Secret Teachings Reborn The Mysterious Life of Manly P. Hall. By MITCH HOROWITZThe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw an explosion of spiritual teachers and impresarios dealing in secret wisdom. Their ranks included hacks and frauds as well as more than a few genuine scholars of esoteric traditions. Most have vanished from memory, their writings a historical footnote. There exists one distinct figure, though, whose movement and teachings not only survived his passing but are even experiencing a revival in our day. His name is Manly P. Hall. While few academicians will ever know of him, Hall was among the twentieth centurys and perhaps any centurys most commanding and unusual scholars of esoteric and mythological lore. Yet the source of his knowledge and the extent of his virtuosity can justly be called a mystery. While working as a clerk at a Wall Street banking firm the outstanding event of which involved witnessing a man depressed over investment losses take his life the 2. Http Online Version of Manly P. Halls The Secret Teachings of All Ages httpwww. gnostic. orgkybalionhtmkybalion. htm. Hall self published one of the most complex and thoroughgoing works ever to catalogue the esoteric wisdom of antiquity, The Secret Teachings of All Ages. Halls Secret Teachings is almost impossible to classify. Written and compiled on an Alexandrian scale, its hundreds of entries shine a rare light on some of the most fascinating and little understood aspects of myth, religion, and philosophy. Today, more than seventy five years after its initial publication, the books range of material astonishes Pythagorean mathematics alchemical formulae Hermetic doctrine the workings of Kabala the geometry of Ancient Egypt the Native American myths the uses of cryptograms an analysis of the Tarot the symbols of Rosicrucianism the esotericism of the Shakespearean dramas these are just a few of Halls topics. Yet his background betrays little clue to his virtuosity. A Man Unknown. Hall was born in Peterborough, Ontario, in 1. Manly in the care of a grandmother who raised him in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. He had little formal schooling. But there was a spark of some indefinable brilliance in the young man, which his grandmother tried to nurture in trips to museums in Chicago and New York.
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