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Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 – August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author, lecturer, astrologer and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Over his 70 year career, he gave thousands of lectures, including two at Carnegie Hall, and published over 150 volumes. In 1934, he founded The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles, which he dedicated to the "Truth Seekers of All Time", with a research library, lecture hall and publishing house. Many of his lectures can be found online and his books are still in print.

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Moderation is the secret of survival.

Moderation, Secret, Survival

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.

History, Political, Secret, Peoples, Societies

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.

Expression, Merely, Modern, Natural, Religious, Simple

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.

Attitude, Individual, Men, Mystical, Opinions, Wise

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.

Dying, Include, Inner, Life, Spiritual, World

Much has been said of the loneliness of wisdom, and how much the Truth seeker becomes a pilgrim wandering from star to star. To the ignorant, the wise man is lonely because he abides in distant heights of the mind. But the wise man himself does not feel lonely. Wisdom brings him nearer to life; closer to the heart of the world than the foolish man can ever be. Bookishness may lead to loneliness, and scholarship may end in a battle of beliefs, but the wise man gazing off into space sees not an emptiness, but a space full of life, truth, and law.

Closer, Lonely, Scholarship, Stars, Truth, Wise

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.

Becoming, Book, Meaning, Shapes, Symbolism, Touching

An unhealthy mind, even in a healthy body, will ultimately destroy health.

Health, Mind, Body, Healthy, Destroy

Philosophy is the science of estimating values. The superiority of any state or substance over another is determined by philosophy. By assigning a position of primary importance to what remains when all that is secondary has been removed, philosophy thus becomes the true index of priority or emphasis in the realm of speculative thought.

Estimating, Philosophy, Position, Priorities, Substance

It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.

Fashion, Moving, Self, Conception, Shown

To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available. . . in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

Begin, Book, Information, War, Writing, Writings

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.

Mean, Men, Numbers, Universal, Magic, Grocery

There is no place for little minds in a great work

Great Work, Littles, Mind, Minds, Place, Work

Each person must discover his own philosophy of life, and it is not fair or right to impose our codes upon others. It is also our responsibility, however, to share one with another such experiences as may have common value. We desire, therefore, not to convert or convince, but to invite such a sharing with the sincere hope that some mutual good will be accomplished.

Accomplished, Desire, Fair, Good, Philosophy, Responsibility

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 superphysical bodies.

Branching, Heart, Men, Physical, Roots, Two

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.

Ancient, Arms, Body, Fought, Men

To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.

Body, Chain, Destiny, Men, Mind, Status

If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.

Wise, Men, Knowing, Man, Bestowed

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!

Ignorance, Knowing Nothing, Men, Nothing, Physical

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.

Entity, Men, Sends, Suicidal, Suicide

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