Concrete and Abstract functions of the human mind by Manly P Hall

magick · 5 May 2008 at 00:57

Manly Palmer Hall (March 18, 1901 - August 29, 1990) was a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is perhaps most famous for his work The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, which is widely regarded as his magnum opus, published in 1928[1][2]when he was just 27 years old. He has been widely recognized as a leading scholar in the fields of religion, mythology, mysticism, and the occult. Carl Jung, when writing Psychology and Alchemy, borrowed material from Hall's private collection.

In 1934, Hall founded the Philosophical Research Society (PRS) in Los Angeles, California, dedicating it to an idealistic approach to the solution of human problems. The PRS claims to be non-sectarian and entirely free from educational, political, or ecclesiastical control, and the Society's programs stress the need for the integration of philosophy, religion, and science into one system of instruction. The PRS Library, a public facility devoted to source materials in obscure fields, has many rare and scarce items now impossible to obtain elsewhere.

In 1973 (47 years after writing The Secret Teachings of All Ages), Hall was recognized as a 33؛ Mason (the highest honor conferred by the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite), at a ceremony held at PRS on December 8th,[3][4]), despite never being initiated into the physical craft.

http://hashemsfilms.com/component/option,com_seyret/task,videodirectlink/Itemid,40/id,737/

There's a video of him giving a lecture in the link. It's pure genius. It sad such great minds never make into the mainstream media.

magick · 5 May 2008 at 17:59

Did you bother to watch it before making sarcastic comments?

magick · 5 May 2008 at 22:10

titaniumx3 said:
You do realise, OcUK forums are among the most closed minded online community out there?

LOL, yes ignorance is in abundance on OcUK.

Voltar said:
Interesting guy though, but I can see why he never broke the mainstream.

Yes, the mainstream media, and joe public, like things nice and easy that can fit in a single soundbite. Thats why things very really change.

semi-pro waster said:
I don't suppose you'd like to give a potted version of what is in the video, the man might or might not be a genius but his presenting style doesn't lend itself to rapt attention.

He discusses the issues of what's wrong with the world and how many of the institutions that are designed to solve them such as government and education are just maing things worse.

magick · 5 May 2008 at 22:12

Meridian said:
From your quoted synopsis he's more like a grade A loon, who believes more nonsense than Madonna.

He was a 33rd degree Freemason.