Frasi di Manly Palmer Hall

Manly Palmer Hall è stato uno scrittore e mistico canadese.

La sua più importante opera è The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, pubblicata nel 1928, quando l'autore aveva appena 27 anni. In oltre 70 anni di carriera letteraria, Hall ha scritto più di 150 libri e saggi, senza contare i numerosi articoli scritti su varie riviste.

✵ 18. Marzo 1901 – 29. Agosto 1990
Manly Palmer Hall photo
Manly Palmer Hall: 13   frasi 0   Mi piace

Manly Palmer Hall: Frasi in inglese

“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.”

Quoted in the tribute of The Lost Symbol (2009) by Dan Brown
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Contesto: A nation with culture is blessed. 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.

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

Preface to the Diamond Jubilee Edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Contesto: The great materialistic progress which we have venerated for so long is on the verge of bankruptcy. We can no longer believe that we are born into this world to accumulate wealth and abandon ourselves to mortal pleasures. We see the dangers and realize that we have been exploited for centuries. We were told the twentieth century was the most progressive that the world has ever known, but unfortunately the progression was in the direction of self-destruction.

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

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry (1923)
Contesto: What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains — the bond of fellowship — the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal — the fellowship of spirit.

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

Meditation Symbols in Eastern & Western Mysticism (1988)
Contesto: The alchemical tradition assumes that every physical art or science is a body of knowledge which exists only because it is ensouled by invisible powers and processes. Physical chemistry, as it is practiced in the modern world, is concerned principally with pharmaceutical or industrial research projects. It is confined within the boundaries of an all-pervading materialism, which binds labor to the advancement of physical objectives.

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

Origine: The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928), p. xc
Contesto: European mysticism was not dead at the time the United States of America was founded. The hand of the mysteries controlled in the establishment of the new government for the signature of the mysteries may still be seen on the Great Seal of the United states of America. Careful analysis of the seal discloses a mass of occult and Masonic symbols chief among them, the so-called American Eagle. … the American eagle upon the Great Seal is but a conventionalized phoenix... Not only were many of the founders of the United States government Masons, but they received aid from a secret and august body existing in Europe which helped them to establish this country for a peculiar and particular purpose known only to the initiated few. The Great Seal is the signature of this exalted body —unseen and for the most part unknown — and the unfinished pyramid upon its reverse side is a trestleboard setting forth symbolically the task to the accomplishment of which the United States Government was dedicated from the day of its inception.

“Philosophy is the science of estimating values.”

Introduction, p. 4
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Contesto: 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.

“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.”

Preface to the Diamond Jubilee Edition of The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)
Contesto: 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.

“We are the gods of the atoms that make up ourselves but we are also the atoms of the gods that make up the universe.”

Think on These Things (1998), compiled by Clarke E. Johnston, p. 22
Other quotes

Autori simili

Inayat Khan photo
Inayat Khan 28
mistico indiano
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada photo
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 8
mistico e scrittore indiano
Stephen Leacock photo
Stephen Leacock 8
scrittore, economista
Paramahansa Yogananda photo
Paramahansa Yogananda 39
filosofo e mistico indiano
Jean Vanier photo
Jean Vanier 31
filosofo e filantropo canadese
Saul Bellow photo
Saul Bellow 41
scrittore statunitense
Alice Munro photo
Alice Munro 13
scrittrice canadese
Elisabetta della Trinità photo
Elisabetta della Trinità 27
monaca francese
Margaret Atwood photo
Margaret Atwood 37
poetessa, scrittrice e ambientalista canadese
Aleister Crowley photo
Aleister Crowley 11
artista, poeta e mistico britannico