Manly Hall
Manly Hall
Manly Palmer Hallwas a Canadian-born author and mystic. He is best known for his 1928 work The Secret Teachings of All Ages...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth18 March 1901
CountryCanada
stars men dust
What nobler relationship than that of friend? What nobler compliment can man bestow than friendship? The bonds and ties of the life we know break easily, but through eternity one bond remains - the bond of fellowship - the fellowship of atoms, of star dust in its endless flight, of suns and worlds, of gods and men. The clasped hands of comradeship unite in a bond eternal - the fellowship of spirit.
suicide suicidal men
Suicide thwarts the plan of the entity which sends out the personality. Fortunately, the entity is far beyond the reach of man's destructive tendencies.
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Moderation is the secret of survival.
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It must be shown that self-seeking is out of fashion, and that the world is moving on to a larger conception of living.
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Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
destiny men intellectual
To repress rebellion is to maintain the status quo, a condition which binds the mortal creature in a state of intellectual or physical slavery. But it is impossible to chain man merely by slaving his body; the mind also must be held, and to accomplish this, fear is the accepted weapon. The common man must fear life, fear death, fear God, fear the Devil, and fear most the overlords, the keepers of his destiny.
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Experiences are the chemicals of life with which the philosopher experiments
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The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief.
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Symbols are oracular forms-mysterious patterns creating vortices in the substances of the invisible world.
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Wisdom is a condition of consciousness rather than an attitude of mind. Wisdom is that state of being in which an individual finds himself when realization has tinctured and transmuted all attitudes and opinions. A wise man is one who has experienced wisdom, wisdom in this sense being a mystical experience.
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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. It has always seemed to me that symbolism should be restored to the structure of world education. The young are no longer invited to seek the hidden truths, dynamic and eternal, locked within the shapes and behavior of living beings.
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There is no place for little minds in a great work
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The way of heaven can be known and experienced through the heart.
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There are two great systems in the body of man: the tree of life, which is the arterial with its roots in the heart; and, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, i.e. the nervous system, which has its roots in the brain. These two "trees" are physical manifestations of a complicated network of branching energy currents in the aura or superphysical bodies.