The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Philosophy bestows life in that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Among the ancients, philosophy, science, and religion were never considered as separate units: each was regarded as an integral part of the whole. Philosophy was scientific and religious; science was philosophic and religious; religion was philosophic and scientific. Perfect wisdom was considered unattainable save as the result of harmonizing all t
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The ancients did not believe that spirituality made men either righteous or rational, but rather that righteousness and rationality made men spiritual.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Well has it been said that no individual can succeed until he has developed his philosophy of life.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
There is a legend to the effect that the Tablet of Cebes, a dialogue between Cebes and Gerundio, was based upon an ancient table set up in the Temple of Kronos at Athens or Thebes, which depicted the entire progress of human life. The author of the Tablet of Cebes was a disciple of Socrates and lived about 390 B.C. The world is represented as a gre
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Fascinated by the glitter of gain, man gazes at the Medusa-like face of greed and stands petrified.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Life is the great mystery, and only those who pass successfully through its tests and trials, interpreting them aright and extracting the essence of experience therefrom, achieve true understanding. Thus, the temples were built in the form of the world and their rituals were based upon life and its multitudinous problems.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Though the modern world may know a million secrets, the ancient world knew one—and that one was greater than the million; for the million secrets breed death, disaster, sorrow, selfishness, lust, and avarice, but the one secret confers life, light, and truth. The time will come when the secret wisdom shall again be the dominating religious and phil
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A curious aspect of the dying-god myth is that of the Hanged Man. The most important example of this peculiar conception is found in the Odinic rituals where Odin hangs himself for nine nights from the branches of the World Tree and upon the same occasion also pierces his own side with the sacred spear. As the result of this great sacrifice, Odin,
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