Authors: Manly P. Hall, Howard W. Wookey
ISBN-13: 9781585424320, ISBN-10: 1585424323
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: September 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Manly P. Hall (1901-1990), widely regarded as a sage and teacher steeped in the wisdom of antiquity, was one of the leading esoteric scholars of the twentieth century. In 1934, he founded the Philosophical Research Society (www.prs.org), in Los Angeles, which continues to publish Hall's many works and pursue his educational mission.
Complete in itself, this volume originated as a commentary and expansion of Manly P. Hall's masterpiece of symbolic philosophy, The Secret Teachings of All Ages.
In Lectures on Ancient Philosophy, Manly P. Hall expands on the philosophical, metaphysical, and cosmological themes introduced in his classic work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Hall wrote this volume as a reader's companion to his earlier work, intending it for those wishing to delve more deeply into the esoteric philosophies and ideas that undergird the Secret Teachings. Particular attention is paid to Neoplatonism, ancient Christianity, Rosicrucian and Freemasonic traditions, ancient mysteries, pagan rites and symbols, and Pythagorean mathematics.
First published in 1929-the year after the publication of Hall's magnum opus-this edition includes the author's original subject index, twenty diagrams prepared under his supervision for the volume, and his 1984 preface, which puts the book in context for the contemporary reader.
Chapter 1 | The Nature of the Absolute | 1 |
Chapter 2 | God, the Divine Foundation | 25 |
Chapter 3 | Illumined Mind, the Universal Savior | 49 |
Chapter 4 | The Inferior Creation and Its Regent | 73 |
Chapter 5 | The Annihilation of the Sense of Diversity | 97 |
Chapter 6 | The Disciplines of Salvation | 121 |
Chapter 7 | The Doctrine of Redemption Through Grace | 145 |
Chapter 8 | The Mission of Aesthetics | 169 |
Chapter 9 | The Cycle of Necessity | 193 |
Chapter 10 | Pagan Theogony and Cosmogony | 217 |
Chapter 11 | Mathematics, the Master Science | 241 |
Chapter 12 | Demigods and Supermen | 265 |
Chapter 13 | Emerson's Concept of the Oversoul | 289 |
Chapter 14 | Exoteric and Esoteric Knowledge | 313 |
Chapter 15 | Symbolism, the Universal Language | 337 |
Chapter 16 | Ancient Mystery Rituals | 361 |
Chapter 17 | A Philosophic Consideration of Man | 385 |
Chapter 18 | The Ladder of the Gods | 409 |
Chapter 19 | Rosicrucian and Masonic Origins | 433 |
Chapter 20 | The Goal of Philosophy | 457 |
Index | 480 | |
About the Author | 514 | |
Books | 515 |