The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Receive not a swallow into your house. This warns the seeker after truth not to allow drifting thoughts to come into his mind nor shiftless persons to enter into his life. He must ever surround himself with rationally inspired thinkers and with conscientious workers.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Furthermore, those who receive this knowledge shall become masters of all arts and crafts; no secret shall be hidden from them; and all good works of the past, present, and future shall be accessible to them. The whole world shall become as one book and the contradictions of science and theology shall be reconciled. Rejoice, O humanity!
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
In his notes on the theology of Jakob Böhme, Dr. Franz Hartmann thus sums up the mystic symbolism of the crucifixion: “The cross represents terrestrial life, and the crown of thorns the sufferings of the soul within the elementary body, but also the victory of the spirit over the elements of darkness. The body is naked, to indicate that the candida
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The bee was used as a symbol of royalty by the immortal Charlemagne, and it is probable that the fleur-de-lis. or lily of France, is merely a conventionalized bee and not a flower.
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
Wisdom was the understanding of the source or cause of all things, and this could be secured only by raising the intellect to a point where it intuitively cognized the invisible manifesting outwardly through the visible, and thus became capable of bringing itself en rapport with the spirit of things rather than with their forms.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Isis stands for knowledge and wisdom, and according to Plutarch the word Typhon means insolence and pride. Egotism, self-centeredness, and pride are the deadly enemies of understanding and truth. This part of the allegory is revealed.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The true subject of Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophy is the will; the object of his philosophy is the elevation of the mind to the point where it is capable of controlling the will.
Manly P Hall • The Secret Teachings of All Ages
The ancients did not believe that spirituality made men either righteous or rational, but rather that righteousness and rationality made men spiritual.