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The Secret Teachings of All Ages - An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
by Hall, Manly P
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About This Item
Los Angeles: The Philosophical Research Society, 1998. Diamond Jubilee Edition, Second Printing. Hardcover. Good- to fine condition. Inscribed in calligraphy on title page to Kyidinkongeba Ali Sawadgo Abu-Bekr of the Naqshbandi Mujaddadi, Mazhariya, Khariya Order.
Elephant Folio. 245pp., 48 color plates, including frontispiece. Two of them fold-outs, one of them a Shakespeare portrait with additional plate of superimposed Bacon portrait, and additional seven pages with color plates from a Hermetic Manuscript. Original pebbled blue cloth with silver framing and lettering on cover and spine, housed in matching slipcase. Blue endpapers. Full page color frontispiece. Second title page of original Subscriber's Edition printed in red and black with publisher's device.
After the publication of "The secret Teachings of All Ages" Manly P. Hall "...went from being just another earnest young preacher in the City of Angels to becoming an icon of the increasingly influential metaphysical movement sweeping the country in the 1920s. His book challenged assumptions about society's spiritual roots and made people look at them in new ways... a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions' heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man." (Louis Sahagun).
Hall wrote in 1988: "The greatest knowledge of all time should be available to the twentieth century not only in the one shilling editions of the Bohn Library in small type and shabby binding, but in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin. John Henry Nash agreed with me." Profusely illustrated with striking color reproductions of artwork by J. Ausustus Knapp and b/w in-text drawings. A classic example of the printing and bookbinding arts. Binding with light wear along edges. Cracked at gutters of inside front and back covers. Slipcase with wear along edges, back panel missing, substituted with clear tape. Slipcase in fair, binding in good-, block in fine condition.
Elephant Folio. 245pp., 48 color plates, including frontispiece. Two of them fold-outs, one of them a Shakespeare portrait with additional plate of superimposed Bacon portrait, and additional seven pages with color plates from a Hermetic Manuscript. Original pebbled blue cloth with silver framing and lettering on cover and spine, housed in matching slipcase. Blue endpapers. Full page color frontispiece. Second title page of original Subscriber's Edition printed in red and black with publisher's device.
After the publication of "The secret Teachings of All Ages" Manly P. Hall "...went from being just another earnest young preacher in the City of Angels to becoming an icon of the increasingly influential metaphysical movement sweeping the country in the 1920s. His book challenged assumptions about society's spiritual roots and made people look at them in new ways... a gorgeous, dreamlike book of mysterious symbols, concise essays and colorful renderings of mythical beasts rising out of the sea, and angelic beings with lions' heads presiding over somber initiation rites in torch-lit temples of ancestral civilizations that had mastered latent powers beyond the reach of modern man." (Louis Sahagun).
Hall wrote in 1988: "The greatest knowledge of all time should be available to the twentieth century not only in the one shilling editions of the Bohn Library in small type and shabby binding, but in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin. John Henry Nash agreed with me." Profusely illustrated with striking color reproductions of artwork by J. Ausustus Knapp and b/w in-text drawings. A classic example of the printing and bookbinding arts. Binding with light wear along edges. Cracked at gutters of inside front and back covers. Slipcase with wear along edges, back panel missing, substituted with clear tape. Slipcase in fair, binding in good-, block in fine condition.
Synopsis
Originally published: San Francisco : H. S. Crocker Co., 1928. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reviews
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On Jan 13 2012, Mrknighterrant said:
An exhaustive and largely authoritative compendium of esoteric and exoteric religion, philosophy, mythology, magic and science. Highly recommended for generalists and specialists of various backgrounds, especially Masons.
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- Title
- The Secret Teachings of All Ages - An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy
- Author
- Hall, Manly P
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good- to fine condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Diamond Jubilee Edition, Second Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0893145467
- ISBN 13
- 9780893145460
- Publisher
- The Philosophical Research Society
- Place of Publication
- Los Angeles
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- church of the People, Rosicrucian Fellowship, mysticism, free masonry, gods of antiquity, pyramid, virgin of the world, Isis, zodiac, Hiramic legend, magic, sorcery
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