedral, realizing with his truer understanding the oneness of all spiritual truth. All true Masons know that
they only are heathen who, having great ideals, do not live up to them. They know that all religions are but one
story told in divers ways for peoples whose ideals differ but whose great purpose is in harmony with Masonic
ideals. North, east, south and west stretch the diversities of human thought, and while the ideals of man
apparently differ, when all is said and the crystallization of form with its false concepts is swept away, one basic
truth remains: all existing things are Temple Builders, laboring for a single end. No true Mason can be narrow,
for his Lodge is the divine expression of all broadness. There is no place for little minds in a great work.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments”
― Manly P Hall
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“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.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“They wander in darkness seeking light, failing to realize that the light is in the heart of the darkness”
― Manly P Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry: Or the Secret of Hiram Abiff
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“It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of
which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the
human soul, mind, and body.”
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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to
religion.”
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“Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was greater than
the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one
secret confers life, light, and truth.”
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“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution
of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by man has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is
destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself
impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the
illumined reason can carry the understanding part of man upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach man
to be born well, to live well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band of the elect--those
who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue, and of utility--the philosophers of the ages invite YOU.”
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“Wisdom fears no thing, but still bows humbly to its own source, with its deeper understanding, loves all things,
for it has seen the beauty, the tenderness, and the sweetness which underlie Life's mystery”
― Manly P Hall
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“Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body,
expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed
through social position and companionship.”
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“When the human race learns to read the language of symbolism, a great veil will fall from the eyes of men.
They shall then know truth and, more than that, they shall realize that from the beginning truth has been in the
world unrecognized, save by a small but gradually increasing number appointed by the Lords of the Dawn as
ministers to the needs of human creatures struggling co regain their consciousness of divinity.”
― Manly P. Hall, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire
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“Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom,
not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of
illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.”
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“Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages - Reader's Edition: Unabridged
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“Every soul is engaged in a great work-the labor of personal liberation from the state of ignorance. The world is
a great prison; its bars are the Unknown. And each is a prisoner until, at last, he earns the right to tear these
bars from their moldering sockets, and pass, illuminated and inspired into the darkness, which becomes lighted
by that presence”
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“When confronted with a problem involving the use of the reasoning faculties, individuals of strong intellect
mentality, on the other hand, when similarly confronted, are overwhelmed. While the former may be qualified
to solve the riddle of their own destiny, the latter must be led like a flock of sheep and taught in simple
language. They depend almost entirely upon the ministrations of the shepherd. The Apostle Paul said that these
little ones must be fed with milk, but that meat is the food of strong men. Thoughtlessness is almost
synonymous with childishness, while thoughtfulness is symbolic of maturity. There are, however, but few
mature minds in the world; and thus it was that the philosophic-religious doctrines of the pagans were divided
to meet the needs of these two fundamental groups of human intellect--one philosophic, the other incapable of
appreciating the deeper mysteries of life. To the discerning few were revealed the esoteric, or spiritual,
teachings, while the unqualified many received only the literal, or exoteric, interpretations. In order to make
simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were
personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While the ignorant multitudes
brought their offerings to the altars of Priapus and Pan (deities representing the procreative energies), the wise
recognized in these marble statues only symbolic concretions of great abstract truths. In all cities of the ancient”
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“All things manifesting in the lower worlds exist first in the intangible rings of the upper spheres, so that
creation is, in truth, the process of making tangible the intangible by extending the intangible into various
vibratory rates.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Qabbalah, the Secret Doctrine of Israel
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“The pineal gland is a link between the consciousness of man and the invisible worlds of Nature. Whenever the
arc of the pituitary body contacts this gland there are flashes of temporary clairvoyance, but the process of
making these two work together consistently is one requiring not only years bur lives of consecration and
special physiological and biological training. This third eye is the Cyclopean eye of the ancients, for it was an
organ of conscious vision long before the physical eyes were formed, although vision was a sense of cognition
rather than sight in those ancient days.”
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“Pythagoras said that the universal Creator had formed two things in His own image: The first was the cosmic
system with its myriads of suns, moons, and planets; the second was man, in whose nature the entire universe
existed in miniature.”
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“Universals cannot become particulars and particulars cannot become universals, but universals exist according
to degrees and particulars exist according to conditions.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“Words are vehicles of ideas, and unless they are understood properly misunderstanding is inevitable.”
― Manly P. Hall, Reincarnation: The Cycle of Necessity
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“The most sacred part of the human body is the brain and spinal system, revered from all antiquity and
symbolized again and again in all the religions of the world. While other parts of the body are of great interest
to the student, the mysterious working of the spinal fires by means of which liberation is finally attained is so
tremendous that many years must be spent in understanding even the fundamental principles. The spine is the
rod which budded, the Yggdrasil Tree, the flaming sword, the staff of comfort, the wand of the Magi.”
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“The esoteric system is all based upon the ultimate motive. Ultimate motive is the service of truth itself, a
complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence.”
― Manly P. Hall, Esoteric Wisdom for Modern Living
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“Man’s threefold lower nature—consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental
triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews “the Star of David,” “the Signet
of Solomon,” and are more commonly known today as “the Star of Zion.” These triangles symbolize the spiritual
and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature
and Divinity. Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of
the mediator.”
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“Thus man is heaven, earth, and hell in one, and his salvation is a much more personal problem than he
realizes. Realizing that the human body is a mass of psychic centers and that during life the form is crisscrossed
with endless currents of energy, that all through the form are sunbursts of electric force and magnetic power,
man can be seen by chose who know how to see as a solar system of scars and planets, suns and moons, with
comets in irregular orbits circling through them. As the Milky Way is supposed co be a gigantic cosmic embryo,
so man is himself a galaxy”
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“Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the
monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the
strength they do not possess”
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“Man i s given by Nature, a gift, and that gift is the privilege of labor. Through labor he learns all things.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys of Freemasonry
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“When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and
when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding,
ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love.”
― Manly Hall
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“Having become a citizen of two worlds, the individual must act accordingly. There can be no backsliding,
because the individual must reach a state of certainty before this enlightenment is given that makes it utterly
and completely impossible to backslide. He cannot ‘get it’ and then fail and turn from it. If he turns from it, it
means he never had it. If he fails, he fails himself. He cannot fail the infinite.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“The secret Order of Melchizedek can never appear in the physical world while humanity is constituted
according to its present plan. It is the supreme Mystery School, and a few have reached the point where they
have blended their divine and human natures so perfectly that they are symbolically two-headed. The heart and
mind must be brought into perfect equilibrium before true thinking or true spirituality can be attained. The
highest function of the mind is reason; the highest function of the heart is intuition, a sensing process not
necessitating the normal working of the mind.”
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“The ability to feel 'with' rather than 'for' is the essential difference between consciousness and emotion. When
we feel for things we are emotionally moved. Pity, sympathy, and kindred feelings stir us, and yet they seldom
give any definite impulse that is of value in the adjustment of any chain of circumstances.
When we feel with things we are so much a part of them that we understand the innermost elements of their
being. Thus understanding comes with consciousness, and knowledge with intellectual comprehension.
According to the ancient doctrines, perfect consciousness — the ability to feel with everything as part of
everything — was regarded as the ultimate state of so-called human unfoldment, and he who had achieved this
had attained to godhood in his own right. The gods are simply emblematic of varying degrees of consciousness
in that vast interval between ignorance and realization.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Illumined Mind: The Universal Savior
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“In truth, the kingdom of heaven is within man far more completely than he realizes; and as heaven is in his
own nature, so earth and hell are also in his constitution, for the superior worlds circumscribe and include the
inferior, and earth and hell are included within the nature of heaven. As Pythagoras would say; "The superior
and inferior worlds are included within the area of the Supreme Sphere." So all the kingdoms of earthly nature,
the minerals, the planes, the animals, and his own human spirit are included within his physical body, and he
himself is the appointed guardian spirit of the mineral kingdom and he is responsible co the creative hierarchs
for the destiny of the scones and metals.”
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“They proved that it was possible to produce beauty in life by surrounding life with
beauty. They discovered that symmetrical bodies were built by souls continuously in the presence of
symmetrical bodies; that noble thoughts were produced by minds surrounded by examples of mental
nobility. Conversely, if a man were forced to look upon an ignoble or asymmetrical structure it would
arouse within him a sense of ignobility which would provoke him to commit ignoble deeds. If an illproportioned
building were erected in the midst of a city there would be ill-proportioned children born in
that community; and men and women, gazing upon the asymmetrical structure, would live inharmonious
lives. Thoughtful men of antiquity realized that their great philosophers were the natural products of the
æsthetic ideals of architecture, music, and art established as the standards of the cultural systems of the time.”
tags: aesthetics, architecture, cultural-identity, cultural-marxism, culture
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“Every man has his own world. He dwells in the midst of his little universe as the lord and ruler of the
constituent parts of himself. Sometimes he is a wise king, devoting his life to the needs of his subjects, but more
often he is a tyrant, imposing many forms of injustice upon his vassals, either through ignorance of their needs
or thoughtlessness concerning the ultimate disaster that he is bringing upon himself. Man's body is a living
temple and he is a high priest, placed there to keep the House of the Lord in order.”
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“The auric body of a snake is one of the most remarkable sights that the clairvoyant will ever see, and the
secrets concealed within its aura demonstrate why the serpent is the symbol of wisdom among so many
nations.”
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“To those capable of seeing the light of these spiritual orbs, there is no darkness, for they dwell in the presence
of limitless light and at midnight see the sun shining under their feet.”
― Manly P. Hall, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts
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“This is a very interesting point, because all knowledge indicates man’s ignorance. Knowledge is assumed to be
given to the ignorant, but as they grow further, they discover the ignorance in the knowledge itself. They find
they have not found the answer. They have become learned, but not good; they have learned to be strong, but
not to love; they have found many things, but they have not found God. And San Juan points out that when the
knowledge becomes great enough, it so increases the confusion of the mind that it is even more difficult to find
God.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Dark Night of the Soul: Man's Instinctive Search for Reality
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“Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry
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“the path of salvation could be walked successfully only by those who had practical, scientific knowledge of the
occult function of their own bodies.”
― Manly P. Hall, Occult Anatomy of Man & Occult Masonry
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“The highest of all occult orders which exists only in the inner world may be called the "Order of Melchizedek,"
although among certain nations it has other names. This Order is composed entirely of the graduates of the
other Mystery Schools who have actually reached the point where they can give birch to their present selves out
of their own natures, like the mysterious phoenix bird which, breaking open at death, permits a new bird to fly
forth.”
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“Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by. First, Orpheus, playing upon the seven stringed lyre of
his own being, the music of the spheres. Then Hermes, the thrice greatest, with his emerald tablet of divine
revelation. Through the shades of the past we dimly see Krishna, the illuminated, who on the battlefield of life
taught man the mysteries of his own soul. Then we see the sublime Buddha, his yellow robe not half so glorious
as the heart it covered, and our own dear Master, the man Jesus, his head surrounded with a halo of Golden
Flame, and his brow serene with the calm of mastery. Then Mohammed, Zoroaster, Confucius, Odin, and
Moses, and others no less worthy pass by before the eyes of the student They were the Sons of Flame. From the
Flame they came, and to the Flame they have returned. To us they beckon, and bid us join them, and in our
robes of self-earned glory to serve the Flame they love. They were without creed or clan; they served but the one
great ideal. From the same place they all came, and to the same place they have returned. There was no
superiority there. Hand in hand they labor for humanity. Each loves the other, for the power that has made
them masters has shown them the Brotherhood of all life.”
― Manly P. (Palmer) Hall, The Initiates of the Flame
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“There is no doubt that the Old Testament is a physiological and anatomical textbook to those capable of
reading it from a scientific viewpoint.”
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“Degeneracy, lust, and passion, hates and fears, crept into the souls of Greece and Rome, and Black Magic
overshadowed Egypt; the light upon the altar grew weaker and weaker. The priests lost the Word, the name of
the Flame. Little by little the Flame flickered out, and as the last spark grew cold, a mighty nation died, buried
beneath the dead ashes of its own spiritual fire. But the Flame did not die. Like spirit of which it is the essence,
it cannot die, because it is life, and life cannot cease to be. In some wilderness of land or sea it rested once
again, and there rose a mighty nation around that flame. So history goes on through the ages. As long as a
people are true to the Flame, it remains, but when they cease to nourish it with their lives, it goes on to other
lands and other worlds.”
― Manly P. (Palmer) Hall, The Initiates of the Flame
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“Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the
rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.”
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“The Greater Mysteries represented the felicity of the soul surrounded by light and truth. They symbolized that
man had "raised" himself from the darkness of ignorance into the light of philosophy. Plato said that the body is
the sarcophagus of the soul, for he realized that within the form was an immortal principle which could free
itself from”
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“Thus, instead of gaining only an internal silence, in the common sense of the word, he gains also that strange
dynamic silence which preceded creation, and from which all things come—the silence of the heart of God. This
silence is the root of sound, and from it pours forth the fiat that fashioned the world. This is the dynamic silence
of creation, the tremendous dramatic silence of new birth forever taking place- new worlds forever fashioning.”
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“This ring of invisible flame is the eternal fire, the spark from the Infinite Wheel, the birthless, deathless,
eternal center which includes within itself all that it has ever been, all that it is, and all that it ever shall be. This
germ dwells in the state Eternity, for to this immortal spark time is illusionary, distance is nonexistent, joy and
sorrow are unknown, for concerning its function and consciousness all that can be said is that "It is." While
other things come and go, It is.”
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“The world is the schoolroom of God. Our being in school does not make us learn, but within that school is the
opportunity for all learning. It has its grades and its classes, its sciences and its arts, and admission to it is the
birthright of man. Its graduates are its teachers, its pupils are all created things. Its examples are Mature, and
its rules are God's laws. Those who would go into the greater colleges and universities must first, day by day,
and year by year, work through the common school of life and present to their new teachers the diplomas they
have won, upon which is written the name that none may read save those who have received it. The hours may
be long, and the teachers cruel, but each of us must walk that path, and the only ones ready to go onward are
those who have passed through the gateway of experience.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“And in this great struggle to survive as an individual entity, the soul burdens itself with all the errors and
illusions of mortality. Thus it happens that though men believe in God and in a universe of infinite benevolence,
they still live in fear and constant anxiety, being far more inclined to cling to this flesh to the last possible
moment, than to take a chance of going into the unknown, even though they accept it intellectually as a better
state. Thus the struggle for the preservation of the known causes man’s greatest confusion, for it causes him to
cling to the evils he now has, rather than to fly to others he knows not of. There is a total lack of the true faith
and insight that enable man to move out into space, realizing that this space is God, and that there cannot,
therefore, be any evil thing in it. By faith, man should know that as surely as he himself exists, so surely is his
existence essentially good, if he knows how to attain this goodness; and the evil of his existence is in his own
fears and uncertainties. He is not really in danger of losing anything real, but only what he has fashioned
himself, which has no foundation in reality.”
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“This surrender seems a very strange and difficult thing for us to understand. And yet, just as the life of man
here in this world can suddenly be greatly altered by a strong affection, so his total life can be greatly and
permanently altered by a supreme affection, which is the love of God as the embodiment or personification of
man’s love of truth. He discovers, for example, that as this mystery unfolds within his own nature, what we call
the end of knowledge is strangely and wonderfully attained in itself. Man becomes internally appreciative of
true value.”
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“In order to make simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of
the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While”
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“Occultism teaches that it is the presence of the liver which distinguishes the animal from the plant and that
mystically certain small creatures having power of motion but no liver are actually plants in spiritual
consciousness. The liver is under the control of the Planet Mars, which is the dynamo of this solar system and
which sends a red animating ray to all the evolving creatures within this solar scheme. The philosophers taught
that the planet Mars, under the control of its regent Samael, was the transmuted "Sin-Body" of the Solar Logos
which originally had been the "Dweller on the Threshold" of the Divine Creature whose energies are now
distributed through the fire of the sun. Samael, incidentally, was the fiery father of Cain, through whom a part
of human icy has received the flame of aspiration and are thus separate from the sons of Seth, whose father was
Jehovah.”
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ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings Of All Ages
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“The Christian cross comes from Egypt and India; the triple miter from the faith of the Mithraics; the
shepherd’s crook from the Hermetic Mysteries and Greece; the immaculate conception from India; the
transfiguration from Persia; and the trinity from the Brahmans. The Virgin Mary, as the mother of God, is
found in a dozen different faiths. There are over twenty crucified world saviors. The church steeple is an
adaptation of Egyptian obelisks and pyramids, while the Christian devil is the Egyptian Typhon with certain
modifications”
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“In Freemasonry is concealed a mystery of creation, the answer to the problem of existence, and the path the
student must tread in order to join those who are really the living powers behind the thrones of modern
national and international affairs. p. 18”
― Manly P. Hall
tags: freemasonry, lost-keys, manly-palmer-hall
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“Light is not only sacred because it dispels the darkness in which lurk all the enemies of human life. It is also
sacred because it is the vehicle of life. This is evidenced by the effect of sunlight upon plant, animal, and human
life. Light is also the vehicle of color, the coloring matter of all earthly things being imparted from the sun. It is
the vehicle of heat, and according to the wisdom of antiquity, it carries the sperm of all things from the sun.
Through light also pass the impulses from the Grand Man. According to the Mysteries, God controls His
universe by means of impulses of intelligence which He projects through streamers of visible or invisible light.
This light serves the universe in a capacity somewhat similar to that in which the nervous system serves the
body.”
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“THE NINE WORLDS OF THE ODINIC MYSTERIES. The Nordic Mysteries were given in nine chambers, or
caverns, the candidate advancing through them in sequential order. These chambers of initiation represented
the nine spheres into which the Drottars divided the universe: (1) Asgard, the Heaven World of the Gods; (2)
Alf-heim, the World of the light and beautiful Elves, or Spirits; (3) Nifl-heim, the World of Cold and Darkness,
which is located in the North; (4) Jotun-heim, the World of the Giants, which is located in the East; (5)
Midgard, the Earth World of human beings, which is located in the midst, or middle place; (6) Vana-heim, the
World of the Vanes, which is located in the West; (7) Muspells-heim, the World of Fire, which is located in the
South; 8) Svart-alfa-heim, the World of the dark and treacherous Elves, which is under the earth; and (9) Hel-
heim, the World of cold and the abode of the dead, which is located at the very lowest point of the universe. It is
to be understood that all of these worlds are invisible to the senses, except Midgard, the home of human
creatures, but during the process of initiation the soul of the candidate—liberated from its earthly sheath by the
secret power of the priests—wanders amidst the inhabitants of these various spheres. There is undoubtedly a
relationship between the nine worlds of the Scandinavians and the nine spheres, or planes, through which
initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries passed in their ritual of regeneration.”
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“San Juan develops his wonderful commentary upon the seven poems that constitute the journey of the soul.
He calls this “The Dark Night of the Soul” because he says every individual seeking an internal life must pass
through a sphere of psychic darkness. The soul itself must go through a mystery of death and regeneration; a
mystery of the detachment of itself from its own objective nature. It must die out of its own confusion and be
born again into the grace of God. This long, dark journey of the inner self is one which each truth seeker must
make in order to achieve his final end.”
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“San Juan points out that the two great enemies of integration within man are his mind and his emotions.”
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“Hegel further believed that all things owe their existence to their opposites and that all opposites are actually
identical.”
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“This radiance is so great that it can-not be limited by the skull and it pours out from the head, especially from
the back of the neck where the uppermost vertebra of the spine articulates with the condyles of the occipital
bone. It is this light pouring our in a fan-shaped aura around the posterior part of the head that has given rise
to the halos of saints and the nimbus so often used in religious art. This light signifies human regeneration and
it forms part of the auric bodies of man.”
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“It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature
through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities.”
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“The supreme Arcanum of the ancients was the key to the nature and power of fire. From the day when the
hierarchies first descended upon the sacred island of the polar ice cap, it has been decreed that fire should be
the supreme symbol of that mysterious, abstract divinity which moves in God, man, and Nature. The sun was
looked upon as a great fire burning in the midst of the universe. In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the
mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned upon the altars of countless
nations. The fire of Zeus burned upon the Palatine Hill, the fire of Vesta upon the altar of the home, and the fire
of aspiration upon the altar of the soul.”
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“The drama which he unfolds in Revelation is synthetic and therefore truly Christian in that it includes the
great teachings of all ages. Some believe that God has not willed that man should understand the mystery of his
own destiny, but let these recall those immortal words; "There is nothing concealed that shall not be revealed;
there is nothing hidden that shall not be made known." This being true, let us take up the labor of solving, or
unveiling, of reconstructing. Following in the footsteps of the illumined of all ages, we too shall discover truth,
by following the winding stairs up which the candidates of every nation and religion have passed,”
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“It is not by destroying the lower nature that man becomes virtuous; it is by the transmutation and regeneration
of every base quality and attitude that he achieves divinity.”
― Manly P. Hall, Spiritual Centers in Man
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“Philosophically defined, growth is the struggle of life to control its environment or, rather, to include more and
more of its environment within the area of its own self-knowing. Perfect freedom of expression is the goal of all
life. All things, both animate and inanimate, are striving for that freedom which lies in perfect expression. It
naturally follows that there is but one freedom – perfection. Every creature is a slave to those parts of itself as
yet unresponsive to the impulses of its internal life principle. Every individual consequently is a slave to his own
material constitution; he is a prisoner held in by walls of unresponsive substance. Thus the natural expression
of the inner life principle is to refine and improve the qualities of its outer vehicles that it may the more easily
control and direct them. It is evident that the more refined the substance, the more easily it is influenced by
subtle forces. By a certain definite organization, consciousness equips its outer nature with organs of
responsiveness, so that the lower self comes ever more nearly en rapport with its own Cause. A common
example is the radio, which is a mechanical contrivance constructed according to definite scientific principles
which enable it to pick up vibratory rates of sound inaudible to even the delicate mechanism of the human ear.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Illumined Mind: The Universal Savior
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“Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“priests. The Lords of Scorpio, being the great initiators, accepted none into the Mysteries save when the sun
was in a certain degree of Taurus, symbolized by Apis, the Bull. When the Bull carried the sun between his
horns, the neophytes were admitted. In geocentric astrology, this takes place when the sun is supposedly in the
last decan of the Constellation of Scorpio. This is true not only in the ancient Egyptian rituals, but it is still true
in the Mystery Schools. Candidates for the occult path of fire are to this day admitted only when the sun is
geocentrically in Scorpio and heliocentrically in Taurus. The star group constituting the Constellation of the
Scorpion closely resembles a spread eagle and is one of the reasons why that bird is sacred to Freemasonry,
which is a fire cult.”
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“Man is never truly wise until he has fathomed the riddle of his own existence,”
― Manly P. Hall, Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire: A Treatise in Three Parts
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“Every truly intelligent man and woman who is working to spread light in the world is christened, or Lightened,
by the actual labor which he or she is seeking to perform. The fact that light (intelligence) partakes of the
natures of both God and the earth is proved by the names given to the personifications of this light for at one
time they are called the "Sons of Men' and at another time the "Sons of God.”
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“From Kircher's Ars Magna Sciendi. In the above diagram Kircher arranges eighteen objects in two vertical
columns and then determines the number of arrangements in which they can be combined. By the same
method Kircher further estimates that fifty objects may be arranged in
1,273,726,838,815,420,339,851,343,083,767,005,515,293,749,454,795,408,000,000,000,000 combinations.
From this it will be evident that infinite diversity is possible, for the countless parts of the universe may be
related to each other in an incalculable number of ways; and through the various combinations of these
limitless subdivisions of being, infinite individuality and infinite variety must inevitably result. Thus it is further
evident that life can never become monotonous or exhaust the possibilities of variety.”
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“All of these are reminders of the face char seven primitive and primary spirits have become incarnated in the
composite structure of man and that the Elohim are actually within his own nature, where from their seven
thrones they are molding him into a septenary creature. One of these Elohim, which corresponds to a color, a
musical note, a planetary vibration, and a mystical dimension, is the key consciousness of every kingdom in
Nature. The Elohim also rake turns in controlling the life of the human being. According to the ancient
Brahmins, the Lord of the human race is keyed to the musical note fa, and His vibration runs through the
minute tube in the spinal column.”
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“In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires
burned upon the altars of countless nations. The fire of Zeus burned upon the Palatine Hill, the fire of Vesta
upon the altar of the home, and the fire of aspiration upon the altar of the soul. PART I FIRE THE
UNIVERSAL DEITY Since the earliest times man has venerated the element of fire above all others.”
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“which, according to San Juan, is the mystery of the great alchemistical transmutation; the attainment of the
true stability of the psychic life. Without this internal stability, all other labor is in vain.”
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“Unless subjected to constant discipline the mental processes of the common sign types are apt to be scattered
or non-eventuating. There is a distinct tendency to carry along unfinished business and to procrastinate in
decision. If left to its own disorder, the mind may deteriorate into a tumbling ground for whimsies.”
― Manly P. Hall, Psychoanalyzing the Twelve Zodiacal Types
tags: astrology, destiny, fate, personality, psychoanalysis, psychology
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“The South Node is karmic and relates to the unfinished business brought forward from the past.”
― Manly P. Hall, Astrology and Reincarnation
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“The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.”
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“San Juan points out that the life of mysticism begins with this great love which in itself overcomes all
confusion, both of the soul and of the body. He says that the dark journey of the soul is man’s soul gradually
striving toward its goal, which is the pure and complete power to love. For as the mind gives man the power of
reason, so the psychic life gives him the power of perpetual emotional activity. It gives him the power to feel so
great and inevitably an intensity that everything else is overwhelmed.”
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“It is for this reason that the candidate assumes the vows of celibacy, for the close connection existing in the
advanced disciple between the brain and the reproductive system necessitates an absolute conservation of all
life energies.”
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“The Great Pyramid was not a lighthouse, an observatory, or a tomb, but the first temple of the Mysteries, the
first structure erected as a repository for those secret truths which are the certain foundation of all arts and
sciences.”
― Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages — Unabridged 1928 Illustrated Edition
tags: page76
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“The unfolding of man’s spiritual nature is as much an exact science as astronomy, medicine or jurisprudence.”
tags: page78
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“Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those
who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.”
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“If woman dreams true, and shares her dream with the men who are close to her, these same men will find their
greatest joy and sense of completeness in the service of her vision. It has always been so, and will always be so.”
― Manly P. Hall, Woman, Mother of All Living
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“Pratyahara may be termed the process of separating the mind from the illusions of the senses and turning it
more and more upon the contemplation of Reality. The mind must be controlled: it must think only when it is
told to think and as it is told to think; it must be directionalized by the will of the individual. When man is
master of his thoughts and feelings, when he is in perfect possession of his mind, he has accomplished the fifth
step. Today the average person cannot think clearly because interest sways his judgment. He thinks in favor of
the things he loves and against the things he hates; he blames some people and exonerates others, when both
are guilty of similar offenses. This is because the mind is a servant of the senses and is incapable of free and
unprejudiced thought.”
― Manly P. Hall, Spiritual Centers in Man
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“What was knowledge, what was truth, beauty, love, idealism, philosophy, or religion when compared to man's
desire to control an infinitesimal spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time?”
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“Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates
of Wisdom cannot be opened.”
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“The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the
world is God.”
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“He who knows not that the Prince of Darkness is the other face of the King of Light knows not me.”
― Manly P. Hall
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“Gemini is the most intellectual of the common signs, being the throne of the nervous, mental planet Mercury.
The Gemini native is naturally fitted for walks of life requiring precision and exactness of the mental processes.
It does not necessarily follow that the intellectual person is the deepest thinker or possesses the most capable
reasoning powers. We must, therefore, in the case of the Gemini person, separate the intellect from the reason.
The Mercurial thinker does not necessarily understand what he thinks about”
tags: astrology, destiny, fate, gemini, intellect, personality, psychoanalysis, psychology
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“Man is thus surrounded by a supersensible universe of which he knows nothing because the centers of sense
perception within himself have not been developed sufficiently to respond to the subtler rates of vibration of
which that universe is composed.”
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“Two unusual examples of the Gemini type in the field of letters are Dante and Bernard Shaw. Dante wrote his
Inferno so that he could show in luminous verbiage all his enemies roasting in the pits of perdition. The
Shavian humor has about it the bite of shallowness. It is not the deep laughter of the gods who understand all,
but the shallow titillating laughter of mortals who understand not even themselves.”
― Manly P. Hall
tags: astrology, bernard-shaw, dante-alighieri, destiny, fate, gemini, personality, psychoanalysis, psychology
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“Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of
worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the
cold tomb of dead idealism.”
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“It is from the ranks of the neo-intellectuals that we develop our parlor socialists, our “modernists” in poetry
and letters, and those arm-chair anarchists who have theoretical explanations for every circumstance of living.
The Mercurial person must take careful stock of himself and make sure that he contributes nothing to the
inanities of the day.”
― Manly P. Hall
tags: anarchism, armchair-anarchism, astrology-personality, champagne-socialism, gemini, insanity, modernism, psychoanalysis, psycholog
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“The true subject of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy is the will; the object of his philosophy is the elevation
of the mind to the point where it is capable of controlling the will. Schopenhauer likens the will to a strong blind
man who carries on his shoulders the intellect, which is a weak lame man possessing the power of sight. The
will is the tireless cause of manifestation and every part of Nature the product of will. The brain is the product
of the will to know; the hand the product of the will to grasp. The entire intellectual and emotional constitutions
of man are subservient to the will and are largely concerned with the effort to justify the dictates of the will.
Thus the mind creates elaborate systems of thought simply to prove the necessity of the thing willed. Genius,
however, represents the state wherein the intellect has gained supremacy over the will and the life is ruled by
reason and not by impulse.”
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“By initiation into the Mysteries and a certain process known as operative theology, this law of birth and death
is transcended, and during the course of physical existence that part of the spirit which is asleep in form is
awakened without the intervention of death.
This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the Mysteries: that man shall become
aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.”
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“In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious,
while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.”
― Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages [Illustrated]
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“Diodorus held that nothing can be moved, since to be moved it must be taken out of the place in which it is and
put into the place where it is not, which is impossible because all things must always be in the places where they
are.”
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“The reaping skeleton physically signifies death but philosophically that irresistible impulse in Nature which
causes every being to be ultimately absorbed into the divine condition in which it existed before the illusionary
universe had been manifested.”
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“Each of these uncertainties lures a psychic content out of ourselves. Each one of these problems and each one
of these people becomes in its own turn a sort of Rorschach test. A test in which we are constantly trying to
penetrate into meaning. Trying to discover the answer to a puzzle. The puzzle of value, integrity, character, as
represented in other objects and persons. And having no true scale by which to measure these uncertainties. We
do not measure them at all. We simply impose our own psychic life upon them. As soon as we do this, we reveal
not what they are, but what we are. Once this has been accomplished, we begin to treat these others objects or
persons according to our own expectancy of them. This in turn, can lead to a series of deceit.”
― Manly P. Hall
tags: mental-alchemy
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“Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the
Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics”
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“Common sign rulerships bestow difficult and arduous lives and success gained against great odds, attended
with heavy responsibilities. Men born under common signs usually start out early in life on courses of
independent action.”
tags: astrology, destiny, fate, personality
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“The common signs do not bestow the driving power of the cardinal types or the inflexibility of the fixed signs.
There is likely to be less high ambition or intensive continuity.”
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“We can see that, taken collectively, common signs are intellectual rather than emotional, but the intellectuality
is apt to be shallow or devoted to superficial subjects”
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“The Patristic school is notable for its emphasis upon the supremacy of man throughout the universe.”
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“The common signs are collectively generous, unselfish, and self-sacrificing, often with the worst implication of
the self-sacrifice quality. The generosity of the common sign people is not always wisely administered, but the
hardships of their own lives make them peculiarly sympathetic to the misfortunes of others.”
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“The common signs do not bestow either a hardy constitution or any unusual measure of will power. The
vitality not being great, there is insufficient energy to sustain ambition or the urge to power.”
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“The zero card–Le Mat, the Fool–has been likened to the material universe because the mortal sphere is the
world of unreality. The lower universe, like the mortal body of man, is but a garment, a motley costume, well
likened to cap and bells. Beneath the garments of the fool is the divine substance, however, of which the jester
is but a shadow; this world is a Mardi Gras–a pageantry of divine sparks masked in the garb of fools.”
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“seems incredible to them that metals and characters”
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“Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it, for in Nature every creature is accorded the privilege of
unfolding its own destiny”
― Manly P. Hall, Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics
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“The mystery of the evergreen marking the grave of the dead sun god is also perpetuated in the Christmas tree.”
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“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.”
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“Man's status in the natural world is determined, therefore, by the quality of his thinking.”
tags: law-of-attraction, philosophy-of-life
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“It was apparent that materialism was in complete control of the economic structure, the final objective of
which was for the individual to become part of a system providing an economic security at the expense of the
human soul, mind, and body.”
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“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to
religion.”
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“Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one - and that was greater than
the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one
secret confers life, light, and truth.”
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“The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light. The great institution
of materiality has failed. The false civilization built by man has turned, and like the monster of Frankenstein, is
destroying its creator. Religion wanders aimlessly in the maze of theological speculation. Science batters itself
impotently against the barriers of the unknown. Only transcendental philosophy knows the path. Only the
illumined reason can carry the understanding part of man upward to the light. Only philosophy can teach man
to be born well, to live well, to die well, and in perfect measure be born again. Into this band of the elect--those
who have chosen the life of knowledge, of virtue, and of utility--the philosophers of the ages invite YOU.”
tags: gnosis, spiritual, wisdom
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“Plato defined good as threefold in character: good in the soul, expressed through the virtues; good in the body,
expressed through the symmetry and endurance of the parts; and good in the external world, expressed
through social position and companionship.”
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“Esoterically, the Hanged Man is the human spirit which is suspended from heaven by a single thread. Wisdom,
not death, is the reward for this voluntary sacrifice during which the human soul, suspended above the world of
illusion, and meditating upon its unreality, is rewarded by the achievement of self-realization.”
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“Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.”
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“When confronted with a problem involving the use of the reasoning faculties, individuals of strong intellect
mentality, on the other hand, when similarly confronted, are overwhelmed. While the former may be qualified
to solve the riddle of their own destiny, the latter must be led like a flock of sheep and taught in simple
language. They depend almost entirely upon the ministrations of the shepherd. The Apostle Paul said that these
little ones must be fed with milk, but that meat is the food of strong men. Thoughtlessness is almost
synonymous with childishness, while thoughtfulness is symbolic of maturity. There are, however, but few
mature minds in the world; and thus it was that the philosophic-religious doctrines of the pagans were divided
to meet the needs of these two fundamental groups of human intellect--one philosophic, the other incapable of
appreciating the deeper mysteries of life. To the discerning few were revealed the esoteric, or spiritual,
teachings, while the unqualified many received only the literal, or exoteric, interpretations. In order to make
simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of the universe were
personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While the ignorant multitudes
brought their offerings to the altars of Priapus and Pan (deities representing the procreative energies), the wise
recognized in these marble statues only symbolic concretions of great abstract truths. In all cities of the ancient”
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“Man’s threefold lower nature—consisting of his physical organism, his emotional nature, and his mental
triangles, when united in the form of a six-pointed star, were called by the Jews “the Star of David,” “the Signet
of Solomon,” and are more commonly known today as “the Star of Zion.” These triangles symbolize the spiritual
and material universes linked together in the constitution of the human creature, who partakes of both Nature
and Divinity. Man’s animal nature partakes of the earth; his divine nature of the heavens; his human nature of
the mediator.”
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“They proved that it was possible to produce beauty in life by surrounding life with
beauty. They discovered that symmetrical bodies were built by souls continuously in the presence of
symmetrical bodies; that noble thoughts were produced by minds surrounded by examples of mental
nobility. Conversely, if a man were forced to look upon an ignoble or asymmetrical structure it would
arouse within him a sense of ignobility which would provoke him to commit ignoble deeds. If an illproportioned
building were erected in the midst of a city there would be ill-proportioned children born in
that community; and men and women, gazing upon the asymmetrical structure, would live inharmonious
lives. Thoughtful men of antiquity realized that their great philosophers were the natural products of the
æsthetic ideals of architecture, music, and art established as the standards of the cultural systems of the time.”
tags: aesthetics, architecture, cultural-identity, cultural-marxism, culture
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“Briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the
rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of Nature.”
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“In order to make simple the great truths of Nature and the abstract principles of natural law, the vital forces of
the universe were personified, becoming the gods and goddesses of the ancient mythologies. While”
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ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.”
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“THE NINE WORLDS OF THE ODINIC MYSTERIES. The Nordic Mysteries were given in nine chambers, or
caverns, the candidate advancing through them in sequential order. These chambers of initiation represented
the nine spheres into which the Drottars divided the universe: (1) Asgard, the Heaven World of the Gods; (2)
Alf-heim, the World of the light and beautiful Elves, or Spirits; (3) Nifl-heim, the World of Cold and Darkness,
which is located in the North; (4) Jotun-heim, the World of the Giants, which is located in the East; (5)
Midgard, the Earth World of human beings, which is located in the midst, or middle place; (6) Vana-heim, the
World of the Vanes, which is located in the West; (7) Muspells-heim, the World of Fire, which is located in the
South; 8) Svart-alfa-heim, the World of the dark and treacherous Elves, which is under the earth; and (9) Hel-
heim, the World of cold and the abode of the dead, which is located at the very lowest point of the universe. It is
to be understood that all of these worlds are invisible to the senses, except Midgard, the home of human
creatures, but during the process of initiation the soul of the candidate—liberated from its earthly sheath by the
secret power of the priests—wanders amidst the inhabitants of these various spheres. There is undoubtedly a
relationship between the nine worlds of the Scandinavians and the nine spheres, or planes, through which
initiates of the Eleusinian Mysteries passed in their ritual of regeneration.”
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“Hegel further believed that all things owe their existence to their opposites and that all opposites are actually
identical.”
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“It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature
through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities.”
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“From Kircher's Ars Magna Sciendi. In the above diagram Kircher arranges eighteen objects in two vertical
columns and then determines the number of arrangements in which they can be combined. By the same
method Kircher further estimates that fifty objects may be arranged in
1,273,726,838,815,420,339,851,343,083,767,005,515,293,749,454,795,408,000,000,000,000 combinations.
From this it will be evident that infinite diversity is possible, for the countless parts of the universe may be
related to each other in an incalculable number of ways; and through the various combinations of these
limitless subdivisions of being, infinite individuality and infinite variety must inevitably result. Thus it is further
evident that life can never become monotonous or exhaust the possibilities of variety.”
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“The fool lives but for today; the philosopher lives forever.”
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“Skepticism as propounded by Pyrrho of Elis (365-275 B.C.) and by Timon, Sextus Empiricus said that those
who seek must find or deny they have found or can find, or persevere in the inquiry.”
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“What was knowledge, what was truth, beauty, love, idealism, philosophy, or religion when compared to man's
desire to control an infinitesimal spot in the fields of Cosmos for an inestimably minute fragment of time?”
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“Without the mysterious keys carried by the hierophants of the Egyptian, Brahmin, and Persian cults the gates
of Wisdom cannot be opened.”
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“The Stoics were essentially pantheists, since they maintained that as there is nothing better than the world, the
world is God.”
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“Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of
worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the
cold tomb of dead idealism.”
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“The true subject of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy is the will; the object of his philosophy is the elevation
of the mind to the point where it is capable of controlling the will. Schopenhauer likens the will to a strong blind
man who carries on his shoulders the intellect, which is a weak lame man possessing the power of sight. The
will is the tireless cause of manifestation and every part of Nature the product of will. The brain is the product
of the will to know; the hand the product of the will to grasp. The entire intellectual and emotional constitutions
of man are subservient to the will and are largely concerned with the effort to justify the dictates of the will.
Thus the mind creates elaborate systems of thought simply to prove the necessity of the thing willed. Genius,
however, represents the state wherein the intellect has gained supremacy over the will and the life is ruled by
reason and not by impulse.”
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“In a single figure a symbol may both reveal and conceal, for to the wise the subject of the symbol is obvious,
while to the ignorant the figure remains inscrutable.”
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“Diodorus held that nothing can be moved, since to be moved it must be taken out of the place in which it is and
put into the place where it is not, which is impossible because all things must always be in the places where they
are.”
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“The reaping skeleton physically signifies death but philosophically that irresistible impulse in Nature which
causes every being to be ultimately absorbed into the divine condition in which it existed before the illusionary
universe had been manifested.”
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“Those who suppose they have found truth are called Dogmatists; those who think it incomprehensible are the
Academics; those who still seek are the Skeptics”
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great and inevitably an intensity that everything else is overwhelmed."

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- Manly P. Hall, The Qabbalah

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strength they do not possess"

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- Manly P. Hall, Reincarnation: The Cycle of Necessity

complete dedication to the service of the realities of existence."

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There is no place for little minds in a great work.

Man's security comes from within himself.

Let us watch these mighty ones as they pass silently by.

The end of science is not to prove a theory, but to improve mankind.

Love is an experience of consciousness, an experience in the soul of man.

Moderation is the secret of survival.

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.

Thou wouldist not seek me hadst thou not found me.

Love is religion, and hate is atheism...ethics is philosophy.

An intellectual fact is not necessarily a truth.

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